That sort of thing happened all the time to me in the late 80s. I had an interview with Intuit in around 1990 that went almost exactly like that. Statistically, variances happen. Speaking as someone who is now often on the other side of the desk, it's just as likely you'll get three candidates who all think "singly-linked list" is an appropriate store for sorted strings. (To give a real world example from very recently.)
I have a family. I also sometimes spend my evenings on the couch with a laptop, screwing around with Ajax code using python as a back end. I don't necessarily do this to make myself more marketable. I do this because I enjoy screwing around with new languages and technologies. And that's really the point. People who really love this stuff do it in their spare time, and therefore end up making themselves very marketable. Those sorts have little troubles finding jobs.
This was an extremely common refrain in the early nineties when the combination of the rise of the PC and the decline in defense spending put lots of COBOL programmers on the street. Many screamed "age discrimination" because no one would hire them and then train them in C++.
When I was looking for work with a newly minted CS degree in 1987, it was very common to be one of 10-20 people interviewed. Three is nothing. Three is "I wish to hell we had more people to choose from".
Kids these days think the bizarro world of the dotcom boom was normality. I've been working in the industry for twenty years and have been in the position of both interviewee and interviewer many times. I worked as a contractor for a bit and so have gotten jobs through the interview process a total of eleven times over the past twenty years. With that experience, I can say that today's job market is a *lot* closer to normality than the job market of the dotcom boom.
Also remember that posters are more likely to be people with lots of free time, and thus less likely to be people with exciting and interesting jobs. People don't post 1000 word rants about how they like their job, and how the headhunters won't leave them alone.
Blizzard first did that with Diablo II. The original Diablo had loading screens, but I recall during the Diablo II beta period that Blizzard crowed about how they'd figured out a way to do away with them entirely. They mostly did. You could move through massive areas quite fluidly.
The most important factor in that increase is manufactured fertilizers. Prior to mid-twentieth century, farm production was limited by the inability to fix nitrogen.
I hope that they make sure that the dialogs you'd need to fix graphics issues are sized to work in whatever graphics resolution they use in "safe mode".
I say this because I know that many of the current GTK dialogs are too large for 640x480, and because there are Windows dialogs that are annoyingly unusable in Windows "safe mode".
Yes...the Heavenly Sword demo is sort of like an orgasm. It's pretty awesome, but you don't seem to have any particular control of anything and it's over in ten seconds.
Uh....you hadn't heard of him? He's one of the leading proponents of Creative Commons and a was a very prominent member of the EFF. I find it somewhat shocking that someone reading the "Your Rights Online" section here hadn't heard of him.
You might (and probably do) make the decision in 100 milliseconds, but it takes longer than 100 milliseconds for the result of that decision to travel from you brain to your fingers.
What the Democrats need to learn is that offending the 25% of the population that wasn't going to vote for them in the first place is not going to cost them votes. It's what the Republicans figured out long ago and it is why they are, in general, better than the Democrats at winning elections.
They need to stop letting the Republicans set the agenda. You do that by taking stands, not by waffling around trying to please everybody.
There are two words to describe worrying about what Fox News and talking heads say: "No Balls". There's also a word for people who are afraid to take a stand: "losers".
You miss the point completely. It's not about fighting DRM. It's about getting to play games without having to fight to make the fucking things run on your machine.
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Not really. The people with Wiis are using their console instead of reading slashdot.
How many industry transforming technologies have *you* invented?
That sort of thing happened all the time to me in the late 80s. I had an interview with Intuit in around 1990 that went almost exactly like that. Statistically, variances happen. Speaking as someone who is now often on the other side of the desk, it's just as likely you'll get three candidates who all think "singly-linked list" is an appropriate store for sorted strings. (To give a real world example from very recently.)
I have a family. I also sometimes spend my evenings on the couch with a laptop, screwing around with Ajax code using python as a back end. I don't necessarily do this to make myself more marketable. I do this because I enjoy screwing around with new languages and technologies. And that's really the point. People who really love this stuff do it in their spare time, and therefore end up making themselves very marketable. Those sorts have little troubles finding jobs.
This was an extremely common refrain in the early nineties when the combination of the rise of the PC and the decline in defense spending put lots of COBOL programmers on the street. Many screamed "age discrimination" because no one would hire them and then train them in C++.
Kids these days...
When I was looking for work with a newly minted CS degree in 1987, it was very common to be one of 10-20 people interviewed. Three is nothing. Three is "I wish to hell we had more people to choose from".
Kids these days think the bizarro world of the dotcom boom was normality. I've been working in the industry for twenty years and have been in the position of both interviewee and interviewer many times. I worked as a contractor for a bit and so have gotten jobs through the interview process a total of eleven times over the past twenty years. With that experience, I can say that today's job market is a *lot* closer to normality than the job market of the dotcom boom.
Also remember that posters are more likely to be people with lots of free time, and thus less likely to be people with exciting and interesting jobs. People don't post 1000 word rants about how they like their job, and how the headhunters won't leave them alone.
So they should do something other than giving them a different background color and adding the text "Sponsored Links"?
He's not just pro-Microsoft. He's an ex Microsoft employee.
Blizzard first did that with Diablo II. The original Diablo had loading screens, but I recall during the Diablo II beta period that Blizzard crowed about how they'd figured out a way to do away with them entirely. They mostly did. You could move through massive areas quite fluidly.
The most important factor in that increase is manufactured fertilizers. Prior to mid-twentieth century, farm production was limited by the inability to fix nitrogen.
Certain areas of New Orleans are a counter-example.
Seriously, most buildings deteriorate into nothing with 100 years of inattention.
And with the right analog stick, R2 and L2 buttons missing, you get double the masochism!
I hope that they make sure that the dialogs you'd need to fix graphics issues are sized to work in whatever graphics resolution they use in "safe mode".
I say this because I know that many of the current GTK dialogs are too large for 640x480, and because there are Windows dialogs that are annoyingly unusable in Windows "safe mode".
Yes...the Heavenly Sword demo is sort of like an orgasm. It's pretty awesome, but you don't seem to have any particular control of anything and it's over in ten seconds.
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Uh....you hadn't heard of him? He's one of the leading proponents of Creative Commons and a was a very prominent member of the EFF. I find it somewhat shocking that someone reading the "Your Rights Online" section here hadn't heard of him.
You might (and probably do) make the decision in 100 milliseconds, but it takes longer than 100 milliseconds for the result of that decision to travel from you brain to your fingers.
I run a Linux box at home, game on a PS3. My wife uses a Mac laptop. At work, we use Linux and Windows XP. Our IT refuses to deal with Vista.
So it means nothing to me.
If, however, people say "fuck this shit. I'm buying a Wii|Playstation.", it is a loss for Microsoft.
What the Democrats need to learn is that offending the 25% of the population that wasn't going to vote for them in the first place is not going to cost them votes. It's what the Republicans figured out long ago and it is why they are, in general, better than the Democrats at winning elections.
They need to stop letting the Republicans set the agenda. You do that by taking stands, not by waffling around trying to please everybody.
There are two words to describe worrying about what Fox News and talking heads say: "No Balls". There's also a word for people who are afraid to take a stand: "losers".
Don't worry too much. The nice thing about the Bush administration is that while they are fascists, they are incompetent fascists.
If the Democrats think they'll get the White House next, they don't have much incentive to limit the power of the White House.
You miss the point completely. It's not about fighting DRM. It's about getting to play games without having to fight to make the fucking things run on your machine.