You should go out and find the best candidates (and in the age of blogging and web homepages this is much easier), you shouldn't wait for them to send a CV. Good talent rarely sends you CVs. In fact some good talent doesn't even have updated CVs, as it is usually mediocre people who have a need to keep a CV. You can find good talent online (for example, if you look for software engineers, there are many free software programmers out there who only have a high school diploma and create the software you use every day on your GNU/Linux desktop PC), or from contacts and word of mouth. Also note that problem-solving cannot easily take place during interviews. People solve problems in a work environment (for example, software engineers can solve problems at their home or even in a coffeehouse). You don't need to spend any time administering the tests... you just mail out a few problems based on actual work projects (different for each person) and you wait to receive solutions. Mathematical problems are the easiest to validate, so you may prefer them if you work with maths.
Governments should cut taxes and privatise space agencies, while encouraging private spaceflight. Without private spaceflight, we cannot explore the space in an economically efficient way.
There is currently good money in setting up ready-made virtualised appliances. The general idea is to get a popular software package and then create a software appliance containing a small operating system (a minimal GNU/Linux setup) and the software package. Only that, nothing more. Make it run over a virtual machine, and you are ready to go.
As for contacts... serious contacts run Unix-like systems.
I just cannot understand why people should pay taxes to run state-funded schools. Companies, not-for-profit associations, and communities could run schools, and parents and private teachers could homeschool the kids. Same for universities. I see no need for centralisation in education. Quite the contrary, I see ample need for decentralisation. Instead of fighting over what to teach in state schools, I propose to break free from all catch-22s by simply making the problem irrelevant by switching to private schools. Let everyone learn what they want in a free educational market, and then let the free market economy choose the best people. As simple as that. Government, if it wants, could run voluntary certification programmes, although I would tend to say that similar programmes by NGOs would work just as good.
My approach to evaluating people is simple: I give them real problems to solve. If they cannot find a solution, there is no way working with them even if they have a thousand PhDs from the best universities. If they can solve the problems, then I do not care even if they have no papers at all.
Papers are useless. Some people think they can save evaluation time. That's wrong because papers are unreliable. A paper with a bad mark may be given to the best programmer, and a paper with a good mark to the worst programmer. Papers in theory are representations of knowledge, but in reality they are just representations; representations of nothing.
they won't hire anyone who is a product of their schools
How can someone be a product of a school? People are products of their own efforts. Schools and universities simply give a symbolic paper. If someone gets a paper just to satisfy a requirement for the CV/resume, and their knowledge comes from homeschooling or personal study after the main school hours and is much greater than what the school teaches, why should anyone discriminate based on the paper?
My approach to evaluating people is to show them real problems and let them find a solution. If they can work out a solution using any method they like, then they have passed my test, even if they have no papers at all. If they cannot find solutions to real problems, then there is no way in me working with them, even if they have a thousand papers.
What I cannot understand is why the majority of people seek positions as employees, even though what they get is below their expectations. Why don't you try to start a business or become self-employed? It's easier than it sounds. Your initial clients can come from contacts in professional societies (if you maintain memberships) or from conferences or other social gatherings.
Know how to balance your finances, plan, budget, etc.
I second this. And knowledge of a software package can help you a lot. I learnt to use simple bookkeeping software when I was 13-14 years old, and more complex software 5-6 years later. This has helped me much. A nice package you can try is GnuCash.
Don't become an employee unless you just want to understand what being an employee means. You should become an independent consultant. And yes, it's easier than it sounds. You can find initial clients through professional associations and conferences.
Sure... they can inspect all they want on a laptop with the hard disk removed.
Another possibility is to use the laptop only as a client and have everything stored on a secure server.
What if they find a company's secret on a business laptop and then they go to sell info to competitors? ow can we be sure that they are not misusing their inspection powers?
Professors who care about students's education teach Lisp and Scheme. I had a professor who taught us Scheme in his free unpaid time after the main lecture. The university did not include it into the curriculum, but he explained to us why Scheme is important, and those of us who understood its importance choose to stay and listen to his unpaid unofficial lectures on Scheme. The reason these languages are important is in the mathematical thought that lies behind their structure. Every language has a way of thinking behind it. Some languages are procedural, others are functional. It is these paradigms that are important in a curriculum, because most mediocre programmers who get to program using one paradigm usually stay with it for a lifetime and never get to learn another. So a university should ideally offer courses on all available paradigms to make sure future programmers can choose the one which is the most productive for every specific project.
*All* politicians with no single exception are imperfect (in fact all humans are). There are good reasons to not vote for every politician. What one needs to do is to find one or two politicians who more closely resemble the perfect president and are likely to take more good decisions and do little harm.
I think what the US needs most is a president to scrap all laws introduced by the last two Bush administrations, especially the Patriot Act and the Iraq war. Only two candidates, I think, are really going to repeal all unpopular Bush laws: Ron Paul and Kucinich. As Kucinich is too much on the left, Ron Paul is the most reasonable choice.
In short, Ron Paul is about a small efficient federal government, leaving decisions to the states, stabilising the economy by cutting back spending and keeping the dollar in check, ensuring people are treated as individuals and their freedom and constitutional rights are respected, and fixing foreign policy.
Ron Paul supports homeschooling too, which is the best way to educate gifted children.
I don't think Ron Paul will scrap popular federal programmes without replacing them with a workable free market alternative.
apparently the network part is for calling home to reveal your biometrics and how long you take to complete each move, so that a helpful company representative can help you understand that privacy is dead.
perfectly possible for someone to "think like a scientist" and also have strong religious faith
It is possible, but I am wondering how much social expectations or specifically social consequences affect one's statements about their faith.
If a scientist lives in a society where faith is the norm and those who go against the norms "committed suicide alone, nobody knows why" then it is expected that most scientists will say "I believe! I believe in everything you believe!" whenever asked in public.
talking about an American election that you would have no say in if you were European
I am European, but I am also a citizen of the world, so I have an interest in every country's wellbeing. I don't want to visit the US because of Bush's empire-building, but if a new president returns America to its true values of its founding fathers, then I would be happy to go and do business in America.
About McAfee.. I use Debian, but my meaning was that if I ever find myself considering a McAfee product for any reason, then I will remember what they said about the GPL and act accordingly.
Their business is dependent on vulnerable software for them to come in and protect
Yes, that's correct, and when GNU/Linux takes over the world and McAfee feels the need to diversify by building more products for it (be it antivirus or anything else), I am going to remember their FUD about GPL and make sure to keep them out of my shopping basket.
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You should go out and find the best candidates (and in the age of blogging and web homepages this is much easier), you shouldn't wait for them to send a CV. Good talent rarely sends you CVs. In fact some good talent doesn't even have updated CVs, as it is usually mediocre people who have a need to keep a CV. You can find good talent online (for example, if you look for software engineers, there are many free software programmers out there who only have a high school diploma and create the software you use every day on your GNU/Linux desktop PC), or from contacts and word of mouth. Also note that problem-solving cannot easily take place during interviews. People solve problems in a work environment (for example, software engineers can solve problems at their home or even in a coffeehouse). You don't need to spend any time administering the tests... you just mail out a few problems based on actual work projects (different for each person) and you wait to receive solutions. Mathematical problems are the easiest to validate, so you may prefer them if you work with maths.
Governments should cut taxes and privatise space agencies, while encouraging private spaceflight. Without private spaceflight, we cannot explore the space in an economically efficient way.
There is currently good money in setting up ready-made virtualised appliances. The general idea is to get a popular software package and then create a software appliance containing a small operating system (a minimal GNU/Linux setup) and the software package. Only that, nothing more. Make it run over a virtual machine, and you are ready to go.
As for contacts... serious contacts run Unix-like systems.
Offline isn't much better, either. When I have to choose between offline and online, I think online is actually better.
I just cannot understand why people should pay taxes to run state-funded schools. Companies, not-for-profit associations, and communities could run schools, and parents and private teachers could homeschool the kids. Same for universities. I see no need for centralisation in education. Quite the contrary, I see ample need for decentralisation. Instead of fighting over what to teach in state schools, I propose to break free from all catch-22s by simply making the problem irrelevant by switching to private schools. Let everyone learn what they want in a free educational market, and then let the free market economy choose the best people. As simple as that. Government, if it wants, could run voluntary certification programmes, although I would tend to say that similar programmes by NGOs would work just as good.
My approach to evaluating people is simple: I give them real problems to solve. If they cannot find a solution, there is no way working with them even if they have a thousand PhDs from the best universities. If they can solve the problems, then I do not care even if they have no papers at all.
Papers are useless. Some people think they can save evaluation time. That's wrong because papers are unreliable. A paper with a bad mark may be given to the best programmer, and a paper with a good mark to the worst programmer. Papers in theory are representations of knowledge, but in reality they are just representations; representations of nothing.
How can someone be a product of a school? People are products of their own efforts. Schools and universities simply give a symbolic paper. If someone gets a paper just to satisfy a requirement for the CV/resume, and their knowledge comes from homeschooling or personal study after the main school hours and is much greater than what the school teaches, why should anyone discriminate based on the paper?
My approach to evaluating people is to show them real problems and let them find a solution. If they can work out a solution using any method they like, then they have passed my test, even if they have no papers at all. If they cannot find solutions to real problems, then there is no way in me working with them, even if they have a thousand papers.
What I cannot understand is why the majority of people seek positions as employees, even though what they get is below their expectations. Why don't you try to start a business or become self-employed? It's easier than it sounds. Your initial clients can come from contacts in professional societies (if you maintain memberships) or from conferences or other social gatherings.
I second this. And knowledge of a software package can help you a lot. I learnt to use simple bookkeeping software when I was 13-14 years old, and more complex software 5-6 years later. This has helped me much. A nice package you can try is GnuCash.
Don't become an employee unless you just want to understand what being an employee means. You should become an independent consultant. And yes, it's easier than it sounds. You can find initial clients through professional associations and conferences.
Sure... they can inspect all they want on a laptop with the hard disk removed.
Another possibility is to use the laptop only as a client and have everything stored on a secure server.
What if they find a company's secret on a business laptop and then they go to sell info to competitors? ow can we be sure that they are not misusing their inspection powers?
Professors who care about students's education teach Lisp and Scheme. I had a professor who taught us Scheme in his free unpaid time after the main lecture. The university did not include it into the curriculum, but he explained to us why Scheme is important, and those of us who understood its importance choose to stay and listen to his unpaid unofficial lectures on Scheme. The reason these languages are important is in the mathematical thought that lies behind their structure. Every language has a way of thinking behind it. Some languages are procedural, others are functional. It is these paradigms that are important in a curriculum, because most mediocre programmers who get to program using one paradigm usually stay with it for a lifetime and never get to learn another. So a university should ideally offer courses on all available paradigms to make sure future programmers can choose the one which is the most productive for every specific project.
imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
The golden age of balooning returns!
*All* politicians with no single exception are imperfect (in fact all humans are). There are good reasons to not vote for every politician. What one needs to do is to find one or two politicians who more closely resemble the perfect president and are likely to take more good decisions and do little harm.
I think what the US needs most is a president to scrap all laws introduced by the last two Bush administrations, especially the Patriot Act and the Iraq war. Only two candidates, I think, are really going to repeal all unpopular Bush laws: Ron Paul and Kucinich. As Kucinich is too much on the left, Ron Paul is the most reasonable choice.
In short, Ron Paul is about a small efficient federal government, leaving decisions to the states, stabilising the economy by cutting back spending and keeping the dollar in check, ensuring people are treated as individuals and their freedom and constitutional rights are respected, and fixing foreign policy.
Ron Paul supports homeschooling too, which is the best way to educate gifted children.
I don't think Ron Paul will scrap popular federal programmes without replacing them with a workable free market alternative.
No thanks, we just need an eradication guide (pest eradication, to be clear).
apparently the network part is for calling home to reveal your biometrics and how long you take to complete each move, so that a helpful company representative can help you understand that privacy is dead.
I propose that public education should include the teachings of St IGNUcius.
It is possible, but I am wondering how much social expectations or specifically social consequences affect one's statements about their faith.
If a scientist lives in a society where faith is the norm and those who go against the norms "committed suicide alone, nobody knows why" then it is expected that most scientists will say "I believe! I believe in everything you believe!" whenever asked in public.
I am European, but I am also a citizen of the world, so I have an interest in every country's wellbeing. I don't want to visit the US because of Bush's empire-building, but if a new president returns America to its true values of its founding fathers, then I would be happy to go and do business in America.
About McAfee.. I use Debian, but my meaning was that if I ever find myself considering a McAfee product for any reason, then I will remember what they said about the GPL and act accordingly.
Yes, that's correct, and when GNU/Linux takes over the world and McAfee feels the need to diversify by building more products for it (be it antivirus or anything else), I am going to remember their FUD about GPL and make sure to keep them out of my shopping basket.
Not solely because of this of course, there are so many reasons really, but with this one as an addon it just gets too far...
I am not going to buy McAfee products.
How can a licence *prove* competence?
You may also like to read Zuse's thesis.