Management isn't something that just happens to you, it's also something you have to take a part in.
Well, I'm not actually the OO developer. I'm a sysadmin, observing these actions. My job is usually simpler. System crashes, Business fails.
Management has to be willing to listen, and should have some technical knowledge of the product if they are managing a technical company.
Frequently, the managers has no true understanding of the technical product; and subscribe to some wierd theory that all business process follow the same businesses model (They'll even try to diagram it for you with lines and boxes), therefore they don't see the need to have a technical understanding of their technical business-- there's no difference between a bookstore and a website!
While industry may be dumbassed about recruiting, I think our practices are fairly good.
The proof's in the pudding. If your screening process isn't turning out good candidates, then something is wrong with your screening process.
Hiring managers review quite a bit of the resumes that come in the door, and ask recruiters to set up phone screens.
Our recruiters generally don't give filtering interviews or phone screens.
Why are you using recruiters? Seems like you're doing the work and they just make a couple calls.
But before you said:
after our recruiters have filtered resumes!
Right, but if your recruiters are filtering out any resumes (or if you use Peoplesoft's or some other buzzword screening program), so they are mostly analyzing for buzzwords and misunderstanding the technical issues. I was speaking to a recruiter (as an applicant) last week, and he asked if I knew about "filesystems such as NFS and NIS". NIS is not a filesystem-- he misphrased the question.
It all goes back to networking. People who know people who you know will almost always be a better candidate.
I've seen candidates misuse subclassing so many times
It's very sad, but most Object Oriented shops that I've seen don't really use subclassing or inheritance for their own classes. I worked at one shop that had 2000 classes at the com.foo.* level, with almost no subclassing... why? Because the build system didn't support directories very well. Their software is installed at 50% of Universities, so you've probably used it.
Refactoring? Sounds nice, but it's frequently seen as a waste of time by the decision makers.
Second, they are unable to realize that it is a bad deal.
Actually, some of the plans can be a very good deal-- if the minutes don't expire in 30-90 days.
Most people I know don't need to need a 300 minutes/month plan for their cell phone.
They need 10 minutes one month, 100 minutes the next, etc.
Some of these prepaid plans used to have an option where you could buy a phone for $50, and buy 300 minutes for $50. The minutes would expire in one year. That's $100 for a cell phone plan, which is much cheaper then paying $360+ a year for a $30/month plan.
My parents were on it-- they would by 300 minutes at the beginning of the year for $50, and by the end of the year they usually had 50 minutes left. The cell phone cost $50 or so. $100 a year for a cell phone plan is a very good deal.
It's not available to new customers as far as I can tell. The minutes for Cingular's new prepaid cell phone plan expire in 30 - 90 days. So you pay $30 for 300 minutes, and need to use it in 30 days. It costs the same as a regular cell phone plan.
I am looking for prepaid plans where the minutes don't expire. If anyone knows of such plans, please let me know.
Winmodems became common around 1996-1997. If I remember right, Windows 95 was required run the Winmodems (Not Win 3.1). That's when I started in tech support at an ISP:P
There were several popular IRC clients for Windows well before that time. I was using mIRC on my Windows 3.0 machine in 1995, and I remember there were others.
However, in the early days of IRC most people telneted into a Unix server and used the IRC client there. The Unix servers usually had a more powerful client. Plus-- it was hard to run mIRC & Netscape at the same time on a 386/16Mhz/8 machine:)
Right. I didn't meant o imply that it hasn't been happening for a long time.
However, I think in the last couple years it has really spiked. There are all sorts of new 'dotcom'-type projects out there today which aren't being run correctly, many leftover projects from the dotcom bust, being run by a small staff.
Over the last couple years, I've noticed a large number of web projects being run & maintained by people who don't understand computer security or system administration [1].
Concepts like 'rotate the log files or your disk will fill up & crash the site' or "Don't use FTP-- the passwords are sent over the Public Internet in cleartext" are beyond many of these website maintainers. Even many programmers who are great at project design, Object Oriented development, layout, etc. still miss these major issues.
It's no suprise that website attacks are on the rise-- the projects are being run by people who know enough to be dangerous, but don't know enough to run the project well.
[1] or good design, or simplified design, but that's another topic:)
Are you talking about the 2004 election or the 2000 election?
W. started fundraising for the 2004 term within the first few months of his first term.
Clinton also started fundraising very early.
Governer Schwarzenegger of California had his first fundraiser within days of being sworn into office, before he even settled the accounts of for people who loaned him money for his initial run. It was a small scandal.
Public contributions over a certain amount made directly to a Presidential Candidates, to the DNC & RNC are public record. Contributions made other groups (Like Move On & Swift Boat Vets for Truth) are usually not public.
In addition to OpenSecrets (Suggested by the other poster in this thread), check out Fundrace.
Talk about anonymity-- Plug in an address, and see who made a $250+ contributution to a candidate, with house number & everything. There's even a button to map the location of the house, which is a little frightening.
The databases are not totally accurate-- my own contributions are not anywhere on the list, perhaps because I made a bunch of smaller contributions to multiple groups as I could afford them, instead of one big contribution.
Thanks for pulling this lame argument out of your ass, again.
There is a world of difference between combining two closely-related plants and combining a Soy plant with some fish genes.
Selective Breeding, Hybridization have been practices for thousands of years, but have always occured between closely related species. We have a pretty good idea how it works.
However, never before in history have we combined organisms from two entirely different kingdoms. It's a new field of study, the long term effects are largely unknown, and we need to be careful.
I'm not opposed to GMO foods outright. However, every time this discussion comes up some fuckwit tries to water down the argument with tghis 'selective breeding' argument.
The Internet Explorer, Recycle Bin, "My Network places" icons are links, not shortcuts, right?
With a shortcut, you can modify the shortcut metadata without affecting the metadata of the target. But with these dudes, you modify one set of meta data and it affects all of the icons.
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Management isn't something that just happens to you, it's also something you have to take a part in.
Well, I'm not actually the OO developer. I'm a sysadmin, observing these actions. My job is usually simpler. System crashes, Business fails.
Management has to be willing to listen, and should have some technical knowledge of the product if they are managing a technical company.
Frequently, the managers has no true understanding of the technical product; and subscribe to some wierd theory that all business process follow the same businesses model (They'll even try to diagram it for you with lines and boxes), therefore they don't see the need to have a technical understanding of their technical business-- there's no difference between a bookstore and a website!
While industry may be dumbassed about recruiting, I think our practices are fairly good.
The proof's in the pudding. If your screening process isn't turning out good candidates, then something is wrong with your screening process.
Hiring managers review quite a bit of the resumes that come in the door, and ask recruiters to set up phone screens.
Our recruiters generally don't give filtering interviews or phone screens.
Why are you using recruiters? Seems like you're doing the work and they just make a couple calls.
But before you said:
after our recruiters have filtered resumes!
Right, but if your recruiters are filtering out any resumes (or if you use Peoplesoft's or some other buzzword screening program), so they are mostly analyzing for buzzwords and misunderstanding the technical issues. I was speaking to a recruiter (as an applicant) last week, and he asked if I knew about "filesystems such as NFS and NIS". NIS is not a filesystem-- he misphrased the question.
It all goes back to networking. People who know people who you know will almost always be a better candidate.
I've seen candidates misuse subclassing so many times
It's very sad, but most Object Oriented shops that I've seen don't really use subclassing or inheritance for their own classes. I worked at one shop that had 2000 classes at the com.foo.* level, with almost no subclassing... why? Because the build system didn't support directories very well. Their software is installed at 50% of Universities, so you've probably used it.
Refactoring? Sounds nice, but it's frequently seen as a waste of time by the decision makers.
Second, they are unable to realize that it is a bad deal.
Actually, some of the plans can be a very good deal-- if the minutes don't expire in 30-90 days.
Most people I know don't need to need a 300 minutes/month plan for their cell phone.
They need 10 minutes one month, 100 minutes the next, etc.
Some of these prepaid plans used to have an option where you could buy a phone for $50, and buy 300 minutes for $50. The minutes would expire in one year. That's $100 for a cell phone plan, which is much cheaper then paying $360+ a year for a $30/month plan.
I'm familar with the ATT Plan you are on.
My parents were on it-- they would by 300 minutes at the beginning of the year for $50, and by the end of the year they usually had 50 minutes left. The cell phone cost $50 or so. $100 a year for a cell phone plan is a very good deal.
It's not available to new customers as far as I can tell. The minutes for Cingular's new prepaid cell phone plan expire in 30 - 90 days. So you pay $30 for 300 minutes, and need to use it in 30 days. It costs the same as a regular cell phone plan.
I am looking for prepaid plans where the minutes don't expire. If anyone knows of such plans, please let me know.
Winmodems became common around 1996-1997. If I remember right, Windows 95 was required run the Winmodems (Not Win 3.1). That's when I started in tech support at an ISP :P
:)
There were several popular IRC clients for Windows well before that time. I was using mIRC on my Windows 3.0 machine in 1995, and I remember there were others.
However, in the early days of IRC most people telneted into a Unix server and used the IRC client there. The Unix servers usually had a more powerful client. Plus-- it was hard to run mIRC & Netscape at the same time on a 386/16Mhz/8 machine
Common Sense, please meet Clippy. I don't believe you two have met before.
If you *have* met Clippy before, there's an axe over there for your use and enjoyment.
Right. I didn't meant o imply that it hasn't been happening for a long time.
:)
However, I think in the last couple years it has really spiked. There are all sorts of new 'dotcom'-type projects out there today which aren't being run correctly, many leftover projects from the dotcom bust, being run by a small staff.
Or maybe I'm just really starting to notice it
Over the last couple years, I've noticed a large number of web projects being run & maintained by people who don't understand computer security or system administration [1].
:)
Concepts like 'rotate the log files or your disk will fill up & crash the site' or "Don't use FTP-- the passwords are sent over the Public Internet in cleartext" are beyond many of these website maintainers. Even many programmers who are great at project design, Object Oriented development, layout, etc. still miss these major issues.
It's no suprise that website attacks are on the rise-- the projects are being run by people who know enough to be dangerous, but don't know enough to run the project well.
[1] or good design, or simplified design, but that's another topic
Are you talking about the 2004 election or the 2000 election?
W. started fundraising for the 2004 term within the first few months of his first term.
Clinton also started fundraising very early.
Governer Schwarzenegger of California had his first fundraiser within days of being sworn into office, before he even settled the accounts of for people who loaned him money for his initial run. It was a small scandal.
Public contributions over a certain amount made directly to a Presidential Candidates, to the DNC & RNC are public record. Contributions made other groups (Like Move On & Swift Boat Vets for Truth) are usually not public.
In addition to OpenSecrets (Suggested by the other poster in this thread), check out Fundrace.
Talk about anonymity-- Plug in an address, and see who made a $250+ contributution to a candidate, with house number & everything. There's even a button to map the location of the house, which is a little frightening.
http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php
The databases are not totally accurate-- my own contributions are not anywhere on the list, perhaps because I made a bunch of smaller contributions to multiple groups as I could afford them, instead of one big contribution.
So, when was the last time your Corn plant spontaneously developed an animal gene?
Thanks for pulling this lame argument out of your ass, again.
There is a world of difference between combining two closely-related plants and combining a Soy plant with some fish genes.
Selective Breeding, Hybridization have been practices for thousands of years, but have always occured between closely related species. We have a pretty good idea how it works.
However, never before in history have we combined organisms from two entirely different kingdoms. It's a new field of study, the long term effects are largely unknown, and we need to be careful.
I'm not opposed to GMO foods outright. However, every time this discussion comes up some fuckwit tries to water down the argument with tghis 'selective breeding' argument.
How AWESOME was that mirror universe episode?!
Oooo! I missed the episode!
Was it about a mirror universe where time-travel wasn't an over-used plot device?
Honey, little Macdaddy was borrowing my 'magazines'. And now they are dirty!
By your logic, we shouldn't spend money on entertainment.
I never said otherwise. But I think people should live more frugally, and should watch less TV. Spending $950 on a PVR doesn't seem like a good deal.
I'm curious.
What is a 'pure flash drive' in comparison to any other USB storage device? What's the advantage in including a small subset of USB storage devices?
Also, how can they tell the difference?
They excluded all mp3 players from the review.
If they added mp3 players, the review would have grown from 12 devices to 30.
However, if I had a choice between a 512MB Flash Drive for $60, and a 512MB Flash Drive/mp3 player for $99, I would definately consider the latter.
What a lame comment.
'10 days ago' isn't very old. The news is still relevent and interesting.
The job of the editors isn't to repost news articles as soon as they happen like some RSS newsfeed.
Drop the attitude please.
Look, you're obviously bitter about something, but please don't take it out on me.
I'm not even sure why you bothered posting. You didn't say anything which wasn't already said in another post, and you had to be an asshole about it.
This is in fact the reason why there are so many Windows applications out there that ignore the shell namespace and only give you drive letters.
Ah, this probably explains why so many applications have such horrible file selector dialogs, where I can't select things like 'My Documents'.
Informative post, thanks!
Why start now?
They make billions of dollars a year without squashing bugs. Squashing bugs would only lead to the financial decline of Microsoft.
I RTFM, and I need some clarification.
Should I laugh or cry?
I thought Windows already had the ability to set Hard links & junctions.
The Internet Explorer, Recycle Bin, "My Network places" icons are links, not shortcuts, right?
With a shortcut, you can modify the shortcut metadata without affecting the metadata of the target. But with these dudes, you modify one set of meta data and it affects all of the icons.
Are you sure it isn't an 'orginal copy'?
Bah, always hated that phrase.