Problem is that it means the grader has to do more work when grading
Not necessarily. You can end up with something like project euler where either it compiles and runs and answers the question, or it doesn't. T/F.
Alternately you can grade on style, kind of like a writing class. Did he do recursion for his factorial, or implement it iteratively? Did he use a linked list or ? Does it matter if he literally dotted his i and crossed his t?
Actually we are broadcasting VERY little now, and most of what we are transmitting won't leave our own system. this is why if other life exists its gonna be hell to catch a signal as there is a very small window between finding out how to broadcast and switching to digital, if other life follows a similar pattern.
"Radio Astronomy" by John Kraus has a section on this topic. Well obviously he predates the digital transition. Not all that surprisingly large scale planetary radar has the best range, but the strongest long term signal used to be the constant (hopefully stable freq) of AM radio transmission carriers. You can integrate the carrier over months I suppose if necessary, detectable long below the data level
An example of a circular dependency would be that you have virtualized a VPN server/firewall required to gain access to your ESXi hosts; yeah, it's secure from an integrity standpoint, but what about secure from an availability standpoint, and secure from a disaster recovery standpoint?
Simpler example, all your virtualization hosts get their address from a mac addrs hard coded DHCP server... And the DHCP server is virtualized. I almost accidentally did this one.
something additional must have failed. Perhaps your default route is all messed up, or its running a software router like quagga and that is what exploded. Doing dynamic addressing and your DHCP server is dead or accidentally firewalled off (I have a semi-intelligent switch that only allows certain ports to respond DHCP so if brainless swapper troubleshooter type moves the DHCP server to another port to "troubleshoot" then the first DHCP lease to expire can be mystifying if you've never experienced this before)
I've done this exact command line and under perfect conditions (you're running it for no purpose) it works. I would strongly recommend assuming it'll fail, having access, etc.
Well there you go. I've always wanted the chance to "fix" a broken HR job description and here I try my best.
Take out the operations center verbage and you've got a shot. That makes it sound like the candidate will be doing frontline end user support and first responder to infrastructure emergencies (unless... they are doing that?). Network operations background means you pull cat-5 and reboot routers. Network operations background means you WILL do work shift work, although in detail you say the candidate does not.
How many people who can do "software dev" work are going to like on call? I do not and I don't know many who tolerate that. There's a difference between "on call" aka the heavens above open and rain down on me by procedure, and "if there's an emergency while I'm not at work my boss can call and I'll move heaven and earth to help fix it... once in a while".
Then again you're asking for a one year noob dev. I remember being a one year noob dev around age 8 and I'd be terrified to release myself at that level upon the world with how little I knew then. Maybe you want more? It takes a year to know language syntax, you don't even know all/most of the idioms to say nothing of internalizing design patterns. Maybe on a lucky day a one year noob could find and debug something simple, maybe with some help?
My experience over the years is operations and dev don't really work. You can try, but dev can't be done when the phone rings randomly. Can't concentrate. Should I be working calls or refactoring this subroutine? Do I have 30 minutes to deeply concentrate on this bug or will the %^&$ phone ring while I'm thinking? It just doesn't work together. Its like mixing the front and back end personnel in a restaurant, or mixing auto mechanics and salesweasels at a dealership.
Also there are not many network security software devs out there. Not much security software means not many devs. Now if you spec software devs also holding a CISSP... or software devs who worked in an extremely security conscious and/or high reliability industry... But if you specifically demand "the guy who wrote iptables" or "the guy who wrote McAffe" or "the guy who wrote sonicwall" thats a mighty small talent pool. What makes it worse is that dev also had to work linux servers in the DoD, perhaps as a moonlighter. On the other hand they only need a years experience so they probably don't know anything about secure programming anyway. Figure out if you want a super specialized wizard or sorcerers apprentice noob. One year is barely enough to figure out what you're supposed to do, much less how to do it right. And some languages are more... suited to secure authoring than others, so a year of C is probably worse than a year of Perl.
Your education spec is totally wrong. You spec a CS degree but ask for a guy who mostly runs routers. OK well my CS degree was mostly about big O notation, I took a nice systems analysis class, I could bore you to death with database Codd Normal Forms, we could talk all about automata theory.. at least in my CS classes we did no router or server stuff at all. I could use my CS degree to talk about the fundamental design of the state machine in when setting up a BGP connection, or writing a spanning tree protocol that has decent big O notation scalability. But I think you want a IT or MIS degree.
The DoD network thing has to go, too, unless its just a proxy for "not an idiot" or "good at following orders" or "has a sec clearance". Or is there something terribly special about the DoD network, like you're running everything written in ADA. Or its a contractor position for the DoD on their net and they only hire from within (so looking at clause in paragraph above, you need a DoD guy who moonlighted at McAffe (ugh ugh just give it up)) Running servers out on the public internet results in more attacks, but they aren't as focused as attacks on the DoD. I assume thats what you want?
It's going to take a long time to analyze it and figure out what it means, and what it implies about the development of other bodies.
spacecraft have provided unprecedented detail about the interior structure and evolution of the Moon
Article certainly sounded like they were already done with your two tasks that will "take a long time". If they phrased as "spacecraft might someday provide..." then I'd agree.
Also "provided unprecedented detail" = run that thru a plotter program and print out maps and xsections and/or put it up on the FTP site today. I donno if I'd be able to do anything but look and say 'oh cool' but at least I could. The implications about moon evolution, now thats a multi year PHD at least. Two separate timeframes.
Please describe the ionization chamber in more detail, and why it would be so sensitive to movement.
stereotypical enclosure full of gas (air). wire or something down the center maybe with spring for large chamber or just dangling. Stick a modest voltage on that wiggly wire and measure the current flowing in/out due to nearby ionizing radiation. wiggling that wire or the enclosure/shield is going to induce a signal in it. Whoops. Now a good DSP analyzer can probably process out everything but small constant currents and single event RC time constant pulses, in other words ignore 60 hz hum and speech noise. But it'll be a PITA.
To some extent a ionization chamber is just an electret (or is it condenser?) microphone thats just really freaking big and full of air and people are more interested in DC and impulse output than audio frequency output.
microphonics are not unusual in low signal level, high gain, high impedance analog electronics. ionization chambers are just another victim of microphonics problems in general.
Making one really tiny to fit in a cell phone might help, or might just make the freq response and noise output more like ultrasonic, I'd have to think about that.
One religious friend of mine hates the idea of the government banning gay marriages that happen in churches because hes dead set on the idea that the NEXT bill after it will regulate even more religious ceremonies. Something like if the govt starts approving who stands at the altar of a catholic wedding ceremony, even if he agrees with it, the next step might be the govt will simply declare lutherans are now forced (or forbidden, can't remember) from attending catholic mass. The old slippery slope argument.
OK so you've answered the voting, I've asked about submitting new legislation, and I've asked about your time off / non-legislative tasks. That leaves one remaining area.. procedural. For example, you get 10 minutes to speak. Do you put that time up for vote, or just recite vote totals, or try an honest attempt at a debate following the will of the majority, or try to influence people to vote for you as per your personal beliefs. Or are you assuming you'll be frozen out of the debate process and not allowed to ever address the floor, or whatever your state calls it?
I don't know about your state, but the fed congressmen get to select two young people for the military service academies. All congresspeople at the fed level get more requests than they can possibly handle. Are you planning on votes for non-legislative "tasks" in your position?
Pitiful example: City A in your district wants you to attend their county fair and its at the same exact moment as City B wants you to attend their fire station grand opening. Do you put this up to a vote or ?
OK so you've got the tail end of democracy or whatever it is handled, that being the online voting on bills thing. Whats your plan on the head end of the legislative process, that being writing and submitting bills? Thats a bit more complicated.
One example of a failure mode is to never submit legislation, which doesn't scale too well. Another failure mode is 1000 people vote for or demand or whatever 100 bills each bill requiring say 1/10th your term to ram thru whoops thats 10 times more work than you can theoretically accomplish. Another interesting head end failure mode is the stoners submit 50 different weed legalization bills all of which split the vote. Or culture jam where one group doesn't like a LGBT hate bill, so they submit 49 similar bills to split the vote of the haters. Another failure mode could be "just let the lobbyists write all bills" which I'm told is what unofficially happens anyway.
I guess the TLDR version of my question is "everyone's focused on how you'll vote... how will you propose new bills?"
More likely experience in the workforce shows that $90K jobs are generally easier or less educated or less risky or lower trained, and $110K jobs are generally tougher, so this would seem to be a $100K job.
If you are worried that folks may take advantage of you and take the skills you paid them to learn elsewhere
And go where? If its a ridiculous mishmash of skills, would anyone else be interested?
Here let me give you some random funny/useless skills I have. I can drive a military rough terrain forklift, program PIC assembly code reasonably well, work on/with unisys BTOS, have/had a CCNP, I can program a CNC milling machine in g code pretty well as a hobby (but not production). Lets say your crazy job required those five but applicant X only had 4 of 5, so you trained him on the 5th. Where the heck would be go that would be a better fit paying more?
You can train people skills too: you sit your problem employee down and tell him exactly what your expectations for personal behavior are, and what you need him to do differently. You be specific about what behavior is inappropriate or problematic, and tell him what you need him to do differently. If you start seeing changes in the right direction, you encourage it by telling him what he did right.
Assuming you know what a RFC is, you write him a RFC. He will follow it. It'll probably look a lot like the old TCP and IP RFCs. "no evil bit" in any datagram, keep your TCP buffers small, sensible retry protocol if no response (not launch a ICBM), has something like ARP to figure out who to contact instead of flailing around or broadcasting spam mail to the whole universe, some kind of loop free spanning tree like topology to transfer problems around, semi-standardized handshaking protocol to initial and end conversation streams... Come to think of it, over the decades, networking/network programming guys have been the easiest to get along with of all techies I've known, from internalizing this kind of stuff.
Ask yourself what in the world are you doing and where would you "poach" someone with those quals?
My best guess is some sort of rapid response anti-virus scanner software author? The NOC thing implies 24x7 oncall and probably shift work which sucks so there is no way in hell I'd apply unless your salary figure is far into 6 digits and even then I would hate every minute except right around paycheck deposit time. If I was unemployed and desperate to pay the mortgage and get medical insurance I'd work there until I found better hours. I have a security clearance but I got it a decade or so before I got the other experience you list, so its long expired. I'm good to go on your other two requirements. Now think about it, I'm a 5-digit UID/.er, how many other people out there could be better qualified than me? Finally I'm probably already too old to get thru a typical HR ageism filter into a tech job.
Looking at an imaginary resume, how in the world would someone get that weird set of qualifications? I would guess a ROTC grad with a Computer Engineering degree who did frontline NOC support as a summer intern while working thru school?
Don't forget the ageism thing. Shocked no one mentioned this.
Must have 25 years Java experience... and the unwritten rule is be under 30.
Sometimes ageism shows up in ridiculous combos, where the only way to get that combo is to already have that specific position, or be about 60.. and they only hire kids under 30.
the spacecraft have provided unprecedented detail about the interior structure and evolution of the Moon and the data they have gathered will provide insights into how Earth and its rocky neighbors in the inner solar system developed
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Cite properly using footnotes / endnotes or you'll be in roughly as big trouble as traditional cheating.
The idea of having the A+ kid write your term paper in exchange for money or sex is about as old as term papers.
Problem is that it means the grader has to do more work when grading
Not necessarily. You can end up with something like project euler where either it compiles and runs and answers the question, or it doesn't. T/F.
Alternately you can grade on style, kind of like a writing class. Did he do recursion for his factorial, or implement it iteratively? Did he use a linked list or ? Does it matter if he literally dotted his i and crossed his t?
Actually we are broadcasting VERY little now, and most of what we are transmitting won't leave our own system. this is why if other life exists its gonna be hell to catch a signal as there is a very small window between finding out how to broadcast and switching to digital, if other life follows a similar pattern.
"Radio Astronomy" by John Kraus has a section on this topic. Well obviously he predates the digital transition. Not all that surprisingly large scale planetary radar has the best range, but the strongest long term signal used to be the constant (hopefully stable freq) of AM radio transmission carriers. You can integrate the carrier over months I suppose if necessary, detectable long below the data level
An example of a circular dependency would be that you have virtualized a VPN server/firewall required to gain access to your ESXi hosts; yeah, it's secure from an integrity standpoint, but what about secure from an availability standpoint, and secure from a disaster recovery standpoint?
Simpler example, all your virtualization hosts get their address from a mac addrs hard coded DHCP server... And the DHCP server is virtualized. I almost accidentally did this one.
ifdown eth0; ifup eth0
something additional must have failed. Perhaps your default route is all messed up, or its running a software router like quagga and that is what exploded. Doing dynamic addressing and your DHCP server is dead or accidentally firewalled off (I have a semi-intelligent switch that only allows certain ports to respond DHCP so if brainless swapper troubleshooter type moves the DHCP server to another port to "troubleshoot" then the first DHCP lease to expire can be mystifying if you've never experienced this before)
I've done this exact command line and under perfect conditions (you're running it for no purpose) it works. I would strongly recommend assuming it'll fail, having access, etc.
Well there you go. I've always wanted the chance to "fix" a broken HR job description and here I try my best.
Take out the operations center verbage and you've got a shot. That makes it sound like the candidate will be doing frontline end user support and first responder to infrastructure emergencies (unless... they are doing that?). Network operations background means you pull cat-5 and reboot routers. Network operations background means you WILL do work shift work, although in detail you say the candidate does not.
How many people who can do "software dev" work are going to like on call? I do not and I don't know many who tolerate that. There's a difference between "on call" aka the heavens above open and rain down on me by procedure, and "if there's an emergency while I'm not at work my boss can call and I'll move heaven and earth to help fix it... once in a while".
Then again you're asking for a one year noob dev. I remember being a one year noob dev around age 8 and I'd be terrified to release myself at that level upon the world with how little I knew then. Maybe you want more? It takes a year to know language syntax, you don't even know all/most of the idioms to say nothing of internalizing design patterns. Maybe on a lucky day a one year noob could find and debug something simple, maybe with some help?
My experience over the years is operations and dev don't really work. You can try, but dev can't be done when the phone rings randomly. Can't concentrate. Should I be working calls or refactoring this subroutine? Do I have 30 minutes to deeply concentrate on this bug or will the %^&$ phone ring while I'm thinking? It just doesn't work together. Its like mixing the front and back end personnel in a restaurant, or mixing auto mechanics and salesweasels at a dealership.
Also there are not many network security software devs out there. Not much security software means not many devs. Now if you spec software devs also holding a CISSP... or software devs who worked in an extremely security conscious and/or high reliability industry... But if you specifically demand "the guy who wrote iptables" or "the guy who wrote McAffe" or "the guy who wrote sonicwall" thats a mighty small talent pool. What makes it worse is that dev also had to work linux servers in the DoD, perhaps as a moonlighter. On the other hand they only need a years experience so they probably don't know anything about secure programming anyway. Figure out if you want a super specialized wizard or sorcerers apprentice noob. One year is barely enough to figure out what you're supposed to do, much less how to do it right. And some languages are more ... suited to secure authoring than others, so a year of C is probably worse than a year of Perl.
Your education spec is totally wrong. You spec a CS degree but ask for a guy who mostly runs routers. OK well my CS degree was mostly about big O notation, I took a nice systems analysis class, I could bore you to death with database Codd Normal Forms, we could talk all about automata theory.. at least in my CS classes we did no router or server stuff at all. I could use my CS degree to talk about the fundamental design of the state machine in when setting up a BGP connection, or writing a spanning tree protocol that has decent big O notation scalability. But I think you want a IT or MIS degree.
The DoD network thing has to go, too, unless its just a proxy for "not an idiot" or "good at following orders" or "has a sec clearance". Or is there something terribly special about the DoD network, like you're running everything written in ADA. Or its a contractor position for the DoD on their net and they only hire from within (so looking at clause in paragraph above, you need a DoD guy who moonlighted at McAffe (ugh ugh just give it up)) Running servers out on the public internet results in more attacks, but they aren't as focused as attacks on the DoD. I assume thats what you want?
Also a common failure is not specifying wh
It's going to take a long time to analyze it and figure out what it means, and what it implies about the development of other bodies.
spacecraft have provided unprecedented detail about the interior structure and evolution of the Moon
Article certainly sounded like they were already done with your two tasks that will "take a long time". If they phrased as "spacecraft might someday provide..." then I'd agree.
Also "provided unprecedented detail" = run that thru a plotter program and print out maps and xsections and/or put it up on the FTP site today. I donno if I'd be able to do anything but look and say 'oh cool' but at least I could.
The implications about moon evolution, now thats a multi year PHD at least.
Two separate timeframes.
Please describe the ionization chamber in more detail, and why it would be so sensitive to movement.
stereotypical enclosure full of gas (air). wire or something down the center maybe with spring for large chamber or just dangling. Stick a modest voltage on that wiggly wire and measure the current flowing in/out due to nearby ionizing radiation. wiggling that wire or the enclosure/shield is going to induce a signal in it. Whoops. Now a good DSP analyzer can probably process out everything but small constant currents and single event RC time constant pulses, in other words ignore 60 hz hum and speech noise. But it'll be a PITA.
To some extent a ionization chamber is just an electret (or is it condenser?) microphone thats just really freaking big and full of air and people are more interested in DC and impulse output than audio frequency output.
microphonics are not unusual in low signal level, high gain, high impedance analog electronics. ionization chambers are just another victim of microphonics problems in general.
Making one really tiny to fit in a cell phone might help, or might just make the freq response and noise output more like ultrasonic, I'd have to think about that.
One religious friend of mine hates the idea of the government banning gay marriages that happen in churches because hes dead set on the idea that the NEXT bill after it will regulate even more religious ceremonies. Something like if the govt starts approving who stands at the altar of a catholic wedding ceremony, even if he agrees with it, the next step might be the govt will simply declare lutherans are now forced (or forbidden, can't remember) from attending catholic mass. The old slippery slope argument.
People only contribute to articles on topics that interest them
That sounds like insisting that people only read stuff they already know will interest them, ditto movies and TV.
It would tend to lock out the majority of the population, but they probably had nothing useful to say anyway.
As explained in the article, poor parents and their children often waste both their time and money on...
... slashdot posts
Such families often accumulate PCs, gaming consoles and smart phones, but use them only for nonconstructive activities.
Find me a constructive activity to do with gaming consoles and smart phones. Stack them up like blocks? Practice marksmanship? Learn circuit bending?
What if you're involved in closed door sessions / classified stuff? A really vague vote? Or in your position is that simply not relevant?
OK so you've answered the voting, I've asked about submitting new legislation, and I've asked about your time off / non-legislative tasks.
That leaves one remaining area.. procedural.
For example, you get 10 minutes to speak. Do you put that time up for vote, or just recite vote totals, or try an honest attempt at a debate following the will of the majority, or try to influence people to vote for you as per your personal beliefs.
Or are you assuming you'll be frozen out of the debate process and not allowed to ever address the floor, or whatever your state calls it?
I don't know about your state, but the fed congressmen get to select two young people for the military service academies.
All congresspeople at the fed level get more requests than they can possibly handle.
Are you planning on votes for non-legislative "tasks" in your position?
Pitiful example: City A in your district wants you to attend their county fair and its at the same exact moment as City B wants you to attend their fire station grand opening. Do you put this up to a vote or ?
OK so you've got the tail end of democracy or whatever it is handled, that being the online voting on bills thing.
Whats your plan on the head end of the legislative process, that being writing and submitting bills? Thats a bit more complicated.
One example of a failure mode is to never submit legislation, which doesn't scale too well.
Another failure mode is 1000 people vote for or demand or whatever 100 bills each bill requiring say 1/10th your term to ram thru whoops thats 10 times more work than you can theoretically accomplish.
Another interesting head end failure mode is the stoners submit 50 different weed legalization bills all of which split the vote. Or culture jam where one group doesn't like a LGBT hate bill, so they submit 49 similar bills to split the vote of the haters.
Another failure mode could be "just let the lobbyists write all bills" which I'm told is what unofficially happens anyway.
I guess the TLDR version of my question is "everyone's focused on how you'll vote... how will you propose new bills?"
Job requirements:
More realistically it would read something like "15+ years of experience driving a 2012 Ford Focus with this specific VIN number"
More likely experience in the workforce shows that $90K jobs are generally easier or less educated or less risky or lower trained, and $110K jobs are generally tougher, so this would seem to be a $100K job.
Or they're specifically looking for people willing to lie, which might come in handy WRT their new financial software development.
Or they're looking for people with, shall we say, a weak grasp on ethics and strong grasp of BS skills, to work in sales support?
If you are worried that folks may take advantage of you and take the skills you paid them to learn elsewhere
And go where? If its a ridiculous mishmash of skills, would anyone else be interested?
Here let me give you some random funny/useless skills I have. I can drive a military rough terrain forklift, program PIC assembly code reasonably well, work on/with unisys BTOS, have/had a CCNP, I can program a CNC milling machine in g code pretty well as a hobby (but not production). Lets say your crazy job required those five but applicant X only had 4 of 5, so you trained him on the 5th. Where the heck would be go that would be a better fit paying more?
You can train people skills too: you sit your problem employee down and tell him exactly what your expectations for personal behavior are, and what you need him to do differently. You be specific about what behavior is inappropriate or problematic, and tell him what you need him to do differently. If you start seeing changes in the right direction, you encourage it by telling him what he did right.
Assuming you know what a RFC is, you write him a RFC. He will follow it. It'll probably look a lot like the old TCP and IP RFCs. "no evil bit" in any datagram, keep your TCP buffers small, sensible retry protocol if no response (not launch a ICBM), has something like ARP to figure out who to contact instead of flailing around or broadcasting spam mail to the whole universe, some kind of loop free spanning tree like topology to transfer problems around, semi-standardized handshaking protocol to initial and end conversation streams... Come to think of it, over the decades, networking/network programming guys have been the easiest to get along with of all techies I've known, from internalizing this kind of stuff.
Ask yourself what in the world are you doing and where would you "poach" someone with those quals?
My best guess is some sort of rapid response anti-virus scanner software author? The NOC thing implies 24x7 oncall and probably shift work which sucks so there is no way in hell I'd apply unless your salary figure is far into 6 digits and even then I would hate every minute except right around paycheck deposit time. If I was unemployed and desperate to pay the mortgage and get medical insurance I'd work there until I found better hours. I have a security clearance but I got it a decade or so before I got the other experience you list, so its long expired. I'm good to go on your other two requirements. Now think about it, I'm a 5-digit UID /.er, how many other people out there could be better qualified than me? Finally I'm probably already too old to get thru a typical HR ageism filter into a tech job.
Looking at an imaginary resume, how in the world would someone get that weird set of qualifications? I would guess a ROTC grad with a Computer Engineering degree who did frontline NOC support as a summer intern while working thru school?
create more supply (I.E. hire noobs and train them).
You miswrote:
create more supply (I.E. pay politicians to open up the H1B floodgates).
Don't forget the ageism thing. Shocked no one mentioned this.
Must have 25 years Java experience... and the unwritten rule is be under 30.
Sometimes ageism shows up in ridiculous combos, where the only way to get that combo is to already have that specific position, or be about 60.. and they only hire kids under 30.
the spacecraft have provided unprecedented detail about the interior structure and evolution of the Moon and the data they have gathered will provide insights into how Earth and its rocky neighbors in the inner solar system developed
Such as?