Before I took up their cash-in hand job offer to deliver a package to their embassy in Islamabad. I've started to wonder whether the ticking really is an alarm clock.;-)
Its meaningless in the case of the UK anyway. Once you give the right to a foreign power to extradite anyone without having to produce evidence why, even if they have never left the UK or committed a crime in this country then this is permitted by default anyway.
When will we get a government that cares about our people more than appeasing the playground bully?
We went paperless, and when application forms, etc. arrive they are scanned and stored. Examination of the data shown that very often people would print out all the existing infromation on a customer and add it to the pile sent for scanning.
Result, look up a customer and you would find some files scanned half a dozen times.
It would certainly be fair use. Just imagine in the real world if someone asking for or giving directions to the Microsoft office had to have permission to say "Microsoft".
Does the site reference the King James version of the bible. Everyone know's that's the absolute truth.;-)
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My guess is he was worried that it would be such a large number that he would have been duty-bound to report it to the board, perhaps equipping himself for the orange jumpsuit even sooner.
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We once installed a configurable system, and did months of testing to ensure it worked on all configurations, boundary cases, etc.
This was an important financial system, and I know that if it had not worked as required there would have been hell to pay.
Six months later someone decided to check our test data against the live configuration and found a very odd rule, giving people with worse credit histories better interest rates. We queried it and they said it was wrong but "why was the system so hard to understand".
We brought up the original specifications, page diagrams etc. given by business and showed them that it worked in exactly the way they wanted it to. The "difficult to understand" argument was never done again. In fact the whole thing was put down to "just one of those things".
The ID manager suggested that we could query the database and find out how many people were given a rate inappropriate for the risk - and maybe flag the accounts for quick follow up if they had arrears. Almost unbelievably we were told that on "under no circumstances were we to query the database for this information, as the results could be seen as unfair to the business unit concerned". This came from a board level director so we really had to comply.
Again, had an IT problem lead to people being given the wrong rates we all know the first question would have been "How many people are affected and how much money is involved?". The second would have been "who was responsible?".
I believe that the business see the IT department as a car and them as the drivers. If they take a route that leaves them crawling in traffic at 20mph its "one of those things". If the car only crawls along at 20mph its "totally unacceptable".
CV: Two Years Oracle Database Experience
Real life: I wrote some hibernate code that ran against an Oracle database.
CV: Experience of XML and XSLT
Real life: I configured tomcat, that's XML. XSLT? Isn't that the same thing?
CV: 5 years. Java, C and Python.
Real life: I wrote some C five years ago and changed it again recently. (his Java experience was fine). I edited a python program once when the input format changed, no I really couldn't write anything from scratch.
One of these actually got the Job, because he apologised for his CV and then gave a real account of what he knew that matched our tests. He said the agency put all that rubbish in after he filled in a check-box questionnaire!
If you just want code-monkeys then yes. If you want someone who will say to you "we could replace all this procedural logic with a call to a rules engine and half a dozen rules" then you are more likely to find them as CS graduates.
4. Abdul, the apprentice of Wally. He got hired through a workaround, since hiring more coders was on hold at that corporation. So someone hired him as a web designer, then hastily dubbed him programmer. Ironically, he seemed actually decent at web design. As a programmer, the consensus is that he's too stupid to piss holes in snow. Seriously, he doesn't understand even the elementary basics, and is constantly on the look out for someone to pass solving anything onto.
Has that job for some 4 years now, since firing him would face the same problem with hiring a replacement. So he's keeping his job by sheer virtue of being marginally better than nothing.
Companies are really bad at dealing with this. I was in a company who gave a web developer a shot at a trainee programming position. She was an excellent web designer, but a really poor programmer. I was her team leader, so I asked her if she was happy with her new position, and she said "no, I just don't seem to think that way. It is difficult and seems to be quite tedious".
I asked her if she would like to move back to her old position, and she said yes. I thought this would be no problem, as we were noticing that the look & feel of the public site was not as polished since she left that group.
I hadn't counted on HR.
"you can't go from a trainee programmer to a senior web developer, that's two level's difference. She will have to move sideways to trainee web developer" They said. I pointed out her experience, the fact that she had done the job before and had excellent reviews but it was to no avail. They made a "concession" that she could move to "web developer" with a promise of promotion to "senior web developer" with in a year "if she performed OK", but anything else would contravene the HR procedures manual!
We lost her. I don't blame her, she took a senior position in a small web company. Career wise this has been a good move for her, the company has done well and she is now in charge of a department. It was our loss though, sometimes the company is so stupid.
The problem is religious people ask to be judged on a scientific basis - and then when they are say that they have not been judged on their criterion.
I have nothing against judging religions scientifically, or against saying they are non-scientific beliefs. The problem is when someone wants to say it is a scientific belief but won't evaluate the theory against evidence.
The strange thing is, in the UK we don't have a religous right to appease. So why is the Royal Society bothering?
Living in a British city where there are more Muslims than Christians the answer is obvious. Islam is the religion that demands representation in the schools. If they don't mention alternatives with a cringing "it's perfectly alright to believe this" there will be many irate parents calling on the school.
Most teachers won't even try to push the point, because they are worried that one of the extremists will take offence. If that happens you have to worry about a lot more than a complaint to the Education Authority.
Its a question of how much time is spent. A brief explanation of why creationism is not science would benefit the whole class. Getting into a hour long "but the Bible says" debate would not.
And if they are not sure if this is a good idea they could put it to a vote
And if they are not sure if this is a good idea they could put it to a vote
And if they are not sure if this is a good idea they could put it to a vote [Stack Overflow in googlePolicyRules(112)]
Or what about nationalism from a very populous country? A website criticizing one of those countries could get voted down in to oblivion - even if it's right.
In the case of Britain it would be the other way round. We love stories saying how bad it is but any suggestions that we don't have cause to winge would be voted down.
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Before I took up their cash-in hand job offer to deliver a package to their embassy in Islamabad. I've started to wonder whether the ticking really is an alarm clock. ;-)
Vodafone £15 a month (3GB download limit) Orange £15 a month (3GB download limit)
Its meaningless in the case of the UK anyway. Once you give the right to a foreign power to extradite anyone without having to produce evidence why, even if they have never left the UK or committed a crime in this country then this is permitted by default anyway.
When will we get a government that cares about our people more than appeasing the playground bully?
We went paperless, and when application forms, etc. arrive they are scanned and stored. Examination of the data shown that very often people would print out all the existing infromation on a customer and add it to the pile sent for scanning.
Result, look up a customer and you would find some files scanned half a dozen times.
Good pint, cultural homogeneity may or may not be necessary but it is certainly not sufficient.
What if the link contained Trademarked content?
It would certainly be fair use. Just imagine in the real world if someone asking for or giving directions to the Microsoft office had to have permission to say "Microsoft".
I was his room-mate.
I can imagine what will happen when the spam-bots index this page. New email addresses all round, and a server upgrade.
So could you get sued for putting a link to http://www.sheboyganpolice.com/?
The point is, WHO is to be the arbiter of "truth"
Does the site reference the King James version of the bible. Everyone know's that's the absolute truth. ;-)
My guess is he was worried that it would be such a large number that he would have been duty-bound to report it to the board, perhaps equipping himself for the orange jumpsuit even sooner.
We once installed a configurable system, and did months of testing to ensure it worked on all configurations, boundary cases, etc.
This was an important financial system, and I know that if it had not worked as required there would have been hell to pay.
Six months later someone decided to check our test data against the live configuration and found a very odd rule, giving people with worse credit histories better interest rates. We queried it and they said it was wrong but "why was the system so hard to understand".
We brought up the original specifications, page diagrams etc. given by business and showed them that it worked in exactly the way they wanted it to. The "difficult to understand" argument was never done again. In fact the whole thing was put down to "just one of those things".
The ID manager suggested that we could query the database and find out how many people were given a rate inappropriate for the risk - and maybe flag the accounts for quick follow up if they had arrears. Almost unbelievably we were told that on "under no circumstances were we to query the database for this information, as the results could be seen as unfair to the business unit concerned". This came from a board level director so we really had to comply.
Again, had an IT problem lead to people being given the wrong rates we all know the first question would have been "How many people are affected and how much money is involved?". The second would have been "who was responsible?".
I believe that the business see the IT department as a car and them as the drivers. If they take a route that leaves them crawling in traffic at 20mph its "one of those things". If the car only crawls along at 20mph its "totally unacceptable".
OK, the VW taureg V10 TDI has 310bhp, and a torque peak of more than 550lb/ft torque. As a marketing stunt they pulled a 747 aeroplane.
You will be a terrorist supporter and friend to the paedophiles. Don't even think of preventing use of this weapon against perverts and terrorists.
Think of the Children (but not in that way... we will know).
A couple of real life experiences:
CV: Two Years Oracle Database Experience
Real life: I wrote some hibernate code that ran against an Oracle database.
CV: Experience of XML and XSLT
Real life: I configured tomcat, that's XML. XSLT? Isn't that the same thing?
CV: 5 years. Java, C and Python. Real life: I wrote some C five years ago and changed it again recently. (his Java experience was fine). I edited a python program once when the input format changed, no I really couldn't write anything from scratch.
One of these actually got the Job, because he apologised for his CV and then gave a real account of what he knew that matched our tests. He said the agency put all that rubbish in after he filled in a check-box questionnaire!
If you just want code-monkeys then yes. If you want someone who will say to you "we could replace all this procedural logic with a call to a rules engine and half a dozen rules" then you are more likely to find them as CS graduates.
4. Abdul, the apprentice of Wally. He got hired through a workaround, since hiring more coders was on hold at that corporation. So someone hired him as a web designer, then hastily dubbed him programmer. Ironically, he seemed actually decent at web design. As a programmer, the consensus is that he's too stupid to piss holes in snow. Seriously, he doesn't understand even the elementary basics, and is constantly on the look out for someone to pass solving anything onto.
Has that job for some 4 years now, since firing him would face the same problem with hiring a replacement. So he's keeping his job by sheer virtue of being marginally better than nothing.
Companies are really bad at dealing with this. I was in a company who gave a web developer a shot at a trainee programming position. She was an excellent web designer, but a really poor programmer. I was her team leader, so I asked her if she was happy with her new position, and she said "no, I just don't seem to think that way. It is difficult and seems to be quite tedious".
I asked her if she would like to move back to her old position, and she said yes. I thought this would be no problem, as we were noticing that the look & feel of the public site was not as polished since she left that group.
I hadn't counted on HR.
"you can't go from a trainee programmer to a senior web developer, that's two level's difference. She will have to move sideways to trainee web developer" They said. I pointed out her experience, the fact that she had done the job before and had excellent reviews but it was to no avail. They made a "concession" that she could move to "web developer" with a promise of promotion to "senior web developer" with in a year "if she performed OK", but anything else would contravene the HR procedures manual!
We lost her. I don't blame her, she took a senior position in a small web company. Career wise this has been a good move for her, the company has done well and she is now in charge of a department. It was our loss though, sometimes the company is so stupid.
Interviewer: OK, so you know C? what is the result of i=0; i=i++; Joe Blow: Uhhhh...I....uuhhhh...it's compiler dependent!!
Is the correct answer!
Without an output statement you'll never know, a compiler could legally optimize the whole lot away!
The problem is religious people ask to be judged on a scientific basis - and then when they are say that they have not been judged on their criterion.
I have nothing against judging religions scientifically, or against saying they are non-scientific beliefs. The problem is when someone wants to say it is a scientific belief but won't evaluate the theory against evidence.
The strange thing is, in the UK we don't have a religous right to appease. So why is the Royal Society bothering?
Living in a British city where there are more Muslims than Christians the answer is obvious. Islam is the religion that demands representation in the schools. If they don't mention alternatives with a cringing "it's perfectly alright to believe this" there will be many irate parents calling on the school.
Most teachers won't even try to push the point, because they are worried that one of the extremists will take offence. If that happens you have to worry about a lot more than a complaint to the Education Authority.
Its a question of how much time is spent. A brief explanation of why creationism is not science would benefit the whole class. Getting into a hour long "but the Bible says" debate would not.
Somalia, being a libertarian paradise
If you discount the Islamic militia and the Islamic Courts Union maybe.
Google Unsure About Letting Users Vote On Search
Why don't they put it to a vote?
And if they are not sure if this is a good idea they could put it to a vote
And if they are not sure if this is a good idea they could put it to a vote
And if they are not sure if this is a good idea they could put it to a vote
[Stack Overflow in googlePolicyRules(112)]
Or what about nationalism from a very populous country? A website criticizing one of those countries could get voted down in to oblivion - even if it's right.
In the case of Britain it would be the other way round. We love stories saying how bad it is but any suggestions that we don't have cause to winge would be voted down.
What if I start a GoogleBomb campaign? Get thousands of slashdotters to remove it and we could change the results!