Sucks, because I used to use my laptop at home and at the job site, and didn't want to have to muck with my email profiles continually. I decided it was easier to VPN into the job site.
Ugh. Not to sound like a notorious troll, but this sort of jockeying back and forth between Intel and AMD is the free market at work. Competition between the companies has driven performance up and kept prices reasonable. It's all good for us as consumers/users.
I've seen them running the gamut, from an IBM programmer's logic test that they gave to everyone, to grueling questions concerning language nits. I think language nits don't accurately gauge on the job performance, as they are
1) The sort of issue you don't deal with.
2) Gotchas that reasonable programming style will avoid.
A shop where I was working used to ask simple programming questions, the kind of thing that could be done in twenty lines or less. That seemed pretty reasonable as a lot of the questions were basic programming tasks. It's done interactively, one-on-one as much to see how you think as how well you program.
One place I interviewed at, the test was heavily based around the string pasting functionality in the C Preprocessor. Having gotten a heads up on that, with five minutes of preparation it was easy. But without prior warning, given that it wasn't a Preprocessor feature I was using, I would have failed miserably.
I've run into Brain Bench on my current job search. They have a large question pool, with the question difficulty supposedly advancing to challenge the test taker. It seemed like a lot of nits to me, some of which I knew, some of which I didn't. A lot of stuff on the Standard Library, which I'm somewhat familiar with, but as I've worked a lot in Windows, I'm more familiar with MFC. They encourage you to use sources, but with only three minutes per question you can only check so much in Stroustrup!
Side rant: I've got headhunters asking if I have BrainBench certifications. Given the cost and the fact that the certifications only last a year, why would I do that? I could probably spend over $500 a year staying certified in what I consider are my core skills!
The RIAAs member companies have championed an unsustainable business model that overcharges for music product, and skims the profits for the large conglomerates that control the music industry. The Internet and new technologies have made their business model obsolete, but the RIAA refuses to adapt, instead continuing to raise the price of CDs, and to limit the rights of consumers. Now the RIAA has declared war on their customers.
I refuse to kowtow to the RIAA and its member companies. To show my contempt for your actions, I refuse to buy music from any of your member companies until August First. I'm voting in the only way that will affect you, with my dollars. I will not even step foot in the music department of my local retailers.
I'm a little surprised at how positive the comments here are by those who viewed Exeter! The sets/props/uniforms were stunning reproductions of Classic Trek. The camera work and editing and much of the effects and sound work was professional quality, or near enough to match Classic Trek .
OTOH, the story was mediocre at best, the acting was maybe fair, and one special effect in particular was horrendous! The witty banter at the end, ala Kirk, Spock and Bones was just plain bad!
Honestly, I think someone needs to convert this to an MST3K tribute! Superimpose the robot head shadows on the bottom of the frame, and add some witty comments, and you might have something on a par with their treatment of the "Hands of Kronos".
Spoiler Warning
Just imagine Crow singing "I love you, you love me..." during the one horrendous effect.
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Sucks, because I used to use my laptop at home and at the job site, and didn't want to have to muck with my email profiles continually. I decided it was easier to VPN into the job site.
Seems like it's cheaper to pay a modest bounty to add a feature, than hire a programmer and have to give the enhanced source away, too.
Ugh. Not to sound like a notorious troll, but this sort of jockeying back and forth between Intel and AMD is the free market at work. Competition between the companies has driven performance up and kept prices reasonable. It's all good for us as consumers/users.
Now there's the tinfoil-hat nuttiness that needs to accompany every article about Mono and de Icaza on /.!
I've seen them running the gamut, from an IBM programmer's logic test that they gave to everyone, to grueling questions concerning language nits. I think language nits don't accurately gauge on the job performance, as they are 1) The sort of issue you don't deal with. 2) Gotchas that reasonable programming style will avoid. A shop where I was working used to ask simple programming questions, the kind of thing that could be done in twenty lines or less. That seemed pretty reasonable as a lot of the questions were basic programming tasks. It's done interactively, one-on-one as much to see how you think as how well you program. One place I interviewed at, the test was heavily based around the string pasting functionality in the C Preprocessor. Having gotten a heads up on that, with five minutes of preparation it was easy. But without prior warning, given that it wasn't a Preprocessor feature I was using, I would have failed miserably. I've run into Brain Bench on my current job search. They have a large question pool, with the question difficulty supposedly advancing to challenge the test taker. It seemed like a lot of nits to me, some of which I knew, some of which I didn't. A lot of stuff on the Standard Library, which I'm somewhat familiar with, but as I've worked a lot in Windows, I'm more familiar with MFC. They encourage you to use sources, but with only three minutes per question you can only check so much in Stroustrup! Side rant: I've got headhunters asking if I have BrainBench certifications. Given the cost and the fact that the certifications only last a year, why would I do that? I could probably spend over $500 a year staying certified in what I consider are my core skills!
Anna Patterson was quoted in the Newsweek article on Google as a Google employee.
The RIAAs member companies have championed an unsustainable business model that overcharges for music product, and skims the profits for the large conglomerates that control the music industry. The Internet and new technologies have made their business model obsolete, but the RIAA refuses to adapt, instead continuing to raise the price of CDs, and to limit the rights of consumers. Now the RIAA has declared war on their customers. I refuse to kowtow to the RIAA and its member companies. To show my contempt for your actions, I refuse to buy music from any of your member companies until August First. I'm voting in the only way that will affect you, with my dollars. I will not even step foot in the music department of my local retailers.
I'm a little surprised at how positive the comments here are by those who viewed Exeter! The sets/props/uniforms were stunning reproductions of Classic Trek. The camera work and editing and much of the effects and sound work was professional quality, or near enough to match Classic Trek .
OTOH, the story was mediocre at best, the acting was maybe fair, and one special effect in particular was horrendous! The witty banter at the end, ala Kirk, Spock and Bones was just plain bad!
Honestly, I think someone needs to convert this to an MST3K tribute! Superimpose the robot head shadows on the bottom of the frame, and add some witty comments, and you might have something on a par with their treatment of the "Hands of Kronos".
Spoiler Warning
Just imagine Crow singing "I love you, you love me..." during the one horrendous effect.
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