Also, as soon as a contracting company knowingly falsifies data about you or otherwise misrepresents you, make it clear to them that the first time was the last time. If they keep it up, drop them.
Too soft. For them to lie about your information to potential employers is a big no-no. I suggest dropping them immediately and going to another recruiter (it's not like there are a shortage of them out there). Only problem is that if they've made efforts on your behalf, there may be some obligation if you get hired for a position where they sent your resume (whether or not their actions resulted in your hiring).
When you deal with a respectable recruiter, they get your approval on any changes before sending it out. Any deviation from this is a sign you need to run. Keep in mind it's YOUR reputation as well as theirs that can be affected.
I've blacklisted recruiters because they've sent me resumes that were substantially different (as in your case) from the resume the employee handed me at the interview. Unfortunately, that means the applicant has been rejected as well -- but the only way the recruiters get it is if it hurts them in the wallet. If I hired one of those applicants, the recruiter would be *rewarded* for lying... not a good thing.
Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, gladys and my mitts.
To do what with?
Text MacGuyver:
? (A)pply rubber tubing to mitts Tubemitts added to inventory ? (A)pply gas to Tubemitts Gas-filled tubemitts added to inventory Operation failed. Find a way to secure the gas-filled tubemitts first. ? (A)pply handcuffs to gas-filled tubemitts Gas-filled cuffed tubemitts added to inventory ? (A)pply saw to gas-filled cuffed tubemitts Gas-filled cuffed tubemitts explode in your face. CHA -10. Gas-filled cuffed tubemitts removed from inventory.
Crap, this Macguyver stuff is harder than I thought. Maybe those are tools to build a bong?
The last thing you want is to have another country writing your ethics rules. This sounds like something the people of Italy need to deal with directly.
That's easy to say when the people have some modicum of control over the laws of their country. When the people are powerless, outside influence could possibly be their best hope. This is the same reason why invading forces sometimes find sympathizers among the people of the country they are invading (usually oppressed minorities, but not always).
Yes. You made the initial claims. I challenged them, with information, because your initial claims were way off base. The burden is on you to defend your initial claims, or rescind them, not build up some straw man since your initial claims are indefensible.
As far as reliability, purportedly the LSE had a single day of problems caused by never qualified reasons.
Purportedly a single day of problems?
The exchange shut down during a high-volume trading session. That's not purported, that's fact. What's purported is the number of times HVTs observed execution delays on the LSE at other high-volume times... and that's one reason Euronext has been claiming increasing market share from LSE.
Yet even the LSE, in pimping this purchase, pegs their current trading times at less than 3ms.
Sorry, that's BS (their claim, that is). Only during light load can they see 3 ms times (and even then I'd be surprised). They are known to have much higher latency at high-volume times. BATS trades at 5 ms under typical loads, and is acknowledged to be much faster than LSE's current system.
and the "pie in the sky" element is that one of the reasons they decided to acquire this company is because now they have stars in their eyes about the great things they are going to do.
Pie-in-the-sky is unobtainable by definition. Are you claiming that LSE won't be able to implement a trading platform with lower latency and better uptime than their current system? Or are you just claiming that LSE & MilleniumIT are being a little too optimistic in their press releases? Because the latter of those two is probably true.
Gosh, you got it all covered there. I guess you provided a savage indictment of my post. Or maybe I'm actually a realist, and see a lot of people doing a hilarious happy dance far too prematurely. That's what she said!
You made a very generic post about pie-in-the-sky cheap outsourcing to Sri
Lanka. You appeared to have little-to-no actual knowledge of the subject, since none was communicated in you post (except the mention of Sri Lanka, which was gleanable from the first comment to the article on the site it was originally posted). You do not appear to be familiar with MilleniumIT.
You call yourself a realist... yet realistic perspective is dependent upon knowledge of the subject. It's well known that most trading platforms are faster than the piece of crap they had on the LSE... often more than 25ms faster, which means that it was faster to trade on Euronext.
But you know... whatever man... you can try to backtrack and defend your reactionary post however you want... you simply made claims that don't stack up to reality.
This was more "switched from Accenture to running it `in house' in the form of a large team of low-paid talent in Sri Lanka" way more than it was "abandoned.NET for Linux! Rah rah rah!". The fact that people are hilariously so focused on the latter while missing the former speaks to how incredibly myopic people can be.
Horseshit. This is switching from "Accenture writing a slow unstable trading platform with.NET via cheap labor in India" to "buying the company that produces a fast, stable platform on Linux via cheap labor in Sri Lanka".
You're right that it's not a closed-vs-open source idealogical move. It is, however, yet another demonstration that.NET is not a suitable platform for large-scale low-latency transactional systems... and that Linux-as-an-OS has better offerings in this market.
Someone please mod this up (I used all my points already).
MilleniumIT has an established product in deployment in several exchanges. Their transaction times have been demonstrably faster than the POS that MS/Accenture developed on.NET framework.
Fuck.. There is so much knee-jerk reactionism here by people with no knowledge of the subject (and with no desire to even do a quick googling) that it just makes me sick.
Fortunately, I like being sick, which is why I keep coming back to slashdot.
Although, to be fair, it's also quite possible that what we have here are leftover MS astroturfers from the earlier anti-MS article. That would explain a lot, but maybe I'm just being paranoid again.
The LSE sounds like it has very incompetent technical leadership, and this sounds very pie-in-the-sky-ish. So now in return for selecting this Sri Lankan company, they get 100% ownership (???) of some speculative wish. Great..NET is a fantastic development environment, and it is fantastic for virtually any size websites. Probably not so great for real-time trading, though throw enough specialization at it and you can get whatever you want out of it.
Wait, Microsoft + Accenture built a piss-poor platform. As you may recall, Accenture is a giant in the consulting business. Their combined efforts failed miserably.
Linux is the OS of most large trading systems. This has been covered on slashdot before.
MilleniumIT has a proven product in deployment in several exchanges. Their product is not pie-in-the-sky. It works. They've had several big wins in the past decade. They've been collaborating with Intel on optimizing their platform. Their transaction processing times are an order of magnitude better than LSE's current system.
So, I'm not sure what your angle is... are you trolling? Astroturfing? Or just spouting knee-jerk reactionism without any kind of basis in reality? A quick googling might have helped you out a bit.
Add to that the fact that Google (apparently) tends to run their data centers "hot" compared to what is commonly accepted, and use significantly cheaper components, and you've got a good explanation for why their error count is as high as it is.
Post before yours:
From the study's abstract:
"We find that temperature, known to strongly impact DIMM error rates in lab conditions, has a suprisingly small effect on error behavior in the field, when taking all other factors into account."
The 'components bit' of your post may be spot-on, but the juxtaposition of your temperature claim, along with the previous poster's quoting of the abstract FTA, is funny (to me, anyway).
Your citation does not mean what you think it means.
The rest of your argument relies upon the notion that money is an absolute store of wealth. It is not, and should not be considered as such.
If you don't like the fact that inflation devalues your currency, you can easily avoid this problem by not storing your wealth in currency.
The real problem with inflation (from a common-man standpoint) is when we have price inflation without corresponding wage inflation. Usually this is a necessary market correction, and while painful to some, is necessary. Sucks to be on the down end of it, but people also need to realize all the benefits they got from the economic system. But I think I know where you're coming from, and no amount of analysis or discussion will get you to change your mind that inflation is stealing from you.
If i am not mistaken recently FDIC announced that it has nowhere near the amount of money needed to meet its obligations, bacause situation in the bank sector is in much worse shape than they predicted - we are talking about tens or even hundreds of billions. What it means? More and more T-bills - so people will pay through the nose (taxes) for the illusory safety of their wealth or will be robbed of their purchasing power (money printing)
No. The FDIC fund is not funded by the government at large. It is funded by the member banks. While it is possible that a loan will need to be made by the government, as of right now there are no plans to do so. Instead, the FDIC fund is stepping up efforts to collect premiums due from member banks, and looking at assessing a special premium to cover a potential projected shortfall.
And if you want to see how the total decay of monetary system looks, just read about Zimbabwe with its few million percent inflation or look for some clips on youtube. People in Zimbabwe pay for their daily bread at the village market with gold and don't accept anything else as a payment for their merchandise.
And that's the problem. This is a class with far too wide a scope.
I suggest a survey of some of the sub-genres, with discussions of all the subgenres.
Abridged works would be pretty good for this, but unfortunately, abridged versions (1) aren't available for most sci-fi/fantasy books and (2) entirely defeat the purpose of high fantasy and space opera.
I took an English Lit class in high school that also had too broad of a scope. The professor handled it by using half the term as an overview and for each of us to read the same books (maybe 4-5 poetry anthologies and 2 (or 3?) novels). The second half of the term was used for individual reading assignments tailored to each student... we each had to give presentations on the books we had read, along with written reports, and then the professor would talk about how that book fit into English Lit as a whole.
I suggest a week or two of explaining what sci-fi/fantasy is, with representative samples of short stories or passages from longer works that exemplify the style. Work chronologically, it helps students understand. Then dive into some of the seminal works (there have been plenty of suggestions already, so I won't offer any) as class-wide assignments. Then start the individual assignment(s). If this is a short course, one individual assignment may be all you can fit in.
Advantages: Students got to experience, if vicariously, many more works than could be covered in a traditional erveryone-reads-all-the-works lit class. Individual assignments allowed each student to be challenged Individual assignments allowed each student to enjoy their classwork
Disadvantages: No student reads all of the seminal works in the subject area Learning about literature second-hand is a piss-poor way to appreciate good literature.
With a scope as broad as that class has, I think the only way you'll even BEGIN to cover the material is to divide and conquer the material with individual assignments. Make your lecture on each of the individually assigned works complement and augment the student's presentation, while filling in any important gaps.
The other thing I'd suggest is to not ignore the authors-as-drivers-of-the-genre theme. There is no mistaking the impact that Verne, Asimov, Bradbury, Tolkien, etc have had. Trace the influence these authors had on those that came after.
Oh, and one other thing... dismiss the later schlock (Star Wars novels, Dragonlance novels, etc). Conan books are an edge case -- they were schlock, but defined a genre. They get a passing mention. The rest of the schlock shouldn't even be considered literature (I'm sure I'll get flamed for this).
Maybe we'll take back the keyboard until you're responsible enough to use it... maybe your 10th birthday?
And if you care enough about my response to your, umm, "delightful" post to read my journal... well... the jokes on you, buddy. It seems I've wasted more of your time today than you've wasted of mine... so if you're not sincere and really a troll -- I've won. Admit it, you're a weak troll. You're awful at it.
If you are sincere... do us all a favor and take a long walk off a short pier.
The problem I have is that the FED doubled the money supply in a year.
No they didn't. Citation needed, bady.
Every source I could find has the money supply increasing, but nowhere could I find record of it doubling.
The whole time very few will realize who actually stole the value of the dollar
Who stole the value of their dollar? Seriously? How about this scenario... the fed fails to act. Banking loans dry up. More businesses fail, and people lose their jobs. Would you claim that the fed stole their jobs?
What you should be angry about are the people whose actions have devalued a person's output. Some people think these people are the multimillionaire bankers (and partly, I agree). Some people think that these people are the multimillionaire heads of corporations (and partly, I agree). Some people think that these people are those that offshore jobs (on this one, I have mixed feelings).
But in no way does inflation "steal" money from you. Look at it this way... by withholding your cash out of the economy, you are "stealing" money from people who could put that wealth to good use (and pay you a decent return). Please don't use the word "stealing" wrt inflation. It's just inaccurate, and leaves the door open to ridiculous claims from all sides.
In 19th century the US economy was stable and after FED creation in 1913 we had several serious recessions.
What? That is absolutely, preposterously false.
The 19th century economy in the US was cyclical, just as today's economy is. But the recessions were much deeper than what we've had in the 20th and 21st centuries (though for the current recession, we'll need to see how bad it gets before passing judgment).
You need to read some economic history, and stop reading (and believing!) what random people have been spouting on slashdot and other places.
The recessions of the 19th century were actually much more severe than the recessions of the 20th century... the literature is quite clear on this.
I'm not sure where you get your information from... but it's obviously not a valid source.
I don't understand. If you don't know where the porn is, why are you not wearing any pants?
Dude, you are seriously messed up.
Find the porn, THEN lose the pants. Otherwise your mom is going to walk in on you, pantsless (you, not your mom, I hope) and reading slashdot. NOT a pretty sight (or site, for that matter, but we love slashdot BECAUS of its foibles, not in spite of them).
I'm sure you're going for funny here, but if people live longer they pay more insurance premiums and the company makes more money not less.
False.
If people live longer, they have more claims that the insurance company needs to pay. The number of claims outweighs the additional premiums paid when considering the population as a whole.
It's apparently little-known to the general public (judging by comments like yours), but the young subsidize the old and men subsidize women via their insurance policies. This is a basic factual conclusion of actuary statistics. The older you are, the more claims, and the higher average cost of claims, you will have.
Slashdot Mirror
Too soft. For them to lie about your information to potential employers is a big no-no. I suggest dropping them immediately and going to another recruiter (it's not like there are a shortage of them out there). Only problem is that if they've made efforts on your behalf, there may be some obligation if you get hired for a position where they sent your resume (whether or not their actions resulted in your hiring).
When you deal with a respectable recruiter, they get your approval on any changes before sending it out. Any deviation from this is a sign you need to run. Keep in mind it's YOUR reputation as well as theirs that can be affected.
I've blacklisted recruiters because they've sent me resumes that were substantially different (as in your case) from the resume the employee handed me at the interview. Unfortunately, that means the applicant has been rejected as well -- but the only way the recruiters get it is if it hurts them in the wallet. If I hired one of those applicants, the recruiter would be *rewarded* for lying... not a good thing.
Text MacGuyver:
? (A)pply rubber tubing to mitts
Tubemitts added to inventory
? (A)pply gas to Tubemitts
Gas-filled tubemitts added to inventory
Operation failed. Find a way to secure the gas-filled tubemitts first.
? (A)pply handcuffs to gas-filled tubemitts
Gas-filled cuffed tubemitts added to inventory
? (A)pply saw to gas-filled cuffed tubemitts
Gas-filled cuffed tubemitts explode in your face. CHA -10. Gas-filled cuffed tubemitts removed from inventory.
Crap, this Macguyver stuff is harder than I thought. Maybe those are tools to build a bong?
That's easy to say when the people have some modicum of control over the laws of their country. When the people are powerless, outside influence could possibly be their best hope. This is the same reason why invading forces sometimes find sympathizers among the people of the country they are invading (usually oppressed minorities, but not always).
Frak. Helps if I bother inserting the relevant link.
I guess my Yale education is showing.
What's the difference between those two and Yale?
I know it's for the law program, but you might find this amusing.
No. Just plain no.
Paying people to create robotic hiveminds?
That way lies madness. Terrible, stinging, robotic madness.
Yes. You made the initial claims. I challenged them, with information, because your initial claims were way off base. The burden is on you to defend your initial claims, or rescind them, not build up some straw man since your initial claims are indefensible.
Purportedly a single day of problems?
The exchange shut down during a high-volume trading session. That's not purported, that's fact. What's purported is the number of times HVTs observed execution delays on the LSE at other high-volume times... and that's one reason Euronext has been claiming increasing market share from LSE.
Sorry, that's BS (their claim, that is). Only during light load can they see 3 ms times (and even then I'd be surprised). They are known to have much higher latency at high-volume times. BATS trades at 5 ms under typical loads, and is acknowledged to be much faster than LSE's current system.
Pie-in-the-sky is unobtainable by definition. Are you claiming that LSE won't be able to implement a trading platform with lower latency and better uptime than their current system? Or are you just claiming that LSE & MilleniumIT are being a little too optimistic in their press releases? Because the latter of those two is probably true.
You made a very generic post about pie-in-the-sky cheap outsourcing to Sri Lanka. You appeared to have little-to-no actual knowledge of the subject, since none was communicated in you post (except the mention of Sri Lanka, which was gleanable from the first comment to the article on the site it was originally posted). You do not appear to be familiar with MilleniumIT.
You call yourself a realist... yet realistic perspective is dependent upon knowledge of the subject. It's well known that most trading platforms are faster than the piece of crap they had on the LSE... often more than 25ms faster, which means that it was faster to trade on Euronext.
But you know... whatever man... you can try to backtrack and defend your reactionary post however you want... you simply made claims that don't stack up to reality.
Horseshit. This is switching from "Accenture writing a slow unstable trading platform with .NET via cheap labor in India" to "buying the company that produces a fast, stable platform on Linux via cheap labor in Sri Lanka".
.NET is not a suitable platform for large-scale low-latency transactional systems... and that Linux-as-an-OS has better offerings in this market.
You're right that it's not a closed-vs-open source idealogical move. It is, however, yet another demonstration that
Someone please mod this up (I used all my points already).
.NET framework.
MilleniumIT has an established product in deployment in several exchanges. Their transaction times have been demonstrably faster than the POS that MS/Accenture developed on
Fuck.. There is so much knee-jerk reactionism here by people with no knowledge of the subject (and with no desire to even do a quick googling) that it just makes me sick.
Fortunately, I like being sick, which is why I keep coming back to slashdot.
Although, to be fair, it's also quite possible that what we have here are leftover MS astroturfers from the earlier anti-MS article. That would explain a lot, but maybe I'm just being paranoid again.
Wait, Microsoft + Accenture built a piss-poor platform. As you may recall, Accenture is a giant in the consulting business. Their combined efforts failed miserably.
Linux is the OS of most large trading systems. This has been covered on slashdot before.
MilleniumIT has a proven product in deployment in several exchanges. Their product is not pie-in-the-sky. It works. They've had several big wins in the past decade. They've been collaborating with Intel on optimizing their platform. Their transaction processing times are an order of magnitude better than LSE's current system.
So, I'm not sure what your angle is... are you trolling? Astroturfing? Or just spouting knee-jerk reactionism without any kind of basis in reality? A quick googling might have helped you out a bit.
Your post:
Post before yours:
The 'components bit' of your post may be spot-on, but the juxtaposition of your temperature claim, along with the previous poster's quoting of the abstract FTA, is funny (to me, anyway).
The Monetary base != the money supply.
Your citation does not mean what you think it means.
The rest of your argument relies upon the notion that money is an absolute store of wealth. It is not, and should not be considered as such.
If you don't like the fact that inflation devalues your currency, you can easily avoid this problem by not storing your wealth in currency.
The real problem with inflation (from a common-man standpoint) is when we have price inflation without corresponding wage inflation. Usually this is a necessary market correction, and while painful to some, is necessary. Sucks to be on the down end of it, but people also need to realize all the benefits they got from the economic system. But I think I know where you're coming from, and no amount of analysis or discussion will get you to change your mind that inflation is stealing from you.
No. The FDIC fund is not funded by the government at large. It is funded by the member banks. While it is possible that a loan will need to be made by the government, as of right now there are no plans to do so. Instead, the FDIC fund is stepping up efforts to collect premiums due from member banks, and looking at assessing a special premium to cover a potential projected shortfall.
And that relates to the US situation in what way?
And that's the problem. This is a class with far too wide a scope.
I suggest a survey of some of the sub-genres, with discussions of all the subgenres.
Abridged works would be pretty good for this, but unfortunately, abridged versions (1) aren't available for most sci-fi/fantasy books and (2) entirely defeat the purpose of high fantasy and space opera.
I took an English Lit class in high school that also had too broad of a scope. The professor handled it by using half the term as an overview and for each of us to read the same books (maybe 4-5 poetry anthologies and 2 (or 3?) novels). The second half of the term was used for individual reading assignments tailored to each student... we each had to give presentations on the books we had read, along with written reports, and then the professor would talk about how that book fit into English Lit as a whole.
I suggest a week or two of explaining what sci-fi/fantasy is, with representative samples of short stories or passages from longer works that exemplify the style. Work chronologically, it helps students understand. Then dive into some of the seminal works (there have been plenty of suggestions already, so I won't offer any) as class-wide assignments. Then start the individual assignment(s). If this is a short course, one individual assignment may be all you can fit in.
Advantages:
Students got to experience, if vicariously, many more works than could be covered in a traditional erveryone-reads-all-the-works lit class.
Individual assignments allowed each student to be challenged
Individual assignments allowed each student to enjoy their classwork
Disadvantages:
No student reads all of the seminal works in the subject area
Learning about literature second-hand is a piss-poor way to appreciate good literature.
With a scope as broad as that class has, I think the only way you'll even BEGIN to cover the material is to divide and conquer the material with individual assignments. Make your lecture on each of the individually assigned works complement and augment the student's presentation, while filling in any important gaps.
The other thing I'd suggest is to not ignore the authors-as-drivers-of-the-genre theme. There is no mistaking the impact that Verne, Asimov, Bradbury, Tolkien, etc have had. Trace the influence these authors had on those that came after.
Oh, and one other thing... dismiss the later schlock (Star Wars novels, Dragonlance novels, etc). Conan books are an edge case -- they were schlock, but defined a genre. They get a passing mention. The rest of the schlock shouldn't even be considered literature (I'm sure I'll get flamed for this).
A little touchy, aren't you?
Maybe we'll take back the keyboard until you're responsible enough to use it... maybe your 10th birthday?
And if you care enough about my response to your, umm, "delightful" post to read my journal... well... the jokes on you, buddy. It seems I've wasted more of your time today than you've wasted of mine... so if you're not sincere and really a troll -- I've won. Admit it, you're a weak troll. You're awful at it.
If you are sincere... do us all a favor and take a long walk off a short pier.
I know, don't feed the trolls...
But seriously... if slashdot "went straight down the toilet" -- and you're still here -- that implies you're a turd.
Just thought you should know.
In the masters chamber
They gather for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives
But the just can't kill the beast.
I didn't think MS did cloud computing?
Besides, when you say "cloud computing", about the last thing that would become likely would be "the warm smell of coitus".
So, no. Cloud Computing is not the Hotel California.
Maybe the Hot(el) (C)oral (Es)sex, but definitely not the Hotel California.
Seriously, though... Matt Asay is comparing cloud computing to Facebook/Myspace data? Very, very different beasts.
What is so unfortunate about that?
Steve, is that you? I never would have guessed that Ballmer browses slashdot as rhsanborn.
No they didn't. Citation needed, bady.
Every source I could find has the money supply increasing, but nowhere could I find record of it doubling.
Who stole the value of their dollar? Seriously? How about this scenario... the fed fails to act. Banking loans dry up. More businesses fail, and people lose their jobs. Would you claim that the fed stole their jobs?
What you should be angry about are the people whose actions have devalued a person's output. Some people think these people are the multimillionaire bankers (and partly, I agree). Some people think that these people are the multimillionaire heads of corporations (and partly, I agree). Some people think that these people are those that offshore jobs (on this one, I have mixed feelings).
But in no way does inflation "steal" money from you. Look at it this way... by withholding your cash out of the economy, you are "stealing" money from people who could put that wealth to good use (and pay you a decent return). Please don't use the word "stealing" wrt inflation. It's just inaccurate, and leaves the door open to ridiculous claims from all sides.
What? That is absolutely, preposterously false.
The 19th century economy in the US was cyclical, just as today's economy is. But the recessions were much deeper than what we've had in the 20th and 21st centuries (though for the current recession, we'll need to see how bad it gets before passing judgment).
You need to read some economic history, and stop reading (and believing!) what random people have been spouting on slashdot and other places.
The recessions of the 19th century were actually much more severe than the recessions of the 20th century... the literature is quite clear on this.
I'm not sure where you get your information from... but it's obviously not a valid source.
I don't understand. If you don't know where the porn is, why are you not wearing any pants?
Dude, you are seriously messed up.
Find the porn, THEN lose the pants. Otherwise your mom is going to walk in on you, pantsless (you, not your mom, I hope) and reading slashdot. NOT a pretty sight (or site, for that matter, but we love slashdot BECAUS of its foibles, not in spite of them).
False.
If people live longer, they have more claims that the insurance company needs to pay. The number of claims outweighs the additional premiums paid when considering the population as a whole.
It's apparently little-known to the general public (judging by comments like yours), but the young subsidize the old and men subsidize women via their insurance policies. This is a basic factual conclusion of actuary statistics. The older you are, the more claims, and the higher average cost of claims, you will have.