If you want a talented person to work in your lab and you expect them to be flexible and able to problem solve, you should consider paying more, or at least advertising that you will pay more. The reason is that the person you are looking for might have already taken a higher paying job.
This is not to say that it is just money, but if you advertise a higher base pay, you will get a larger pool of applicants to pick from.
I would LOVE to program in a lab environment. I love science (I have a BS in Physics and in CompSci, with a Masters in CompEng) However I am not freshly out of school willing to burn many hours coding to solve the latest emergency.
At this time I consult for a living. To be honest I can choose from a lot of different job opportunities, but I generally choose jobs that pay well. (I have a wife and two kids to think about) I would bet that many people out there with family responsibilities work in a similar manner. It is not for a lack of wanting to work hard for a company like yours; it is a matter of making ends meet.
I take issue with your assumtion. Children will behave the way you expect them to behave. If you treat them like "children" and expect nothing from them but childlike acts, you can guess what you will get.
Children can be considered miniature adults, just with no experience. As a Parent you main job is to provide the needed experience and appropriate discipline.
My children receive discipline from both myself and my wife, but becaues we TAKE THE TIME to work with, play with, and understand them. We rarly have discipline problems, aside from the general boundry testing that is common with kids.
My Children are also some of my best friends.
And to stay somewhat on the thread of the original story, the though of what school system supposedly did sickens me. (I did not read all of the article yet)
Would'nt is be kinda sacry to put a journal device on a RAM device. If you lose power, your journal device loses power too. I can see that is would be whiz bang fast, but if you need speed, and a journal then you probably want one of those spiffy SCSI RAM drives with battery backup and a storage device built in (just in case)
But as it is, the legislative branch has too much power
That is how the original framers of the consititution wanted it. If you have to have a power distribution, you want the group that gets elected "directly" buy the people to have the power.
Problem with that is it gives too much power to the judicial branch. Anyway who is gonna impeach a congressman?
They need to be voted out of office, but the general public has no concern (And arguably a lack of education) to understand what really goes on in with the legislative process.
Been there too. Had a primary DNS server get rooted. Caught it with in about 10 min. (Luckly) Just as we were preparing to slash and burn with a fresh install on the infected system the secondary server's hard drive made a horrible screeching sound, fell over, and died. We were stuck with a rooted server as our only DNS server... That sucked!
While we were shoving a new hard drive into the secondary server the primary server popped up with "eth0 in promisious mode" on the console. Eeeech! We had to unplug the ethernet cable to the primary DNS server while we quicky reinstalled Linux on the secondary server... we were dead for about an hour.
~Sean
PS: we now have three DNS servers with chrooted name servers, LIDS, and firewall rules on the servers and on the outside firewall.
Stock price going from $300 to $10 will tend to piss your share holders off quite a bit. Not to mention that the people working their, that received options, no longer have much of an investment in the company...
So you have angry sharholders and a suddenly under motovated work force... yup, sounds like a dot-com startup to me.
Shhesss, these kids are coming faster then the kernels.... (this is his third right?)
Congrats!! I guess you will now know what true sleep deprivation is. I stopped at two. When the kids start to out number the parents it gets frightning.
OS/2 went down for both reasons, M$ skillfully manuvered a new OS into place with lots of hype and marketing, and the canabilizm(sp?) inside IBM with respect to the hardware pushers. They should have been pushing OS/2 out the door with every new PC. If you wanted windows you could buy it off the shelf...
There was a pretty rabid OS/2 following too. I remember being on some mail lists about OS/2 development, the perople were obnoxiously rabid about taking down MS, not unlike todays linux crowd... IBM blew it big time, they had a loyal following, and a good product, they just forgot how to sell it... it is a real shame.
I think/hope they learned their lesson. They are doing good things(tm) with Linux now.
It would seem that the ratio of commercial to "spank your slut" Spam has changed quit a bit in the last year. I used to get quite a bit of "clisk here to see young, hot, we dripping, whatever here" in my email everyday. Now I'm bombarded with llbean, and amazon everyday.
Perhaps big buisness will now (if they haven't already) try to influence law makers into not punishing the spammers, because it would now hurt "legitimate" commercial interests....
Sun's Solaris has less nagging bugs, and an NDA, while RedHat Linux has many nagging bugs, and is open to criticism, hacking, cracking, etc. How is RedHat any better than Sun in this respect?
Is not Sun's OS open to open to criticism, hacking, cracking, etc. It is just not forthcoming about problems.
I too felt the cold breath of management on my neck, so I made the move to consulting about 2 years ago. So no it has been 11 years of nothing but tech and still going strong. If you want to challenge yourself try consulting. I have worked on more types of projects since I left my last full time job (and many more Linux related jobs!). There is a lot of hustle required to make sure your pipeline is full, but if your used to the "programmers ethic of working" your no stranger to that.
It can take a big leap of faith too. My wife provided the faith, and I made the leap. We have not looked back since.
The book is way cheap at buy.com (under $15US) + 4 for shipping. Unless they were targeting discount cookies at me. That beats the hell out of Amazon and ThinkGeek.
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If you want a talented person to work in your lab and you expect them to be flexible and able to problem solve, you should consider paying more, or at least advertising that you will pay more. The reason is that the person you are looking for might have already taken a higher paying job.
This is not to say that it is just money, but if you advertise a higher base pay, you will get a larger pool of applicants to pick from.
I would LOVE to program in a lab environment. I love science (I have a BS in Physics and in CompSci, with a Masters in CompEng) However I am not freshly out of school willing to burn many hours coding to solve the latest emergency.
At this time I consult for a living. To be honest I can choose from a lot of different job opportunities, but I generally choose jobs that pay well. (I have a wife and two kids to think about) I would bet that many people out there with family responsibilities work in a similar manner. It is not for a lack of wanting to work hard for a company like yours; it is a matter of making ends meet.
Good skills cost money, plain and simple!
~Sean
I take issue with your assumtion. Children will behave the way you expect them to behave. If you treat them like "children" and expect nothing from them but childlike acts, you can guess what you will get.
Children can be considered miniature adults, just with no experience. As a Parent you main job is to provide the needed experience and appropriate discipline.
My children receive discipline from both myself and my wife, but becaues we TAKE THE TIME to work with, play with, and understand them. We rarly have discipline problems, aside from the general boundry testing that is common with kids.
My Children are also some of my best friends.
And to stay somewhat on the thread of the original story, the though of what school system supposedly did sickens me. (I did not read all of the article yet)
Where is Jon Katz when you really need him?
~Sean
4) as an fs journal device
Would'nt is be kinda sacry to put a journal device on a RAM device. If you lose power, your journal device loses power too. I can see that is would be whiz bang fast, but if you need speed, and a journal then you probably want one of those spiffy SCSI RAM drives with battery backup and a storage device built in (just in case)
~Sean
What do you mean by "operate"? They are in Langly, VA. Last time I drove by on the GW parkway they were in the US.
~Sean
But as it is, the legislative branch has too much power
That is how the original framers of the consititution wanted it. If you have to have a power distribution, you want the group that gets elected "directly" buy the people to have the power.
~Sean
Problem with that is it gives too much power to the judicial branch. Anyway who is gonna impeach a congressman?
They need to be voted out of office, but the general public has no concern (And arguably a lack of education) to understand what really goes on in with the legislative process.
~Sean
Yeah, guns don't kill people, bullets do.
~Sean
Been there too. Had a primary DNS server get rooted. Caught it with in about 10 min. (Luckly) Just as we were preparing to slash and burn with a fresh install on the infected system the secondary server's hard drive made a horrible screeching sound, fell over, and died. We were stuck with a rooted server as our only DNS server... That sucked!
While we were shoving a new hard drive into the secondary server the primary server popped up with "eth0 in promisious mode" on the console. Eeeech! We had to unplug the ethernet cable to the primary DNS server while we quicky reinstalled Linux on the secondary server... we were dead for about an hour.
~Sean
PS: we now have three DNS servers with chrooted name servers, LIDS, and firewall rules on the servers and on the outside firewall.
Stock price going from $300 to $10 will tend to piss your share holders off quite a bit. Not to mention that the people working their, that received options, no longer have much of an investment in the company...
So you have angry sharholders and a suddenly under motovated work force... yup, sounds like a dot-com startup to me.
~Sean
This could spawn a whole new sociologic phenomenon, women will be able to gage mens' "availiability" by the "matchingness" of his cloths.
Not-matching (single)
Very-Matching (has girlfirend)
Semi-Matching (married, but insists on wearing same flannel shirt over and over again)
~Sean (yeah, the color blind one)
Seeing InfraRed would be more useful...
~Sean
Will Microsoft Press print it? I hear they do make some other good technical books
Ok, then how would you say "meat puppets"?
Anything with 45 million lines of code would be hard to call _micro_
~Sean
Shhesss, these kids are coming faster then the kernels.... (this is his third right?)
Congrats!! I guess you will now know what true sleep deprivation is. I stopped at two. When the kids start to out number the parents it gets frightning.
Good luck Linus!
~Sean
I wonder whats happening here.
Intel is slimier then MS.
~Sean
How about the Lego "Dysons Sphere" model. 166 trillon pieces. Complete with a little spaceship crashed on the surface, and a model Scotty waving.
Hmm, not enough caffene on board yet...
~Sean
OS/2 went down for both reasons, M$ skillfully manuvered a new OS into place with lots of hype and marketing, and the canabilizm(sp?) inside IBM with respect to the hardware pushers. They should have been pushing OS/2 out the door with every new PC. If you wanted windows you could buy it off the shelf...
There was a pretty rabid OS/2 following too. I remember being on some mail lists about OS/2 development, the perople were obnoxiously rabid about taking down MS, not unlike todays linux crowd... IBM blew it big time, they had a loyal following, and a good product, they just forgot how to sell it... it is a real shame.
I think/hope they learned their lesson. They are doing good things(tm) with Linux now.
~Sean
How is this flamebait?!?! Offtopic, yes, Funny, marginaly, but flamebait?? Sheeess. Sombody go up on the wrong side of moderations this morning.
~Sean
How about quick books? I luv linux, but have to use 2000....
~Sean
I can't wait to see that! I guess you could strap the carseats to the back, in front of the rear door. I wonder how well the air bags would work...
~Sean
It would seem that the ratio of commercial to "spank your slut" Spam has changed quit a bit in the last year. I used to get quite a bit of "clisk here to see young, hot, we dripping, whatever here" in my email everyday. Now I'm bombarded with llbean, and amazon everyday.
Perhaps big buisness will now (if they haven't already) try to influence law makers into not punishing the spammers, because it would now hurt "legitimate" commercial interests....
gag...
~Sean
Sun's Solaris has less nagging bugs, and an NDA, while RedHat Linux has many nagging bugs, and is open to criticism, hacking, cracking, etc. How is RedHat any better than Sun in this respect?
Is not Sun's OS open to open to criticism, hacking, cracking, etc. It is just not forthcoming about problems.
~Sean
I too felt the cold breath of management on my neck, so I made the move to consulting about 2 years ago. So no it has been 11 years of nothing but tech and still going strong. If you want to challenge yourself try consulting. I have worked on more types of projects since I left my last full time job (and many more Linux related jobs!). There is a lot of hustle required to make sure your pipeline is full, but if your used to the "programmers ethic of working" your no stranger to that.
It can take a big leap of faith too. My wife provided the faith, and I made the leap. We have not looked back since.
~Sean
The book is way cheap at buy.com (under $15US) + 4 for shipping. Unless they were targeting discount cookies at me. That beats the hell out of Amazon and ThinkGeek.
~Sean