Hrm, I thought the author was quite clear that the code was pseudo-code, and, while written in python syntax, was purposefully generic and avoided anything that required any python knowledge.
Well, that's why I said 'perhaps' - not because it isn't important, but that spelling and dress sense indicate a lack of it to any significant degree. I would argue that it almost always matters too...well, that you have to be *perfect* at it.
If it were important to be perfect at 'attention to detail' then almost all recruiters should never have been hired. They are so incredibly picky about typos and wot-not on CVs/resumes, and yet the job specs they put out are usually riddled with them; and worse, they're often technically dubious too (IMO).
I was wondering, do extroverts only hire extroverts, and introverts only hire introverts?
Having said that, I imagine there *are* jobs where being able to present on a white board in high-stress situations...not so common though, I'd wager.
It also puzzles me why recruiters (HR?) are so fussy about spelling and dressing smartly - unless those qualities are actually important for the position, which they're usually not very (documentation perhaps, and attention to detail too). My guess is it's more about pride and/or power-craziness. Perhaps it's also a sign of laziness, since they usually get too many applications and they have to par them down somehow. Either way, IMO, it certainly doesn't do the company any good to hire people based on such things.
I like a lot about the prospect of working at some of these companies, but their interviews are completely useless, imo. Still, they do narrow the field, and I imagine that's something that needs doing.
They may well still have a chance in China...they had huge brand recognition there. Apple is big there, but people get pissed off with it a fair bit. Google has no presence at all, but companies use the FOSS Android to build phones and that's pretty common. I think Nokia still have a chance there, and I'll bet that's where they'll start too, since they're looking for a manufacturer.
I thought the N95 was amazing, and the N90 was pretty awesome too....and the N9 was spectacular. I loved my E9 too....I remember using it with a bluetooth keyboard to send/receive email and surf/etc at an airport and it turned a few heads, and that was in Finland where they were much more common than anywhere else.
Miss the boat when it came to smart phones...they were *years* ahead of the current crop.
Actually, I find myself disagreeing with almost everything you say...not much point in continuing.
Up until now, there have been few vendors to choose pre-installed Linux. IMO, the most usual thing is for people wanting to run Linux is to buy it with Windows pre-installed, boot it straight into a Linux install disk, and wipe off Windows - perhaps with the additional step of reclaiming the cost of Windows included with the purchase.
IINM, that won't be possible, so we need a 'none' option on the OS choice list before we buy it, then they don't install anything and just ship it directly to us.
In some ways, that seems a lot simpler, if we can get the likes of Dell, Lenovo/etc to do that. Maybe they will start selling more pre-installed Linux desktops - there have been some, but the choice was limited and there was always the 'wipe Windows' option.
I was made redundant from a well-respected company in Silicon Valley. As part of the package, they sent us to professional resume writers...one of the first things he said was that, if he was given a resume that detailed sex (as well as other things like 'age'), the resume would immediately be thrown in the bin. The reason was that there could be accusations of discrimination and that would make them legally 'exposed'. It seems to me that companies are doing this openly these days...
You don't think there's anything inherently valuable in having a diverse work force? I can think of two reasons why it might be that it is valuable to the business as a whole to have as diverse a work force as possible; 1) you have a diverse selection of opinions/view points and so you're more likely to have someone who has the optimum solution to a problem; 2) perhaps you can target a wider set of customers?
I've no idea if they are actually true, but they seem self-evident to me. Those are off the top of my head - I imagine people who've studied the issues might come up with other reasons too.
> You *do* have to give girls the confidence that they can compete
That works for men/boys too - lack of self-confidence isn't restricted to the female dex. Although, I'm not sure how useful being able to compete is in the actual job...'back room boys' (or girls) are under-rated, imo.
I tend to agree that it is an issue with society rather than any instance of sexism...but *how* does one 'challenge larger cultural institutions'? I'm not convinced (yet) that positive discrimination is the right/only way - that seems equally sexist to me...but it seems to be the option chosen by employers.
If I were passed over for a position in favour of a women, when I was equally qualified (or even *more* qualified), then I would consider legal action. I suspect I wouldn't get very far though (several issues would be difficult to prove), but IMO it should be illegal.
The reason women should (imo) flock to an IT/programming) career is that companies are positively discriminating towards women, such that it is (perhaps) almost impossible *not* to get a job - not so for men. At the very least, a women will be selected in favour of man, all other things being equal (which is impossible, but anyway).
I've heard it argued that having a more even diversity (including male/female) improves the profit of the company. I can't argue that position too well myself, but I have to respect that as a reason.
The only reason I could see as backing up that assertion is that having diversity provides a wider range of view points, and so provides more options from which to choose - but that's a rather 'macro' view point, I suppose. It might be easy to imagine that having more women might make it easier for a company to accurately target women's need, for products or whatever....
find an open source project that interests you and get involved, making sure your contributions are attributed to you; then you can point a potential employer at your work.
alternatively, in an appropriate point in the interview process (even in your letter of introduction), ask your potential employer to give you something to do as a project for a few weeks so that you can prove yourself and they can see what you can do.
mod parent up...interested if this actually solves the problem...I don't see why it wouldn't, unless they care about the licenses, why would they care who actually wrote it?
Thanks! I had trouble finding that...seemed I had an empty list to select from...but a 'reset' populated the list and I will see if that does the trick:D
" ``It's the wild colour scheme that freaks me,'' said Zaphod whose love affair with this ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight, ``Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it. What is this? Some kind of galactic hyperhearse?''
The walls of the swaying cabin were also black, the ceiling was black, the seats --- which were rudimentary since the only important trip this ship was designed for was supposed to be unmanned --- were black, the control panel was black, the instruments were black, the little screws that held them in place were black, the thin tufted nylon floor covering was black, and when they had lifted up a corner of it they had discovered that the foam underlay also was black. "
Having experienced the Notting Hill Carnivan, I can totally believe this...the sound systems they have on the floats are so loud I found it quite difficult to even breath and started to make me feel sick. They're powered by quite big generators on the floats themselves....quite nuts.
The floats/etc were a bit boring, imo. My wife and I didn't stay long.
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> charged per minute for our phone service or TV service for the past hundred years like the British have
eh?
Hrm, perhaps you have a point. TBH, I didn't find the article particularly enlightening, irrespective of python/pseudopod.
Hrm, I thought the author was quite clear that the code was pseudo-code, and, while written in python syntax, was purposefully generic and avoided anything that required any python knowledge.
Well, that's why I said 'perhaps' - not because it isn't important, but that spelling and dress sense indicate a lack of it to any significant degree. I would argue that it almost always matters too...well, that you have to be *perfect* at it.
If it were important to be perfect at 'attention to detail' then almost all recruiters should never have been hired. They are so incredibly picky about typos and wot-not on CVs/resumes, and yet the job specs they put out are usually riddled with them; and worse, they're often technically dubious too (IMO).
Wow, sooo correct.
I was wondering, do extroverts only hire extroverts, and introverts only hire introverts?
Having said that, I imagine there *are* jobs where being able to present on a white board in high-stress situations...not so common though, I'd wager.
It also puzzles me why recruiters (HR?) are so fussy about spelling and dressing smartly - unless those qualities are actually important for the position, which they're usually not very (documentation perhaps, and attention to detail too). My guess is it's more about pride and/or power-craziness. Perhaps it's also a sign of laziness, since they usually get too many applications and they have to par them down somehow. Either way, IMO, it certainly doesn't do the company any good to hire people based on such things.
I totally agree with you.
I like a lot about the prospect of working at some of these companies, but their interviews are completely useless, imo. Still, they do narrow the field, and I imagine that's something that needs doing.
They may well still have a chance in China...they had huge brand recognition there. Apple is big there, but people get pissed off with it a fair bit. Google has no presence at all, but companies use the FOSS Android to build phones and that's pretty common. I think Nokia still have a chance there, and I'll bet that's where they'll start too, since they're looking for a manufacturer.
I thought the N95 was amazing, and the N90 was pretty awesome too....and the N9 was spectacular. I loved my E9 too....I remember using it with a bluetooth keyboard to send/receive email and surf/etc at an airport and it turned a few heads, and that was in Finland where they were much more common than anywhere else.
Miss the boat when it came to smart phones...they were *years* ahead of the current crop.
Actually, I find myself disagreeing with almost everything you say...not much point in continuing.
But, yeah, I'm nobody, so you're right.
Up until now, there have been few vendors to choose pre-installed Linux. IMO, the most usual thing is for people wanting to run Linux is to buy it with Windows pre-installed, boot it straight into a Linux install disk, and wipe off Windows - perhaps with the additional step of reclaiming the cost of Windows included with the purchase.
IINM, that won't be possible, so we need a 'none' option on the OS choice list before we buy it, then they don't install anything and just ship it directly to us.
In some ways, that seems a lot simpler, if we can get the likes of Dell, Lenovo/etc to do that. Maybe they will start selling more pre-installed Linux desktops - there have been some, but the choice was limited and there was always the 'wipe Windows' option.
I was made redundant from a well-respected company in Silicon Valley. As part of the package, they sent us to professional resume writers...one of the first things he said was that, if he was given a resume that detailed sex (as well as other things like 'age'), the resume would immediately be thrown in the bin. The reason was that there could be accusations of discrimination and that would make them legally 'exposed'.
It seems to me that companies are doing this openly these days...
You don't think there's anything inherently valuable in having a diverse work force? I can think of two reasons why it might be that it is valuable to the business as a whole to have as diverse a work force as possible; 1) you have a diverse selection of opinions/view points and so you're more likely to have someone who has the optimum solution to a problem; 2) perhaps you can target a wider set of customers?
I've no idea if they are actually true, but they seem self-evident to me. Those are off the top of my head - I imagine people who've studied the issues might come up with other reasons too.
Are these invalid somehow?
> You *do* have to give girls the confidence that they can compete
That works for men/boys too - lack of self-confidence isn't restricted to the female dex. Although, I'm not sure how useful being able to compete is in the actual job...'back room boys' (or girls) are under-rated, imo.
Interesting...I wonder if I were to dress as a woman, would I be more likely to get the job?
"Intel"? I missed the reference to Intel...could you tell me where Intel was mentioned?
Thanks.
I tend to agree that it is an issue with society rather than any instance of sexism...but *how* does one 'challenge larger cultural institutions'? I'm not convinced (yet) that positive discrimination is the right/only way - that seems equally sexist to me...but it seems to be the option chosen by employers.
If I were passed over for a position in favour of a women, when I was equally qualified (or even *more* qualified), then I would consider legal action. I suspect I wouldn't get very far though (several issues would be difficult to prove), but IMO it should be illegal.
The reason women should (imo) flock to an IT/programming) career is that companies are positively discriminating towards women, such that it is (perhaps) almost impossible *not* to get a job - not so for men. At the very least, a women will be selected in favour of man, all other things being equal (which is impossible, but anyway).
I've heard it argued that having a more even diversity (including male/female) improves the profit of the company. I can't argue that position too well myself, but I have to respect that as a reason.
The only reason I could see as backing up that assertion is that having diversity provides a wider range of view points, and so provides more options from which to choose - but that's a rather 'macro' view point, I suppose. It might be easy to imagine that having more women might make it easier for a company to accurately target women's need, for products or whatever....
Just throwing that out there...
These days, though, in my experience anyway, it means being reduced to close to, or actually, nothing.
find an open source project that interests you and get involved, making sure your contributions are attributed to you; then you can point a potential employer at your work.
alternatively, in an appropriate point in the interview process (even in your letter of introduction), ask your potential employer to give you something to do as a project for a few weeks so that you can prove yourself and they can see what you can do.
I hope they manage to recover it. I'm glad it managed to survive the night without any further damage...
mod parent up...interested if this actually solves the problem...I don't see why it wouldn't, unless they care about the licenses, why would they care who actually wrote it?
Thanks! I had trouble finding that...seemed I had an empty list to select from...but a 'reset' populated the list and I will see if that does the trick :D
Just curious...is there a way to exclude/ignore particular sections in /.?
" ``It's the wild colour scheme that freaks me,'' said Zaphod whose love affair with this ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight, ``Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it. What is this? Some kind of galactic hyperhearse?''
The walls of the swaying cabin were also black, the ceiling was black, the seats --- which were rudimentary since the only important trip this ship was designed for was supposed to be unmanned --- were black, the control panel was black, the instruments were black, the little screws that held them in place were black, the thin tufted nylon floor covering was black, and when they had lifted up a corner of it they had discovered that the foam underlay also was black.
"
Having experienced the Notting Hill Carnivan, I can totally believe this...the sound systems they have on the floats are so loud I found it quite difficult to even breath and started to make me feel sick. They're powered by quite big generators on the floats themselves....quite nuts.
The floats/etc were a bit boring, imo. My wife and I didn't stay long.
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