This 24-year-old would have gone "oooooh" and dashed into the lab to check out the DECs. I've had a little experience with DECs being used as servers for a few things at a previous job (I was an admin/network analyst/tech) and the bloody things ran like tanks until the hardware finally started to fail.
Believe it or not, I've never played evercrack. I tend to be more of a strategy game person (Age of Wonders, Shogun: Total War, etc) when I play games at all.
But yeah, real, actual blacksmith with my own tools, some of which I made. Though I admit that, second only to my girlfriend, my hammer is baby (rather old cross pean with damned near perfect balance)heh
Profits are up and they are firing people from teams that already work 70-80 hours a week, which will probably cause even more work for those that are still employed with them.
Believe it or not, there were places where AOL was the *only* option for net access without paying insane long distance charges.
My hometown was one of them until '97 or '98 when we finally got a local ISP. This ended up making my online evolution into something on the order of BBS -> AOL -> local isp (dialup) -> broadband
On the topic of job sites, I just had a freaky moment about half an hour ago. (names of places have been removed)
I went to send a fax to a recruiting place in Location A (for a job I had seen posted previously). I couldn't send the fax - no dial tone.
In fact, none of the phones had a dial tone. I went to get my cell to call the phone company, and the land line rings.
It's a recruiter from the Location B branch of the same firm calling to ask if I was still seeking employment because she'd seen my resume on Dice.
I didn't have quite what they were looking for, but we chatted for a minute about the weirdness of the event. She gave me the direct contact info for the recruiter to bypass the lower steps in Location A and was going to put in a good word for me.
I picked up the phone again right after ending the call and I had a dial tone again...
If I get a job because of this, I'm going to laugh
I was going to post something similar but decided against it. I find it kind of weird that a lot of places seem to want a "file and forget it" approach, but they do for some reason.
I have refused to code after even one drink after a most amusing incident.
After drinking several glasses of mead one night, I aparently got a really great idea that I wanted to code. I woke up the next morning and saw the IDE was open with a file displayed, so I compiled it.
It compiled perfectly, but did absolutely nothing and I couldn't figure out what the heck it was supposed to do. That's when I decided not to code after drinking =]
Don't forget that styles which are now considered formal and classic were once fads as well. You never know how long a fashion trend is going to last (though thankfully most of them don't last long).
People tend to be more at ease with those they think are like themselves (dress similarly, act similarly, etc).
Move that level up or down in relation to the person viewing it and see how that changes the way the person deals with you. We're not just talking about on the job here, but about in life. (Life is much greater than just work. This seems to be something you are failing to see either accidentally or deliberately)
It's a pack mentality sort of thing. We're basically hard wired to be social creatures and appearance is a part of that.
"High-school is nothing more than a popularity contest/fashion show. If you are supposed to learn social skills please explain to me how you can apply those to the real world where no one worth a damn gives a flying rats ass what you wear and who you hang out with?"
They don't? Really? Do you realize just how many assumptions people make based on your appearance (which includes clothing and the way in which you carry yourself), the group of people they may see you with at the time, etc? And all of this is before you ever get a chance to open your mouth.
That's not to mention dealing with people after you open your mouth (and a lot of people still have high school-like traits even into their advanced years).
Welcome to the real world. You don't have to wear Armani, but looking nice is usually a big plus as is being able to read your audiance.
Somehow we went from 75 last thursday (don't ask me how it got that hot here in January, the weather's been weird. It also figures that I had to wear a suit that day), to teens and 20's this week.
It's not -15 (for which i am glad), but that's a change of 50 degrees. It was insane. But, then again, Ohio is a bizare place.
Sounds kind of like mine. He wanted everything to be done manually - largely because he wanted more people under him and partially because he didn't understand any of it.
Actually, with a good IDE, Java's not so bad to code (Eclipse does quite a good job of name completion, and I don't have to constantly screw with ant files).
XML, on the other hand, is still a pain in the ass even with a decent IDE (XMLspy is nice, but it doesn't cut out the typing *that* much).
Even C/C++ can be overly verbose if coded poorly, and there is a lot of cruddy code out there that's being maintained.
Agreed. There are quite a few languages that I can use. However, only a few that I feel comfortable working with by the seat of my pants. The others I tend to use references with fairly often because I rarely use the languages.
Could I answer questions about them in the middle of an interview? Mabey, but I'd probably make mistakes. Can I be productive in them in an actual setting? Yes, give me about 20 minutes and my reference material.
Actually, copper's even easier than that. Copper is one of the few metals that can be worked in a fire as cold as a campfire (this is where I put on my smith's hat).
In order to extract the copper, all you really need to do is break the rocks up into smallish pieces and toss them in the fire. when the fire has gone out, remove the rocks, and dig the copper out of the sand. To work it, just build another fire to heat it.
You don't want to hammer it cold. It cracks like you wouldn't believe.
To extract the iron from the hematite, you'd basically need to make a crude bloom forge or a primitive smelter. The palm fronds would provide the carbon content if you could get the fire hot enough (The Japanese used rice stalks and charcoal to smelt the black sand that was used in the production of swords before they started trading for higher grade materials that were easier to work with). The main difficulty in getting the fire hot enough is forcing air through the fire, so it's really not all *that* difficult.
As far as the iron being too hard to work with a rock, it's not. The master I studied with did an amusing trick by making horse shoes using a glass coke bottle for a hammer. To make a basic hammer, all you need is to take a piece of steel (which you can make and mold, or even shape with the hammer head of the axe) that is rectangular and affix a handle to it.
There is a difference between remembering what is on a specific page because it is one you often had to use and being asked, out of the blue, what is on page X of book Y.
Granted, in all likelyhood, the real reason for asking the question was to see what the op would do when asked an impossible question (which is actually done quite a lot), but it's not the same situation that you describe.
And just for the heck of it, I grabbed my copy of the camel book (2nd edition). Page 71 deals with pattern matching. Sorry, I had to look just for the sake of curiosity.
I find that kind of surprising too. Several of my friends are graduating this year and they are having problems getting interviews as well.
There just doesn't seem to be a lot of positions that I've seen lately which aren't either senior level or "entry level" where they want 3-5 years of experience. There are a few exceptions, but not many (here, at any rate).
But at least the bad anime is amusing. Most of it is done tounge in cheek, so it's not so bad.
MTV was cool when it still played music, but they haven't done that since I was a teenager.
Reality TV has always rather sucked. The one exception to that so far was the 2nd season of The Surreal Life (and that was a show that made fun of reality tv. Traci Bingham trying to pants Ron Jeremy to get a look at his member was just amusing).
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Yes, but this would be like them releasing the worms (which were meant to destroy the system) and charging fees to the people who got infected for using their "copyrighted" worm software.
The combination of the two is laughable, but I wouldn't put it past them to try.
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This 24-year-old would have gone "oooooh" and dashed into the lab to check out the DECs. I've had a little experience with DECs being used as servers for a few things at a previous job (I was an admin/network analyst/tech) and the bloody things ran like tanks until the hardware finally started to fail.
Believe it or not, I've never played evercrack. I tend to be more of a strategy game person (Age of Wonders, Shogun: Total War, etc) when I play games at all.
But yeah, real, actual blacksmith with my own tools, some of which I made. Though I admit that, second only to my girlfriend, my hammer is baby (rather old cross pean with damned near perfect balance)heh
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I am a blacksmith *and* a developer, you insensitive clod. heh
Seriously, though, I am an apprentice smith. It's a great stress reducing hobby. =]
Profits are up and they are firing people from teams that already work 70-80 hours a week, which will probably cause even more work for those that are still employed with them.
I'd say that's pretty "evil"...
Believe it or not, there were places where AOL was the *only* option for net access without paying insane long distance charges.
My hometown was one of them until '97 or '98 when we finally got a local ISP. This ended up making my online evolution into something on the order of BBS -> AOL -> local isp (dialup) -> broadband
WebTV may or may not be gone, but MSN still does their TV net appliance, so you've got much the same thing...
On the topic of job sites, I just had a freaky moment about half an hour ago. (names of places have been removed)
I went to send a fax to a recruiting place in Location A (for a job I had seen posted previously). I couldn't send the fax - no dial tone.
In fact, none of the phones had a dial tone. I went to get my cell to call the phone company, and the land line rings.
It's a recruiter from the Location B branch of the same firm calling to ask if I was still seeking employment because she'd seen my resume on Dice.
I didn't have quite what they were looking for, but we chatted for a minute about the weirdness of the event. She gave me the direct contact info for the recruiter to bypass the lower steps in Location A and was going to put in a good word for me.
I picked up the phone again right after ending the call and I had a dial tone again...
If I get a job because of this, I'm going to laugh
I was going to post something similar but decided against it. I find it kind of weird that a lot of places seem to want a "file and forget it" approach, but they do for some reason.
Aparently the HR drones are getting snarky.
And I thought my pup was an awkward lapdog. Half begal half collie that looked like a collie sized begal on steroids.
That's what I got for always having him in my lap as a puppy. I do miss him at times.
I have refused to code after even one drink after a most amusing incident.
After drinking several glasses of mead one night, I aparently got a really great idea that I wanted to code. I woke up the next morning and saw the IDE was open with a file displayed, so I compiled it.
It compiled perfectly, but did absolutely nothing and I couldn't figure out what the heck it was supposed to do. That's when I decided not to code after drinking =]
Don't forget that styles which are now considered formal and classic were once fads as well. You never know how long a fashion trend is going to last (though thankfully most of them don't last long).
Fashion is a part of social skills.
People tend to be more at ease with those they think are like themselves (dress similarly, act similarly, etc).
Move that level up or down in relation to the person viewing it and see how that changes the way the person deals with you. We're not just talking about on the job here, but about in life. (Life is much greater than just work. This seems to be something you are failing to see either accidentally or deliberately)
It's a pack mentality sort of thing. We're basically hard wired to be social creatures and appearance is a part of that.
By the way - you're welcome.
"High-school is nothing more than a popularity contest/fashion show. If you are supposed to learn social skills please explain to me how you can apply those to the real world where no one worth a damn gives a flying rats ass what you wear and who you hang out with?"
They don't? Really? Do you realize just how many assumptions people make based on your appearance (which includes clothing and the way in which you carry yourself), the group of people they may see you with at the time, etc? And all of this is before you ever get a chance to open your mouth.
That's not to mention dealing with people after you open your mouth (and a lot of people still have high school-like traits even into their advanced years).
Welcome to the real world. You don't have to wear Armani, but looking nice is usually a big plus as is being able to read your audiance.
Somehow we went from 75 last thursday (don't ask me how it got that hot here in January, the weather's been weird. It also figures that I had to wear a suit that day), to teens and 20's this week.
It's not -15 (for which i am glad), but that's a change of 50 degrees. It was insane. But, then again, Ohio is a bizare place.
Sounds kind of like mine. He wanted everything to be done manually - largely because he wanted more people under him and partially because he didn't understand any of it.
You have to love paper MCSE's...
Actually, with a good IDE, Java's not so bad to code (Eclipse does quite a good job of name completion, and I don't have to constantly screw with ant files).
XML, on the other hand, is still a pain in the ass even with a decent IDE (XMLspy is nice, but it doesn't cut out the typing *that* much).
Even C/C++ can be overly verbose if coded poorly, and there is a lot of cruddy code out there that's being maintained.
Agreed. There are quite a few languages that I can use. However, only a few that I feel comfortable working with by the seat of my pants. The others I tend to use references with fairly often because I rarely use the languages.
Could I answer questions about them in the middle of an interview? Mabey, but I'd probably make mistakes. Can I be productive in them in an actual setting? Yes, give me about 20 minutes and my reference material.
Actually, copper's even easier than that. Copper is one of the few metals that can be worked in a fire as cold as a campfire (this is where I put on my smith's hat).
In order to extract the copper, all you really need to do is break the rocks up into smallish pieces and toss them in the fire. when the fire has gone out, remove the rocks, and dig the copper out of the sand. To work it, just build another fire to heat it.
You don't want to hammer it cold. It cracks like you wouldn't believe.
To extract the iron from the hematite, you'd basically need to make a crude bloom forge or a primitive smelter. The palm fronds would provide the carbon content if you could get the fire hot enough (The Japanese used rice stalks and charcoal to smelt the black sand that was used in the production of swords before they started trading for higher grade materials that were easier to work with). The main difficulty in getting the fire hot enough is forcing air through the fire, so it's really not all *that* difficult.
As far as the iron being too hard to work with a rock, it's not. The master I studied with did an amusing trick by making horse shoes using a glass coke bottle for a hammer. To make a basic hammer, all you need is to take a piece of steel (which you can make and mold, or even shape with the hammer head of the axe) that is rectangular and affix a handle to it.
There is a difference between remembering what is on a specific page because it is one you often had to use and being asked, out of the blue, what is on page X of book Y.
Granted, in all likelyhood, the real reason for asking the question was to see what the op would do when asked an impossible question (which is actually done quite a lot), but it's not the same situation that you describe.
And just for the heck of it, I grabbed my copy of the camel book (2nd edition). Page 71 deals with pattern matching. Sorry, I had to look just for the sake of curiosity.
I find that kind of surprising too. Several of my friends are graduating this year and they are having problems getting interviews as well.
There just doesn't seem to be a lot of positions that I've seen lately which aren't either senior level or "entry level" where they want 3-5 years of experience. There are a few exceptions, but not many (here, at any rate).
You were asked what was on a specific page? Please tell me that you're kidding...
I'm glad they posted it. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. This site is hilarious heheheh
But at least the bad anime is amusing. Most of it is done tounge in cheek, so it's not so bad.
MTV was cool when it still played music, but they haven't done that since I was a teenager.
Reality TV has always rather sucked. The one exception to that so far was the 2nd season of The Surreal Life (and that was a show that made fun of reality tv. Traci Bingham trying to pants Ron Jeremy to get a look at his member was just amusing).
Real Genius was based on a real school - CalTech.
Yes, but this would be like them releasing the worms (which were meant to destroy the system) and charging fees to the people who got infected for using their "copyrighted" worm software.
The combination of the two is laughable, but I wouldn't put it past them to try.