The economic structure for recruitment varies slightly depending on whether an HR professional works for a recruitment agency or directly for an employer. In the case of the former there may be bonuses for seeking out individuals who aren't a perfect match to the requisition's requirements as well as incentive to push the candidate as a match for the job (i.e. the agency fills a position for $100/hr. and pays the contractor ~$90/hr., keeping the difference for every hour worked); in the case of the latter there may still be bonuses but (in the case of large companies) less incentive to seek out qualified candidates who aren't a perfect match and no incentive to see the candidate succeed over time.
I get the impression that Slashdotters hold a low opinion of recruiters because of their own personal interactions with recruiters (which vary from annoying for the gainfully employed to frustrating for those seeking work) but I question if it's fair since I never hear an alternate system being proposed (let alone substantive discussion of why things are the way they are)...
Elegance cannot beat convenience in the workplace, or in most at any rate.
I would argue that any workplace which demands a choice in tradeoffs between elegance and convenience is probably not somewhere you want to work (especially if you know a language like Haskell)...
...but I'm never going to write a web-app, or a word-processor in Prolog.
Many of these languages are very clever when it comes to doing certain things, but how often do you actually need to do those things?
Yeah, but how often are you going to need to write a web-app or a word-processor? Thanks to the open-source movement there's an abundance of applications & packages which are freely accessible to you as a developer; if you're writing code to do common things then perhaps you're not making use of what is available to you.
BTW, freeing yourself up to think beyond the confines of a common paradigm, tool, etc. is what learning is all about; you can do most things you want to do with a UNIX shell using Scheme/LISP but most people don't because they don't realize they can. Given your experience you probably understand my point but I think that if you state that there's no place for alternative languages (or that their place is limited and/or small) you're essentially laying the groundwork for the logic which precludes those other languanges a priori.
I know the feeling... even worse is to have passed such tests (e.g. the four hour interview conducted by Microsoft complete with logic puzzles & open-ended questions) only to have to be subjected to some homebrew test which is poor even in the currency of proper English. = (
Since the airline sector has been trading (lately) as a proxy for oil (which has become an extremely volatile market) it's probably not correct to say that "image" is the reason a sell-off could happen without a second question; more to the point - how would the airlines go about managing their image?
Though, to be fair, the NYSE also had a huge, embarrassing outage of its own in 2006 IIRC (not to mention a well-documented outage in 2001 when from a software bug pushed to their mainframes) - I guess there's no such thing as 100% uptime...
Not necessarily; if it failed due to a lack of capacity and capacity was truly added (when compared to the old system) then it succeeded perfectly (though the matter of how it failed might be another matter entirely).
To be fair, design and implementation of an infrastructure is just as important as who administers it... those crappy admins might be living with the legacy of someone else's choices. administers
...I've still been getting one or two messages a week to 'slashdot@', 'freshmeat@' and 'filezilla@'. Interestingly enough I haven't received messages to other addresses (e.g. 'sales@', 'marketing@') for quite some time. Also, my Gmail accounts still gets about 50 junk messages a day and my personal (alumni) forwarding address still gets one just about every day.
Come on, you're not being 100% honest; I'm sure you realize Notes is a development platform and that (for many enterprise job roles) nothing more is needed than Notes, i.e. IM, email, calendar, web-based applications, and productivity application compatibility is built-in. Also, the Notes 8 interface definitely has a lot more polish than Notes 6 & Notes 7, especially considering *even more* features have been added...
Part of the apparent misunderstanding might have to do with the fact that many people applied for the coupons when they were first offered and received their coupons much earlier this year (at a time when some retailers still had not received their expected shipments). Also, A/V hobbyist websites have taken to discussions of chipsets & possibly created a sense that some models of receiver (e.g. Zenith DTT901/DTT902) may vary in quality between production date and thus further affected demand...
...but I recall a set of defaults when I was at UCB which consisted of a black background, white foreground, & red cursor. The files you would need to setup the other colors (pattern matching and whatnot) are (for the moment) at 'http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra/tools/emacs.code-colors.rar'.
Seems like most of the modded up posts are political; I'm surprised that no one has commented on the fact that WindowsCE is required for the SlingPlayer mobile (which, IMHO, would be the easiest setup for a non-technical person like myself)...
If that's your assertion you should provide the supporting text as well. It might be illegal to have an ice cream cone in your pocket but that doesn't mean you'll be arrested for it.
I wonder if his comment about his vocal cord is a symptom of thyroid disorder? I didn't know mine was until was too late and my thyroid disorder had turned into cancer which spread to my neck and ultimately took one of my vocal nerves.
DTrace is getting added to FreeBSD - that's certainly bi-directional sharing, is it not?
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What kinds of kinks does this throw into continued IBM development and endorsement of Linux?
None.
Remember that all new employees get Thinkpad laptops as their primary machine. On the desktop the standard installation image ("client for e-business" aka C4eb) is available in a Windows flavor and a Linux flavor. Most of the hardware that gets put in a Thinkpad is made by other OEMs and there's typically linux drivers so the hardware shouldn't be an issue; since most of the software (internal apps) can be accessed via the web or are Java-based (Notes) there's no issue there either. Besides, if you're developing for Linux you probably have a lab machine or can install the OS in a vitual machine.
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The economic structure for recruitment varies slightly depending on whether an HR professional works for a recruitment agency or directly for an employer. In the case of the former there may be bonuses for seeking out individuals who aren't a perfect match to the requisition's requirements as well as incentive to push the candidate as a match for the job (i.e. the agency fills a position for $100/hr. and pays the contractor ~$90/hr., keeping the difference for every hour worked); in the case of the latter there may still be bonuses but (in the case of large companies) less incentive to seek out qualified candidates who aren't a perfect match and no incentive to see the candidate succeed over time.
I get the impression that Slashdotters hold a low opinion of recruiters because of their own personal interactions with recruiters (which vary from annoying for the gainfully employed to frustrating for those seeking work) but I question if it's fair since I never hear an alternate system being proposed (let alone substantive discussion of why things are the way they are)...
Recruiters or salaried HR professionals?
I would argue that any workplace which demands a choice in tradeoffs between elegance and convenience is probably not somewhere you want to work (especially if you know a language like Haskell)...
Yeah, but how often are you going to need to write a web-app or a word-processor? Thanks to the open-source movement there's an abundance of applications & packages which are freely accessible to you as a developer; if you're writing code to do common things then perhaps you're not making use of what is available to you. BTW, freeing yourself up to think beyond the confines of a common paradigm, tool, etc. is what learning is all about; you can do most things you want to do with a UNIX shell using Scheme/LISP but most people don't because they don't realize they can. Given your experience you probably understand my point but I think that if you state that there's no place for alternative languages (or that their place is limited and/or small) you're essentially laying the groundwork for the logic which precludes those other languanges a priori.
I know the feeling... even worse is to have passed such tests (e.g. the four hour interview conducted by Microsoft complete with logic puzzles & open-ended questions) only to have to be subjected to some homebrew test which is poor even in the currency of proper English. = (
Since the airline sector has been trading (lately) as a proxy for oil (which has become an extremely volatile market) it's probably not correct to say that "image" is the reason a sell-off could happen without a second question; more to the point - how would the airlines go about managing their image?
Changing your defaults so that you view a "moderated" conversation (say, +4 & +5 moderated posts) might improve your Slashdot experience.
The "5 9's" of the System z platform weren't exactly meeting the needs of the NYSE (hence their switch to Linux & pSeries):
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1254860,00.html
http://www.itjungle.com/big/big052008-story01.html
Though, to be fair, the NYSE also had a huge, embarrassing outage of its own in 2006 IIRC (not to mention a well-documented outage in 2001 when from a software bug pushed to their mainframes) - I guess there's no such thing as 100% uptime...
Not necessarily; if it failed due to a lack of capacity and capacity was truly added (when compared to the old system) then it succeeded perfectly (though the matter of how it failed might be another matter entirely).
Um... airbags?
To be fair, design and implementation of an infrastructure is just as important as who administers it... those crappy admins might be living with the legacy of someone else's choices. administers
...I've still been getting one or two messages a week to 'slashdot@', 'freshmeat@' and 'filezilla@'. Interestingly enough I haven't received messages to other addresses (e.g. 'sales@', 'marketing@') for quite some time. Also, my Gmail accounts still gets about 50 junk messages a day and my personal (alumni) forwarding address still gets one just about every day.
Come on, you're not being 100% honest; I'm sure you realize Notes is a development platform and that (for many enterprise job roles) nothing more is needed than Notes, i.e. IM, email, calendar, web-based applications, and productivity application compatibility is built-in. Also, the Notes 8 interface definitely has a lot more polish than Notes 6 & Notes 7, especially considering *even more* features have been added...
Part of the apparent misunderstanding might have to do with the fact that many people applied for the coupons when they were first offered and received their coupons much earlier this year (at a time when some retailers still had not received their expected shipments). Also, A/V hobbyist websites have taken to discussions of chipsets & possibly created a sense that some models of receiver (e.g. Zenith DTT901/DTT902) may vary in quality between production date and thus further affected demand...
...but I recall a set of defaults when I was at UCB which consisted of a black background, white foreground, & red cursor. The files you would need to setup the other colors (pattern matching and whatnot) are (for the moment) at 'http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra/tools/emacs.code-colors.rar'.
Hang in there; things will work out (they did for me).
...the only government branch "in-the-black".
Seems like most of the modded up posts are political; I'm surprised that no one has commented on the fact that WindowsCE is required for the SlingPlayer mobile (which, IMHO, would be the easiest setup for a non-technical person like myself)...
If that's your assertion you should provide the supporting text as well. It might be illegal to have an ice cream cone in your pocket but that doesn't mean you'll be arrested for it.
It's not a violation of copyright if you watch it once and then delete it. You've paid the rental fee so you have a right to watch it once...
I wonder if his comment about his vocal cord is a symptom of thyroid disorder? I didn't know mine was until was too late and my thyroid disorder had turned into cancer which spread to my neck and ultimately took one of my vocal nerves.
DTrace is getting added to FreeBSD - that's certainly bi-directional sharing, is it not?
Remember that all new employees get Thinkpad laptops as their primary machine. On the desktop the standard installation image ("client for e-business" aka C4eb) is available in a Windows flavor and a Linux flavor. Most of the hardware that gets put in a Thinkpad is made by other OEMs and there's typically linux drivers so the hardware shouldn't be an issue; since most of the software (internal apps) can be accessed via the web or are Java-based (Notes) there's no issue there either. Besides, if you're developing for Linux you probably have a lab machine or can install the OS in a vitual machine.
Ummmm... Al Zollar is in charge of *IBM Tivoli*. What are you talking about?
I take it you got a CS degree at either MIT or UC Berkeley? SICP is the canonical text at both schools...