So my wife is in HR, so let me explain why they use these kinds of systems...
First, for any particular job opening managers are putting pressure on to get the ad in the paper, get the notice up on every job posting board there is, get word out to employees, headhunters, etc. They want their position(s) filled as soon as possible, many times they feel like if they don't get the job filled right away some bean counter might realize that the job isn't really necessary and lots of money can be saved by eliminating the position.
Now with all of those postings someone has to create the actual ad and job description. This is pretty tough since managers will tend to ask for specifics (must know how to use the 1980 version of drill press 123), but this has to be translated into something that is a little more open to receiving viable candidates. There's also the challenge of getting all of the requirements from the managers so the posting is complete.
Then the fun begins. Headhunters want to provide 'screened' candidates (which end up being a result of a query on some database they have that kicks back a list of folks that may or may not have all of the skills necessary). There's also a lot of cruft and spam that come in for the job posting (lots of job bots out there), and there's also people who are not really qualified for the job applying anyway cuz they're looking to make that next big career move. And with the glut of unemployed out there, you get folks who are out of the area, folks who are overqualified, underqualified, etc. who all just need a job to keep their house, car, kids, dignity, whatever...
Many of these sites that are used are not really picked or coded by HR in any way, they're generic sites (perhaps themed, but generic none the less) like zip recruiter (POS, if you ask me). These sites love applicants and resumes etc., but they also employ some sort of "qualified applicant" filter so that all applicants don't ever get to HR. And no, HR does not usually pick these kinds of sites, they'll get picked by business folks who are looking to save money in the organization and get convinced that zip recruiter will help them do that.
Another thing companies are using are personality tests. They too are sold to executives as ways to automatically filter out 'incompatible' people. In some cases they may work, but in reality they can typically be gamed to get you through. Surprisingly though, many folks don't know they can be gamed and answer them honestly; unfortunately for them, the execs tweak the test so much that only supermen get through (i.e. like a salesman who can sell ice cubes to eskimos kind of perfect candidates). Many times these filters end up being over-aggressive and end up blocking what may otherwise be good potential candidates had they known how to game the tests.
As far as the uploading resume goes, well those end up going to the hiring manager (because they want resumes, not forms or reports). The forms, however, are necessary for all of the computer filters, etc. to weed out unqualified applicants. They have no real HR function outside of that (although it is easier to work off of reports of candidates).
Finally, just as it is in IT, if you want to screw something up really bad in HR just get the executives involved. They're the ones that mess things up over there just as much as they do in IT...
type Calculator
def eval():Int
metadata:HasParser = new
def getParser():ExtParser = new
def parse(buf:ParseBuffer):TypedAST
val oNum = CalcParser.CalculatorParser.create(buf.getSrcString()).E()
~
new
def eval():Int = $oNum
This is supposed to make me feel this is a)secure and b) more bug free?
The fact that you think "most of the decisions are made by architects as oppose to developers" is not a good thing demonstrates that you have not matured enough to understand why.
Stay where you're at and once you learn why "most of the decisions are made by architects as oppose to developers", then look elsewhere.
I'm not saying this to bust on you really, but architects really do serve a valuable role.
I do get news from slashdot. I don't get coverage on science, tech, linux, etc. on the nightly news or by surfing tons of websites. I get it here. News may be dated, certainly, but for me it's a great place to find things I wouldn't otherwise find. And no, I don't come here for comments. Sometimes I'll read comments in stories to find out how others feel, but only for say 10% of the stories...
Timothy: "Some of you have suggested we're not listening; on the contrary, some of us are 'listening' pretty much full-time."
So Timothy, et al: "we want a platform where we can experiment with different views of both comments and stories. It's not an either/or. It's going to be both."
I think overwhelmingly people have indicated they do not want to see stories and comments on the same page. I frankly could care less what the trolls post on every single story. If there's a story I like and want to see the comments on, I can click into it and read all I want. But I don't need and/or want them on the list page.
Back on point, many folks have echoed the same perspective, yet you're still plowing forward with "it's going to be both." So either you are not listening, or far worse, you don't care what we're saying.
In any case, I think you're now bordering on the point of "jumping the shark". Continue at your own peril, but in order to appease a few in order to deliver a shiny new interface will just send the bulk of us to some other sites.
So Dice likes to buy something, rework it into a steaming pile of shit, and lose traffic/revenue as a result, thus totally devaluating an asset?
If they like throwing money away, have them throw some cash my way. I too will not generate any traffic and revenue for you, and I'm a lot cheaper than what you paid for the "redesign".
Doesn't he realize that this statement, 'Nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings who haven't talked to the opposite sex in five or six years' translates directly into 'please initiate your attacks now'?
Or maybe he does...
The reason - my galaxy S. It's an android-based phone, but it has this big 'bing' page and bing is set as the default search engine. I've looked for how to change to google, but it doesn't seem to be that easy...
So if my device is included in their percentage, it's not because I want to be there...
There's no data impersonation at all. You merely receive a packet indicating reset and start over wrt tcp send/receive communication streams. You're not getting any data from the original host, nothing is being tampered with...
The thing to remember is that you signed a contract with Comcast at the start of your cable net access. Unless there is something in there that indicates they cannot or will not do such a thing, then you've already agreed that they can do it.
DWR = Direct Web Remoting in this situation. DWR is a tool for marshalling java beans from the servlet side into javascript objects on the client side whilst taking care of the AJAX request/response cycle, etc. Using DWR to it's fullest you don't need to write a line of servlet/javascript code for the communication.
One of the first things I did as my new role as software lead was to standardize on using lint4j, pmd, checkstyle, and findbugs (and JUnit test cases and Cobertura coverage analysis) as a mandatory component of the software development process. Software released into test must be clear of any warnings/errors reported by these tools (or heavily documented as to why the code cannot be fixed, so far we haven't had any instances of this).
Obviously this doesn't guarantee a bug-free release, but it does ensure that any bugs in the release are really bugs and not just some errant coding issue.
The benefits we've realized so far is a reduction in these kinds of issues, but most of all it is helping the junior developers hone their skills. By fixing the errors they're getting, as they code up new modules they tend to have fewer of these errors to deal with.
It's not moot as closing arguments were entered in court last week. Haven't heard the outcome yet, but I'm hopeful if it goes IDs way that someone will step up to appeal it, even if it has to go all of the way to the SC.
This whole thing is nonsense. I have no problem with folks believing whatever they want, I just don't want their beliefs taught in the public school system. If you want your kids to believe in God or aliens or whatever, there's plenty of places you can take them outside of the public schools to give them that education. But don't expect for me to sit back and allow you to influence the school board so you can push your beliefs onto my family.
> Anyone know if these were those new-fangled
> paperless-you-can't-recount-them-by-hand machines?
Are you kidding? Rural central pa? No, we have the lever-based
machines. Although zero votes hints of fraud, these jokers
don't understand how pissed the community is in how much money
was spent fighting this stupid issue in the courts. It's
not like Dover is rolling in dough.
They were too busy talking to the churches to realize the
community at large was against this whole issue.
These religious fanatics think that they need to preach to the world and the world needs to listen.
Here in Dover, Pa, the board thought everyone would be behind them, that the community at large would support the introduction of ID into the science class.
Well, the community at large gave every one of them the boot in yesterday's election. Not a single person on the board retained their seat. I guess all of their religious ferver blinded them to the reality of the situation that not everyone believes the same thing that they do.
So Kansas, just wait. You'll get your choice to be heard. Start organizing now, make sure they hear you coming...
Dave Nebinger, proud Dover voter!
Not really; the integrated suite is truly integrated; all the parts are expected to be installed and run on the same box. Bedroom operations would have the easier job because they probably only have single systems that need to migrate.
Zimbra's main drawback is the packaging. Sure they have the two web applications that are ajax-enabled, but their distribution includes a replacement for your postfix installation, a replacement for your mysql installation, a replacement for your openldap implementation,...
So if you don't have any of these components running already, you're in luck. If you do have these components already running and configured, moving to zimbra is going to cause you a great deal of migration headaches.
The whole thing is another stupid attempt to bring church back into the classroom.
I have a couple of problems with the idea:
1. The ID is meant to come from their version of god; not the jewish god, not the muslim god, not the ancient greek/roman/egyption gods, etc. They like ID as a represention of their faith, not the faith of others.
2. It shouldn't be done in public school. If the wacko's want their children to have a faith-based education, they are free to pull them out of public school and put them in a religious school. Or take them to sunday school. Or teach them themselves. But using the public school as a pulpit to reach out to my child w/o respecting our beliefs is just wrong.
3. The community as a whole was not given the option to discuss the idea of mandating ID before it was mandated.
I live in Dover, and there is a huge local outcry about the ID debacle. Businesses are pulling support because many folks are threatening pickets, etc. It's neighbor against neighbor down here, too.
We've got an upcoming school board election, and I'm predicting a high turnout for those that oppose and support the school board. I for one am the former and will be out on election day getting people to give the current school board members the boot.
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So my wife is in HR, so let me explain why they use these kinds of systems...
First, for any particular job opening managers are putting pressure on to get the ad in the paper, get the notice up on every job posting board there is, get word out to employees, headhunters, etc. They want their position(s) filled as soon as possible, many times they feel like if they don't get the job filled right away some bean counter might realize that the job isn't really necessary and lots of money can be saved by eliminating the position.
Now with all of those postings someone has to create the actual ad and job description. This is pretty tough since managers will tend to ask for specifics (must know how to use the 1980 version of drill press 123), but this has to be translated into something that is a little more open to receiving viable candidates. There's also the challenge of getting all of the requirements from the managers so the posting is complete.
Then the fun begins. Headhunters want to provide 'screened' candidates (which end up being a result of a query on some database they have that kicks back a list of folks that may or may not have all of the skills necessary). There's also a lot of cruft and spam that come in for the job posting (lots of job bots out there), and there's also people who are not really qualified for the job applying anyway cuz they're looking to make that next big career move. And with the glut of unemployed out there, you get folks who are out of the area, folks who are overqualified, underqualified, etc. who all just need a job to keep their house, car, kids, dignity, whatever...
Many of these sites that are used are not really picked or coded by HR in any way, they're generic sites (perhaps themed, but generic none the less) like zip recruiter (POS, if you ask me). These sites love applicants and resumes etc., but they also employ some sort of "qualified applicant" filter so that all applicants don't ever get to HR. And no, HR does not usually pick these kinds of sites, they'll get picked by business folks who are looking to save money in the organization and get convinced that zip recruiter will help them do that.
Another thing companies are using are personality tests. They too are sold to executives as ways to automatically filter out 'incompatible' people. In some cases they may work, but in reality they can typically be gamed to get you through. Surprisingly though, many folks don't know they can be gamed and answer them honestly; unfortunately for them, the execs tweak the test so much that only supermen get through (i.e. like a salesman who can sell ice cubes to eskimos kind of perfect candidates). Many times these filters end up being over-aggressive and end up blocking what may otherwise be good potential candidates had they known how to game the tests.
As far as the uploading resume goes, well those end up going to the hiring manager (because they want resumes, not forms or reports). The forms, however, are necessary for all of the computer filters, etc. to weed out unqualified applicants. They have no real HR function outside of that (although it is easier to work off of reports of candidates).
Finally, just as it is in IT, if you want to screw something up really bad in HR just get the executives involved. They're the ones that mess things up over there just as much as they do in IT...
import wyv:parser.wyv
import java:wyvern.tools.parsing.ExtParser
import java:wyvern.tools.parsing.HasParser
import java:wyvern.tools.parsing.ParseBuffer
import java:wyvern.tools.typedAST.interfaces.TypedAST
type Calculator
def eval():Int
metadata:HasParser = new
def getParser():ExtParser = new
def parse(buf:ParseBuffer):TypedAST
val oNum = CalcParser.CalculatorParser.create(buf.getSrcString()).E()
~
new
def eval():Int = $oNum
This is supposed to make me feel this is a)secure and b) more bug free?
I'm mixed. I prefer the glassy look of old, but at the same time I realize it takes more cpu to render it.
Well, I guess I'd rather have that little bit of cpu doing work for me rather than generating a pretty glassy look, I guess I'm in favor of it.
Stay where you're at and once you learn why "most of the decisions are made by architects as oppose to developers", then look elsewhere.
I'm not saying this to bust on you really, but architects really do serve a valuable role.
I do get news from slashdot. I don't get coverage on science, tech, linux, etc. on the nightly news or by surfing tons of websites. I get it here. News may be dated, certainly, but for me it's a great place to find things I wouldn't otherwise find. And no, I don't come here for comments. Sometimes I'll read comments in stories to find out how others feel, but only for say 10% of the stories...
Timothy: "Some of you have suggested we're not listening; on the contrary, some of us are 'listening' pretty much full-time." So Timothy, et al: "we want a platform where we can experiment with different views of both comments and stories. It's not an either/or. It's going to be both." I think overwhelmingly people have indicated they do not want to see stories and comments on the same page. I frankly could care less what the trolls post on every single story. If there's a story I like and want to see the comments on, I can click into it and read all I want. But I don't need and/or want them on the list page. Back on point, many folks have echoed the same perspective, yet you're still plowing forward with "it's going to be both." So either you are not listening, or far worse, you don't care what we're saying. In any case, I think you're now bordering on the point of "jumping the shark". Continue at your own peril, but in order to appease a few in order to deliver a shiny new interface will just send the bulk of us to some other sites.
So Dice likes to buy something, rework it into a steaming pile of shit, and lose traffic/revenue as a result, thus totally devaluating an asset?
If they like throwing money away, have them throw some cash my way. I too will not generate any traffic and revenue for you, and I'm a lot cheaper than what you paid for the "redesign".
Doesn't he realize that this statement, 'Nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings who haven't talked to the opposite sex in five or six years' translates directly into 'please initiate your attacks now'? Or maybe he does...
You'd think that w/ their experience w/ the number of geeks out there hitting the site they'd make sure the survey could handle the load...
The day they drop the address bar is the same day I stop using Chrome.
The reason - my galaxy S. It's an android-based phone, but it has this big 'bing' page and bing is set as the default search engine. I've looked for how to change to google, but it doesn't seem to be that easy...
So if my device is included in their percentage, it's not because I want to be there...
OMG, what a troll!
At least I hope this jackass is a troll; if he honestly believes this crap, he should consider a long walk off of a short pier...
Where will the history channel go for new footage for "Life After People"?
There's no data impersonation at all. You merely receive a packet indicating reset and start over wrt tcp send/receive communication streams. You're not getting any data from the original host, nothing is being tampered with...
The thing to remember is that you signed a contract with Comcast at the start of your cable net access. Unless there is something in there that indicates they cannot or will not do such a thing, then you've already agreed that they can do it.
DWR = Direct Web Remoting in this situation. DWR is a tool for marshalling java beans from the servlet side into javascript objects on the client side whilst taking care of the AJAX request/response cycle, etc. Using DWR to it's fullest you don't need to write a line of servlet/javascript code for the communication.
The request send/retrieve may only be a few dozen lines, but the dom handling and data marshalling on both sides typically exceeds that line count.
One of the first things I did as my new role as software lead was to standardize on using lint4j, pmd, checkstyle, and findbugs (and JUnit test cases and Cobertura coverage analysis) as a mandatory component of the software development process. Software released into test must be clear of any warnings/errors reported by these tools (or heavily documented as to why the code cannot be fixed, so far we haven't had any instances of this).
Obviously this doesn't guarantee a bug-free release, but it does ensure that any bugs in the release are really bugs and not just some errant coding issue.
The benefits we've realized so far is a reduction in these kinds of issues, but most of all it is helping the junior developers hone their skills. By fixing the errors they're getting, as they code up new modules they tend to have fewer of these errors to deal with.
It has been under ask.com for years now, but the revamping is new.
Personally I dislike the grey boxes, period.
The initial post said there was 'how to disable' info, but I didn't see how...
It's not moot as closing arguments were entered in court last week. Haven't heard the outcome yet, but I'm hopeful if it goes IDs way that someone will step up to appeal it, even if it has to go all of the way to the SC.
This whole thing is nonsense. I have no problem with folks believing whatever they want, I just don't want their beliefs taught in the public school system. If you want your kids to believe in God or aliens or whatever, there's plenty of places you can take them outside of the public schools to give them that education. But don't expect for me to sit back and allow you to influence the school board so you can push your beliefs onto my family.
> Anyone know if these were those new-fangled
> paperless-you-can't-recount-them-by-hand machines?
Are you kidding? Rural central pa? No, we have the lever-based
machines. Although zero votes hints of fraud, these jokers
don't understand how pissed the community is in how much money
was spent fighting this stupid issue in the courts. It's
not like Dover is rolling in dough.
They were too busy talking to the churches to realize the
community at large was against this whole issue.
These religious fanatics think that they need to preach to the world and the world needs to listen. Here in Dover, Pa, the board thought everyone would be behind them, that the community at large would support the introduction of ID into the science class. Well, the community at large gave every one of them the boot in yesterday's election. Not a single person on the board retained their seat. I guess all of their religious ferver blinded them to the reality of the situation that not everyone believes the same thing that they do. So Kansas, just wait. You'll get your choice to be heard. Start organizing now, make sure they hear you coming... Dave Nebinger, proud Dover voter!
Not really; the integrated suite is truly integrated; all the parts are expected to be installed and run on the same box. Bedroom operations would have the easier job because they probably only have single systems that need to migrate.
Zimbra's main drawback is the packaging. Sure they have the two web applications that are ajax-enabled, but their distribution includes a replacement for your postfix installation, a replacement for your mysql installation, a replacement for your openldap implementation, ...
So if you don't have any of these components running already, you're in luck. If you do have these components already running and configured, moving to zimbra is going to cause you a great deal of migration headaches.
The whole thing is another stupid attempt to bring church back into the classroom. I have a couple of problems with the idea: 1. The ID is meant to come from their version of god; not the jewish god, not the muslim god, not the ancient greek/roman/egyption gods, etc. They like ID as a represention of their faith, not the faith of others. 2. It shouldn't be done in public school. If the wacko's want their children to have a faith-based education, they are free to pull them out of public school and put them in a religious school. Or take them to sunday school. Or teach them themselves. But using the public school as a pulpit to reach out to my child w/o respecting our beliefs is just wrong. 3. The community as a whole was not given the option to discuss the idea of mandating ID before it was mandated. I live in Dover, and there is a huge local outcry about the ID debacle. Businesses are pulling support because many folks are threatening pickets, etc. It's neighbor against neighbor down here, too. We've got an upcoming school board election, and I'm predicting a high turnout for those that oppose and support the school board. I for one am the former and will be out on election day getting people to give the current school board members the boot.