Here's how to get it past management:
Make the challenge be a problem your team is currently working on. The "prize money" could be written off as paying a contractor for doing the job.
Benefits include:
1)Real work done (make it fun, but something directly applicable to your team's current work challenges)
2)The applicants who do the challenge will be motivated, and you get real understanding as to their competency for the job.
3) Better applicants - they wouldn't participate if they weren't interested in the challenge topic or money level
4) PR and press. News about Prize money spreads.
5) ???
6) Profit!
Maybe a little hard cash to motivate? Say top prize gets $500, the second place gets $200, etc. You could implement a time-based contest, so whoever gets all the answers in right the quickest wins.
Plain and simple. They're a piece of carefully crafted artwork. Of course, there are honest and respectable people who have worked 15 years at IBM and are code ninjas. But as you note, a few sentences on a piece of paper can mean jack.
My suggestion is to have coding contests where the winner gets a priority spot in line for a job. Make the contest fun, challenging and something people would actually want to spend time on (look up some of Google's challenges as an example). Publish the contest, the perks of your job, salary, etc. as a big fat carrot and the winners will be people who know can do the job. Let the job suitors do the work for you in selecting the best and brightest.
Thanks for your thorough review. The most "advanced" stuff I do is fairly basic compared to most professional SVG drawings. However, it's nice to see how Inkscape fairs on the compliance level. When I make something for export to someone using another setup, I always ask for screenshot of how it renders on their end. Nothing like the final product crapping out because of bad rendering. I will also probably look at the mentioned sK1 project above to see how it fairs.
What do you developers prefer as a development environment? I personally use Inkscape, an open source Vector graphics editor. What does Slashdot like to use?
If a New Yorker's iPhone service is shitty because of poor reception, they should be able to terminate because it AT&Ts fault for providing faulty coverage.
there is certainly some truth to this. If the cell tower's antennas are high enough and directional enough, it could just be shooting right over your head annoyingly. If it's still not working farther out though, then there is certainly an issue.
"His final suggestion was to take it up with Apple, maybe I needed a new handset."
Go back to the FCC and resubmit your complaint. Obviously AT&T simply read you the script to meet the barest of "compliance" requirements...by sending you to some script reader in a call center. They won't do jack shit until the FCC requires them to. Or, you're able to find someone within the local ranks at ATT that are willing to listen to you, not just some corporate weenie.
a dome laced with bomb-proof paint/wallpaper would be incredibly strong. Here's one company that builds inflatable concrete domes for all kinds of projects.
Design the building so the roof is supported by only interior walls and so there are multiple load points, and you have a much better chance of it staying up.
"Congressman Jim Langevin says that US power companies need to be forced to deal with the issue after they told Congress they would take steps to defend their operations but did not follow up. 'They admit that they misled Congress. The private sector has different priorities than we do in providing security. Their bottom line is about profits..."
Exactly right, this is a capitalist society, ran on making money. If they won't integrate safety systems to protect the system properly from hacker attacks, hit them in the wallet, hard. Pass sound regulation to force them to implement safeguards, require inspections/audits that they are done, not just take their BS word for it. If all they give you is hot air and no implementation, fine them millions of dollars, and on a regular basis if needbe til they implement it.
Its a tool written by Microsoft, for Microsoft products. Do you have nefarious stuff you'd rather not have leaked? Warez or other secret stuff you'd rather keep hidden? The solution? Don't run Windows, run HURD! As added bonus, there's no viruses, no nasties that'll install on your system. No COFEE or other LEO programs to infect your privacy.
NOBODY, absolutely NO one can improve on the IBM Model M. It is the absolute epitome of our technological renaissance, the baine of my roommate and simply the cats meow.
Of course this has to be all Microsoft's fault because this is Slashdot.
A website that depicts Microsoft as the embodiment of the Borg collective, the Empire and the army of Sauron all in one, what else do you think would be the outcome? Hmmm?
A room-temperature superconductor would be nice, but even with today's superconductors a hell of a lot can be done...in space!
With all this talk of inter-planetary space travel, space provides the right temperature without expensive cooling systems. Simply insulate the superconductors from direct sunlight and you get great applications like passive superconductor magnetic bearings and other cool oddities that you would only get with expensive cooling systems here on earth.
Rats, cats and wild pigs (which admittedly got here via human transportation)
exactly my point. It also appears dingo ancestors arrived by boat 3-4 thousand years ago with seafaring humans.
Whether deliberate, through gross negligence or simply out of ignorance, humans have brought the extinction of various species whether directly or indirectly. Whether out of malice or simply out of cause an effect for an unrelated pursuit.
I'm not trying to simply denounce humans as "virii", but to show an interesting dichotomy - Humans have both the capability (or soon to be) to revive a species that was once extinct, and the ability to make many species extinct.
*Humans* are the only species that actively exterminate other species on a massive scale
Mother nature is not a "species". I was talking specifically about "species" in my original post.
I simply stated that humans are in a unique position - we can and do actively exterminate species, and we also actively bring species back. NO other living thing on the planet has that kind of ability.
The only species with the idiocy and shortsightedness to make a species go extinct, and the only species with the passionate pursuit knowledge to bring them back.
Not all caps are made the same...Is there capacitor that is top class and could function even after 50 years? A few custom caps would cost some $$ but replacing the motherboard ones would help longevity.
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Here's how to get it past management:
Make the challenge be a problem your team is currently working on. The "prize money" could be written off as paying a contractor for doing the job.
Benefits include:
1)Real work done (make it fun, but something directly applicable to your team's current work challenges)
2)The applicants who do the challenge will be motivated, and you get real understanding as to their competency for the job.
3) Better applicants - they wouldn't participate if they weren't interested in the challenge topic or money level
4) PR and press. News about Prize money spreads.
5) ???
6) Profit!
Maybe a little hard cash to motivate? Say top prize gets $500, the second place gets $200, etc. You could implement a time-based contest, so whoever gets all the answers in right the quickest wins.
Only if my grammar were so up to par, sheesh! Title should have been "Resumes Lie".
My suggestion is to have coding contests where the winner gets a priority spot in line for a job. Make the contest fun, challenging and something people would actually want to spend time on (look up some of Google's challenges as an example). Publish the contest, the perks of your job, salary, etc. as a big fat carrot and the winners will be people who know can do the job. Let the job suitors do the work for you in selecting the best and brightest.
Thanks for your thorough review. The most "advanced" stuff I do is fairly basic compared to most professional SVG drawings. However, it's nice to see how Inkscape fairs on the compliance level. When I make something for export to someone using another setup, I always ask for screenshot of how it renders on their end. Nothing like the final product crapping out because of bad rendering. I will also probably look at the mentioned sK1 project above to see how it fairs.
What do you developers prefer as a development environment? I personally use Inkscape, an open source Vector graphics editor. What does Slashdot like to use?
Burj Dubai is 2700ft
CN Tower: 1800ft
Burj is almost 1000 ft taller than the CN tower.
If a New Yorker's iPhone service is shitty because of poor reception, they should be able to terminate because it AT&Ts fault for providing faulty coverage.
there is certainly some truth to this. If the cell tower's antennas are high enough and directional enough, it could just be shooting right over your head annoyingly. If it's still not working farther out though, then there is certainly an issue.
Go back to the FCC and resubmit your complaint. Obviously AT&T simply read you the script to meet the barest of "compliance" requirements...by sending you to some script reader in a call center. They won't do jack shit until the FCC requires them to. Or, you're able to find someone within the local ranks at ATT that are willing to listen to you, not just some corporate weenie.
a dome laced with bomb-proof paint/wallpaper would be incredibly strong. Here's one company that builds inflatable concrete domes for all kinds of projects.
Design the building so the roof is supported by only interior walls and so there are multiple load points, and you have a much better chance of it staying up.
Exactly right, this is a capitalist society, ran on making money. If they won't integrate safety systems to protect the system properly from hacker attacks, hit them in the wallet, hard. Pass sound regulation to force them to implement safeguards, require inspections/audits that they are done, not just take their BS word for it. If all they give you is hot air and no implementation, fine them millions of dollars, and on a regular basis if needbe til they implement it.
Its a tool written by Microsoft, for Microsoft products. Do you have nefarious stuff you'd rather not have leaked? Warez or other secret stuff you'd rather keep hidden? The solution? Don't run Windows, run HURD! As added bonus, there's no viruses, no nasties that'll install on your system. No COFEE or other LEO programs to infect your privacy.
HURD...The only sensible solution.
Did you see the Borg icon next to the story? Anything less than scathing villinization of the MacroHard Collective is blasphemy!
NOBODY, absolutely NO one can improve on the IBM Model M. It is the absolute epitome of our technological renaissance, the baine of my roommate and simply the cats meow.
A website that depicts Microsoft as the embodiment of the Borg collective, the Empire and the army of Sauron all in one, what else do you think would be the outcome? Hmmm?
A room-temperature superconductor would be nice, but even with today's superconductors a hell of a lot can be done...in space!
With all this talk of inter-planetary space travel, space provides the right temperature without expensive cooling systems. Simply insulate the superconductors from direct sunlight and you get great applications like passive superconductor magnetic bearings and other cool oddities that you would only get with expensive cooling systems here on earth.
by their own actions. fixed
This is where human morality meets nature that just "is".
Some use this to justify to destroy what they want
Others justify it to save what ever they want
exactly my point. It also appears dingo ancestors arrived by boat 3-4 thousand years ago with seafaring humans.
Whether deliberate, through gross negligence or simply out of ignorance, humans have brought the extinction of various species whether directly or indirectly. Whether out of malice or simply out of cause an effect for an unrelated pursuit.
I'm not trying to simply denounce humans as "virii", but to show an interesting dichotomy - Humans have both the capability (or soon to be) to revive a species that was once extinct, and the ability to make many species extinct.
*Humans* are the only species that actively exterminate other species on a massive scale
Mother nature is not a "species". I was talking specifically about "species" in my original post.
I simply stated that humans are in a unique position - we can and do actively exterminate species, and we also actively bring species back. NO other living thing on the planet has that kind of ability.
The only species with the idiocy and shortsightedness to make a species go extinct, and the only species with the passionate pursuit knowledge to bring them back.
Not all caps are made the same...Is there capacitor that is top class and could function even after 50 years? A few custom caps would cost some $$ but replacing the motherboard ones would help longevity.