It's brought up every time because it's true. It's exhausting because your opinion doesn't match reality, and the cognitive dissonance tires you out.
Seriously, I have 20+ year old network diagrams with a "cloud" that represents the server farm in a client-server environment. "The cloud" has been around ever since Visio shipped with a cloud graphic (if not earlier, I wasn't around to see the first builds of the network that had the cloud in it).
Yes, it's exactly the same thing as Mainframe in the '60s, and Citrix (terminal servers) in the '90s. We are just giving it a new name to not confuse it with the 50+ year old decentralized centralization it's based on.
Nukes are nice because you can pull into an enemy harbor and sit there for 90 days at maximum quietness. A diesel would have to surface every once in a while for air, and would need to run the noisy engines to charge the batteries.
And I have a 720P TV that has had multiple people who own larger 1080p TVs ask if it was 4k. When you don't have it side-by-side, 99% of people won't know. Most of the "problems" in displays today are because of poorly matched resolutions, and even worse scaling. A good viewing environment and well set up components makes a whole lot more difference than throwing pixels at it. And it's cheaper than pixels too.
At least I didn't use one of the many cases of a cop killing an unarmed person. But yes, you have to use an example people have heard of, and all of those will be politically charged.
The fact that there are malpractice suits proves that those who survive the program are still human.
The AMA requires the schedule be inhuman because of the same reason that frat houses do hazing. It happened to me, and I tuned out fine, so there must be nothing wrong with it. It also justifies beating your children. I'm not speaking about the medical profession, or the levels of perfection in it, but the count of truly incompetent. I know plenty of brilliant people in IT. I've yet to meet a person who has never made a mistake.
Nukes aren't precision enough for that. Anything that knocks out DPRK's ability to wipe out Seoul will damage Chine and South Korea. So if we are willing to destroy SK for take out NK, we should just invade now. Otherwise, it's stupid to wait. And nuking NK will damage China and South Korea.
Thanks to NK the US has beefed up it's anti-missile batteries along the US West Coast and helped increase the military preparedness in the South Pacific region. The deployment of more anti-missile batteries to protect against a NK missile attack can also be used to intercept missiles aimed towards the US west coast.
Aside from some theoretical Star Wars weapons that never left the drawing board, we have nothing that would stop an ICBM launched from NK. The worry is Scuds launched at Tokyo. Something we think is possible today, but not reliable with their current level of tech.
Wow, where doctors are wrong more than 50% is shocking. That this is accepted and considered normal is even more shocking. In the US, you look up what you want to have on Web MD, then shop doctors until you get one that gives you the diagnosis you were fishing for.
How many secretaries have you hired? How many lawyers? Most people have an inflated opinion of themselves. That you don't deal with people much doesn't make this an engineer-only problem. How many drivers think they are above average? That you can't see this makes you an incompetent human, but doesn't mean that all the engineers around you are incompetent.
I've found that about 15-20% of all people in all fields are bad. Medical is one of the few exceptions to that, because of the additional hurdles designed to remove the lower performers. Even certified Engineers (mechanical, electrical), there are many incompetent ones.
What I see with IT is that people demand the top 5% and somehow think that's "average". If 99% of your applicants are incompetent, your standards are the error, not the applicants.
Yeah, like the guy who asked me in an interview "What is the purpose of phase 1 IKE?" The only acceptable answer was "to protect against MITM attacks". It wasn't that I didn't know how encryption works but that I didn't read the same Cisco book (likely one 10+ years old), to get the same textbook answer.
Just because you understand how to use PKI doesn't mean you should always use PKI. Why not SCP? Why not file-encryption? Why was the question so specific and targeted for a single answer that most people wouldn't get to, regardless of competence, rather than an open ended one? "When would you use SCP vs PKI vs file level encryption?"
You aren't evaluating candidates. You are making a common interviewing mistake and fishing for specific answers. You (wrongly) assume that a matching answer is a good answer.
How many are bad? I'd say 15-20%. Same as every field. But you aren't looking for "not bad" you are looking for "does it the way I'd do". That's different. Why is file-level or transfer level encryption "wrong" for your question, and message-level encryption the only acceptable answer? I know plenty of people that would find your clumsy "email it" answer to be incompetent, and they'd look for SCP as the only correct answer.
The fact that the candidate recognized that and tried to gather more information to give the right answer shouldn't be counted against him, as you did, but indicate that he's good at clarifying unclear requests (which is just about all of them).
Well, neither am I, with a 6 pound piece of metal with propellers spinning at 3000+ RPM right above my head, controlled by someone who doesn't have the single clue of how to crab for a cross-wind landing.
How does crabbing for a landing affect their ability to fly above you? Or is this just an unrelated skill you are demanding as an example? If they are at 100'+ over your property and headed past (not circling), their complete ignorance of aerodynamics will have no effect on you.
And then when China nukes us back for nuking them? DPRK is un-nukable because we have an explicit ally (South Korea) and frenemy bordering it. Any retaliation by us would result in the destruction of Seoul. Is that what you want?
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It's brought up every time because it's true. It's exhausting because your opinion doesn't match reality, and the cognitive dissonance tires you out.
Seriously, I have 20+ year old network diagrams with a "cloud" that represents the server farm in a client-server environment. "The cloud" has been around ever since Visio shipped with a cloud graphic (if not earlier, I wasn't around to see the first builds of the network that had the cloud in it).
I'm not saying that all engineers around me are incompetent, only that a lot - way too many - are not.
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There's a lot of engineers who have vastly overinflated opinions of themselves.
to indicate that you thought they were certainly less competent than they themselves thought.
Yes, it's exactly the same thing as Mainframe in the '60s, and Citrix (terminal servers) in the '90s. We are just giving it a new name to not confuse it with the 50+ year old decentralized centralization it's based on.
Nukes are nice because you can pull into an enemy harbor and sit there for 90 days at maximum quietness. A diesel would have to surface every once in a while for air, and would need to run the noisy engines to charge the batteries.
My laptop is better than that, and my 5.5" phone is 2560 x 1440. Resolution isn't stagnant, it's just improving on devices you don't use.
And I have a 720P TV that has had multiple people who own larger 1080p TVs ask if it was 4k. When you don't have it side-by-side, 99% of people won't know. Most of the "problems" in displays today are because of poorly matched resolutions, and even worse scaling. A good viewing environment and well set up components makes a whole lot more difference than throwing pixels at it. And it's cheaper than pixels too.
Each pigeon has a Blu-Ray tied to its ankle.
At least I didn't use one of the many cases of a cop killing an unarmed person. But yes, you have to use an example people have heard of, and all of those will be politically charged.
They can when they are a govenment-enforced monopoly.
These days, if you protect yourself from a criminal, it's a tossup whether you will end up in jail.
Like Zimmerman, who hunted, chased, cornered, then shot and killed an unarmed non-criminal, and had no jail time?
The fact that there are malpractice suits proves that those who survive the program are still human.
The AMA requires the schedule be inhuman because of the same reason that frat houses do hazing. It happened to me, and I tuned out fine, so there must be nothing wrong with it. It also justifies beating your children. I'm not speaking about the medical profession, or the levels of perfection in it, but the count of truly incompetent. I know plenty of brilliant people in IT. I've yet to meet a person who has never made a mistake.
Thanks to NK the US has beefed up it's anti-missile batteries along the US West Coast and helped increase the military preparedness in the South Pacific region. The deployment of more anti-missile batteries to protect against a NK missile attack can also be used to intercept missiles aimed towards the US west coast.
Aside from some theoretical Star Wars weapons that never left the drawing board, we have nothing that would stop an ICBM launched from NK. The worry is Scuds launched at Tokyo. Something we think is possible today, but not reliable with their current level of tech.
Wow, where doctors are wrong more than 50% is shocking. That this is accepted and considered normal is even more shocking. In the US, you look up what you want to have on Web MD, then shop doctors until you get one that gives you the diagnosis you were fishing for.
There must be a bottom 20%, by definition. However, those "worst" doctors are closer to "average" than most professions.
Car engines use thermodynamics, but asking a thermodynamics question in an interview for a truck driver would be similarly irrelevant.
How many secretaries have you hired? How many lawyers? Most people have an inflated opinion of themselves. That you don't deal with people much doesn't make this an engineer-only problem. How many drivers think they are above average? That you can't see this makes you an incompetent human, but doesn't mean that all the engineers around you are incompetent.
I've found that about 15-20% of all people in all fields are bad. Medical is one of the few exceptions to that, because of the additional hurdles designed to remove the lower performers. Even certified Engineers (mechanical, electrical), there are many incompetent ones.
What I see with IT is that people demand the top 5% and somehow think that's "average". If 99% of your applicants are incompetent, your standards are the error, not the applicants.
Yeah, like the guy who asked me in an interview "What is the purpose of phase 1 IKE?" The only acceptable answer was "to protect against MITM attacks". It wasn't that I didn't know how encryption works but that I didn't read the same Cisco book (likely one 10+ years old), to get the same textbook answer.
Just because you understand how to use PKI doesn't mean you should always use PKI. Why not SCP? Why not file-encryption? Why was the question so specific and targeted for a single answer that most people wouldn't get to, regardless of competence, rather than an open ended one? "When would you use SCP vs PKI vs file level encryption?"
You aren't evaluating candidates. You are making a common interviewing mistake and fishing for specific answers. You (wrongly) assume that a matching answer is a good answer.
How many are bad? I'd say 15-20%. Same as every field. But you aren't looking for "not bad" you are looking for "does it the way I'd do". That's different. Why is file-level or transfer level encryption "wrong" for your question, and message-level encryption the only acceptable answer? I know plenty of people that would find your clumsy "email it" answer to be incompetent, and they'd look for SCP as the only correct answer.
The fact that the candidate recognized that and tried to gather more information to give the right answer shouldn't be counted against him, as you did, but indicate that he's good at clarifying unclear requests (which is just about all of them).
And when China nukes us back?
Especially since the drone users have been told they are breaking the law, so they are less likely to come back and ask for it.
It'd be like pick-pocketing the gun from a bank robber. Not legal, but not likely to get you in trouble with the police.
If people ride their bikes onto my property, then leave them there unattended for a while, then the issue would be different.
Well, neither am I, with a 6 pound piece of metal with propellers spinning at 3000+ RPM right above my head, controlled by someone who doesn't have the single clue of how to crab for a cross-wind landing.
How does crabbing for a landing affect their ability to fly above you? Or is this just an unrelated skill you are demanding as an example? If they are at 100'+ over your property and headed past (not circling), their complete ignorance of aerodynamics will have no effect on you.
And then when China nukes us back for nuking them? DPRK is un-nukable because we have an explicit ally (South Korea) and frenemy bordering it. Any retaliation by us would result in the destruction of Seoul. Is that what you want?
No. I don't believe that, nor did I ever say that.