But the point is that he shouldn't have to. There is absolutely no benefit to this change and I can't for the life of me imagine what they were thinking when they made this decision.
That said, I think DST in stupid in general, but arbitrarily changing it for the US is even worse.
You might have a point if these two words were ever pronounced correctly in the US. I can't tell you how many times I've heard people say "expresso" or "two cappuccinos".
I expected trouble from my doctor when I had my vasectomy consultation, but it was actually pretty easy. I was a little over 30 but didn't have kids. When he started in on the "This is permanent, you know..." stuff I politely explained that I had been sure about this for years, had already done my research, and my long-term SO was ok with it as well (and was, in fact, sitting in the waiting room if he would like to ask her). After that he relaxed and just answered my questions and set up an appointment.
I'm sure that would have gone quite differently if I were a childless woman wanting a tubal ligation, though.
Yeah, you can laugh about that but I was doing ISP tech support back in the late '90s when Windows machines didn't come with browsers. My calls went just like that except that a) Netscape's FTP site had about six more subdirectories, and b) %^#$&*^#tUSERS CAN'T FOLLOW DIRECTIONS.
I've always thought that the best approach would be to let people edit or delete their comments up until the time someone replies to it, at which time it's locked. Or moderates it, if we're talking about/.
Ever hear of the "two months salary" rule for engagement rings?
That's not a "rule", it's a marketing slogan created by De Beers. They worked very hard to get that idea ingrained into western society and your repeating it would make them proud. You also shouldn't get "value" confused with "price" because where diamonds are concerned, there's no connection between the two.
Nice generalizations, but it sounds to me like you're talking to the wrong women. I'm getting married next year and my SO doesn't want a diamond any more than I do.
Actually, I interviewed for a system administration position, not software development. My SO does work for Google, in a non-engineering, non-IT position, and her interview experience was pretty much like the rest of these stories. The details were different because the jobs are different, but she had the same all-day, five-interviews-in-a-row that they give developers and sysadmins.
Interesting. I got as far as an in-person interview there and education came up at the very beginning of the five hour day of interviews. The recruiter I spoke to asked why I don't have a degree and said, "You know education is very important here, right?".
Which is not to say that I don't believe you. I just found this a good place to post my experience.
You can't have your Jamboree at Fort A.P. hill, and rent a government base (and use a lot of government labor) for free one minute, and the next minute, say that homosexuals can't be scouts.
I don't know, the US military seems to get away with it.
Sorry having to wear generic clothes instead of name brand, doesn't make you poor. Going without food for the 3rd day in a row in order to insure your child has a scrap of bread is poor. That doesn't happen in America unless it is by choice.
Let me guess, you live in the suburbs, right?
Come to San Francisco's Tenderloin district sometime and say that. Or downtown LA. Or pretty much any big city. Then tell me the people living on the streets are doing so "by choice".
The best way to read web site stats is to use something like AWStats which gets its information directly from your server logs. All the problems that relate to third-party services don't apply.
Again, I am not visiting websites that are trying to exploit such a vulnerability.
... as far as you know.
Unless you only read the same few sites, you don't really know if any given site you're reading is malicious or not. And you never know if it's been compromised and is now hosting the malicious code. There are many, many ways that even careful users can accidentally be compromised if they're using insecure software (on the other hand, careful users generally don't choose to use insecure software).
You're talking about format=flowed quoting as opposed to inserting line breaks. It has nothing to do with HTML. It's also arguably the right way to quote text. And it's a standard.
Meanwhile as an innocent bystander, I am labelled as SPAM by these lazy blocking services.
To be fair, you're listed as a dynamic IP address, not as a spam source. Spam BLs and dynamic address range lists are two completely different things. Mail server admins often subscribe to both, but they generally aren't found in the same lists. Dynamic IP addresses are blocked because mail servers have no business running on them.
Dynamic address ranges are supplied by ISPs. If your address isn't dynamic, and your ISP won't update their addressing information, then they are the ones to blame. If they won't fix it, find a new ISP or smarthost your mail through their service or buy SMTP service somewhere else (a $20/month RimuHosting virtual server would fix your problem nicely).
It's true. I don't work for Google but I interviewed there a couple months ago. I did a 1.5 hour phone interview and a five hour in person interview with six different people (or pairs of people) back to back. We ate lunch during one of them. This was for a sysadmin position, not development. I can only imagine that the developer interviews are even harder.
Their trick to hiring good people is to not have "hiring staff". At the beginning of my day I spent about 15 minutes talking to an HR person. The rest of the interviews were with the people I'd be working side-by-side with. Everyone at Google is an interviewer and everyone is the hiring staff.
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Anyone (especially /. readers) sending their passwords in clear text over an open wireless network deserves what they get.
But the point is that he shouldn't have to. There is absolutely no benefit to this change and I can't for the life of me imagine what they were thinking when they made this decision.
That said, I think DST in stupid in general, but arbitrarily changing it for the US is even worse.
You might have a point if these two words were ever pronounced correctly in the US. I can't tell you how many times I've heard people say "expresso" or "two cappuccinos".
Unless it wasn't.
I expected trouble from my doctor when I had my vasectomy consultation, but it was actually pretty easy. I was a little over 30 but didn't have kids. When he started in on the "This is permanent, you know..." stuff I politely explained that I had been sure about this for years, had already done my research, and my long-term SO was ok with it as well (and was, in fact, sitting in the waiting room if he would like to ask her). After that he relaxed and just answered my questions and set up an appointment.
I'm sure that would have gone quite differently if I were a childless woman wanting a tubal ligation, though.
Yeah, you can laugh about that but I was doing ISP tech support back in the late '90s when Windows machines didn't come with browsers. My calls went just like that except that a) Netscape's FTP site had about six more subdirectories, and b) %^#$&*^#tUSERS CAN'T FOLLOW DIRECTIONS.
Seriously, it was hell.
And Orkut (http://www.orkut.com/About.aspx ).
Although, created by an employee, Orkut was always kind of a "Google presents..." type of thing rather than an official Google product.
While I mostly disagree with your assessment of what should be considered "web 2.0", I've been trying to tell people this about MySpace for quite a while now.
I've always thought that the best approach would be to let people edit or delete their comments up until the time someone replies to it, at which time it's locked. Or moderates it, if we're talking about /.
Well, there was one famous drive-by by the IE team a few years back. Pity it didn't turn out exactly how they expected.
That's not a "rule", it's a marketing slogan created by De Beers. They worked very hard to get that idea ingrained into western society and your repeating it would make them proud. You also shouldn't get "value" confused with "price" because where diamonds are concerned, there's no connection between the two.
Nice generalizations, but it sounds to me like you're talking to the wrong women. I'm getting married next year and my SO doesn't want a diamond any more than I do.
Actually, I interviewed for a system administration position, not software development. My SO does work for Google, in a non-engineering, non-IT position, and her interview experience was pretty much like the rest of these stories. The details were different because the jobs are different, but she had the same all-day, five-interviews-in-a-row that they give developers and sysadmins.
Interesting. I got as far as an in-person interview there and education came up at the very beginning of the five hour day of interviews. The recruiter I spoke to asked why I don't have a degree and said, "You know education is very important here, right?".
Which is not to say that I don't believe you. I just found this a good place to post my experience.
I don't know, the US military seems to get away with it.
I wish.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Let me guess, you live in the suburbs, right?
Come to San Francisco's Tenderloin district sometime and say that. Or downtown LA. Or pretty much any big city. Then tell me the people living on the streets are doing so "by choice".
It sounds like it's not Apple you want to talk to then, but the people who build OS X packages of GPL'd software.
Don't read much Kafka, do you?
The best way to read web site stats is to use something like AWStats which gets its information directly from your server logs. All the problems that relate to third-party services don't apply.
Unless you only read the same few sites, you don't really know if any given site you're reading is malicious or not. And you never know if it's been compromised and is now hosting the malicious code. There are many, many ways that even careful users can accidentally be compromised if they're using insecure software (on the other hand, careful users generally don't choose to use insecure software).
You're talking about format=flowed quoting as opposed to inserting line breaks. It has nothing to do with HTML. It's also arguably the right way to quote text. And it's a standard.
To be fair, you're listed as a dynamic IP address, not as a spam source. Spam BLs and dynamic address range lists are two completely different things. Mail server admins often subscribe to both, but they generally aren't found in the same lists. Dynamic IP addresses are blocked because mail servers have no business running on them.
Dynamic address ranges are supplied by ISPs. If your address isn't dynamic, and your ISP won't update their addressing information, then they are the ones to blame. If they won't fix it, find a new ISP or smarthost your mail through their service or buy SMTP service somewhere else (a $20/month RimuHosting virtual server would fix your problem nicely).
Spam isn't an acronym, by the way.
Having eaten at Google a few times as a guest (as recently as dinner last night, in fact), I'd say they're both. Their food really is amazingly good.
Incidentally, pretty much everything you hear about working for Google is true.
It's true. I don't work for Google but I interviewed there a couple months ago. I did a 1.5 hour phone interview and a five hour in person interview with six different people (or pairs of people) back to back. We ate lunch during one of them. This was for a sysadmin position, not development. I can only imagine that the developer interviews are even harder.
Their trick to hiring good people is to not have "hiring staff". At the beginning of my day I spent about 15 minutes talking to an HR person. The rest of the interviews were with the people I'd be working side-by-side with. Everyone at Google is an interviewer and everyone is the hiring staff.