Me too. I have worked over the last 22 years in Fortran, Basic, C, C++, SQL, plus a host of various scripting languages, both public domain and proprietary. But I didn't know Java. Then, about the middle of last year I decided to know Java, and a month later I had already written a pretty involved GUI Workflow monitoring program with about 5,000 lines of code. If I were a manager, and I wished my company to succeed, I would definitely hire someone with three or more languages under the belt even if my preferred language was not one of them, over someone with a year of experience in only that one language.
Where is my generations version of COBOL Y2K jobs?
Well, a lot of that was hype anyway (but a lot of it wasn't, miserably). Perhaps you can get some hype going around the Mayan's Y2012 problem and offer to fix it.
I'm pretty sure the new North Americans were kicked out of England for being religious zealots
So the revolutionary war was actually a war of the colonies trying to remain a part of Britain while being forced them to become independent?
A real gamer would not have left a note under his door unless it was his own son or daughter coming up out of the basement on the way to the kitchen for a snack to take back downstairs. I suspect he made it up or someone is trying to frame a gamer.
How do you get a note under the door anyway? I've never lived anywhere where you could get a note through the seal of the door. Is it so balmy down there in Australia that you can have open space under your doors? Does he live in a hotel or an apartment with doors on the inside hallway?
There probably aren't a lot of plants that far down, but there would be lots of invertebrates. Poor invertebrates have all the bad luck. Perhaps one day they will learn the evolutionary advantage of being cute and furry.
"British Columbia's current electricity supply resources are 90 per cent clean and new electricity generation plants will have zero net greenhouse gas emissions."
That is not physically possible. It is only nominally possible from a publicity perspective by ignoring greenhouse gas put off by manufacturing the items in use or by making the greenhouse gases "somebody else's problem" by buying carbon offsets or otherwise giving your pollution problem away.
Whenever I see somebody doing a burnout, I always feel bad for them because their poor tires are not properly matched to their car. After all, with a properly matched tire set, if you tromp the gas, the car goes fast. I love embarassing ignorant rednecks in their hopped up Camaros by beating them for the first couple of hundred yards in my all wheel drive GMC Safari minivan while they sit their and spin their wheels like idiots. They don't seem to realize that they can only beat me once their wheels stop spinning. They think that their inability to maintain traction is some sort of advantage.
Right! At least that's what all my friends in China say when they e-mail me.
Like little Lisa Simpsons' pen pal.
"Dear Lisa, as I write this, I am very sad. Our
president has been overthrown and...
replaced by the benevolent general Krull. All hail Krull and his
glorious new regime! Sincerely, Little Girl."
How long it will take depends on whether I am allowed to work on it. I used to be in operations, which meant I fought fires 12 hours a day. Now I am a full time developer, which means I fight fires 12 hours a day, and then spend the rest of my day writing programs. Unfortunately, I am usually too tired from fighting fires to actually do any programming. So if they ask me how long it would take to do something, I tell them "It would take if I am allowed to work on it, however, since I will not be allowed to work on it, it will never get done."
My company also uses a new development approach that I have seen at the last two or three companies that I have worked at, but never seen before in my professional career. That is, instead of having multiple people work on a single project, they have a single person work on multiple projects. We have 7 developers and about 10 times that many active projects. On any given day, the Project Manager for two to three of those projects will be demanding that his project get top priority.
There are checks and balances, and they seem to work well since homeschoolers are statistically more likely to go to college and score better on the entrance exams. In fact, homeschooled kids are probably likely to be more open minded, since they are required to learn science, but may also be exposed to another viewpoint, whereas in a public school, they are taught science and told that there is no other viewpoint. Also, I am sure it is a dismaying fact to slashdotters that most homeschoolers do not do so for religious reasons.
I have been pretty vocal on this topic, but I should point out that I do not home school and I was not homeschooled. However, I do teach my kids at home as a supplement to what they learn at school. The public schools are very good at making people memorize facts, but I find them lacking on explaining how the fact came to be, the history of it, where it's shortcomings are, what other possible explanations for that fact may be, how one can actually make use of the fact, etc.
Have you by any chance ever read any statistics on homeschooling, or do you prefer to make them up yourself since the facts fly in the face of your personal viewpoint? Check out wikipedia, then come back and share your findings.
So are there statistics which prove out that homeschooled kids are more likely to end up in jail than publicly schooled kids? Because I would be willing to bet tht it is vastly skewed in the other direction.
Wikipedia has statistics which fly in the face of most of the posts on this topic here today. Homeschooled kids are much more likely to enter college and to graduate from college than publicly schooled kids. Further, only about 33% of parents cited religious reasons for homeschooling, whereas the slashdot fear factor seems to be that everyone who is homeschooled is so that they can instill intolerance, religious bigotry, and an abhorrence for all secular learning.
If homeschoolers are taught that the Bible is right and science is wrong, then why do home schoolers score better on college entry exams in science (and math, and English), than publicly schooled children? Are they clever enough to hold knowledge of creationism along with darwinism? Well, good for them!
It's great that everybody here has the right to share their opinion and all, but when the facts fly in the face of the opinions, then you just need to shut up and admit you're wrong.
You forgot about the part where the car dealer then takes the car to auction, sells it wholesale, which is probably far less than what you still owe on it, and then proceeds to take you to court for the remainder of that balance. Then magically, that same dealer sells the same car at the same price he sold it to you, to some other poor shmuck at the same inflated interest rate and the cycle continues.
I guess the analogy to the phone market doesn't quite hold, other than the merchant ripping off the consumer part. Ie, after you have been paying $100 a month for a $400 phone for 18 months, and then if you cancel, they charge you $200, for a phone that is now worth $30 on the open market. But at least they let you keep the phone.
I dunno, it sounds pretty crappy to me to spend 1/4 of your life on call.
Well, then you wouldn't like my company. There are several people here who are ALWAYS on call. You have to take your laptop home every day in case you get sick and have to stay home. Sick means you work from home instead of work from work. You have to take your laptop with you on vacation. Generally they let you just work in the evenings when you're on vacation, though.
...but up until now the scientific tracking tools were too heavy and the dragonflies all fell into the ocean and drowned. Why, it was only 10 years ago that advances in tracking devices caused scientists to discover that dragonflies could actually fly.
I too was wondering why they seem to be missing part of their units. When I look at other facilities, they specify MW-Hours. But I could believe that this project would really only generate 200 MW total.
I wish I could work 8 hours straight on programming. I need to in order to get my job done. However, most of my day is taken up by fixing problems that are not my responsibility, but the people who are responsible for them don't know how to fix them. Our management doesn't recognize who is capable of doing what jobs. I'm supposed to be 100% devoted to development, but I end up spending the first 8-10 hours of my day dealing with getting our daily production deadlines out.
We have three development groups where I work. The first one is the group that works on our web facing products. They have deadlines measured in months, like they have 6 months to make a minor release. And they miss the deadlines most of the time. They generally work 11-6 and take 15 minutes every hour for a smoke break.
The second group is in charge of development on the batch system which is used daily to get the deadlines out. This group doesn't have deadlines. If there is a problem, they need to get it fixed right now. They generally work 8-4 and take 15 minutes out of every hour for a smoke break.
Then there is my group, of which I am the only developer. I don't smoke, so I don't get breaks. I generally work 9-6 at work, and then go home and work from home until I get tired of it. My job is to do programming, however, if the production work doesn't get done, then the company folds and I don't get a paycheck, so I HAVE to get that done, and then I only get to do programming when I can find the spare time on nights and weekends.
Our company has serious problems with resource allocation. People in my group work 16 hours a day, and people in other groups barely do 7. The company refuses to hire anyone else for our group, or to reallocate anyone else to our group.
I'm not saying your company is like this, but several companies I have worked for have had similar gourmet coffees, and yet, for those of us who can't stand coffee, but still enjoy caffeinated beverages, we have to pay our own way. Fortunately, the company I work for now supplies free soda, but most companies I have worked for have always had free coffee, but not free soda.
Are you sure? The poverty line has been increasing steadily while low end IT jobs still pay the same or less.
There are some guys where I work that are paid salary, but if you look at their hourly rate it is barely above minimum wage. Some weeks it is BELOW minimum wage. They are not in the actual IT department (which consists of one whole person), but pretty much everybody in my company that actually works is part of the information technology effort.
Well, this is the kind of thing I always wonder about at car stereo shows. They always have driver side visible screens hooked up to DVDs or other video technology, which is illegal in every state that I am aware of. If you can't legally drive it, then I don't think it should qualify as a mobile A/Vsystem.
Doesn't anyone drink a normal cup of coffee anymore?
Not me, I can't stand the taste of coffee. Not coffee ice cream, not mocha, not chino, not anything they serve at Starbucks. I refuse to meet people at Starbucks anymore, they don't even serve soda. I even tried their chocolate milk once and for four bucks I got a glass of mile with a marbled clog of chocolate at the bottom. Apparently, for $5 I was supposed to mix it myself, which I realized too late in the game.
No thank you.
Back on topic, I hear that McDonalds coffee is really quite good, although thanks to one person who refused to be responsible for her own actions, they no longer serve it hot enough unless you are going to be drinking it right there in the building.
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Me too. I have worked over the last 22 years in Fortran, Basic, C, C++, SQL, plus a host of various scripting languages, both public domain and proprietary. But I didn't know Java. Then, about the middle of last year I decided to know Java, and a month later I had already written a pretty involved GUI Workflow monitoring program with about 5,000 lines of code. If I were a manager, and I wished my company to succeed, I would definitely hire someone with three or more languages under the belt even if my preferred language was not one of them, over someone with a year of experience in only that one language.
Where is my generations version of COBOL Y2K jobs?
Well, a lot of that was hype anyway (but a lot of it wasn't, miserably). Perhaps you can get some hype going around the Mayan's Y2012 problem and offer to fix it.
I'm pretty sure the new North Americans were kicked out of England for being religious zealots
So the revolutionary war was actually a war of the colonies trying to remain a part of Britain while being forced them to become independent?
A real gamer would not have left a note under his door unless it was his own son or daughter coming up out of the basement on the way to the kitchen for a snack to take back downstairs. I suspect he made it up or someone is trying to frame a gamer.
How do you get a note under the door anyway? I've never lived anywhere where you could get a note through the seal of the door. Is it so balmy down there in Australia that you can have open space under your doors? Does he live in a hotel or an apartment with doors on the inside hallway?
There probably aren't a lot of plants that far down, but there would be lots of invertebrates. Poor invertebrates have all the bad luck. Perhaps one day they will learn the evolutionary advantage of being cute and furry.
"British Columbia's current electricity supply resources are 90 per cent clean and new electricity generation plants will have zero net greenhouse gas emissions."
That is not physically possible. It is only nominally possible from a publicity perspective by ignoring greenhouse gas put off by manufacturing the items in use or by making the greenhouse gases "somebody else's problem" by buying carbon offsets or otherwise giving your pollution problem away.
Whenever I see somebody doing a burnout, I always feel bad for them because their poor tires are not properly matched to their car. After all, with a properly matched tire set, if you tromp the gas, the car goes fast. I love embarassing ignorant rednecks in their hopped up Camaros by beating them for the first couple of hundred yards in my all wheel drive GMC Safari minivan while they sit their and spin their wheels like idiots. They don't seem to realize that they can only beat me once their wheels stop spinning. They think that their inability to maintain traction is some sort of advantage.
Right! At least that's what all my friends in China say when they e-mail me. ...
replaced by the benevolent general Krull. All hail Krull and his
glorious new regime! Sincerely, Little Girl."
Like little Lisa Simpsons' pen pal.
"Dear Lisa, as I write this, I am very sad. Our president has been overthrown and
How long it will take depends on whether I am allowed to work on it. I used to be in operations, which meant I fought fires 12 hours a day. Now I am a full time developer, which means I fight fires 12 hours a day, and then spend the rest of my day writing programs. Unfortunately, I am usually too tired from fighting fires to actually do any programming. So if they ask me how long it would take to do something, I tell them "It would take if I am allowed to work on it, however, since I will not be allowed to work on it, it will never get done."
My company also uses a new development approach that I have seen at the last two or three companies that I have worked at, but never seen before in my professional career. That is, instead of having multiple people work on a single project, they have a single person work on multiple projects. We have 7 developers and about 10 times that many active projects. On any given day, the Project Manager for two to three of those projects will be demanding that his project get top priority.
There are checks and balances, and they seem to work well since homeschoolers are statistically more likely to go to college and score better on the entrance exams. In fact, homeschooled kids are probably likely to be more open minded, since they are required to learn science, but may also be exposed to another viewpoint, whereas in a public school, they are taught science and told that there is no other viewpoint. Also, I am sure it is a dismaying fact to slashdotters that most homeschoolers do not do so for religious reasons.
I have been pretty vocal on this topic, but I should point out that I do not home school and I was not homeschooled. However, I do teach my kids at home as a supplement to what they learn at school. The public schools are very good at making people memorize facts, but I find them lacking on explaining how the fact came to be, the history of it, where it's shortcomings are, what other possible explanations for that fact may be, how one can actually make use of the fact, etc.
Have you by any chance ever read any statistics on homeschooling, or do you prefer to make them up yourself since the facts fly in the face of your personal viewpoint? Check out wikipedia, then come back and share your findings.
The truth is out there. Read the freely available statistics. Read Wikipedia. About 1/3 claim religious reasons.
Maybe you can show us the paragraph where it says parents have to send kids to public schools?
So are there statistics which prove out that homeschooled kids are more likely to end up in jail than publicly schooled kids? Because I would be willing to bet tht it is vastly skewed in the other direction.
Wikipedia has statistics which fly in the face of most of the posts on this topic here today. Homeschooled kids are much more likely to enter college and to graduate from college than publicly schooled kids. Further, only about 33% of parents cited religious reasons for homeschooling, whereas the slashdot fear factor seems to be that everyone who is homeschooled is so that they can instill intolerance, religious bigotry, and an abhorrence for all secular learning.
If homeschoolers are taught that the Bible is right and science is wrong, then why do home schoolers score better on college entry exams in science (and math, and English), than publicly schooled children? Are they clever enough to hold knowledge of creationism along with darwinism? Well, good for them!
It's great that everybody here has the right to share their opinion and all, but when the facts fly in the face of the opinions, then you just need to shut up and admit you're wrong.
You forgot about the part where the car dealer then takes the car to auction, sells it wholesale, which is probably far less than what you still owe on it, and then proceeds to take you to court for the remainder of that balance. Then magically, that same dealer sells the same car at the same price he sold it to you, to some other poor shmuck at the same inflated interest rate and the cycle continues.
I guess the analogy to the phone market doesn't quite hold, other than the merchant ripping off the consumer part. Ie, after you have been paying $100 a month for a $400 phone for 18 months, and then if you cancel, they charge you $200, for a phone that is now worth $30 on the open market. But at least they let you keep the phone.
Feels immeasurably better than sleeping on the street.
I dunno, it sounds pretty crappy to me to spend 1/4 of your life on call.
Well, then you wouldn't like my company. There are several people here who are ALWAYS on call. You have to take your laptop home every day in case you get sick and have to stay home. Sick means you work from home instead of work from work. You have to take your laptop with you on vacation. Generally they let you just work in the evenings when you're on vacation, though.
By those standards all of /. are devout terrorists.
Honestly, who collects porn when you could look at brand new stuff on the internet every day?
...but up until now the scientific tracking tools were too heavy and the dragonflies all fell into the ocean and drowned. Why, it was only 10 years ago that advances in tracking devices caused scientists to discover that dragonflies could actually fly.
I too was wondering why they seem to be missing part of their units. When I look at other facilities, they specify MW-Hours. But I could believe that this project would really only generate 200 MW total.
I wish I could work 8 hours straight on programming. I need to in order to get my job done. However, most of my day is taken up by fixing problems that are not my responsibility, but the people who are responsible for them don't know how to fix them. Our management doesn't recognize who is capable of doing what jobs. I'm supposed to be 100% devoted to development, but I end up spending the first 8-10 hours of my day dealing with getting our daily production deadlines out.
We have three development groups where I work. The first one is the group that works on our web facing products. They have deadlines measured in months, like they have 6 months to make a minor release. And they miss the deadlines most of the time. They generally work 11-6 and take 15 minutes every hour for a smoke break.
The second group is in charge of development on the batch system which is used daily to get the deadlines out. This group doesn't have deadlines. If there is a problem, they need to get it fixed right now. They generally work 8-4 and take 15 minutes out of every hour for a smoke break.
Then there is my group, of which I am the only developer. I don't smoke, so I don't get breaks. I generally work 9-6 at work, and then go home and work from home until I get tired of it. My job is to do programming, however, if the production work doesn't get done, then the company folds and I don't get a paycheck, so I HAVE to get that done, and then I only get to do programming when I can find the spare time on nights and weekends.
Our company has serious problems with resource allocation. People in my group work 16 hours a day, and people in other groups barely do 7. The company refuses to hire anyone else for our group, or to reallocate anyone else to our group.
I'm not saying your company is like this, but several companies I have worked for have had similar gourmet coffees, and yet, for those of us who can't stand coffee, but still enjoy caffeinated beverages, we have to pay our own way. Fortunately, the company I work for now supplies free soda, but most companies I have worked for have always had free coffee, but not free soda.
Are you sure? The poverty line has been increasing steadily while low end IT jobs still pay the same or less.
There are some guys where I work that are paid salary, but if you look at their hourly rate it is barely above minimum wage. Some weeks it is BELOW minimum wage. They are not in the actual IT department (which consists of one whole person), but pretty much everybody in my company that actually works is part of the information technology effort.
Well, this is the kind of thing I always wonder about at car stereo shows. They always have driver side visible screens hooked up to DVDs or other video technology, which is illegal in every state that I am aware of. If you can't legally drive it, then I don't think it should qualify as a mobile A/Vsystem.
Doesn't anyone drink a normal cup of coffee anymore?
Not me, I can't stand the taste of coffee. Not coffee ice cream, not mocha, not chino, not anything they serve at Starbucks. I refuse to meet people at Starbucks anymore, they don't even serve soda. I even tried their chocolate milk once and for four bucks I got a glass of mile with a marbled clog of chocolate at the bottom. Apparently, for $5 I was supposed to mix it myself, which I realized too late in the game.
No thank you.
Back on topic, I hear that McDonalds coffee is really quite good, although thanks to one person who refused to be responsible for her own actions, they no longer serve it hot enough unless you are going to be drinking it right there in the building.