That is a worthless truism, in effect for the last several decades (if not much longer), and will continue to be true until technology stops progressing. Anyone who answers with an honest opinion on a product actually available on the market has a better answer (in the spirit of the question) than one of "wait".
As far as your sig Mankind can no longer expand quantitatively, we must grow qualitatively, well that may be a laudable goal, good luck with a politically correct implementation.
Ok, I have to substitute poultry here, to make the analogy work, but would the Goose who lays the golden eggs nest somewhere where the law is unfavorable in the first place?
At the end of the day, there is always a price that is too high, if there is an alternative. For MSFT to up and move is expensive. But still, how hard do you squeeze the goose?
I don't know about Washington, but my state, California has plenty of hits when you google "companies leaving California"...
Anecdotal information only goes so far.. personally, I know of a local printing company that has left my state, taking 28 jobs with it.
There are plenty of other stories. My brother in San Diego told me about Buck Knives leaving town a few years back, taking or losing hundreds or more California jobs.
Competition among the states was what the US Constitution once stood for - let each experiment and see what kind of environment produces the greater good. Taxes are way up there in perceived "badness", among the productive.
An auction house is running it, and as far as I can tell, each item comes from somewhere different - the T. Rex is from Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, the Shark Jaws from Vito Bertucci, etc.
What I mean is that I can't answer your questions either, but I could tell you some steps that I would take to get the tasks done.
A little general knowledge and common sense goes a long way.
I know LEDs don't run on AC, so I'd tell you I'd have to look it up, and mention that I at least know about the concept of transformers and rectifiers, and that LEDs need to be protected from over-current. I am not an EE, but I know that much.
I am a software guy, but if someone asked me to write a sort algorithm, I'd say "I dunno, there are fast ones, there are simple ones, some take lots of memory, some less... what do you really want to do?". Chances are you really didn't want me to implement a sort anyhow, and I'd use a library routine that is already written. I can look up the details, but I can't write it on your whiteboard, right now.
As for your demand curve, I don't know that either, but I am sure it has to do with price vs units sold. I don't know the proper way to draw it, but I know enough to look it up.
I guess what I am saying is, I am one of theose people who don't "test" well, but I can show you my history, and you can call my references. You'll see that I have never been fired from a job, and every employer has been sad to see me go, even to the point where many have retained me remotely as a consultant.
When I hire folks, I don't care if you don't know the answer to a problem, as long as you know you don't know, don't try to BS me, and know how to look it up.
I think you could actually get some good people, for any position, by having them answer "Jay Walking" type questions, just to see how smart they are in general - even in unrelated topics.
* Rhetorical question - I am not looking for work.
I had to help phone-interview some contractors at one job, and I came up with some very simple questions to ask them. Not having an answer proves they don't know how to use Google.
It took me 5 seconds to find a good overview of what a c++ class is. If you were talking to me, I'd tell you straight up; I'm not good at regurgitating formal definitions, but I would tell you where to find the same article I am looking at, then riff on various real world projects and problems.
Really, who do you want to hire? someone who can tell you what a class is, or someone who can tell you about problems they have solved. Personally, I stink at answering those sorts of questions. But, but after 20+ years of programming, I can say I have never been fired from a job, and every job I have left has retained me as a telecommuting consultant for at least some time. That should tell you more than how well I retain book definitions.
That said, it really depends on what you are hiring for. If you just need a cog to drop into a 100% coding position, the "test" route might work. If you are in a smaller organization, it is very likely that there will be periods where other skills are needed - such as interacting with customers (pre-sales/post-sales), design, documentation, etc. etc. So be careful that your are not screening for one-trick pony (coders) if there is any possibility that you will need someone with other skills as well.
The parent did say contractors, so he probably does just want the specific skill. The rest of what I said applies more towards employees.
...is it s diffuse and decentralized nature, a network of networks, not a single network. An organization or individual with the power to "fix" the internet would have the power to destroy it or lock it down.
Kind of like the history of various civilizations and nations. In most every case, they begin their rise to prosperity with a diffuse and decentralized nature.
Then the bureaucracy forms that squeezes the life out of it in the name of bettering it.
Centralized control is to freedom as Marketing is to Engineering. You need some of each to allow the other to exist, but too much and you start getting artificial and bizarre results with which nobody is happy and then the whole enterprise falls apart.
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Heh, reminds me of this; Verbally ask someone to write the sentence - "There are 3 ways to write the word 2".
"Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like a banana." -- Groucho Marx
I am sure it was hilarious when Groucho delivered that line, spoken. As written? Meh.
"I want to buy the best , what should I get?"
My advice... wait about... 1 year to 18 months
That is a worthless truism, in effect for the last several decades (if not much longer), and will continue to be true until technology stops progressing. Anyone who answers with an honest opinion on a product actually available on the market has a better answer (in the spirit of the question) than one of "wait".
As far as your sig Mankind can no longer expand quantitatively, we must grow qualitatively, well that may be a laudable goal, good luck with a politically correct implementation.
because the law allows them to
Ok, I have to substitute poultry here, to make the analogy work, but would the Goose who lays the golden eggs nest somewhere where the law is unfavorable in the first place?
At the end of the day, there is always a price that is too high, if there is an alternative. For MSFT to up and move is expensive. But still, how hard do you squeeze the goose?
Have you left yet?
I don't know about Washington, but my state, California has plenty of hits when you google "companies leaving California"...
Anecdotal information only goes so far.. personally, I know of a local printing company that has left my state, taking 28 jobs with it.
There are plenty of other stories. My brother in San Diego told me about Buck Knives leaving town a few years back, taking or losing hundreds or more California jobs.
Competition among the states was what the US Constitution once stood for - let each experiment and see what kind of environment produces the greater good. Taxes are way up there in perceived "badness", among the productive.
These are legal matters we are talking about here.
Meh. They all look the same to me.
That's why we embalm or cremate folks now. That whole rising from the dead thing causes nothing but problems, however it manifests itself.
a three-ton piece of steel going 40mph
Let me know when I can buy a 6000 pound hybrid or electric car. That would be sweet!
Upon seeing the new colors, the monkeys also made the signs for "far out" and "trippy, dude".
don't be the first to use it on any given day.
You need to read each item description.
An auction house is running it, and as far as I can tell, each item comes from somewhere different - the T. Rex is from Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, the Shark Jaws from Vito Bertucci, etc.
Peacocks are all the same.
And I suppose peahens are all the same too, just waiting to get plucked.
Just use some RIAA lawyers to calculate the value of your "digital life".
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just outsource manned spaceflight to China and India?
I can understand they may have wanted to avoid the Sexium but at least that would be distinctive. Oh, I don't know, I've heard that Sex Sells.
Besides, if they had stuck that naming, we would probably have the Orgasium by now, and who wouldn't buy that!
Would you take a meta-answer? *
What I mean is that I can't answer your questions either, but I could tell you some steps that I would take to get the tasks done. A little general knowledge and common sense goes a long way.
I know LEDs don't run on AC, so I'd tell you I'd have to look it up, and mention that I at least know about the concept of transformers and rectifiers, and that LEDs need to be protected from over-current. I am not an EE, but I know that much.
I am a software guy, but if someone asked me to write a sort algorithm, I'd say "I dunno, there are fast ones, there are simple ones, some take lots of memory, some less... what do you really want to do?". Chances are you really didn't want me to implement a sort anyhow, and I'd use a library routine that is already written. I can look up the details, but I can't write it on your whiteboard, right now.
As for your demand curve, I don't know that either, but I am sure it has to do with price vs units sold. I don't know the proper way to draw it, but I know enough to look it up.
I guess what I am saying is, I am one of theose people who don't "test" well, but I can show you my history, and you can call my references. You'll see that I have never been fired from a job, and every employer has been sad to see me go, even to the point where many have retained me remotely as a consultant.
When I hire folks, I don't care if you don't know the answer to a problem, as long as you know you don't know, don't try to BS me, and know how to look it up.
I think you could actually get some good people, for any position, by having them answer "Jay Walking" type questions, just to see how smart they are in general - even in unrelated topics.
* Rhetorical question - I am not looking for work.
I had to help phone-interview some contractors at one job, and I came up with some very simple questions to ask them. Not having an answer proves they don't know how to use Google. It took me 5 seconds to find a good overview of what a c++ class is. If you were talking to me, I'd tell you straight up; I'm not good at regurgitating formal definitions, but I would tell you where to find the same article I am looking at, then riff on various real world projects and problems.
Really, who do you want to hire? someone who can tell you what a class is, or someone who can tell you about problems they have solved. Personally, I stink at answering those sorts of questions. But, but after 20+ years of programming, I can say I have never been fired from a job, and every job I have left has retained me as a telecommuting consultant for at least some time. That should tell you more than how well I retain book definitions.
That said, it really depends on what you are hiring for. If you just need a cog to drop into a 100% coding position, the "test" route might work. If you are in a smaller organization, it is very likely that there will be periods where other skills are needed - such as interacting with customers (pre-sales/post-sales), design, documentation, etc. etc. So be careful that your are not screening for one-trick pony (coders) if there is any possibility that you will need someone with other skills as well. The parent did say contractors, so he probably does just want the specific skill. The rest of what I said applies more towards employees.
No doubt Google can deliver far more information faster than ever before.
This is not a bad thing -- IF you can figure out which information is worthless and which is the the right answer.
That should be the motivation to learn enough to learn enough so that you can decide which Google results pass "the sniff test".
Of course the topic of your query has a lot to do with how well you will be able to tell if the results are the real deal.
I thought I was done, but that last sentence made me realize the "quick answer" future could either hasten or slow an "Idiocracy" future...
swap them out accordingly
I hope you don't mind twiddling your thumbs for days, while transferring your data to your backup drive...
um, you do know that you can write .NET programs in C++... right?
So, you're saying it's not news for nerds, right?
Ergo, it is stuff that matters.
Heh. With apologies to Maslow, but I prefer to think of certain folks as working with nothing but screwdrivers all day, rather than hammers. So...
If the only tool you have is a screwdriver, everything looks like it needs to be screwed.
And the irony is how many screws are still loose.
more formalized recognition of a user's identity so they can travel the net safely
How does letting THEM, know who I am, make ME safer?
...is it s diffuse and decentralized nature, a network of networks, not a single network. An organization or individual with the power to "fix" the internet would have the power to destroy it or lock it down.
Kind of like the history of various civilizations and nations. In most every case, they begin their rise to prosperity with a diffuse and decentralized nature. Then the bureaucracy forms that squeezes the life out of it in the name of bettering it.
Centralized control is to freedom as Marketing is to Engineering. You need some of each to allow the other to exist, but too much and you start getting artificial and bizarre results with which nobody is happy and then the whole enterprise falls apart.
Control freaks always fusk things up in the end.