Texting is not particularly efficient imho. What you mean is it's very low bandwidth and low resource intensive and flexible...
To compensate, though, perhaps it is requiring more thought to put the message into the fewest possible keystrokes, an art not practiced since the days of the expensive telegram. Example: ",2d wedn jen Mr."
Smart dude, significant accomplishment, and not to denigrate his success but I'd love to see him using all that brainpower on something else.
However, it's an excellent demonstration of a non-paper resume. And there are still people out there making new hardware on small platforms. Wouldn't you want someone available who knew a bit about software if you were building something you might want to sell?
Geez Louise! It's hard enough keeping good people interested in this business without trivialising their efforts to show off their stuff. Think before you crap on people, please.
Not amongst the upper echelon, surely! A non-Australian product in the hands of the pollies? That's as disgraceful as an "I don't know" during Question Time.
Of course few of us actually admit that Holden is really based in Detroit, or Ford in Dearborn across the pond, or that the Epica is a Daewoo, or...
There got be an iPhone app for that! Wait, actually I had started to spec one...
That is a tremendously appropriate response for a geek. But as a rule, we must observe genuine girl-people in the wild if we are to trust our data. They're similar to people, but they're generally softer, shaped differently and their heads are rather oddly wired. Image resolution is actually much better with a non virtual contact.
(Please, oh FSM, please do not let this fall into the hands of my wife and daughters...)
It might help however, to know a bit more about the law yourself if you have the time. At least, read the news about it. Some things - like business processes - can't be patented in some countries. Google "in re Bilski" for some good threads.
So bring it on advertisers... the more you greedy advertisers try to find ever more ways to manipulate people, the more hatred you'll generate
Why so much hate?
I think I know. The messages in advertising is designed to pass around your conscious censors and end up smack in the lizard brain, and that's something to resent. Read "The Hidden Persuaders" if you can find a copy, it's old.
Remember the old Ford advertisement for the Mustang II? Billboards read "Mustang II - Boredom 0". Of course, people didn't read or remember numbers, but they did remember the rest of the message. The car was pulled from production a few months later. Didn't sell for some reason.
Communication among programmers is expensive. Brook's law. Sometimes it's necessary, but it's never cheap and it's always ugly time. Moral? Define the interfaces first, and make people write standalone tests for the inputs and outputs to their work first. Peer-review the code periodically to keep people honest, but otherwise leave good programmers the hell alone.
It's not so much the mainstream media is misusing the word 'hacker'. They've completely taken it from you, and the new definition is permanent as far as I can tell. Condolences.
It's a matter of context, I think - words have entirely different meanings in different contexts. For example, walk into an iron-ring School of Engineering seminar somewhere and identify yourself as a "Sales Engineer". You will be used in undergraduate packaging experiments.
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Because (let's face it), there's a chance you hired one on accident, without realizing it, and that they don't have an arrest record, for one reason or another.
Having no arrest record might be an excellent qualification for a hacker. Think about it.
Don't be. Although one can often tell in the first five minutes of an interview if you want the geek or not (I'm being generous with the time here) that sort of perfunctory questioning and the glib dismissal you received most likely means they already someone else had in mind for the job, and are just following procedure at this point - often you're competing with an internal promotion or other reasons not related to technical competence.
Where you might need to improve is in believing your first impressions about a firm interviewing you. Hunches count, and your ability to drive the interview the way you want is a good indication of what level of person they're really after. I wasn't there, but my off-the-cuff opinion is that you were either bloody well jobbed, or the juxtaposition of the "Reader" group in the name and your choice of words (e.g. an "accept once" in your resume) was a deal killer. But they shouldn't have brought you in if that were the case.
Disclosure: I've interviewed about five hundred candidates for technical jobs. I've hired one hundred, of which two turned out to be poor choices. It's a serious, expensive business to bring the right people on board.
I have a friend in the high energy physics field. Four advanced degrees. I had the good fortune to have hired him as a contractor once when I was in a narrow bind, and I know he's bright. A bloody Klieg light amongst candles.
He's also often distressed by the stupidity of the people he works with. "Mate" I said, "Everybody you work with will be stupider than you. Get used to it."
I don't know if it helped much, but it's indicative. In a world of so-so thinkers, any bright sparks will have trouble fitting in. And it takes a fairly bright spark to be even a mediocre sysadmin, to be honest.
Another oddiment - there's a difference in where the honey comes from, too. When we lived in the USA it didn't seem to be a problem. Here in Australia (admittedly the histamine capital of the world) the reaction is consistent, severe and any sort of honey will trigger the allergy.
Question time: Would differences between US and Australian honeys offer insight into the bee product allergy mechanism? This question would need to be examined in the US I think, foreign honeys would be binned at the border.
Nothing psychological about it. The person in question is my wife of 25 years. If there's any honey at all in the food she eats, even a tiny bit, we generally find out about it after the fact when we trace events back from a bad migrane episode. Results have been consistent over a long period of time. She nearly died from a bee sting a few years ago. Food allergies are no joke, and there's nothing psychological you can attribute to an effect that takes place before the causative event is noticed. And yes, she does keep an epi-pen with her.
We read all the labels - it's a habit. But sometimes you can't prepare all your own food and other people will have their little secret recipes.
I would look at it this way. There is absolutely no excuse for 24 Hour Fitness to have a single hour were they do not have functioning treadmills.
I would have to agree. Although how they use the treadmills in fault tolerant arrangements is important. Do they simply route people to a working treadmill, for example, when one fails? Or do they operate in an active-active clustering arrangement, where a person uses two treadmills simultaneously and fails over to a single treadmill when one stops? I imagine co-location of the treadmills would be a key success criterion in the latter configuration.
I'm from from Texas and that even makes my head hurt.
Which part of Tejas? I understand there's a three syllable difference in the pronunciation of a common metabolic byproduct between the Panhandle and the Gulf.
Just out of curiosity - did he ask for identification? Did he get a receipt for the delivery of the passwords? Just thinking, arrogance is no substitute for good CYA strategies.
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Texting is not particularly efficient imho. What you mean is it's very low bandwidth and low resource intensive and flexible...
To compensate, though, perhaps it is requiring more thought to put the message into the fewest possible keystrokes, an art not practiced since the days of the expensive telegram. Example: ",2d wedn jen Mr ."
Smart dude, significant accomplishment, and not to denigrate his success but I'd love to see him using all that brainpower on something else.
However, it's an excellent demonstration of a non-paper resume. And there are still people out there making new hardware on small platforms. Wouldn't you want someone available who knew a bit about software if you were building something you might want to sell?
Geez Louise! It's hard enough keeping good people interested in this business without trivialising their efforts to show off their stuff. Think before you crap on people, please.
I've seen a fair few BMWs in Canberra
Not amongst the upper echelon, surely! A non-Australian product in the hands of the pollies? That's as disgraceful as an "I don't know" during Question Time.
Of course few of us actually admit that Holden is really based in Detroit, or Ford in Dearborn across the pond, or that the Epica is a Daewoo, or...
There got be an iPhone app for that! Wait, actually I had started to spec one...
That is a tremendously appropriate response for a geek. But as a rule, we must observe genuine girl-people in the wild if we are to trust our data. They're similar to people, but they're generally softer, shaped differently and their heads are rather oddly wired. Image resolution is actually much better with a non virtual contact.
(Please, oh FSM, please do not let this fall into the hands of my wife and daughters...)
I did to his grammar error though respond.
But it does give you an opportunity to redecorate that "special" part of the laboratory.
Royal Enfield isn't "reliable" so much as "utterly unchanged". They haven't dusted that marque since the British left India.
It might help however, to know a bit more about the law yourself if you have the time. At least, read the news about it. Some things - like business processes - can't be patented in some countries. Google "in re Bilski" for some good threads.
His fourth degree was in psychology.
So bring it on advertisers ... the more you greedy advertisers try to find ever more ways to manipulate people, the more hatred you'll generate
Why so much hate?
I think I know. The messages in advertising is designed to pass around your conscious censors and end up smack in the lizard brain, and that's something to resent. Read "The Hidden Persuaders" if you can find a copy, it's old.
Remember the old Ford advertisement for the Mustang II? Billboards read "Mustang II - Boredom 0". Of course, people didn't read or remember numbers, but they did remember the rest of the message. The car was pulled from production a few months later. Didn't sell for some reason.
-- Aged Marketing Flack
About 90% of people in the world *are* stupid
You are under arrest for egregious misuse of statistics.
Welp, you can sit there and debate the meaning of the word inflammable, I'll be waiting in the parking lot for the fire department.
That was tremendously funny. Rest assured, I will steal that line and use it elsewhere.
Communication among programmers is expensive. Brook's law. Sometimes it's necessary, but it's never cheap and it's always ugly time. Moral? Define the interfaces first, and make people write standalone tests for the inputs and outputs to their work first. Peer-review the code periodically to keep people honest, but otherwise leave good programmers the hell alone.
And get off my lawn.
It's not so much the mainstream media is misusing the word 'hacker'. They've completely taken it from you, and the new definition is permanent as far as I can tell. Condolences.
It's a matter of context, I think - words have entirely different meanings in different contexts. For example, walk into an iron-ring School of Engineering seminar somewhere and identify yourself as a "Sales Engineer". You will be used in undergraduate packaging experiments.
Because (let's face it), there's a chance you hired one on accident, without realizing it, and that they don't have an arrest record, for one reason or another.
Having no arrest record might be an excellent qualification for a hacker. Think about it.
...they already someone else had in mind for the job
Gaah! Apologies the Yoda-speak for.
I need alcohol.
I'm still shaken up over that interview.
Don't be. Although one can often tell in the first five minutes of an interview if you want the geek or not (I'm being generous with the time here) that sort of perfunctory questioning and the glib dismissal you received most likely means they already someone else had in mind for the job, and are just following procedure at this point - often you're competing with an internal promotion or other reasons not related to technical competence.
Where you might need to improve is in believing your first impressions about a firm interviewing you. Hunches count, and your ability to drive the interview the way you want is a good indication of what level of person they're really after. I wasn't there, but my off-the-cuff opinion is that you were either bloody well jobbed, or the juxtaposition of the "Reader" group in the name and your choice of words (e.g. an "accept once" in your resume) was a deal killer. But they shouldn't have brought you in if that were the case.
Disclosure: I've interviewed about five hundred candidates for technical jobs. I've hired one hundred, of which two turned out to be poor choices. It's a serious, expensive business to bring the right people on board.
He's also often distressed by the stupidity of the people he works with. "Mate" I said, "Everybody you work with will be stupider than you. Get used to it."
I don't know if it helped much, but it's indicative. In a world of so-so thinkers, any bright sparks will have trouble fitting in. And it takes a fairly bright spark to be even a mediocre sysadmin, to be honest.
and nobody here yet?
You kidding? We've all gone off to update our resumes.
It's ice, Jim, but not as we know it.
Question time: Would differences between US and Australian honeys offer insight into the bee product allergy mechanism? This question would need to be examined in the US I think, foreign honeys would be binned at the border.
We read all the labels - it's a habit. But sometimes you can't prepare all your own food and other people will have their little secret recipes.
I would look at it this way. There is absolutely no excuse for 24 Hour Fitness to have a single hour were they do not have functioning treadmills.
I would have to agree. Although how they use the treadmills in fault tolerant arrangements is important. Do they simply route people to a working treadmill, for example, when one fails? Or do they operate in an active-active clustering arrangement, where a person uses two treadmills simultaneously and fails over to a single treadmill when one stops? I imagine co-location of the treadmills would be a key success criterion in the latter configuration.
I'm from from Texas and that even makes my head hurt.
Which part of Tejas? I understand there's a three syllable difference in the pronunciation of a common metabolic byproduct between the Panhandle and the Gulf.
Just out of curiosity - did he ask for identification? Did he get a receipt for the delivery of the passwords? Just thinking, arrogance is no substitute for good CYA strategies.