I'm Israeli, so there may be some bias there, but the last time I traveled to Israel, the screening and check were done not on the Israeli side, but rather then US side (LAX, specifically). If you think about it, that sort of makes sense -- you don't figure out if someone's out to hijack your airplane after they deplane:)
(In my case, it was pretty cool -- I came up to the ticket counter, and a rather attractive blonde woman started chatting me up. We were about 3-4 minutes into the conversation before I realized i was being profiled. She wasn't wearing a uniform or anything).
Most of my coworkers use one 27" 2560x1600 display, but some use two. They seem to like it.
(Nice to work for a place whose desktop provisioning policy is "tell us what you want").
Personally, I moved from two 1900x1200 displays to one 2560x1600. In theory, I lost some desktop real estate, but now I actually use the whole thing and it's.. divine.
It may be a factor of whether you're talking as a user or as an administrator.
I can't speak authoritatively to JIRA as a product I'm responsible for -- I never owned a JIRA installation (well, not one with significant volume) -- but I use JIRA, and we use JIRA here, for a whole crapton of things from change tickets to production emergency handling, to task handling, to all development tasks. As a software engineer, and a software engineering manager, I love it -- and so do most of the other users we have here.
It helps that we think of this kind of stuff as something you should actually invest in, and we have someone who probably has about 50% of his time dedicated to making JIRA run and making it work better for us. I've always found that bug/defect/issue/task tracking systems are better, and make their users happier, when they have a champion who's allowed to invest real resources in their care and feeding.
There's a pretty f'ing reasonable argument to be made that if you don't know, and can't be bothered to do any research, maybe you don't need to know. Certainly, I will tell you that as someone who actually uses Crowd, and has been known to configure and administer Crowd, I know what it is.
I have a fantastic job at a Silicon Valley company; never finished college. And we're hiring like mad. Feel free to send me a resume (I'm a hiring manager, but I also know all the other hiring managers:) ).
I don't actually care all that much -- and I certainly am mindful that it wouldn't be hard to associate me with my company when I write anything on slashdot (or I just post as AC). But good point.
I work for a well-known technical company with tons of both open-source contributions and projects we've open-sourced ourselves; we have a techblog, and a presence in many conferences.
When we look at someone technical, we see if they have a presence online. That doesn't mean Twitter or Facebook -- we really don't care about them unless they're public and inappropriate -- but contributions to OSS, technical blog posts, talks, etc. If it's there, it may make us somewhat more interested.
That said, I have a few engineers working for me who are similarly Google-invisible, and who have no interest in creating OSS, speaking at conferences, or writing blog posts. That's not a problem. They weren't penalized when we interviewed them, and they're not penalized now.
I suspect that a company, given the choice between a famous engineer and a non-famous engineer who are equally qualified, may be biased to hire the famous engineer (in my company, we'd just hire both), so I suspect it's an informal edge, not an explicit expectation (most of the time).
Netflix removed the six device limit some time ago. You're still limited to two streams (though Netflix offers a four stream plan now for a little bit more money).
And Netflix doesn't care if people share streaming subscription plans.
(Netflix cared, a little, when libraries were using a DVD subscription to offer their patrons movies -- and given that the incremental cost to ship a DVD was way higher than the incremental cost to stream a movie, this sort of makes sense -- but still didn't do anything to even contact libraries that were public about doing this and ask them to stop. See http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/academic-libraries-add-netflix-subscriptions/27018 for more info)
I'm not an attorney, but I'm married to one, and I can tell you that you just can't count on attorneys to be great spellers:)
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Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3
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Opensourcing a project can be a pain in the ass (I work at a company that tries to opensource most of its infrastructure systems), what with internal assumptions, potential information leaks, and auditing for potentially licensed code that you're not allowed to release in its uncompiled form.
I don't see a ton of people out there clamouring for 1-2-3 to be opensourced, to be honest, other than people who are just reflexively arguing for opensourcing anything that's discontinued. I'm not saying that's a bad argument, but it's certainly a weak one, and I don't see IBM getting a particularly great ROI for doing the work to opensource 1-2-3.
This craze for the most modern stuff -- and believing people can't pick it up -- drives me crazy.
I'm the hiring manager for a small (5 people) software engineering group. We use Scala. Nobody in my team used Scala before they joined the company -- they learned (hell, we use Scala because THEY decided they wanted to use Scala). One of these developers didn't even know Java before he joined the company -- he was a Perl guy, through and through. He's one of my best.
We're looking at a candidate now who actually retired from the workforce after being an architect for a while; her last time writing code was 15 years ago. We like her because she has a fantastic fundamental grasp on computer science principles and the passion to learn quickly -- we think. So we showed her the code base for one of our open source projects, asked her to implement a feature that had been requested, and let her loose. She came back with the first version Friday; we'll see how it goes.
Concurrency isn't Olympic Gymnastics where if you haven't been doing it from the time you were six years old and if you're older than 20 years old you have no chance. It's just something to learn. Smart people can learn pretty much anything you put in front of them.
I'm a hiring manager for a software development team; one of the front-runner candidates we have right now is a woman who did software development for donkey's years, then went into architecture for 15 years, then retired, then realized she really wanted to get back into coding.
She was rusty in our first round interviews when it came to actual coding, sure. We expected that. But we also expected her to think about design and architecture the right way, and to ask the questions we would want a great candidate to ask -- and she did all of that.
So we asked her to resolve one of the issues logged against a product we open-sourced; we get to see how quickly she can spin up knowledge of github and our code base, she gets to do some code she'll be able to point to as part of her portfolio (since it's an open-source product, her code will be open-source and visibly hers as well). Everyone wins.
Check out http://techblog.netflix.com/ if you want to know more. We're cloud-hosted, BTW, except for the actual streaming bits which are on a combination of our own CDN and public CDNs.
The other cool thing about the format is that there's no "last week, on House of Cards... " wastes of time, because you're not presumed to have waited a week since you saw the last episode. Nor "next week, on House of Cards" teasers...
At least part of the reason I go to Pycon is for recruiting; that means that I wear a company-branded t-shirt, and -- obviously -- my name tag has my company's name on it. I expect that I should always behave in a way that is consistent with representing my company well, and part of that means keeping my conduct strictly professional.
I don't see anything here that makes Pycon less useful, or interesting, or relevant to me, nor do I see any action on the part of the Pycon folks that I disagree with. And, having just talked with my management last night about Donglegate, I know they feel the same.
Now, Pycon being in Montreal is a different matter -- I don't really want to cross borders for Pycon.
ISPs don't have to build a computer. The OpenConnect appliances are owned by Netflix, built by Netflix, and paid for by Netflix.
If you're honestly thinking that the ISP is supposed to build the computer, you misunderstood how the OpenConnect system works. Go back and ask some questions.
And if your household has more than one account? You know, if kids and parents each have their own accounts? Only one of the accounts can play the game even if it's played on the same console.
Not necessarily. Multiple accounts can be logged into the PS3 simultaneously -- it would be trivial, once a game disc is associated with an account, to check not whether that's the currently active account, but whether it's an account defined on the particular PS3 at all.
(Not that this isn't a terribly obnoxious idea, of course)
If you're comparing the cost of GAFYD (Google Apps For Your Domain) to the cost of running Word, Excel, and Powerpoint on your desktop, then either you're doing it wrong, or you wouldn't be well served to switch.
Where GAFYD kicks Microsoft's ass is in online collaboration (because it's better) and unified messaging (because it's less expensive). So it's not about Word -- it's about Google Talk being better than Microsoft Lync, and about Google Mail and Google Drive being being more cost-effective than Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Sharepoint.
Because it turns out it costs a little more than $50/person to run a really great-running Exchange environment. That's not an oxymoron, BTW - I currently work at a company that has a fantastic Exchange environment, best I've ever seen run. And I'm really going to miss it in the upcoming quarter when IT shoves our migration to GAFYD down my throat. And I'm not even a Windows user...
"Tape out" is a term of art of the processor industry. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape-out where the first sentence will tell you "In electronics design, tape-out or tapeout is the final result of the design cycle for integrated circuits or printed circuit boards, the point at which the artwork for the photomask of a circuit is sent for manufacture."
"Fabless ecosystem" is another term of art of the processor industry. Wikipedia is similarly helpful here at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabless_manufacturing -- where the first sentence will read "Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing the fabrication or "fab" of the devices to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry."
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I'm Israeli, so there may be some bias there, but the last time I traveled to Israel, the screening and check were done not on the Israeli side, but rather then US side (LAX, specifically). If you think about it, that sort of makes sense -- you don't figure out if someone's out to hijack your airplane after they deplane :)
(In my case, it was pretty cool -- I came up to the ticket counter, and a rather attractive blonde woman started chatting me up. We were about 3-4 minutes into the conversation before I realized i was being profiled. She wasn't wearing a uniform or anything).
Most of my coworkers use one 27" 2560x1600 display, but some use two. They seem to like it.
(Nice to work for a place whose desktop provisioning policy is "tell us what you want").
Personally, I moved from two 1900x1200 displays to one 2560x1600. In theory, I lost some desktop real estate, but now I actually use the whole thing and it's .. divine.
Hint: You can play Netflix movies on Chromebooks, using HTML5. Think that uses MS PlayReady?
It may be a factor of whether you're talking as a user or as an administrator.
I can't speak authoritatively to JIRA as a product I'm responsible for -- I never owned a JIRA installation (well, not one with significant volume) -- but I use JIRA, and we use JIRA here, for a whole crapton of things from change tickets to production emergency handling, to task handling, to all development tasks. As a software engineer, and a software engineering manager, I love it -- and so do most of the other users we have here.
It helps that we think of this kind of stuff as something you should actually invest in, and we have someone who probably has about 50% of his time dedicated to making JIRA run and making it work better for us. I've always found that bug/defect/issue/task tracking systems are better, and make their users happier, when they have a champion who's allowed to invest real resources in their care and feeding.
There's a pretty f'ing reasonable argument to be made that if you don't know, and can't be bothered to do any research, maybe you don't need to know. Certainly, I will tell you that as someone who actually uses Crowd, and has been known to configure and administer Crowd, I know what it is.
Come on.
I'm surprised no one has trotted out the obvious Trinity quote yet.
Saturn was a subsidiary of GM and, because of that, considered to be under the same set of rules as GM.
I have a fantastic job at a Silicon Valley company; never finished college. And we're hiring like mad. Feel free to send me a resume (I'm a hiring manager, but I also know all the other hiring managers :) ).
I don't actually care all that much -- and I certainly am mindful that it wouldn't be hard to associate me with my company when I write anything on slashdot (or I just post as AC). But good point.
I work for a well-known technical company with tons of both open-source contributions and projects we've open-sourced ourselves; we have a techblog, and a presence in many conferences.
When we look at someone technical, we see if they have a presence online. That doesn't mean Twitter or Facebook -- we really don't care about them unless they're public and inappropriate -- but contributions to OSS, technical blog posts, talks, etc. If it's there, it may make us somewhat more interested.
That said, I have a few engineers working for me who are similarly Google-invisible, and who have no interest in creating OSS, speaking at conferences, or writing blog posts. That's not a problem. They weren't penalized when we interviewed them, and they're not penalized now.
I suspect that a company, given the choice between a famous engineer and a non-famous engineer who are equally qualified, may be biased to hire the famous engineer (in my company, we'd just hire both), so I suspect it's an informal edge, not an explicit expectation (most of the time).
Netflix removed the six device limit some time ago. You're still limited to two streams (though Netflix offers a four stream plan now for a little bit more money).
And Netflix doesn't care if people share streaming subscription plans.
(Netflix cared, a little, when libraries were using a DVD subscription to offer their patrons movies -- and given that the incremental cost to ship a DVD was way higher than the incremental cost to stream a movie, this sort of makes sense -- but still didn't do anything to even contact libraries that were public about doing this and ask them to stop. See http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/academic-libraries-add-netflix-subscriptions/27018 for more info)
I'm not an attorney, but I'm married to one, and I can tell you that you just can't count on attorneys to be great spellers :)
Opensourcing a project can be a pain in the ass (I work at a company that tries to opensource most of its infrastructure systems), what with internal assumptions, potential information leaks, and auditing for potentially licensed code that you're not allowed to release in its uncompiled form.
I don't see a ton of people out there clamouring for 1-2-3 to be opensourced, to be honest, other than people who are just reflexively arguing for opensourcing anything that's discontinued. I'm not saying that's a bad argument, but it's certainly a weak one, and I don't see IBM getting a particularly great ROI for doing the work to opensource 1-2-3.
This craze for the most modern stuff -- and believing people can't pick it up -- drives me crazy.
I'm the hiring manager for a small (5 people) software engineering group. We use Scala. Nobody in my team used Scala before they joined the company -- they learned (hell, we use Scala because THEY decided they wanted to use Scala). One of these developers didn't even know Java before he joined the company -- he was a Perl guy, through and through. He's one of my best.
We're looking at a candidate now who actually retired from the workforce after being an architect for a while; her last time writing code was 15 years ago. We like her because she has a fantastic fundamental grasp on computer science principles and the passion to learn quickly -- we think. So we showed her the code base for one of our open source projects, asked her to implement a feature that had been requested, and let her loose. She came back with the first version Friday; we'll see how it goes.
Concurrency isn't Olympic Gymnastics where if you haven't been doing it from the time you were six years old and if you're older than 20 years old you have no chance. It's just something to learn. Smart people can learn pretty much anything you put in front of them.
Hire smart people.
I'm a hiring manager for a software development team; one of the front-runner candidates we have right now is a woman who did software development for donkey's years, then went into architecture for 15 years, then retired, then realized she really wanted to get back into coding.
She was rusty in our first round interviews when it came to actual coding, sure. We expected that. But we also expected her to think about design and architecture the right way, and to ask the questions we would want a great candidate to ask -- and she did all of that.
So we asked her to resolve one of the issues logged against a product we open-sourced; we get to see how quickly she can spin up knowledge of github and our code base, she gets to do some code she'll be able to point to as part of her portfolio (since it's an open-source product, her code will be open-source and visibly hers as well). Everyone wins.
Check out http://techblog.netflix.com/ if you want to know more. We're cloud-hosted, BTW, except for the actual streaming bits which are on a combination of our own CDN and public CDNs.
(And we're hiring).
Signed,
A Netflix Employee
The other cool thing about the format is that there's no "last week, on House of Cards ... " wastes of time, because you're not presumed to have waited a week since you saw the last episode. Nor "next week, on House of Cards" teasers ...
My grandparents had faded blue serial numbers tattooed on their forearms.
Your use of the word "nazi'" to describe Adria Richards and her ilk tells me everything I need to know about you.
At least part of the reason I go to Pycon is for recruiting; that means that I wear a company-branded t-shirt, and -- obviously -- my name tag has my company's name on it. I expect that I should always behave in a way that is consistent with representing my company well, and part of that means keeping my conduct strictly professional.
I don't see anything here that makes Pycon less useful, or interesting, or relevant to me, nor do I see any action on the part of the Pycon folks that I disagree with. And, having just talked with my management last night about Donglegate, I know they feel the same.
Now, Pycon being in Montreal is a different matter -- I don't really want to cross borders for Pycon.
I'm sorry, can you name one Microsoft executive on the Netflix board? Because I looked at http://ir.netflix.com/management.cfm#3562 and couldn't find any.
ISPs don't have to build a computer. The OpenConnect appliances are owned by Netflix, built by Netflix, and paid for by Netflix.
If you're honestly thinking that the ISP is supposed to build the computer, you misunderstood how the OpenConnect system works. Go back and ask some questions.
And if your household has more than one account? You know, if kids and parents each have their own accounts? Only one of the accounts can play the game even if it's played on the same console.
Not necessarily. Multiple accounts can be logged into the PS3 simultaneously -- it would be trivial, once a game disc is associated with an account, to check not whether that's the currently active account, but whether it's an account defined on the particular PS3 at all.
(Not that this isn't a terribly obnoxious idea, of course)
Crossbows are a form of bows -- a weapon which is based on the bending -- not stretching -- of a semi-flexible rigid material.
This is a slingshot -- a weapon which uses an elastic strap which releases energy by stretching, and then releasing.
If you're comparing the cost of GAFYD (Google Apps For Your Domain) to the cost of running Word, Excel, and Powerpoint on your desktop, then either you're doing it wrong, or you wouldn't be well served to switch.
Where GAFYD kicks Microsoft's ass is in online collaboration (because it's better) and unified messaging (because it's less expensive). So it's not about Word -- it's about Google Talk being better than Microsoft Lync, and about Google Mail and Google Drive being being more cost-effective than Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Sharepoint.
Because it turns out it costs a little more than $50/person to run a really great-running Exchange environment. That's not an oxymoron, BTW - I currently work at a company that has a fantastic Exchange environment, best I've ever seen run. And I'm really going to miss it in the upcoming quarter when IT shoves our migration to GAFYD down my throat. And I'm not even a Windows user ...
"Tape out" is a term of art of the processor industry. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape-out where the first sentence will tell you "In electronics design, tape-out or tapeout is the final result of the design cycle for integrated circuits or printed circuit boards, the point at which the artwork for the photomask of a circuit is sent for manufacture."
"Fabless ecosystem" is another term of art of the processor industry. Wikipedia is similarly helpful here at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabless_manufacturing -- where the first sentence will read "Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing the fabrication or "fab" of the devices to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry."
STFW FTW.