so if I'm a county clerk whose job requires me to issue marriage licenses, can I be burdened because there's no way to avoid issuing a license to a gay couple if the state allows it?
Forget cakes and wedding pizza--this has always seemed the point to me: it's a way to stop gay marriage regardless of the will of the people.
So, I read the article that the article links to--spare me the "you must be new here jokes"--and found this interesting bit:
Although the site shows visitors a few facts that some might consider sensitive, like race and ethnicity, it initially omits, at least in the version I saw, intimate references — like “gambling,” “senior needs,” “smoker in the household” and “adult with wealthy parent” — that Acxiom markets to corporate clients but that might discomfit consumers if they knew they were for sale.
So Axciom's transparency portal isn't so transparent at all...
Time capsules appear to have a MTBF of ~18 mos; the power supply dies. Apple will replace it via an APP-covered computer that uses it, but not if you crack the case to get the hard drive out.
So, either eat the $$ after 18 mos to save your 18 mos of backups, or give Apple your data for a refurbed unit, or find a backup solution for your backup solution.
True true, but in Singapore, part of the East Coast Parkway (ECP) on the approach to Changi airport can be used as an emergency landing strip by moving the potted plants out of the way...Granted that 747s aren't B-52s, but still pretty cool.
Or maybe I don't get out enough.
One of the best pieces of advice I've ever heard is that if they ask you if you know a certain technology or language, to always say yes.
Bzzzt! Wrong answer. If you say you know , I'm going to assess your knowledge. If I catch you misrepresenting yourself, you've lost all my trust, and we're not gonna go any further.
Tell me you haven't worked with it, but you can pick it up--and then we'll have a discussion about what you do to keep up with the industry. Sound motivated and intelligent, and you'll get the job.
God, I hate it when candidates lie. It's a waste of time and energy for both of us.
... but in the Java world there is the SCJP certification that would look good and show that you know what you're doing despite not having a degree.
Gah. I took these tests, which proves only that I can take tests. As a hiring manager, if these certs showed up on a resume *and* the candidate was proud of passing, that was pretty much it...
Give me real world experience any day. I prefer someone with the passion to work on an open source project than somebody with the spare cash to buy a study guide and an exam grade.
If I were you, I'd worry more about my resume being clean and relevant than what prospective employers might find via a quick background check, because I can filter resumes faster than I can google your name and figure out which of any of the results are somehow speaking about you.
I've hired a few people in my career, and the process goes like this:
Cut the stack of 100 resumes down to about 15 that know how to use a spellchecker/are relevant to the position.
Call the 15 for a phone screen to insure they can speak coherently, and the resumes aren't a blatant lie.
Bring the resulting 3-5 people in for an in person interview.
If and only if we get thru these steps am I going to bother thinking about googling you, or checking references and employment history; and if you've made it through these steps, I'll be sure to do it right. This is because I've invested a large amount of time separating the wheat from the chaff, and I'd really rather not do it again. If there's a problem, I'm going to talk to you about it for exactly the same reason.
OK, I know I'm expecting too much, but:
Shades of turquoise and red will pour over the moon's surface as the it moves into the Earth's shadow around 8:43pm EST. As NASA reports: 'Transiting the shadow's core takes about an hour. The first hints of red appear around 10 pm EST (7 pm PST), heralding a profusion of coppery hues that roll across the Moon's surface enveloping every crater, mountain and moon rock, only to fade away again after 11 pm EST (8 pm PST). What starts before 9, lasts about an hour, and ends after 11?
-r
"News flash! The world's population is getting dumber! Details when the big hand is on the 12..."
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so if I'm a county clerk whose job requires me to issue marriage licenses, can I be burdened because there's no way to avoid issuing a license to a gay couple if the state allows it? Forget cakes and wedding pizza--this has always seemed the point to me: it's a way to stop gay marriage regardless of the will of the people.
Although the site shows visitors a few facts that some might consider sensitive, like race and ethnicity, it initially omits, at least in the version I saw, intimate references — like “gambling,” “senior needs,” “smoker in the household” and “adult with wealthy parent” — that Acxiom markets to corporate clients but that might discomfit consumers if they knew they were for sale.
So Axciom's transparency portal isn't so transparent at all...
Well, if this is their code we can be sure they're not spending the money on QA... ...or programmers. Better not quit your day job.
(Wish I could find a link to the math problem I'm thinking of)
This one? http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/articles/zeno_tort/index.asp
Time Capsule works well.
Time capsules appear to have a MTBF of ~18 mos; the power supply dies. Apple will replace it via an APP-covered computer that uses it, but not if you crack the case to get the hard drive out.
So, either eat the $$ after 18 mos to save your 18 mos of backups, or give Apple your data for a refurbed unit, or find a backup solution for your backup solution.
I'm not buyin' another one.
True true, but in Singapore, part of the East Coast Parkway (ECP) on the approach to Changi airport can be used as an emergency landing strip by moving the potted plants out of the way...Granted that 747s aren't B-52s, but still pretty cool. Or maybe I don't get out enough.
One of the best pieces of advice I've ever heard is that if they ask you if you know a certain technology or language, to always say yes.
Bzzzt! Wrong answer. If you say you know , I'm going to assess your knowledge. If I catch you misrepresenting yourself, you've lost all my trust, and we're not gonna go any further. Tell me you haven't worked with it, but you can pick it up--and then we'll have a discussion about what you do to keep up with the industry. Sound motivated and intelligent, and you'll get the job. God, I hate it when candidates lie. It's a waste of time and energy for both of us.
... but in the Java world there is the SCJP certification that would look good and show that you know what you're doing despite not having a degree.
Gah. I took these tests, which proves only that I can take tests. As a hiring manager, if these certs showed up on a resume *and* the candidate was proud of passing, that was pretty much it... Give me real world experience any day. I prefer someone with the passion to work on an open source project than somebody with the spare cash to buy a study guide and an exam grade.
If I were you, I'd worry more about my resume being clean and relevant than what prospective employers might find via a quick background check, because I can filter resumes faster than I can google your name and figure out which of any of the results are somehow speaking about you.
I've hired a few people in my career, and the process goes like this:
If and only if we get thru these steps am I going to bother thinking about googling you, or checking references and employment history; and if you've made it through these steps, I'll be sure to do it right. This is because I've invested a large amount of time separating the wheat from the chaff, and I'd really rather not do it again. If there's a problem, I'm going to talk to you about it for exactly the same reason.
Good luck with your job search.
6. Number of diebold electronic voting machines in use.
-r
"News flash! The world's population is getting dumber! Details when the big hand is on the 12..."
...as if the Sith won't edit their own Wikipedia entries, because they're such fine upstanding fellows...
the doctype was being used during a xsl transform during our build process; when the hibernate sight flaked out, the builds would fail intermittently.
solution was to add a xmlcatalog using a local resource.
bet this happens a lot more than most people realize; we'd been doing this for years before we noticed a problem.