The question has nothing to do about leadership and everything to do about age discrimination. What they're getting at is they won't hire you for typical skills (Java, C#) because they can get someone else younger and cheaper. They would be willing to pay more for a manager, but guess what, they're not actually hiring any managers because they only promote from within.
The way to beat age discrimination is to do all of the following:
Change jobs in a good economy
Have niche skills
Interview with people who are older than you and/or have more degrees and qualifications than you.
In my blog, I describe my use of BootIt Bare Metal to rapidly test installs of "semi-embedded" software I write that involve wrapping third-party installs of drivers as sub-installs. This will work only as long as BIOS's and Microsoft continue to support "legacy mode". I'm just hoping that the scientific & embedded world finishes moving to Linux before "legacy mode" disappears.
That's genius: comparing a "$100k/CPU" non-distributed database to a free distributed database. Also no mention that, yes, everyone hates Hive, and that's why there are a dozen replacements coming out this year promising 100x speedup, also all free.
And on programming languages, Locklin is condescending speaking from his high and mighty functional programming languages mountain, and makes no mention of the detour the industry had to first take into object-oriented programming to handle and organize the exploding size in software programs before combined functional/object languages could make a resurgence. He also neglects to make any mention of Python, which has been popular and mainstream since the late 90's.
Written in 1995 at the dawn of the Internet, The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst by Steve Talbott (and it's also available free online!) is even more applicable now with the arrival of texting and the smartphone. It's about the reductionism enforced by computers, and how while initially luxuries, every new device soon becomes a necessity to compete and survive in the modern world, and how each additional technological dependency reduces our humanity and severs our rich connections to each other and to the complex natural world around us.
It's 500 pages long, but reading 200 of those pages will convey Talbott's philosophy and point of view.
I forgot to mention Visual C++ 4.0 from 1995, which introduced the modern IDE. I just now updated Wikipedia.
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NT was the last revolutionary product put out by Microsoft. VB3 came out the same summer, and was also revolutionary. Excel 4.0 and Word 2.0 were the only other two revolutionary Microsoft products, and those came out the year previous.
All of these products are essentially unchanged over the past 20 years, with even the same codebase, with the exception of VB 3.0, concepts of which continue in the 2nd generation Visual Studio product (based on the late-90's Visual Interdev platform, chucking the highly responsive 1st generation that ended with Visual Studio 6.0).
Java 8 is still limited to 32-bit array indexes, meaning, e.g. that arrays of doubles are limited to 32GB. Java won't get true 64-bit support until Java 9 in 2016.
I don't know whether or not Snowden is real -- doesn't matter. The point is the mainstream media decided to trumpet it this time whereas they chose not to in 2006 with the AT&T NSA room. The reason was that the timing was right to (just barely) garner acceptance and thus legalize their illegal activities. We've seen it before with the TSA -- somehow the government knew that the timing was right Thanksgiving 2010 to start universal nude xrays. They just barely got it by against the uproar. Now it's accepted. I suspect they are using polls and statistics to maximize the speed toward tyranny and totalitarianism.
What a bizarre question: Facebook vs. the government. They're one and the same with PRISM. While I have been called paranoid and a conspiracy nut over the past decade for labelling Facebook and Google as government front operations, I call those who are late to the realization naive. Power naturally agglomerates like gravity wells regardless of whether that is "private sector" or "public sector".
We need to get back to 16th century thinking and government funded services so my taxes can go down another $10 a paycheck.
I just now calculated it, and you're right, it is about $10 per paycheck for a typical software developer income.
It used to be that kings and noblemen would fund science. Now they fund vaccines for the poor. It used to be people funded the poor via the "poor box" at church. Now people fund science (whether they like it or not).
The net result is, for the common person, taking religion and self-giving out of helping the poor.
I just started resuming going back to the movies, and I like it. It costs me well over $100 each time, including babysitting, IMAX 3D tickets, and popcorn. I couldn't afford it during the GFC. I'm enjoying the high-production cost, 3-D experience, and I don't mind the high ticket prices at all -- they pale in comparison to the babysitter. In combination, I always go to the first non-midnight show on the first day, when other true fans go -- again at the IMAX 3D, and I've never had a problem with other people's cell phones.
I'd bet a nontrivial amount of money that the Interestate Commerce Clause is 'elastic' enough to handle this one, if Congress felt like it
If a federal judge can strike down Virginia's ban on out-of-state trash processors shipping their trash to Virginia landfills, striking down barriers to Tesla selling direct to consumers across state lines seems like a no brainer to me. And I'm a states rights advocate.
I was all prepared to snark with, "Great, without technical questions, now hiring will be based on personal acquaintances only, resulting in unintended disadvantages to minorities and groups not typically represented in the technical work force." Sadly, though, I read the techcrunch.com piece linked in the Slashdot summary, and they not only outline a great alternative hiring process, they specifically caution against homogeneity.
Techcrunch.com's "discuss their past projects" reminds me of the best interview question I've ever learned. I learned it by being on the receiving end of a Microsoft interview 15-20 years ago. Every time I made a bold claim of my capabilities, the phone interviewer simply responded with, "can you give me an example of that?" Now when I interview people that I'm hiring, it's my number one question. I use that line over and over again, on every interview I conduct.
The dot-com bubble, at least, was understandable: a "gold rush" in a new frontier. But what is everyone chasing now? Is it a bubble for its own sake? Or is it a legitimate unleashing of capital pent up from the 2008 global financial crisis?
I'm guessing the former. From xconomy.com (emphasis added):
In my view, this is the nastiest of all startup sins: failing to involve customers and their feedback from literally the first day of a startup's life, keeping the most vital opinions silent—those of the eventual customers--for far longer than necessary.
When I hear this comment, as I do far too often, I switch to pleading mode: "Please. Take a week. Get some feedback. Does anybody really care, or are they giving you polite nods and little more." This generally leads to the second biggest reason too many startups suck: they're solving a non-problem.
The nearest I can tell, these Brooklyn startups are not serving Wall Street or HFT, where it is known there is money. Honestly, I couldn't even find a list of Brooklyn startups.
Slashdot Mirror
Woops, I meant Ecclesiastes (page 75).
The next book to be censored will be Ezekiel.
When I first read the headline, I thought it was about something else.
The question has nothing to do about leadership and everything to do about age discrimination. What they're getting at is they won't hire you for typical skills (Java, C#) because they can get someone else younger and cheaper. They would be willing to pay more for a manager, but guess what, they're not actually hiring any managers because they only promote from within.
The way to beat age discrimination is to do all of the following:
In my blog, I describe my use of BootIt Bare Metal to rapidly test installs of "semi-embedded" software I write that involve wrapping third-party installs of drivers as sub-installs. This will work only as long as BIOS's and Microsoft continue to support "legacy mode". I'm just hoping that the scientific & embedded world finishes moving to Linux before "legacy mode" disappears.
That's genius: comparing a "$100k/CPU" non-distributed database to a free distributed database. Also no mention that, yes, everyone hates Hive, and that's why there are a dozen replacements coming out this year promising 100x speedup, also all free.
And on programming languages, Locklin is condescending speaking from his high and mighty functional programming languages mountain, and makes no mention of the detour the industry had to first take into object-oriented programming to handle and organize the exploding size in software programs before combined functional/object languages could make a resurgence. He also neglects to make any mention of Python, which has been popular and mainstream since the late 90's.
Written in 1995 at the dawn of the Internet, The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst by Steve Talbott (and it's also available free online!) is even more applicable now with the arrival of texting and the smartphone. It's about the reductionism enforced by computers, and how while initially luxuries, every new device soon becomes a necessity to compete and survive in the modern world, and how each additional technological dependency reduces our humanity and severs our rich connections to each other and to the complex natural world around us.
It's 500 pages long, but reading 200 of those pages will convey Talbott's philosophy and point of view.
Excel 4.0 was revolutionary because it introduced autofill.
I forgot to mention Visual C++ 4.0 from 1995, which introduced the modern IDE. I just now updated Wikipedia.
NT was the last revolutionary product put out by Microsoft. VB3 came out the same summer, and was also revolutionary. Excel 4.0 and Word 2.0 were the only other two revolutionary Microsoft products, and those came out the year previous.
All of these products are essentially unchanged over the past 20 years, with even the same codebase, with the exception of VB 3.0, concepts of which continue in the 2nd generation Visual Studio product (based on the late-90's Visual Interdev platform, chucking the highly responsive 1st generation that ended with Visual Studio 6.0).
Java 8 is still limited to 32-bit array indexes, meaning, e.g. that arrays of doubles are limited to 32GB. Java won't get true 64-bit support until Java 9 in 2016.
I don't know whether or not Snowden is real -- doesn't matter. The point is the mainstream media decided to trumpet it this time whereas they chose not to in 2006 with the AT&T NSA room. The reason was that the timing was right to (just barely) garner acceptance and thus legalize their illegal activities. We've seen it before with the TSA -- somehow the government knew that the timing was right Thanksgiving 2010 to start universal nude xrays. They just barely got it by against the uproar. Now it's accepted. I suspect they are using polls and statistics to maximize the speed toward tyranny and totalitarianism.
1Hz to 100PHz. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/VISOR
Looks like what Geordi sees.
What a bizarre question: Facebook vs. the government. They're one and the same with PRISM. While I have been called paranoid and a conspiracy nut over the past decade for labelling Facebook and Google as government front operations, I call those who are late to the realization naive. Power naturally agglomerates like gravity wells regardless of whether that is "private sector" or "public sector".
Did the test include a simulated NSA tap, to test the impact of that optical degradation?
Photo radar tickets in Colorado don't have to be paid anyway unless they go to the trouble of serving you in person, which they never do.
I just now calculated it, and you're right, it is about $10 per paycheck for a typical software developer income.
It used to be that kings and noblemen would fund science. Now they fund vaccines for the poor. It used to be people funded the poor via the "poor box" at church. Now people fund science (whether they like it or not).
The net result is, for the common person, taking religion and self-giving out of helping the poor.
Is this Ask Slashdot, or are we expecting this question to be answered in the comments through the scientific method of pure speculation?
Due to Slashdot's "lameness filter" you can read what I was intended to post here over on reddit.
...to Windows 7?
I just started resuming going back to the movies, and I like it. It costs me well over $100 each time, including babysitting, IMAX 3D tickets, and popcorn. I couldn't afford it during the GFC. I'm enjoying the high-production cost, 3-D experience, and I don't mind the high ticket prices at all -- they pale in comparison to the babysitter. In combination, I always go to the first non-midnight show on the first day, when other true fans go -- again at the IMAX 3D, and I've never had a problem with other people's cell phones.
If a federal judge can strike down Virginia's ban on out-of-state trash processors shipping their trash to Virginia landfills, striking down barriers to Tesla selling direct to consumers across state lines seems like a no brainer to me. And I'm a states rights advocate.
I was all prepared to snark with, "Great, without technical questions, now hiring will be based on personal acquaintances only, resulting in unintended disadvantages to minorities and groups not typically represented in the technical work force." Sadly, though, I read the techcrunch.com piece linked in the Slashdot summary, and they not only outline a great alternative hiring process, they specifically caution against homogeneity.
Techcrunch.com's "discuss their past projects" reminds me of the best interview question I've ever learned. I learned it by being on the receiving end of a Microsoft interview 15-20 years ago. Every time I made a bold claim of my capabilities, the phone interviewer simply responded with, "can you give me an example of that?" Now when I interview people that I'm hiring, it's my number one question. I use that line over and over again, on every interview I conduct.
The dot-com bubble, at least, was understandable: a "gold rush" in a new frontier. But what is everyone chasing now? Is it a bubble for its own sake? Or is it a legitimate unleashing of capital pent up from the 2008 global financial crisis?
I'm guessing the former. From xconomy.com (emphasis added):
The nearest I can tell, these Brooklyn startups are not serving Wall Street or HFT, where it is known there is money. Honestly, I couldn't even find a list of Brooklyn startups.