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I'd expect somebody in the computer field to tinker around with machines, and it's not like IRQs are windows 98 specific and are never used anymore. I might not expect a biologist to be able to milk a cow, but they should at least have an idea where the milk comes from.
To play devil's advocate, it seems that those running this project don't fully understand the problems of order fulfillment If they are shipping from overseas (I'm assuming since the alternative is sending by boat), you run into customs and logistics issues. There are all sorts of crazy limitations, duties, paperwork and other overhead when transporting commercial goods by air that are minimized when you send by sea. For example there are seemingly arbitrary container requirements for shipping certain items by air, which limits how much you can get on each flight. Then there are restrictions on the number of units/volume a plane can take based on the classification of the goods and the type of flight that is carrying it. Additional headaches are proportional to the value of commercial goods being handled, the more valuable the shipment, the more hoops you have to jump through for the authorities. Most people don't run into issues because the value and quantities they ship are small.
The insanity of commercial shipping obviously is going to be compounded when you have business customers that require you to coordinate their deliveries at the same time. Otherwise one retailer will be pissed off that their competitor got product before them.
I'm also a watch geek and I like the functionality of electronic and modern tech watches (I own a meta watch that I like to mess around with). However, I have a special appreciation for classic mechanical watches. I think it's the mixture of art and engineering that intrigues me. They are also much more stylish, though I think smart watches will eventually catch up in this regard.
Sad how far Sonic has fallen. Did anybody think "Sonic Tour of the Brain" would be any good at all? Yeah it's better than Sonic GBA, but still it's terrible
You'd be surprised at how deadly a Cinnabon is. Give one to everybody and get them addicted, eventually you'll cause mass murder as they die from diabetes
XP -> 7 is entirely worth it. I'm no IT professional and don't know the logistics of it all but when I upgraded it was like day and night.
It's entirely dependent on the environment. There are tens of thousands of manufacturing tools that were built using XP. In those cases migrating to 7 is extremely expensive since the system hardware and software was built around XP. One of the pick and place tools I used for process development was still running OS/2 until 2008. The only upgrade path was to purchase a new machine with a better software environment. But the expense was far too high, because it required purchasing new tools for all production lines in all factories (otherwise newly developed processes wouldn't be transferrable to high volume). Hard to work with software or a few thousand of dollars more a year in support doesn't justify a large capital expenditure. I basically had to show that the tool's limitations made incapable of meeting the accuracy requirements of the roadmap and we'd need to replace all the machines. Based on feedback from IT and the automation engineers I requested a more up-to-date OS, interface, and software package as part of the design requirements.
Okay, so how come none of that has happened yet even after multiple high-profile hacks and price crashes over the last several years? Each time something like that happens, plenty of people repeat every point you just made and insist that Bitcoin is going away this time for sure. But it only seems to get more popular over time.
I remember that arguement in the late 90's. "Netscape missed its earnings target, but it's getting more popular so buy buy!" or "The whole industry is overvalued, but that's not a problem because it's a new economy. Just look at how stock prices are going up"
Well I kinda see both sides. You don't want a manger who leaves, to recruit all his former employees into a new company. This can hurt the company losing the manager as they'll also lose the rest of the group with him. At the same time the new company doesn't want some new manager to build his own loyal dynasty from day 1. Ironically this kind of stuff happens all the time within a company.
The only exception I can think of is a prohibition on people who move from company A to company B, contacting their co-workers in company A, in their capacity as an employee of company B. This could be considered in improper use of that person's professional contacts at company A.
I think I had to sign a non-recruitment agreement when I left a company in 1999. Think it was valid for 2 years. Not sure if it was valid or not, I just signed because I was young and didn't care.
Not exactly sure if this was a completely terrible decision. There may be evidence that the behind doors tampering wasn't equally used against all employees. Forming a class action is great if there is a structural problem and most are impacted to a similar degree. The granting of class action makes it more difficult for those who suffered the worst to get appropriate compensation, because first they must demonstrate they are not covered by the class action before they are allowed to take their own. These unfair practices may have been a nuisance to some employees, but for others it may have caused a career dead-end. That's why there is a good reason not to lump them all into the same bucket.
But your grandmother's slide-to-unlock idea allows the edges to move apart in space around an axis to reveal physical objects stored inside. Apple's applies to a cover which uses liquid crystals to block most of the light waves until the slide mechanism is triggered alters the crystals such that the user gains visual access to the screen. Can't you see how revolutionary Apple's idea is!
For those big companies, bringing in somebody because they are a little less expensive doesn't make much sense. Most of their H1Bs are geared towards PhD's who can provide important skills they may be weak in, which is reflected by high salaries Apple, Intel, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are all paying over $100k to H1B holders
China is pretty easy going via airport, not if you are making the cross driving from Hong Kong into the mainland. Horrible traffic jams, and rude service.
I also went to the Philippines several times and went through some of the same mess and I had to get multiple Visa's to stay beyond 2 weeks each time, even though I was working for a US company based in the Philippines and had no intention of staying or taking jobs from local residents. I was in fact there to train staff.
Customs laws are hard to navigate. There's usually exceptions when you tell customs you're there for a brief business meeting. But, If you intend to do any actual work (not sure if training classes are included) , it's way more difficult to get permission. I went to Malaysia to help resolve some manufacturing problems at the request of the factory there, no plans on staying, just needed to run some experiments and resolve the problem. Unfortunately, I had to sit in a cubicle for 2 weeks doing nothing while my work visa was approved, otherwise my company and I would be accused of using an illegal foreign worker. Once I got the visa then I could go out to the production line and start figuring out what the heck was going on, and it only took about a week. Similar thing happened in Japan, I was allowed to sit in a meeting room for a few days to do data analysis and provide suggestions, but had to wait for a work visa to approach the production tool. Before getting a visa I was only allowed to machine through a window.
It also depends on the size of the company you work for. The government is usually more forgiving to employees of huge multinationals, than obscure small businesses.
We have too many out of work people who don't have the right skill set. The unemployment rate for engineers and scientists hit a peak around 5%, which is what the general economy sees in the best times. There truly is a shortage of well educated science and engineers, unfortunately, what the big companies are doing is taking this data to cry "foul" and using H1Bs to hire technicians and technical tradesmen (who are suffering severely) to lower their costs. By hiring cheaper, less qualified individuals in those areas, instead of filling in the vacancies that truly need it, the corporations can claim to be in a perpetual state of labor shortage destroying the American middle class.
Or create a specialty class where if you have a graduate or other highly intensive degree then you can get into the country. Especially if the people earned their degree at universities in the US. We spend resources to train the best in the world no matter where they are from, and then kick them out because they aren't from here.
You know, I looked at current salaries and they're at about 70K for most higher level developers these days. Back in '99, those same developers were getting over 100K.
You shouldn't really compare salaries to the DotCom bubble era. I lived with a couple of stoners who made $65k a year just to ensure web pages were working correctly. They didn't actually know how to fix the pages, they just clicked around and submitted a ticket if something was amiss.
Fat lot of good this does when the poor guy is already out of school.
Many universities have opportunities even for graduates. Hit the career center, or he can knock on the door of a professor he knows. Most of them are happy to get volunteer labor, even if it's just a few hours a week. And it's probably a better use of time to actually be doing something meaningful, rather than just reading yet another book which doesn't pay either. When I started as a computer engineering student, I was able to find out through a friend that his professor was looking for somebody to build a program that displayed Pourbaix diagrams of systems. I volunteered for the project, and not only did I have a tangible project I could point to, I also had somebody who would give me a letter of recommendation if I needed it. In the process I learned a lot about galvanic corrosion, which got me interested in Materials Science and I switched majors.
Besides, how do you know that he didn't listen to a guy just like you? Why should he listen to you over them?
There's no specific reason he should listen to me, but I feel my input could be helpful either to him or the community
The cool thing about Slashdot is there are lots of ideas and opinions around. The really shitty part about Slashdot is that there are lots of ideas and opinions around. Who the hell knows, really, what's good and what isn't
You don't, but at least getting constructive feedback can help somebody who is desperate. They might not take the advice, but it gives them another opinion to consider. I was just sharing my personal experiences, both from when I was a new grad and as part of a hiring team later in my career.
Most interviews I've participated in were not "pop quizzes," they were based on behavioral interviewing techniques. The purpose of behavioral interviews is to get an impression of how candidates approach and solve new problems, so the evaluator can try to predict their future performance in a working environment. Typically they are in the form of "Describe a time when you faced Problem(x), and how were you able to resolve it. For example getting an "A" in Analytical chemistry means you know the theory behind analytical techniques, but it doesn't give insight into how one solves issues. Running, maintaining, and working with partners to gather data from an FTIR tool, demonstrates a much broader and more applicable set of skills for the real world. With these experiences the candidate in an interview can discuss how they maintained long-term stability of a metrology, provided advice to others on the best way to prepare samples, and identified and troubleshot issues. Heck it can even reveal how they handle interpersonal issues, like if two research assistants are arguing about getting time on the machine.
When interviewing somebody for a lab position, a funny example I used was giving them a ruler and asking them to measure the length of a line on a piece of paper. Most of those interviewed would take the ruler, measure the line really carefully (like it was a final exam, lol) and give me the answer. However, two candidates took the ruler, measured the length of the paper then made a few measurements of the line, before calculating the answer. You could tell they had some experience working with metrologies in the real world. They understood by measuring the side of a piece of paper (typical 8 1/2 x 11) they could get an indication of the ruler's accuracy, and with multiple measurements of the line they took into account statistical variation.
Surprisingly, the CS program I was in did not teach you much in the way of IT...kind of frightening if you think about it. I guess IT has been reclassified as some sort of trade in their minds, while CS is some sort of Ivory tower nonsense...
A good CS program has always been an ivory tower of math, logic, and theory. But HR folks aren't really good at distinguishing between similar degrees like CS, EE, IT, and Computer Engineering. Yes there's some crossover, but there are some major differences in focus.
But then, I thought a Bachelors would teach you more than it apparently does...and I am working on fixing that.
Undergrad classes are all about getting the basic tools. That's why it's important to mix in technical extra curricular activities (eg robot design competitions), or find a professor that you can work with on projects. It makes for much more interesting conversations with interviewers, and good stories that reveal your problem solving skills and personality.
It was a pretty complicated situation. You had the statesmen trying to communicate a peaceful solution, but the ones in charge of the military refused to concede defeat. There were severe divisions within the ruling body. The Potsdam Declaration was rejected by the Japanese because it called for unconditional surrender. After the first atomic bomb, there wasn't initially consensus within Japan that the bomb had indeed been atomic in nature. The primary decision makers were still dead-locked about actually surrendering with the military adamant that they should fight on. The US dropped the second bomb shortly after to give the impression that it had a huge stockpile (both to the Japanese and the Soviets as the seeds for the Cold War were already planted). The ministry finally accepted the Potsdam Declaration, but even then there was an attempted coup by the military leadership.
It's important to note that the conventional firebombing of Tokyo was deadlier than either atomic bomb. The psychological effect of the first atomic weapons was far more pronounced than the actual killing power.
Do you know how many sorties and missile strikes would have to be launched. These are positions up in mountains, and caves so are not easy targets. There's estimates they could hit Seoul with 10k-20k shells per hour. And god help us if they can get a nuke on a crappy rocket that can shoot 50 miles, Seoul is huge, even a poor strike near it would cause severe issues.
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I'd expect somebody in the computer field to tinker around with machines, and it's not like IRQs are windows 98 specific and are never used anymore.
I might not expect a biologist to be able to milk a cow, but they should at least have an idea where the milk comes from.
To play devil's advocate, it seems that those running this project don't fully understand the problems of order fulfillment
If they are shipping from overseas (I'm assuming since the alternative is sending by boat), you run into customs and logistics issues. There are all sorts of crazy limitations, duties, paperwork and other overhead when transporting commercial goods by air that are minimized when you send by sea. For example there are seemingly arbitrary container requirements for shipping certain items by air, which limits how much you can get on each flight. Then there are restrictions on the number of units/volume a plane can take based on the classification of the goods and the type of flight that is carrying it. Additional headaches are proportional to the value of commercial goods being handled, the more valuable the shipment, the more hoops you have to jump through for the authorities.
Most people don't run into issues because the value and quantities they ship are small.
The insanity of commercial shipping obviously is going to be compounded when you have business customers that require you to coordinate their deliveries at the same time. Otherwise one retailer will be pissed off that their competitor got product before them.
I'm also a watch geek and I like the functionality of electronic and modern tech watches (I own a meta watch that I like to mess around with).
However, I have a special appreciation for classic mechanical watches. I think it's the mixture of art and engineering that intrigues me. They are also much more stylish, though I think smart watches will eventually catch up in this regard.
Sad how far Sonic has fallen. Did anybody think "Sonic Tour of the Brain" would be any good at all?
Yeah it's better than Sonic GBA, but still it's terrible
You'd be surprised at how deadly a Cinnabon is. Give one to everybody and get them addicted, eventually you'll cause mass murder as they die from diabetes
XP -> 7 is entirely worth it. I'm no IT professional and don't know the logistics of it all but when I upgraded it was like day and night.
It's entirely dependent on the environment. There are tens of thousands of manufacturing tools that were built using XP. In those cases migrating to 7 is extremely expensive since the system hardware and software was built around XP.
One of the pick and place tools I used for process development was still running OS/2 until 2008. The only upgrade path was to purchase a new machine with a better software environment. But the expense was far too high, because it required purchasing new tools for all production lines in all factories (otherwise newly developed processes wouldn't be transferrable to high volume).
Hard to work with software or a few thousand of dollars more a year in support doesn't justify a large capital expenditure. I basically had to show that the tool's limitations made incapable of meeting the accuracy requirements of the roadmap and we'd need to replace all the machines. Based on feedback from IT and the automation engineers I requested a more up-to-date OS, interface, and software package as part of the design requirements.
Because they hack for great justice, and good always wins. Don't you read comics?
Okay, so how come none of that has happened yet even after multiple high-profile hacks and price crashes over the last several years? Each time something like that happens, plenty of people repeat every point you just made and insist that Bitcoin is going away this time for sure. But it only seems to get more popular over time.
I remember that arguement in the late 90's. "Netscape missed its earnings target, but it's getting more popular so buy buy!" or "The whole industry is overvalued, but that's not a problem because it's a new economy. Just look at how stock prices are going up"
There was a little Spanish Flu
A deadly pathogen you know
He'd heard of microbes like Tetanus
Malaria spread by mosquitos
Why not a little Spanish Flu
Well I kinda see both sides.
You don't want a manger who leaves, to recruit all his former employees into a new company. This can hurt the company losing the manager as they'll also lose the rest of the group with him.
At the same time the new company doesn't want some new manager to build his own loyal dynasty from day 1.
Ironically this kind of stuff happens all the time within a company.
Though restricting either case should be illegal.
The only exception I can think of is a prohibition on people who move from company A to company B, contacting their co-workers in company A, in their capacity as an employee of company B. This could be considered in improper use of that person's professional contacts at company A.
I think I had to sign a non-recruitment agreement when I left a company in 1999. Think it was valid for 2 years. Not sure if it was valid or not, I just signed because I was young and didn't care.
Just wait till some GOP hack claims that since corporations are people, they have the right to assemble and form unions :P
Not exactly sure if this was a completely terrible decision. There may be evidence that the behind doors tampering wasn't equally used against all employees. Forming a class action is great if there is a structural problem and most are impacted to a similar degree. The granting of class action makes it more difficult for those who suffered the worst to get appropriate compensation, because first they must demonstrate they are not covered by the class action before they are allowed to take their own. These unfair practices may have been a nuisance to some employees, but for others it may have caused a career dead-end. That's why there is a good reason not to lump them all into the same bucket.
But your grandmother's slide-to-unlock idea allows the edges to move apart in space around an axis to reveal physical objects stored inside.
Apple's applies to a cover which uses liquid crystals to block most of the light waves until the slide mechanism is triggered alters the crystals such that the user gains visual access to the screen.
Can't you see how revolutionary Apple's idea is!
For those big companies, bringing in somebody because they are a little less expensive doesn't make much sense. Most of their H1Bs are geared towards PhD's who can provide important skills they may be weak in, which is reflected by high salaries
Apple, Intel, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are all paying over $100k to H1B holders
China is pretty easy going via airport, not if you are making the cross driving from Hong Kong into the mainland. Horrible traffic jams, and rude service.
I also went to the Philippines several times and went through some of the same mess and I had to get multiple Visa's to stay beyond 2 weeks each time, even though I was working for a US company based in the Philippines and had no intention of staying or taking jobs from local residents. I was in fact there to train staff.
Customs laws are hard to navigate. There's usually exceptions when you tell customs you're there for a brief business meeting. But, If you intend to do any actual work (not sure if training classes are included) , it's way more difficult to get permission.
I went to Malaysia to help resolve some manufacturing problems at the request of the factory there, no plans on staying, just needed to run some experiments and resolve the problem. Unfortunately, I had to sit in a cubicle for 2 weeks doing nothing while my work visa was approved, otherwise my company and I would be accused of using an illegal foreign worker. Once I got the visa then I could go out to the production line and start figuring out what the heck was going on, and it only took about a week.
Similar thing happened in Japan, I was allowed to sit in a meeting room for a few days to do data analysis and provide suggestions, but had to wait for a work visa to approach the production tool. Before getting a visa I was only allowed to machine through a window.
It also depends on the size of the company you work for. The government is usually more forgiving to employees of huge multinationals, than obscure small businesses.
We have too many out of work people who don't have the right skill set. The unemployment rate for engineers and scientists hit a peak around 5%, which is what the general economy sees in the best times.
There truly is a shortage of well educated science and engineers, unfortunately, what the big companies are doing is taking this data to cry "foul" and using H1Bs to hire technicians and technical tradesmen (who are suffering severely) to lower their costs. By hiring cheaper, less qualified individuals in those areas, instead of filling in the vacancies that truly need it, the corporations can claim to be in a perpetual state of labor shortage destroying the American middle class.
Or create a specialty class where if you have a graduate or other highly intensive degree then you can get into the country. Especially if the people earned their degree at universities in the US. We spend resources to train the best in the world no matter where they are from, and then kick them out because they aren't from here.
You know, I looked at current salaries and they're at about 70K for most higher level developers these days. Back in '99, those same developers were getting over 100K.
You shouldn't really compare salaries to the DotCom bubble era. I lived with a couple of stoners who made $65k a year just to ensure web pages were working correctly. They didn't actually know how to fix the pages, they just clicked around and submitted a ticket if something was amiss.
Fat lot of good this does when the poor guy is already out of school.
Many universities have opportunities even for graduates. Hit the career center, or he can knock on the door of a professor he knows. Most of them are happy to get volunteer labor, even if it's just a few hours a week. And it's probably a better use of time to actually be doing something meaningful, rather than just reading yet another book which doesn't pay either.
When I started as a computer engineering student, I was able to find out through a friend that his professor was looking for somebody to build a program that displayed Pourbaix diagrams of systems. I volunteered for the project, and not only did I have a tangible project I could point to, I also had somebody who would give me a letter of recommendation if I needed it. In the process I learned a lot about galvanic corrosion, which got me interested in Materials Science and I switched majors.
Besides, how do you know that he didn't listen to a guy just like you? Why should he listen to you over them?
There's no specific reason he should listen to me, but I feel my input could be helpful either to him or the community
The cool thing about Slashdot is there are lots of ideas and opinions around. The really shitty part about Slashdot is that there are lots of ideas and opinions around. Who the hell knows, really, what's good and what isn't
You don't, but at least getting constructive feedback can help somebody who is desperate. They might not take the advice, but it gives them another opinion to consider.
I was just sharing my personal experiences, both from when I was a new grad and as part of a hiring team later in my career.
Most interviews I've participated in were not "pop quizzes," they were based on behavioral interviewing techniques. The purpose of behavioral interviews is to get an impression of how candidates approach and solve new problems, so the evaluator can try to predict their future performance in a working environment. Typically they are in the form of "Describe a time when you faced Problem(x), and how were you able to resolve it.
For example getting an "A" in Analytical chemistry means you know the theory behind analytical techniques, but it doesn't give insight into how one solves issues. Running, maintaining, and working with partners to gather data from an FTIR tool, demonstrates a much broader and more applicable set of skills for the real world. With these experiences the candidate in an interview can discuss how they maintained long-term stability of a metrology, provided advice to others on the best way to prepare samples, and identified and troubleshot issues. Heck it can even reveal how they handle interpersonal issues, like if two research assistants are arguing about getting time on the machine.
When interviewing somebody for a lab position, a funny example I used was giving them a ruler and asking them to measure the length of a line on a piece of paper. Most of those interviewed would take the ruler, measure the line really carefully (like it was a final exam, lol) and give me the answer. However, two candidates took the ruler, measured the length of the paper then made a few measurements of the line, before calculating the answer. You could tell they had some experience working with metrologies in the real world. They understood by measuring the side of a piece of paper (typical 8 1/2 x 11) they could get an indication of the ruler's accuracy, and with multiple measurements of the line they took into account statistical variation.
Surprisingly, the CS program I was in did not teach you much in the way of IT...kind of frightening if you think about it. I guess IT has been reclassified as some sort of trade in their minds, while CS is some sort of Ivory tower nonsense...
A good CS program has always been an ivory tower of math, logic, and theory. But HR folks aren't really good at distinguishing between similar degrees like CS, EE, IT, and Computer Engineering. Yes there's some crossover, but there are some major differences in focus.
But then, I thought a Bachelors would teach you more than it apparently does...and I am working on fixing that.
Undergrad classes are all about getting the basic tools. That's why it's important to mix in technical extra curricular activities (eg robot design competitions), or find a professor that you can work with on projects. It makes for much more interesting conversations with interviewers, and good stories that reveal your problem solving skills and personality.
It was a pretty complicated situation. You had the statesmen trying to communicate a peaceful solution, but the ones in charge of the military refused to concede defeat. There were severe divisions within the ruling body. The Potsdam Declaration was rejected by the Japanese because it called for unconditional surrender. After the first atomic bomb, there wasn't initially consensus within Japan that the bomb had indeed been atomic in nature. The primary decision makers were still dead-locked about actually surrendering with the military adamant that they should fight on. The US dropped the second bomb shortly after to give the impression that it had a huge stockpile (both to the Japanese and the Soviets as the seeds for the Cold War were already planted).
The ministry finally accepted the Potsdam Declaration, but even then there was an attempted coup by the military leadership.
It's important to note that the conventional firebombing of Tokyo was deadlier than either atomic bomb. The psychological effect of the first atomic weapons was far more pronounced than the actual killing power.
Do you know how many sorties and missile strikes would have to be launched. These are positions up in mountains, and caves so are not easy targets. There's estimates they could hit Seoul with 10k-20k shells per hour. And god help us if they can get a nuke on a crappy rocket that can shoot 50 miles, Seoul is huge, even a poor strike near it would cause severe issues.