If you are planning to expand in India, you may start by hiring a lot of Indians. People who understand the culture, speak the language, may have family and are more willing to travel. At least I think that's the point he's making.
Personally it doesn't surprise me that two companies who have the most elitist hiring practices potentially have the most embarassing diversity secrets. I don't believe it's because they're racist, it's because the monoculture they're creating selects a particular group of people. If you want to object to their hiring practices, get off the race card...question whether they, or any company, really know what they want/need to any great detail. I doubt it.
One is science the other is religion. Guess which one does not belong in a schoolbook?
You mean which one doesn't belong in a science textbook. It's an open question whether, and how, religion should be taught in public schools. I personally don't see anything wrong with teaching religion in public schools, but you have to teach ALL of them.
Debate and oration is very 1950s. This is the age of marketing checklist: - Tough on terror [CHECK!]
Vote against it? you aren't tough on terror! The commercial will sound like "Senator Foghorn Leghorn voted AGAINST the Subversive Activities Registration Act, which would have enabled law enforcement to quickly round up terrorists.
Senator Foghorn Leghorn voted AGAINST America.
Vote for America, Vote Elmer Fudd.
Paid for by the people for Elmer Fudd foundation."
Microsoft has also been known to blame hardware for failing to comply to often unwritten, industry spec deviating, irrational requirements in order to function properly. If the hardware does not magically conform to their software's expectations in this regard, it is therefore to blame. I've played this game with them several times, at this point anything they say sounds like total bullshit, even if this once, it's possible they're correct.
You know, as the nerd's nerd I can't say I've ever enjoyed school, and echo a lot of the sentiments in your post. However, there is something to say for being able to adapt to, and relate to, the society that keeps me alive, whether I like it or not. For the crowd who feels that conventional school is too slow and holds them back, I say that school ends at 3pm (ish, depending on location). You have all that time afterward for self-education, go nuts.
These kids are being protected from "evil" and "immoral" ideas from other religions, but will one day have to entire the big world where such ideas are common and, in many cases, respected. If the boy continues fighting, and the girl continues to be unable to focus in the presence of these other ideas, they are likely going to end up in prison or worse.
Education of children is about more than facts, it's about adapting them to the environment they will have to live and succeed in. The older they get, the more "serious" the education is, but they need to learn very early, and very often to get along, how to get along, and how to cope with alien ideas. Buddhists are real, Muslims are real, Hindu's are real, homosexuals are here and they're queer, etc. Get used to it.
I wouldn't call FPGA design "programming". Yes, you do it with a language that superficially resembles a language like C...but that's about where the similarities end. It's very much more a hardware job.
Ask me to design an operating system from the ground up, and I'll do it for free. Ask me to take my operating system and make it work for you, and support it for as long as you need, I'll tell you to pay me.
That's the difference between programming for fun and programming for money, and that's why the GPL was a really good idea.
As nerds our primary useful output is intellectual property, for many of us our significant consumption is intellectual property, and the focus of our work is intellectual property. It kind of does make sense.
False, they are continuously bombarded with resumes and people to fill your shoes. Many have a policy of firing the bottom 10% every year, you may think "not me", but that bottom 10% often includes really good people. They were just at the bottom of a particular deck shuffle, or got placed under a particularly dimwitted manager, etc.
No if you're in a megacorp you're there because you either are interested in what they do, or are attracted by the huge amounts of cash they can spend on technologies you want to work with (which small companies could not). Small companies I've looked at usually don't do the most exciting work, though probably I'd be happier in one.
I'd say the flaw in the article is lack of comprehension or explanation of the hardest part of megacorps. There are many ways to find job postings, and no shortage of advice on interviews. The hardest part of getting employment at ANY of these companies is getting the screening phone call. Before that, maybe there's some magic in a good resume, or magically selecting exactly the right words for the resume, or I dunno what I never figured it out. In my experience: knowing a guy on the inside is really the #1 best way of getting in, that job postings are fulfilling legal requirements but not entirely the right way in the door.
Speaking for myself, I am offered 100% of the jobs that I even get a phone screen for. I am given a phone screen for perhaps less than 5% of the jobs I submit a resume to. So the real trick is figuring out how to bypass that big brick wall of HR resume screening.
You are falling victim to the "new" engineering. By statistical analysis, PrintScr/SysRq is being used least frequently so it must be excess. There couldn't possibly be a use for those keys, right? Right?
Of course who knows how many users have no idea they can do a screen capture with PrintScr, and would use it if they knew it was there.
To be a successful CEO, you simply have to be less of a moron than your shareholders (or rather, your board of directors). Given the current crew running most large corporations, that's really not that great of an accomplishment.
The same logic that goes into motivating customers to buy your product and not the 20 others that seem exactly like it, goes into motivating employees.
20 companies may offer the same explicit benefits, but you want yours to feel like it offers more. Not because you care about your employee welfare, but because you want the most out of them and you aren't smart enough to specify in detail how you'd like the job done in every circumstance.
I think the industries we're producing that are so dependent on the absence of competition is (as predicted) making business stupid. They no longer need to please customers and don't know how, or why they'd want to. Similarly, they don't know why they'd want to please employees and don't know how.
Maybe the truth is in between. In most every case, employers and employees have not enumerated a complete and quantified list of services rendered for compensation received, does not entitle either party to more or less. Employees are free to not do things they are not legally bound to do, and employers are free to find labor more willing to do so.
I'm a hardware developer at a Very Large Corporation, and IT would prefer us not to have local admin. However, it's nearly impossible to work like that, so they have set up an automated tool (which basically goes and asks our manager for approval) for granting local admin exceptions on a machine by machine basis. In theory it takes away our local admin powers every month, but in practice, so many people need to have local admin I don't think it ever actually removes local admin.
You just can't do serious work without being able to install software, install drivers, use remote desktop(!!!!), etc. Not to mention many CAD apps simply don't work if you're not local admin. They tried forcing us off those applications, but we just started using raw OS images and installing a VM with the "corporate OS image". They threatened to fire us, but at the end of the day they need us more than we need them, so we ended up in this hole.
Honestly, installing your corporate locked down image in a VM is the best way to go anyway. Let IT do whatever they want to that image, they can reboot you, push updates, etc. without disrupting your work. Meanwhile you can set up the OS for your productivity without disrupting them. Yes, it's a flagrant disregard for what IT is tasked with doing, but chances are if you're in a Very Large Corporation, what they're tasked with doing is ridiculous, the number of people assigned to do it is pathetic, and the geographic and linguistic boundaries of that ensure that their mission is defunct. This is probably not ideal behavior, but I consider myself an engineer first and an employee of Very Large Corporation second. Better my job gets done correctly than I invest time in fixing stupid. You can't fix stupid.
The obvious solution. People know people who have friends they believe got rich making iPhone apps or android apps. Maybe that's true, but the guy I know who has one of the most successful iPhone apps still has his (unrelated) day job, and spends his evening supporting barely paying customers.
I suspect once the gold rush ends, we'll see people making fewer, more functional apps, that are open source. This is not entirely dissimilar to the PC market, where we had a gold rush of shrinkwrap, and then most of those functions being replaced either by built in OS functionality, or by free software.
Burgers also contain bread, cheese, pickles, onions, and various sauces. You really can't have a 100% pure beef burger unless all you eat is the patty. I'm not sure how much I'd read into this statement...undoubtedly they do use beef, it probably isn't sirloin and it sure isn't USDA prime, but it's probably 100% beef.
Because they used the full product name, I'm going to say the opposite, this is someone trying to keep us talking about the otherwise failing and undesirable Microsoft product. It is completely inane, the only possible explanation is a marketing troll.
You aren't trusting science, you're trusting the institution. You trust that people out there are working to ensure the safety of the environment you live in. You don't know how, you don't know why, and a few people don't properly understand the extents.
It's not science that you're thinking about, mostly it's about the fact that you do what you do every day and nothing bad has happened. Possibly secondarily is the checks and balances that go in to building safe products. You don't question the science that led you there, and a few people, if they get whiff of the methodology DO lose trust (see H1N1 vaccine drama).
I hated it, however my sister loved this one so much that we had to watch it, over and over and over. Every time someone brought up the holiday special, I assumed they were talking about Battle for Endor (since that's when I recall our VHS of Battle for Endor being recorded).
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If you are planning to expand in India, you may start by hiring a lot of Indians. People who understand the culture, speak the language, may have family and are more willing to travel. At least I think that's the point he's making.
Personally it doesn't surprise me that two companies who have the most elitist hiring practices potentially have the most embarassing diversity secrets. I don't believe it's because they're racist, it's because the monoculture they're creating selects a particular group of people. If you want to object to their hiring practices, get off the race card...question whether they, or any company, really know what they want/need to any great detail. I doubt it.
One is science the other is religion. Guess which one does not belong in a schoolbook?
You mean which one doesn't belong in a science textbook. It's an open question whether, and how, religion should be taught in public schools. I personally don't see anything wrong with teaching religion in public schools, but you have to teach ALL of them.
Debate and oration is very 1950s. This is the age of marketing checklist:
- Tough on terror [CHECK!]
Vote against it? you aren't tough on terror! The commercial will sound like
"Senator Foghorn Leghorn voted AGAINST the Subversive Activities Registration Act, which would have enabled law enforcement to quickly round up terrorists.
Senator Foghorn Leghorn voted AGAINST America.
Vote for America, Vote Elmer Fudd.
Paid for by the people for Elmer Fudd foundation."
Microsoft has also been known to blame hardware for failing to comply to often unwritten, industry spec deviating, irrational requirements in order to function properly. If the hardware does not magically conform to their software's expectations in this regard, it is therefore to blame. I've played this game with them several times, at this point anything they say sounds like total bullshit, even if this once, it's possible they're correct.
I want to have none, I will compromise on Steam. Their current offer is unacceptable. Strip out securom and live, and we'll talk.
Supposedly it has:
- securom
- steam
- Games for Windows Live
All at once. Of course rumor has it the pirate bay version was available yesterday and had all those things stripped out.
A lot of people refuse to buy this game because of the DRM.
We're not talking about a statistical distribution, we're talking about the people in TFA.
You know, as the nerd's nerd I can't say I've ever enjoyed school, and echo a lot of the sentiments in your post. However, there is something to say for being able to adapt to, and relate to, the society that keeps me alive, whether I like it or not. For the crowd who feels that conventional school is too slow and holds them back, I say that school ends at 3pm (ish, depending on location). You have all that time afterward for self-education, go nuts.
These kids are being protected from "evil" and "immoral" ideas from other religions, but will one day have to entire the big world where such ideas are common and, in many cases, respected. If the boy continues fighting, and the girl continues to be unable to focus in the presence of these other ideas, they are likely going to end up in prison or worse.
Education of children is about more than facts, it's about adapting them to the environment they will have to live and succeed in. The older they get, the more "serious" the education is, but they need to learn very early, and very often to get along, how to get along, and how to cope with alien ideas. Buddhists are real, Muslims are real, Hindu's are real, homosexuals are here and they're queer, etc. Get used to it.
I wouldn't call FPGA design "programming". Yes, you do it with a language that superficially resembles a language like C...but that's about where the similarities end. It's very much more a hardware job.
Ask me to design an operating system from the ground up, and I'll do it for free.
Ask me to take my operating system and make it work for you, and support it for as long as you need, I'll tell you to pay me.
That's the difference between programming for fun and programming for money, and that's why the GPL was a really good idea.
As nerds our primary useful output is intellectual property, for many of us our significant consumption is intellectual property, and the focus of our work is intellectual property. It kind of does make sense.
Why would anyone WANT a job at a megacorp?
False, they are continuously bombarded with resumes and people to fill your shoes. Many have a policy of firing the bottom 10% every year, you may think "not me", but that bottom 10% often includes really good people. They were just at the bottom of a particular deck shuffle, or got placed under a particularly dimwitted manager, etc.
No if you're in a megacorp you're there because you either are interested in what they do, or are attracted by the huge amounts of cash they can spend on technologies you want to work with (which small companies could not). Small companies I've looked at usually don't do the most exciting work, though probably I'd be happier in one.
I'd say the flaw in the article is lack of comprehension or explanation of the hardest part of megacorps. There are many ways to find job postings, and no shortage of advice on interviews. The hardest part of getting employment at ANY of these companies is getting the screening phone call. Before that, maybe there's some magic in a good resume, or magically selecting exactly the right words for the resume, or I dunno what I never figured it out. In my experience: knowing a guy on the inside is really the #1 best way of getting in, that job postings are fulfilling legal requirements but not entirely the right way in the door.
Speaking for myself, I am offered 100% of the jobs that I even get a phone screen for. I am given a phone screen for perhaps less than 5% of the jobs I submit a resume to. So the real trick is figuring out how to bypass that big brick wall of HR resume screening.
You are falling victim to the "new" engineering. By statistical analysis, PrintScr/SysRq is being used least frequently so it must be excess. There couldn't possibly be a use for those keys, right? Right?
Of course who knows how many users have no idea they can do a screen capture with PrintScr, and would use it if they knew it was there.
Not true. I may never have access to my parents money, but that my parents had money gave me distinct advantages over my competition.
To be a successful CEO, you simply have to be less of a moron than your shareholders (or rather, your board of directors). Given the current crew running most large corporations, that's really not that great of an accomplishment.
Are you assuming that if we took the guns away people would stop trying to kill each other?
The same logic that goes into motivating customers to buy your product and not the 20 others that seem exactly like it, goes into motivating employees.
20 companies may offer the same explicit benefits, but you want yours to feel like it offers more. Not because you care about your employee welfare, but because you want the most out of them and you aren't smart enough to specify in detail how you'd like the job done in every circumstance.
I think the industries we're producing that are so dependent on the absence of competition is (as predicted) making business stupid. They no longer need to please customers and don't know how, or why they'd want to. Similarly, they don't know why they'd want to please employees and don't know how.
Maybe the truth is in between. In most every case, employers and employees have not enumerated a complete and quantified list of services rendered for compensation received, does not entitle either party to more or less. Employees are free to not do things they are not legally bound to do, and employers are free to find labor more willing to do so.
I'm a hardware developer at a Very Large Corporation, and IT would prefer us not to have local admin. However, it's nearly impossible to work like that, so they have set up an automated tool (which basically goes and asks our manager for approval) for granting local admin exceptions on a machine by machine basis. In theory it takes away our local admin powers every month, but in practice, so many people need to have local admin I don't think it ever actually removes local admin.
You just can't do serious work without being able to install software, install drivers, use remote desktop(!!!!), etc. Not to mention many CAD apps simply don't work if you're not local admin. They tried forcing us off those applications, but we just started using raw OS images and installing a VM with the "corporate OS image". They threatened to fire us, but at the end of the day they need us more than we need them, so we ended up in this hole.
Honestly, installing your corporate locked down image in a VM is the best way to go anyway. Let IT do whatever they want to that image, they can reboot you, push updates, etc. without disrupting your work. Meanwhile you can set up the OS for your productivity without disrupting them. Yes, it's a flagrant disregard for what IT is tasked with doing, but chances are if you're in a Very Large Corporation, what they're tasked with doing is ridiculous, the number of people assigned to do it is pathetic, and the geographic and linguistic boundaries of that ensure that their mission is defunct. This is probably not ideal behavior, but I consider myself an engineer first and an employee of Very Large Corporation second. Better my job gets done correctly than I invest time in fixing stupid. You can't fix stupid.
The obvious solution. People know people who have friends they believe got rich making iPhone apps or android apps. Maybe that's true, but the guy I know who has one of the most successful iPhone apps still has his (unrelated) day job, and spends his evening supporting barely paying customers.
I suspect once the gold rush ends, we'll see people making fewer, more functional apps, that are open source. This is not entirely dissimilar to the PC market, where we had a gold rush of shrinkwrap, and then most of those functions being replaced either by built in OS functionality, or by free software.
Burgers also contain bread, cheese, pickles, onions, and various sauces. You really can't have a 100% pure beef burger unless all you eat is the patty. I'm not sure how much I'd read into this statement...undoubtedly they do use beef, it probably isn't sirloin and it sure isn't USDA prime, but it's probably 100% beef.
Because they used the full product name, I'm going to say the opposite, this is someone trying to keep us talking about the otherwise failing and undesirable Microsoft product. It is completely inane, the only possible explanation is a marketing troll.
You aren't trusting science, you're trusting the institution. You trust that people out there are working to ensure the safety of the environment you live in. You don't know how, you don't know why, and a few people don't properly understand the extents.
It's not science that you're thinking about, mostly it's about the fact that you do what you do every day and nothing bad has happened. Possibly secondarily is the checks and balances that go in to building safe products. You don't question the science that led you there, and a few people, if they get whiff of the methodology DO lose trust (see H1N1 vaccine drama).
I hated it, however my sister loved this one so much that we had to watch it, over and over and over. Every time someone brought up the holiday special, I assumed they were talking about Battle for Endor (since that's when I recall our VHS of Battle for Endor being recorded).