As a software testing intern, I found a crash bug on the test server. I could reproduced it 100%. My boss couldn't reproduced it at all, and subsequently approved the patch for the production server despite my dire warnings. The production server crashed within 24 hours, knocking it offline for three days and costing the company $250K in lost revenues. My internship wasn't renewed and 1/3 of the division got laid off the following month to make up for the lost revenue. As for my boss, he got promoted.
I had high-frequency hearing loss in one ear, which meant that I couldn't distinguish similar sounding words — glass, grass and crass all sounded the same — without additional context. Being a late talker and overweight made me the poster child for mongolism. So obviously I must have been mentally retarded from birth. Every time I blew out the annual evaluation on the genius side, the teachers dismissed it as a statistical fluke. I graduated from the eighth grade with fifth grade math and writing skills, but a college-level reading comprehension. Skipped high school. I got an associate degree in general ed after four years of full-time community college.
I worked the help desk at Google in 2008. A newly hired software engineer from Stanford called to complain that his computer had no power. I asked if he pressed the power button. He was shocked — SHOCKED! — that he had to turn on his own computer. And, surprisingly enough, his computer came to life after he pressed the power button.
I would offer some kind of intro to programming/C/Python/Pearl as an elective and maybe only in a magnet school.
All students need exposure to a good introduction to computer course, as computers are everywhere these days. Why should only the so called gifted have access to computers and not everyone else?
However, a LOT of them had very poor spelling, reading and grammar skills.
This is why they're going to a community college and not a university. Community colleges do a better job at remedial education for both high school graduates and dropouts. Most universities avoid remedial education like the plague.
After being misdiagnosed as mentally retarded, I was in Special Ed classes for eight years. I can reassure you that there's nothing special about being treated like an idiot.
Although I cut my teeth on Commodore 64 BASIC and 6502 assembly language for eight years as a kid, I wasn't a good programmer and took only the required Introduction to Computers course in college. Surprisingly, I got an A in that class and every guidance counselor since that class insisted that I study computers. I took a lot of English lit and mathematics instead.
Through a twist of fate, I got a six-month internship in black box software testing and enjoyed the work. Became a video game tester and lead tester for six years after that. I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com bust. I made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major upon graduation.
Although learning computers is important, the literature and mathematics courses provided a solid foundation for learning multiple computer languages and solving problems. Going back to school as an adult also made a huge difference.
When I was looking at college catalogs in the early 1990's, I was somewhat amused to see that some colleges would allowed the substitution of the foreign language requirement with a computer programming language. Needless to say, my eight years of Commodore 64 BASIC didn't qualify.
Russia still have armed nuclear ICBMs that can reach the U.S. faster than tanks rolling across the bridge. The cold war may have ended, but Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) have not. You should be more concern about the Chinese buying farmland in the Pacific Northwest.
The occasional labor strike at the west coast ports and the resulting backlog doesn't help either. Alternative routes may be worth the money for the Chinese to get their products to U.S. consumers.
The desktop monkey told me that I needed to use the Add Printer GUI wizard to test the print driver installation. Based on his reaction to my script, he's probably not familiar with the command line at all.
While your one-line of code will install a single printer, my four-line of code will read the printer URLs from a text file and install a printer every 30 seconds. Otherwise, it would take five minutes per printer using the GUI wizard. With 500+ printers to test, the time difference between using an automated script and the GUI wizard is ~4 hours vs. ~40 hours. Gotta a love a programming language that saves you time in cleaning up someone else's mess.
The desktop monkeys were shocked that a four-line PowerShell script could automatically add a network printer to a system. Windows behaves quite strangely with 500+ network printers under Devices and Printers. Not recommended.
The server team managed to blotched a printer migration from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012. My boss threw me under the bus by volunteering me to clean up the mess involving 1,000+ printer queues and four servers. Just when I'm about to finish three weeks of work, the server team pulled the old print servers without warning. That created 100+ tickets from angry users who can't print. Another fine mess to add to my resume.
I've been getting emails and Windows taskbar notifications from Microsoft for the last week that Windows 10 was coming out YESTERDAY. I checked yesterday. None of my systems had Windows 10 ready to install. So something screwy is going on here.
Upgrading was one of the worst decisions I've ever made. Windows Vista is slow, ugly, and a privacy nightmare. It makes XP look like a beautiful fast privacy advocate's dream.
What's next - the "archaic" practice of owning your own home?
You never really own your own home. If you don't pay property taxes, the local government will foreclose and sell the house to someone else. If that person doesn't pay property taxes, rinse and repeat.
Seems like a new Prius shows up in the parking spaces of my apartment complex every other day. Especially in the DayGlo color paint. Could be a Silicon Valley thing.
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As a software testing intern, I found a crash bug on the test server. I could reproduced it 100%. My boss couldn't reproduced it at all, and subsequently approved the patch for the production server despite my dire warnings. The production server crashed within 24 hours, knocking it offline for three days and costing the company $250K in lost revenues. My internship wasn't renewed and 1/3 of the division got laid off the following month to make up for the lost revenue. As for my boss, he got promoted.
Had no clue that KFC owned South Africa. Takes a lot of crispy chicken to buy an entire country.
I had high-frequency hearing loss in one ear, which meant that I couldn't distinguish similar sounding words — glass, grass and crass all sounded the same — without additional context. Being a late talker and overweight made me the poster child for mongolism. So obviously I must have been mentally retarded from birth. Every time I blew out the annual evaluation on the genius side, the teachers dismissed it as a statistical fluke. I graduated from the eighth grade with fifth grade math and writing skills, but a college-level reading comprehension. Skipped high school. I got an associate degree in general ed after four years of full-time community college.
I worked the help desk at Google in 2008. A newly hired software engineer from Stanford called to complain that his computer had no power. I asked if he pressed the power button. He was shocked — SHOCKED! — that he had to turn on his own computer. And, surprisingly enough, his computer came to life after he pressed the power button.
I would offer some kind of intro to programming/C/Python/Pearl as an elective and maybe only in a magnet school.
All students need exposure to a good introduction to computer course, as computers are everywhere these days. Why should only the so called gifted have access to computers and not everyone else?
However, a LOT of them had very poor spelling, reading and grammar skills.
This is why they're going to a community college and not a university. Community colleges do a better job at remedial education for both high school graduates and dropouts. Most universities avoid remedial education like the plague.
After being misdiagnosed as mentally retarded, I was in Special Ed classes for eight years. I can reassure you that there's nothing special about being treated like an idiot.
Although I cut my teeth on Commodore 64 BASIC and 6502 assembly language for eight years as a kid, I wasn't a good programmer and took only the required Introduction to Computers course in college. Surprisingly, I got an A in that class and every guidance counselor since that class insisted that I study computers. I took a lot of English lit and mathematics instead.
Through a twist of fate, I got a six-month internship in black box software testing and enjoyed the work. Became a video game tester and lead tester for six years after that. I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com bust. I made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major upon graduation.
Although learning computers is important, the literature and mathematics courses provided a solid foundation for learning multiple computer languages and solving problems. Going back to school as an adult also made a huge difference.
When I was looking at college catalogs in the early 1990's, I was somewhat amused to see that some colleges would allowed the substitution of the foreign language requirement with a computer programming language. Needless to say, my eight years of Commodore 64 BASIC didn't qualify.
A shortage of boxcars is jamming up the industries that don't rely on specialized rail cars.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/shortage-of-railroad-boxcars-has-shippers-fuming-2015-06-21
Same situation in the Middle Ages after the Roman Empire fell: "Nice Corinthian columns. What were they used for?"
Russia still have armed nuclear ICBMs that can reach the U.S. faster than tanks rolling across the bridge. The cold war may have ended, but Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) have not. You should be more concern about the Chinese buying farmland in the Pacific Northwest.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/californians-chinese-scooping-farmland-washington-state-n401841
But that seems like a stretch given the effective shipping to ports on the west coast.
The west coast ports for North America. are maxed out and need modernization to accommodate larger shipping vessals.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/38e0825e-c677-11e4-a13d-00144feab7de.html
The Chinese are also spending $50B to build the Nicaragua Canal in Central America to bypass the west coast ports.
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/nicaragua_canal_a_giant_project_with_huge_environmental_costs/2871/
The occasional labor strike at the west coast ports and the resulting backlog doesn't help either. Alternative routes may be worth the money for the Chinese to get their products to U.S. consumers.
Bite me!
"Look at how many people upgraded in the first 2 months. This is the most of any version of Windows ever!"
The Apple Metric. Good to see Microsoft following standard business practices. ;)
The desktop monkey told me that I needed to use the Add Printer GUI wizard to test the print driver installation. Based on his reaction to my script, he's probably not familiar with the command line at all.
While your one-line of code will install a single printer, my four-line of code will read the printer URLs from a text file and install a printer every 30 seconds. Otherwise, it would take five minutes per printer using the GUI wizard. With 500+ printers to test, the time difference between using an automated script and the GUI wizard is ~4 hours vs. ~40 hours. Gotta a love a programming language that saves you time in cleaning up someone else's mess.
The desktop monkeys were shocked that a four-line PowerShell script could automatically add a network printer to a system. Windows behaves quite strangely with 500+ network printers under Devices and Printers. Not recommended.
The server team managed to blotched a printer migration from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012. My boss threw me under the bus by volunteering me to clean up the mess involving 1,000+ printer queues and four servers. Just when I'm about to finish three weeks of work, the server team pulled the old print servers without warning. That created 100+ tickets from angry users who can't print. Another fine mess to add to my resume.
I've been getting emails and Windows taskbar notifications from Microsoft for the last week that Windows 10 was coming out YESTERDAY. I checked yesterday. None of my systems had Windows 10 ready to install. So something screwy is going on here.
Upgrading was one of the worst decisions I've ever made. Windows Vista is slow, ugly, and a privacy nightmare. It makes XP look like a beautiful fast privacy advocate's dream.
FTFY
Now that we're into the first week of widespread availability for the new version [...]
Didn't Windows 10 came out like yesterday (Wednesday, 7/29/2015)?
What's next - the "archaic" practice of owning your own home?
You never really own your own home. If you don't pay property taxes, the local government will foreclose and sell the house to someone else. If that person doesn't pay property taxes, rinse and repeat.
Seems like a new Prius shows up in the parking spaces of my apartment complex every other day. Especially in the DayGlo color paint. Could be a Silicon Valley thing.
That many testers for Mine Sweeper?
Does anyone use Scroll Lock for anything?