I've had a couple of interviews where I have had to write code samples. One, even, where I was supposed to do this over the telephone!
I choked, badly. In that kind of scenario, I don't do well. I admit, I'm reliant on the compiler to catch syntax issues, and I get wrapped up trying to solve that when hand-writing code on paper under pressure.
For a new hire, fresh out of school, with little experience? Perhaps it's a way to demonstrate skill. For someone with 15 years of development experience? Not so much.
Please.
Like so many other comments have stated, getting hurt while playing is a normal part of growing up. It strengthens kids.
Witness studies that show trying to protect children from the dirty, dirty world is creating generations of people who are allergic to everything.
http://www.parenthood.com/articles.html?article_id =4230
Now I'll get EVEN MORE "omfg!!!!!!!!!!!1111one! What's this going to mean for using JBoss? We should hide under a rock and never, ever look at OSS again!" class emails to deal with.
True, but doesn't any antenna hooked up to a transmitter need to be FCC certified?
Given that his website's domain ends in ".uk", I am going on the assumption that the FCC does not have jurisdiction over his setup.
Not really. Take the word "bass". From looking at the spelling, can you derive the pronunciation?
Yes. If schools would get back to teaching phonics. I, 35 years later, still remember learning pronounciation by looking at the number of vowels in a word, and whether it was a "short a" or a "long a" sound.
So by that, it is to this day easy for me to look at "b-a-s-s" and know it's pronounced, "bah-ss" and not "base". I rarely mispronounce or misspell words -- even names, unless they are derived from a language other than English. It made learning to read much easier because I had an algorithm for sounding out a word
I certainly hope that Apple doesn't buy nintendo (even if they could)
And that's a big IF there. US companies purchasing Japanese companies is difficult. I've seen first-hand what it would take for a company with a market cap 4x a Japanese competitor to try to buy them out.
Suddenly, all of these bureaucratic roadblocks appeared, and got very very large very very quickly.
Please. Tell me where there is a place where I can get a $50K a year job and afford at least a 1500ft^2 house.
Where houses that size are affordable, one can't find a job.
Where there are jobs, it takes $80K, $90K to afford it.
We own a 1300 ft^2 house (albeit with 3/4 acre), but it takes two of us making $75K+ to comfortably afford it.
And this isn't Silicon Valley.
I think the "bad batch" theory is likely. When I was 11, both my brother and I had the measles. IIRC, there was a minor outbreak of it for kids our age at the time.
This makes me wonder now if the mumps portion of my vaccination took.
The truth is that Apple's "security model" consists of periodically asking you for a username and password with no validation provided to YOU that proves the application asking is actually what it claims to be in the first place
True.
However, what this model stops is average Joe User surfing to some page and unbeknownst to them, having something get installed that oh, I don't know, tracks their every web site, or changes the home page or something.
So if I intentionally go and download an app, and am asked for my password as a validation to let that install happen, that is at least a double-check that is what I intended. What's IN that app, well, that could still be a program that does a system("cd/;rm -rf *").
But if I just hit a website and see that dialog pop up, I'm not going to let it go thru.
Users do need to take SOME responsibility for the use of their computer.
So why should gay & lesbians, who probably "aren't against straights," have to be ok with watching some guy and his girlfriend attempt to perform tonsilectomies on each other in public and "accept that it's ok?"
Maybe they find that as disgusting as "2 hairy guys tonguing each other in public."
Just because you can't imagine looking at a hairy butt and thinking, "love," doesn't mean there aren't people in the world that DO look at a hairy butt and think, "love."
They are not looking at yours. So why should it matter to you?
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I've had a couple of interviews where I have had to write code samples. One, even, where I was supposed to do this over the telephone!
I choked, badly. In that kind of scenario, I don't do well. I admit, I'm reliant on the compiler to catch syntax issues, and I get wrapped up trying to solve that when hand-writing code on paper under pressure.
For a new hire, fresh out of school, with little experience? Perhaps it's a way to demonstrate skill. For someone with 15 years of development experience? Not so much.
So you're saying you would turn down any job that had as a stated requirement that you are on call at all? Would you accept say, 3 or 4 days a month?
Please. Like so many other comments have stated, getting hurt while playing is a normal part of growing up. It strengthens kids. Witness studies that show trying to protect children from the dirty, dirty world is creating generations of people who are allergic to everything. http://www.parenthood.com/articles.html?article_id =4230
Oh, GOD.
Now I'll get EVEN MORE "omfg!!!!!!!!!!!1111one! What's this going to mean for using JBoss?
We should hide under a rock and never, ever look at OSS again!" class emails to deal with.
True, but doesn't any antenna hooked up to a transmitter need to be FCC certified? Given that his website's domain ends in ".uk", I am going on the assumption that the FCC does not have jurisdiction over his setup.
Not really. Take the word "bass". From looking at the spelling, can you derive the pronunciation?
Yes. If schools would get back to teaching phonics. I, 35 years later, still remember learning pronounciation by looking at the number of vowels in a word, and whether it was a "short a" or a "long a" sound.
So by that, it is to this day easy for me to look at "b-a-s-s" and know it's pronounced, "bah-ss" and not "base". I rarely mispronounce or misspell words -- even names, unless they are derived from a language other than English. It made learning to read much easier because I had an algorithm for sounding out a word
I certainly hope that Apple doesn't buy nintendo (even if they could) And that's a big IF there. US companies purchasing Japanese companies is difficult. I've seen first-hand what it would take for a company with a market cap 4x a Japanese competitor to try to buy them out. Suddenly, all of these bureaucratic roadblocks appeared, and got very very large very very quickly.
Please. Tell me where there is a place where I can get a $50K a year job and afford at least a 1500ft^2 house. Where houses that size are affordable, one can't find a job. Where there are jobs, it takes $80K, $90K to afford it. We own a 1300 ft^2 house (albeit with 3/4 acre), but it takes two of us making $75K+ to comfortably afford it. And this isn't Silicon Valley.
And paranoia is platform-agnostic. :-)
I think the "bad batch" theory is likely. When I was 11, both my brother and I had the measles. IIRC, there was a minor outbreak of it for kids our age at the time.
This makes me wonder now if the mumps portion of my vaccination took.
The truth is that Apple's "security model" consists of periodically asking you for a username and password with no validation provided to YOU that proves the application asking is actually what it claims to be in the first place
/;rm -rf *").
True.
However, what this model stops is average Joe User surfing to some page and unbeknownst to them, having something get installed that oh, I don't know, tracks their every web site, or changes the home page or something.
So if I intentionally go and download an app, and am asked for my password as a validation to let that install happen, that is at least a double-check that is what I intended. What's IN that app, well, that could still be a program that does a system("cd
But if I just hit a website and see that dialog pop up, I'm not going to let it go thru.
Users do need to take SOME responsibility for the use of their computer.
You're kidding me. MySQL STILL doesn't have RI? That, right there, would be the only reason I'd need to use PostgreSQL. (in fact, I have.)
You want unfilmable, try Vernor Vinge's A Deepness In The Sky.
Oooh, yeah. Good one. I was going to say, Ringworld by Larry Niven. I would LOVE to see that as a movie.
So why should gay & lesbians, who probably "aren't against straights," have to be ok with watching some guy and his girlfriend attempt to perform tonsilectomies on each other in public and "accept that it's ok?"
Maybe they find that as disgusting as "2 hairy guys tonguing each other in public."
Just because you can't imagine looking at a hairy butt and thinking, "love," doesn't mean there aren't people in the world that DO look at a hairy butt and think, "love."
They are not looking at yours. So why should it matter to you?