What is the interview for, if not to judge the candidate?
If you can't ask the candidate hard questions and judge the answers, why are you in a position to hire them? I believe that an interview that doesn't cover enough technical ground to ensure that the applicant is qualified is a massive mistake (if their competence is in question.)
So basically I do not see any great advantage in testing over interviewing. It is perhaps good if you don't want to bother short-listing, so you can let more people take the tests which is mainly a waste of their time, but not yours. It is also good for HR in that it makes them look useful.
But I've not heard of a test that gives as much useful information as the question "What are the good and bad points of garbage collection in C++" for example.
But then, they have the money. If you want the job enough, maybe you have to accept it.
Given that you've got a lot of experience you should be able to sit and chat with the guys hiring you for hours about all kinds of technical stuff. If I was doing the hiring I would put much more weight behind that conversation than any test. If they need a test, it says to me that they may not be competent to judge you, something which would raise a red flag for me.
Agreed. In Sweden almost everyone in IT (and every other industry) is a union member. I think it is vital to "even the playing field".
For example: my last contract was 1 page long. I checked my personal details, and the salary - there was nothing else. No room for strange conditions and clauses I'd need a lawyer to understand - a set of reasonable conditions acceptable to both the industry and the union was already agreed.
If you want a hardware cryptographic token, so a thief can't obtain your encryption key by brute force, go with PGP Whole Disk Encryption, or BitLocker that supports a TPM with PIN functionality.
If the thief can bruteforce any of them, you have sucessfully made contact with a superior alien civilisation and have greater things to worry about. Or it could be the NSA, and then you really should start hoping for the aliens instead.
Seriously, somebody bruteforcing the key is the last thing to you to consider.
I am also not saying anything except what exists. The fact that you keep focusing on the Americans is merely deflection, and speaks loudly about your attitude. The Americans didn't invade Tibet. The Americans don't keep threatening to invade Taiwan.
This may blow your mind, but the fact that the Americans aren't perfect doesn't mean that China must be.
Congratulations on failing to address my point - that extended copyright provides AN INCENTIVE TO PRODUCE. Sorry it doesn't fit in with your worldview, but that doesn't make it any less true. Get out and talk to a publisher sometime.
How is any time after the death of the artist an 'incentive to create?' It's not.
Whilst I agree with much of what you wrote, this part is wrong. Being able to leave money for your children and grandchildren is a great incentive. And at least for authors, this is the time where their experience is most valuable.
There's a great deal of difference between spending the last years of your life writing for posterity but knowing you're not going to get paid for it, and writing for posterity and knowing that your grandchildren are going to be able to going to college and never have to worry about medical bills.
Whoever put question 3 after question 2 deserves a gold star. After getting them to say "The American people should expect clear and direct answers to their questions.", you see this:
My question is this: Do you believe I belong in jail? If so, why? If not, what are you going to do to protect me from being arrested?
Ron Paul campaign:
I oppose federal laws outlawing marijuana and I oppose federal interference with state medical marijuana laws.
Oh, 3 questions, and er,.... no answers to any of them. Especially to "what are you going to do..."
One easy method work with every version from Word6: Use a table. Insert a 1x1 (or whatever dimensions you want for multiple pictures) table. Turn off the table border style. Insert pictures, one per cell into the table. Write the caption text under each picture. Couldn't be easier!
Table options exist for page breaking etc, so layout has never been a problem for me.
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Yeah, people are getting stupider
That's not really accurate. It is recognised as a religion in Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, Sweden, Croatia and Hungary. (according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology#Dispute_of_religion_status)
You realise if they were getting paid a reasonable wage they wouldn't feel the need to demean themselves like that, right?
If you can't ask the candidate hard questions and judge the answers, why are you in a position to hire them? I believe that an interview that doesn't cover enough technical ground to ensure that the applicant is qualified is a massive mistake (if their competence is in question.)
So basically I do not see any great advantage in testing over interviewing. It is perhaps good if you don't want to bother short-listing, so you can let more people take the tests which is mainly a waste of their time, but not yours. It is also good for HR in that it makes them look useful.
But I've not heard of a test that gives as much useful information as the question "What are the good and bad points of garbage collection in C++" for example.
Given that you've got a lot of experience you should be able to sit and chat with the guys hiring you for hours about all kinds of technical stuff. If I was doing the hiring I would put much more weight behind that conversation than any test. If they need a test, it says to me that they may not be competent to judge you, something which would raise a red flag for me.
Agreed. In Sweden almost everyone in IT (and every other industry) is a union member. I think it is vital to "even the playing field".
For example: my last contract was 1 page long. I checked my personal details, and the salary - there was nothing else. No room for strange conditions and clauses I'd need a lawyer to understand - a set of reasonable conditions acceptable to both the industry and the union was already agreed.
If you want a hardware cryptographic token, so a thief can't obtain your encryption key by brute force, go with PGP Whole Disk Encryption, or BitLocker that supports a TPM with PIN functionality.
If the thief can bruteforce any of them, you have sucessfully made contact with a superior alien civilisation and have greater things to worry about. Or it could be the NSA, and then you really should start hoping for the aliens instead.
Seriously, somebody bruteforcing the key is the last thing to you to consider.
I am also not saying anything except what exists. The fact that you keep focusing on the Americans is merely deflection, and speaks loudly about your attitude. The Americans didn't invade Tibet. The Americans don't keep threatening to invade Taiwan.
This may blow your mind, but the fact that the Americans aren't perfect doesn't mean that China must be.
Yeah, those pesky warmongering Americans invading Tibet and continually threatening Taiwan. China would never do anything like that. ^_^
Although improved relations with Japan are a certainly good sign
Congratulations on failing to address my point - that extended copyright provides AN INCENTIVE TO PRODUCE. Sorry it doesn't fit in with your worldview, but that doesn't make it any less true. Get out and talk to a publisher sometime.
Whilst I agree with much of what you wrote, this part is wrong. Being able to leave money for your children and grandchildren is a great incentive. And at least for authors, this is the time where their experience is most valuable.
There's a great deal of difference between spending the last years of your life writing for posterity but knowing you're not going to get paid for it, and writing for posterity and knowing that your grandchildren are going to be able to going to college and never have to worry about medical bills.
Never been married?
The main reason I had a third child with my wife was the prospect of 18 months without PMS!
My question is this: Do you believe I belong in jail? If so, why? If not, what are you going to do to protect me from being arrested?
Ron Paul campaign:
I oppose federal laws outlawing marijuana and I oppose federal interference with state medical marijuana laws.
Oh, 3 questions, and er,.... no answers to any of them. Especially to "what are you going to do..."
just take a small needle and continue to keep poking it in the same spot in your hand continuously for a year.
Er... Thanks, but no thanks...
There, fixed it for you.
Done 15 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Automatic_Virtu
I thought they were just random quotes from fortune. That one looks like Zippy the Pinhead.
2? Those bloody integers, eh?
by mistake...
Seriously.
Table options exist for page breaking etc, so layout has never been a problem for me.
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Wipeout? (Dust Brothers, New Order, Orbital, Manic Street Preachers, ...)
Wipeout 2097? (Future Sound of London, Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Daft Punk, Orbital, ...)
OTOH, if you're young enough not to know about Wipeout, you probably wouldn't even recognise those groups ^_^
This guy gets partially blinded, and you mod him up to +5 insightful
Oh! The humanity!
They were probably worn out after sniffing drugs all day ^_^ - Lucky dogs!