You should definitely not say anything to this prospective employee. I am not a lawyer, but the reason that these interviews are setup in such a manor that the interviewer is not the person telling the interviewee that they do not get the job is for legal reasons. Telling them this would potentially open up your company to a lawsuit (frivolous or otherwise). This is not to mention the hot water you could be in for stepping around HR in the interview process.
You may feel you have an ethical obligation to set this guy straight, but you also have an ethical obligation to your company to not expose them to a potential lawsuit (or to bad PR from this guy telling others what you have said). Also, as crass as this may sound, would this action result in increasing shareholder value for your company? Professional ethics requires that you at least consider that question before taking an action such as this.
It sounds like your heart is in the right place for wanting to tell this guy the truth, but really it isn't your job. It's the job of this guy's professors in school (through grades), and the job of his colleagues when he does land a job (through peer review or otherwise) to tell him that he is not as good as he thinks he is. Besides, if someone is that full of them self, do you really believe he would listen and not take offense?
They offer precompiled binaries for windows compilers (including gcc, but you could also use the free Visual Studio compiler). For linux, most of the deps are things that are offered by your distribution. I think there was only one component I had to build from source (aside from ogre itself) under linux last time I put it on a SuSE machine. It's not *that* bad.
There once was a man from Nantucket, Who saw another BSOD and said fuck it, He couldn't get any sex, So he installed OS X, With love that requires a mop and bucket.
The most important factor is do people who download television programs stop watching broadcast TV ?.
I think the answer to this is "not yet". I have completely stopped watching tv in favor of downloading off of bittorrent. Now that most TV related BT sites are down, I'm hunting around for a tuner card so I can start up MythTV. Granted, that won't get me shows that come on SkyOne or BBC, but it'll do for shows I can get here in the US.
The simple fact of the matter is, I'm tired of "primetime" TV. I'm tired of the TV dictating what I do during the week. Friday nights I go out with friends, and I'd never catch an episode of Stargate or BSG, but I always watched it later on my computer. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to skip plans just to watch this week's "must see" tv. I want to watch a few shows, when I want to watch them.
Really to me it's not about the advertising (though it is nice to not have to watch ads). It's about TV programming not dictating how I live.
I actually more ment that each developer's desktop has a php/apache combo installed and we do all local testing on our local machines. Trying to duplicate that under an MS environment would mean buying licenses for IIS. However we could just use the live server as a testing server. That should cut down on that cost.
It's true you could write ASP.NET code in notepad, just like you can write almost any code for any language in notepad. However, you have to consider whether a developer will be productive using it. It may be more cost productive to purchase something like visual studios rather than having to hire another employee to pick up the slack because the developer process is too cumbersome.
Mostly, yes. But what you are forgetting is that not every company is large enough to install server clusters. I work for a small hosting company based in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). In the beginning, we were small, and fighting tooth and nail for every point of market share we could earn. We used Windows for the desktops, but all server work is done using a LAMP architecture and all word processing, spreadsheets, and power point done with Open Office.
The lesson I learned here is: 1) Non techies hated open office. Debate merit points all you will (I love OO), but they just couldn't stand it. We eventally bought a few MS Office licenses when we had the cash to spare, just so they would stop complaining. 2) We succeeded in grabbing enough market share and turning a profit, though we would have never gotten past the initial months if we had to sink initial capital into the licensing fees. 6 servers and 12 desktops (one per employee) would have been a killer. Especially considering the added development costs for using ASP.NET (IE you don't need any type of costly development environment to develop in PHP).
All of this basically boils down to "what type of problem are you trying to solve"? Different companies of different sizes will have different needs. Honestly I think the survey is relatively meaningless. They should have asked "what problem are you trying to solve with open source?"
Now that's a patch worth having. Makes me want to build from source.
There are also Python bindings for Ogre
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Just fyi, there are also Python bindings for Ogre. Here
is the current thread in the forums that pretains to the Python version. The Python bindings for Ogre are getting more mature with every release. Pretty soon there will be a serious alternative to PyGame and PyOpenGL. Since Ogre is a 3D engine (as opposed to PyGame's 2D), and operates on a much higher level than PyOpenGL, creating 3D games in Python are now much easier to do. Especially considering Ogre is VERY fast, and the Python bindings push all of the 3D work onto C++.
If you are going to do 3D game programming, I would also suggest you look at PyOgre. Ogre is a powerful open source graphics engine written in C++. You can download the python bindings for it here. Download it and check out the demos that come with it (the demos are placed in you python directory in a folder called ogredemo).
Linux bindings are not ready yet, but they shouldn't be too far off into the future. You should check the the API Reference and Manual for most starting information, and use the ogre Wiki and forums for most questions you have.
The parent is funny, but his sarcasm makes a good point. Coming from a senior in college, don't be one of those people who are complete assholes about their stuff. One year there was this one guy who roomed with my friend that I loved to fuck with his stuff just because he would put locks and security mesures on everything. For example he locked the back of his computer with a physical lock, set a bios password, and had your basic login password for his RH9 system. I simply picked the lock, reset the bios after getting inside, then booted from a live cd and changed the root password, all because he was so rabidly paranoid in thinking people were out to get him. I would have never fucked with his stuff had he not made such a big deal over it.
The point is simple: Most roomates (especially freshman year) are generally very nice. Even people you would have never gotten along with in high school will be your best pal, simply because you HAVE to live there in close quarters to each other for so long. You will give the EXACT WRONG message by locking your stuff up. Instead, if it becomes a problem, talk to your RA (or whatever they call them at your school) about it, and THEN invest in locks and security.
As far as the rest of campus goes, just don't leave your laptop anywhere. As long as you have it with you physically outside of dorm you should be fine. In the dorm be nice to your roomate! Chances are he'll look after your stuff just as he does his own. That is, unless he's a sociopath, and you'll figure that out pretty quickly.
Well that's interesting but does Instant Runoff Voting work when there are only two candidates? Of the three, one is a joke candidate. If a few Deb Devs vote for him as a joke (or maybe they don't like the other two), then you may have a situation where no one has more than 50% of the vote.
I'm not an expert on elections (or the system you are talking about). Does this means there must be a runoff or time to use the Instant Runoff Voting? But there are only two real candidates, wouldn't the winner just be the one with the plurality anyway?
Second question, in this situation, what if you have to sides that really didn't get along (this isn't the situation, just clarifying the system). Lets say everyone votes for EITHER candidate A or B, and marks candidate C as their second choice. Lets also say that A & B are equal in their votes (of the "First Choice" vote, A gets 50%, B gets 50%, and C gets 100% of "Second Choice" votes). Who would win this election?
Well, meditation is a good idea, though the previous poster didn't explain why. Meditation can help focus the mind, and allow you to concentrate fully on what you are doing. I used to have this problem all the time in high school. Every time I sat down to do something, distractions came by the dozens to take me away from the task at hand. Early in my senior year I started studying Zen (which is a sect of Buddhism), and after meditating and being mindful of what I was doing for quite some time, I noticed significant improvements in my ability to concentrate on what I'm doing.
Most westerners (like myself) are very goal oriented. There's no "point" or "goal" to Zen, or meditation. By that, I mean "I'm going to improve my concentration by at least a power of 2 in the next six weeks!" Results are also not instant. I was fairly capable in high school, but my grades were terrible. I didn't see much improvement until later in that school year (and since it was my senior year it didn't really affect my overall GPA), but now that I am in college I have a good GPA and no problem "finding time" to do homework.
I also don't think that 1 hour a day is reasonable for most people. If you can meditate for an hour a day, great! If you can manage 15, perfect! If you can manage 5, wonderful! The point is, you should just meditate for the sake of meditation. It's true that it is relaxing, calming, peacful, and it helps with focus, concentration, etc, but unless you meditate for the sake of meditating (with no goal or "time limit") you will probably find it too difficult to reliably do every day.
If you would like more information on meditation or Zen, you can always try your local Google. There are also MANY good books out there too that introduce the beginner concepts of Zen and meditation. I would suggest heading to your local book store/library and read through some of the books on Zen.
As a final note, Zen can be practiced outside of any religion. The day-to-day practices of Zen has very little to do with religion.
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Exactly how often do you need kidneys?
I've heard that before... Anyone know where it came from originally?
Please put that away. There may be children around.
You should definitely not say anything to this prospective employee. I am not a lawyer, but the reason that these interviews are setup in such a manor that the interviewer is not the person telling the interviewee that they do not get the job is for legal reasons. Telling them this would potentially open up your company to a lawsuit (frivolous or otherwise). This is not to mention the hot water you could be in for stepping around HR in the interview process.
You may feel you have an ethical obligation to set this guy straight, but you also have an ethical obligation to your company to not expose them to a potential lawsuit (or to bad PR from this guy telling others what you have said). Also, as crass as this may sound, would this action result in increasing shareholder value for your company? Professional ethics requires that you at least consider that question before taking an action such as this.
It sounds like your heart is in the right place for wanting to tell this guy the truth, but really it isn't your job. It's the job of this guy's professors in school (through grades), and the job of his colleagues when he does land a job (through peer review or otherwise) to tell him that he is not as good as he thinks he is. Besides, if someone is that full of them self, do you really believe he would listen and not take offense?
Are you kidding? I AM that family member.
They offer precompiled binaries for windows compilers (including gcc, but you could also use the free Visual Studio compiler). For linux, most of the deps are things that are offered by your distribution. I think there was only one component I had to build from source (aside from ogre itself) under linux last time I put it on a SuSE machine. It's not *that* bad.
There is room for all of the Universe's creatures....right beside the mashed potatos.
Hey that's good.
There once was a man from Nantucket,
Who saw another BSOD and said fuck it,
He couldn't get any sex,
So he installed OS X,
With love that requires a mop and bucket.
Ah yes, I missed the pronunciation there. In my book though, limericks really have to be dirty. Otherwise it's just...well, poetry.
Not bad, but I think a limerick would have been much better. Any creative hackers want to give it a try?
Here, I'll give you a start:
There once was a man from Nantucket...
Oh nevermind...
I think Hollywood and Las Vegas are two good reasons our culture should no longer exist....
No no, we are talking cold fusion here!
The most important factor is do people who download television programs stop watching broadcast TV ?.
I think the answer to this is "not yet". I have completely stopped watching tv in favor of downloading off of bittorrent. Now that most TV related BT sites are down, I'm hunting around for a tuner card so I can start up MythTV. Granted, that won't get me shows that come on SkyOne or BBC, but it'll do for shows I can get here in the US.
The simple fact of the matter is, I'm tired of "primetime" TV. I'm tired of the TV dictating what I do during the week. Friday nights I go out with friends, and I'd never catch an episode of Stargate or BSG, but I always watched it later on my computer. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to skip plans just to watch this week's "must see" tv. I want to watch a few shows, when I want to watch them.
Really to me it's not about the advertising (though it is nice to not have to watch ads). It's about TV programming not dictating how I live.
I actually more ment that each developer's desktop has a php/apache combo installed and we do all local testing on our local machines. Trying to duplicate that under an MS environment would mean buying licenses for IIS. However we could just use the live server as a testing server. That should cut down on that cost.
It's true you could write ASP.NET code in notepad, just like you can write almost any code for any language in notepad. However, you have to consider whether a developer will be productive using it. It may be more cost productive to purchase something like visual studios rather than having to hire another employee to pick up the slack because the developer process is too cumbersome.
Mostly, yes. But what you are forgetting is that not every company is large enough to install server clusters. I work for a small hosting company based in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). In the beginning, we were small, and fighting tooth and nail for every point of market share we could earn. We used Windows for the desktops, but all server work is done using a LAMP architecture and all word processing, spreadsheets, and power point done with Open Office.
The lesson I learned here is:
1) Non techies hated open office. Debate merit points all you will (I love OO), but they just couldn't stand it. We eventally bought a few MS Office licenses when we had the cash to spare, just so they would stop complaining.
2) We succeeded in grabbing enough market share and turning a profit, though we would have never gotten past the initial months if we had to sink initial capital into the licensing fees. 6 servers and 12 desktops (one per employee) would have been a killer. Especially considering the added development costs for using ASP.NET (IE you don't need any type of costly development environment to develop in PHP).
All of this basically boils down to "what type of problem are you trying to solve"? Different companies of different sizes will have different needs. Honestly I think the survey is relatively meaningless. They should have asked "what problem are you trying to solve with open source?"
Wow, that's a hellova pr0n list there. You've just made my saturday night!
Whoosh.
Now that's a patch worth having. Makes me want to build from source.
Just fyi, there are also Python bindings for Ogre. Here is the current thread in the forums that pretains to the Python version. The Python bindings for Ogre are getting more mature with every release. Pretty soon there will be a serious alternative to PyGame and PyOpenGL. Since Ogre is a 3D engine (as opposed to PyGame's 2D), and operates on a much higher level than PyOpenGL, creating 3D games in Python are now much easier to do. Especially considering Ogre is VERY fast, and the Python bindings push all of the 3D work onto C++.
If you are going to do 3D game programming, I would also suggest you look at PyOgre. Ogre is a powerful open source graphics engine written in C++. You can download the python bindings for it here. Download it and check out the demos that come with it (the demos are placed in you python directory in a folder called ogredemo).
Linux bindings are not ready yet, but they shouldn't be too far off into the future. You should check the the API Reference and Manual for most starting information, and use the ogre Wiki and forums for most questions you have.
Considered? I figured it was just the fact of the matter. =)
The parent is funny, but his sarcasm makes a good point. Coming from a senior in college, don't be one of those people who are complete assholes about their stuff. One year there was this one guy who roomed with my friend that I loved to fuck with his stuff just because he would put locks and security mesures on everything. For example he locked the back of his computer with a physical lock, set a bios password, and had your basic login password for his RH9 system. I simply picked the lock, reset the bios after getting inside, then booted from a live cd and changed the root password, all because he was so rabidly paranoid in thinking people were out to get him. I would have never fucked with his stuff had he not made such a big deal over it.
The point is simple: Most roomates (especially freshman year) are generally very nice. Even people you would have never gotten along with in high school will be your best pal, simply because you HAVE to live there in close quarters to each other for so long. You will give the EXACT WRONG message by locking your stuff up. Instead, if it becomes a problem, talk to your RA (or whatever they call them at your school) about it, and THEN invest in locks and security.
As far as the rest of campus goes, just don't leave your laptop anywhere. As long as you have it with you physically outside of dorm you should be fine. In the dorm be nice to your roomate! Chances are he'll look after your stuff just as he does his own. That is, unless he's a sociopath, and you'll figure that out pretty quickly.
Well that's interesting but does Instant Runoff Voting work when there are only two candidates? Of the three, one is a joke candidate. If a few Deb Devs vote for him as a joke (or maybe they don't like the other two), then you may have a situation where no one has more than 50% of the vote. I'm not an expert on elections (or the system you are talking about). Does this means there must be a runoff or time to use the Instant Runoff Voting? But there are only two real candidates, wouldn't the winner just be the one with the plurality anyway? Second question, in this situation, what if you have to sides that really didn't get along (this isn't the situation, just clarifying the system). Lets say everyone votes for EITHER candidate A or B, and marks candidate C as their second choice. Lets also say that A & B are equal in their votes (of the "First Choice" vote, A gets 50%, B gets 50%, and C gets 100% of "Second Choice" votes). Who would win this election?
Well, meditation is a good idea, though the previous poster didn't explain why. Meditation can help focus the mind, and allow you to concentrate fully on what you are doing. I used to have this problem all the time in high school. Every time I sat down to do something, distractions came by the dozens to take me away from the task at hand. Early in my senior year I started studying Zen (which is a sect of Buddhism), and after meditating and being mindful of what I was doing for quite some time, I noticed significant improvements in my ability to concentrate on what I'm doing.
Most westerners (like myself) are very goal oriented. There's no "point" or "goal" to Zen, or meditation. By that, I mean "I'm going to improve my concentration by at least a power of 2 in the next six weeks!" Results are also not instant. I was fairly capable in high school, but my grades were terrible. I didn't see much improvement until later in that school year (and since it was my senior year it didn't really affect my overall GPA), but now that I am in college I have a good GPA and no problem "finding time" to do homework.
I also don't think that 1 hour a day is reasonable for most people. If you can meditate for an hour a day, great! If you can manage 15, perfect! If you can manage 5, wonderful! The point is, you should just meditate for the sake of meditation. It's true that it is relaxing, calming, peacful, and it helps with focus, concentration, etc, but unless you meditate for the sake of meditating (with no goal or "time limit") you will probably find it too difficult to reliably do every day.
If you would like more information on meditation or Zen, you can always try your local Google. There are also MANY good books out there too that introduce the beginner concepts of Zen and meditation. I would suggest heading to your local book store/library and read through some of the books on Zen.
As a final note, Zen can be practiced outside of any religion. The day-to-day practices of Zen has very little to do with religion.
Do you have a link to that lying around? I didn't turn up much when I searched their site.
We do have a google for linux. http://www.google.com/linux It basically just adds "linux" to whatever your search term is. =)