I they could do it with *money* then I am sure Americans can do it with metrics no?
You could make money smell like monkey urine and have it convert like Fahrenheit to Celsius X inches to the rod, and people would still use it because its money.
Most people don't care about measurements, other than the ones they were born knowing.
I remember in grade school in the 70's they tried to spend a couple years converting me. But when I moved to Japan I was pretty lost. Hell, it took forever to read a 24-hour clock correctly half the day.
I only managed to know what the temperature was talking about after spending a full 6 months in the country so I could physically feel the difference between 16c and 30c. But I still suck at weights, and I always forget my measurements when buying clothes.
If they want to avoid people who don't know Morse code, they can communicate on the frequencies reserved for it. But hell, for 6 years the only proficiency you needed was 5wpm to get the highest class license. That's hardly communicating.
That said, you still need to be licensed. It's not like they're giving everyone a gun, a bag of bullets and a case of beer.
Wikis are a great tool, but only as good as the information in them. If no one's documenting before the wiki, no one is going to after.
The last three projects I with had wiki (wikis, wikka, wikum?) for all aspects of the project from spec to doc. I was told that if I had any questions, I should just annotate the wiki with my questions so people who knew could fill them in.
In every case the wiki's were about 50% stubs, and of the rest of the pages, they were all
About half way through the project, everyone just skipped asking questions on the wiki because it was a waste of time when you needed a ready answer and did it in email.
These weren't an enterprise situation, but it still holds. You need to have the discipline and management in place, or whatever technology you use will not help you.
Just ask them to sign something saying they won't use it or you'll sue em.
Except that's exceptionally bad advice. The information isn't his to protect, it's property of his company and he's signed contracts to maintain its confidentiality. As an employee he doesn't have any power to re-engineer his contract to include external third parties.
What it would show me (as an interviewer) is that this person doesn't understand the proprietary and classified contract he's signed and is a security risk.
I would even consider contacting his employer and pointing out their security risk. I'd certainly like to know if my (former) employees were shopping my classified code.
I ask them to write out some psuedocode to a posed problem, then give them two samples of source code to talk about. The first is self contained and self explanatory, but has a few ways it can be improved. The second is complicated, relies on a number of outside dependencies, and solves a problem far outside the core expertise I'm looking for. This lets me see how they react when their back is against the wall.
When I travel out of the US (Which is about 50% of the time) I get a large majority of my news from Stewart, The Onion, and Colbert. Mostly because it's better written and better delivered than the other news sources. If "real" news could write as clearly, intelligently, and insightfully as these sources I might pay attention to it.
And sadly, I'm still better informed than most of my American colleagues.
They may not be "Real" news, but it keeps me entertained, informed, and isn't trying to make me hate my life and fear everyone.
CNN on the other hand (Which seems to be in ever hotel and waiting room on the planet) delivers the news with the same false forthrightness no mater if they're covering a cat up a tree or a massacre of orphans. They attempt to give all news the same mock gravity and seriousness so you'll stay tuned it, and be afraid to turn away. Which in turn makes it all worthless.
The approach of Stewart and Colbert is that the news is the entertainment, not much more than the Mystery Science Theater of news. Compared to the major outlets which focus on entertainment, and try to cram news into that mold, succeeding at neither entertaining nor informing.
Next time I loose some rare item in a sever crash or just to in-game wear and tear, can I clam this as an operating loss on my taxes?
Also, what's my tax status if I imagine I made a dust bunny worth a billion dollars? Taxed? If not, would I be taxed if I traded my $1Bil dust bunny for a piece of lint my friend thinks is worth $1bil?
Seems like I could hide a gadget under a desk that could tell what you were writing on it. Or what keys you were pressing on a keyboard resting on it. Or what they're writing on the whiteboard on the shared wall.
Of course I'd just use it so I could tell what my employees were IM-ing during the meetings, but my first thought was not cleaner keyboards.
If he's skilled enough to get one job, he's skilled enough to get another. There's no reason for a Flash developer (or any person with all their fingers and toes, and an IQ above 90) to not find some way to provide food and shelter for themselves. However people believe it will happen, so people do stupid things like take the first job offer, or selling their morals for money.
Not only should he quit, he should think about donating the money he's already made to a charity that fights whatever moral issues he had.
Or he could just change his Big List of Morals to match what he's thinking (which is: money > this moral problem) and get on with the job without guilt.
QR Codes are not as sophisticated, but can reconstruct the original data when 30% image is missing or distorted. Since these guys are obviously pretty clever, I can't imagine this feature would be overlooked.
[W]hat i am starting to think is these web 2.0, 3.0 shit are just buzzwords invented to sell more books, courses, certificates and such to the interested community.
Just starting to think that?
Shit. I first heard the term "Web 2.0" back in 1997. And it was used then as marketing hype. Of course then the terms being hyped were VRML, frames, Shockwave, and push.
True enough, though a hash could be exploited with some kind of injection attack.
However what if, instead of getting their hands on my hash, they get something that looks like my finger, at least to a sensor?
Well then I am fucked, and the argument about consequences are real. Can't change my finger. Well, I can up to 10 times, but an authentication scheme with only 10 possible hashes is obviously lousy.
It uses the Authentec chip which is in many readers. It is extremely difficult to fool because it scans below the skin level. Some jello mold finger isn't going to work with this.
Okay, maybe not a jello mold finger, but what about a Bic pen or a magic marker?
Just because no one has figured it out yet doesn't mean they won't tomorrow, and with stuff from their junk drawer.
Going with only a single authentication and calling yourself "secure" is foolish.
I can't see how there would be any other answer. A company doesn't spend $1.7 billion without kicking the tires and having a plan.
(Well, the other answer would be "They're snakeshit crazy" but every other action the company has taken indicates they're stone cold sane, if not downright clever.)
A Greedy Reader has already given two possible answers: 1) Steal directly from them 2) Extort money out of them.
Of these I'd go with #1. With #2 you will absolutely get caught and nailed to the wall, if not in other places.
How about: 3) Profit by telling them so they have better security. Or would doing the right thing make you feel like too much of a tool.
Afterward I'd also suggest:
1) Give up your career in crime if you're too much of a pussy to go through with it. "serendipitous independent research" like hell. Where do you think you are?
...it could have been so much more of a scathing critique of high school social politics than it turned out to be.
I really can't think of anything I'd be less likely to see/read/watch/participate in than a "critique of high school social politics". Sounds like something shown at 3:15am on the public access station.
I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with games having more depth, but the thoughts they provoke should enhance the game, not make me fall asleep.
You're right, I couldn't find my source so I was going from memory.
That will boost the Xbox numbers here by a lot, certainly there hasn't been anything like a Must Have Game for the 360 in Japan in the year since it launched. But if the only games they keep releasing here are translations of American sports and shooters, well, they're screwed, because those games just don't sell in Japan. Get some RPGs, fighting games, something based on a good anime franchise, a trading card game, or a port of a game-center game and they might have a chance.
But look at the top 50 games in Japan this week. Not a single xBox game on the list. The console has been out a year...
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Maybe for you.
You could make money smell like monkey urine and have it convert like Fahrenheit to Celsius X inches to the rod, and people would still use it because its money.
Most people don't care about measurements, other than the ones they were born knowing.
I remember in grade school in the 70's they tried to spend a couple years converting me. But when I moved to Japan I was pretty lost. Hell, it took forever to read a 24-hour clock correctly half the day.
I only managed to know what the temperature was talking about after spending a full 6 months in the country so I could physically feel the difference between 16c and 30c. But I still suck at weights, and I always forget my measurements when buying clothes.
Because you've never heard of Google or all of the free utilities that can do this?
Besides having a backup of a backup is not a bad idea. Especially of hard drives which will always eventually fail.
Also, if you ask Apple CS nicely they'll let you download everything again, though there's no formal channel for it.
If my passport is perfectly valid without it then why does it exist? It's certainly not preventing counterfeiting if they can just skip that step.
If they want to avoid people who don't know Morse code, they can communicate on the frequencies reserved for it. But hell, for 6 years the only proficiency you needed was 5wpm to get the highest class license. That's hardly communicating.
That said, you still need to be licensed. It's not like they're giving everyone a gun, a bag of bullets and a case of beer.
Wikis are a great tool, but only as good as the information in them. If no one's documenting before the wiki, no one is going to after.
The last three projects I with had wiki (wikis, wikka, wikum?) for all aspects of the project from spec to doc. I was told that if I had any questions, I should just annotate the wiki with my questions so people who knew could fill them in.
In every case the wiki's were about 50% stubs, and of the rest of the pages, they were all
About half way through the project, everyone just skipped asking questions on the wiki because it was a waste of time when you needed a ready answer and did it in email.
These weren't an enterprise situation, but it still holds. You need to have the discipline and management in place, or whatever technology you use will not help you.
What it would show me (as an interviewer) is that this person doesn't understand the proprietary and classified contract he's signed and is a security risk.
I would even consider contacting his employer and pointing out their security risk. I'd certainly like to know if my (former) employees were shopping my classified code.
I ask them to write out some psuedocode to a posed problem, then give them two samples of source code to talk about. The first is self contained and self explanatory, but has a few ways it can be improved. The second is complicated, relies on a number of outside dependencies, and solves a problem far outside the core expertise I'm looking for. This lets me see how they react when their back is against the wall.
Meteor fire sounds very cleansing.
When I travel out of the US (Which is about 50% of the time) I get a large majority of my news from Stewart, The Onion, and Colbert. Mostly because it's better written and better delivered than the other news sources. If "real" news could write as clearly, intelligently, and insightfully as these sources I might pay attention to it.
And sadly, I'm still better informed than most of my American colleagues.
They may not be "Real" news, but it keeps me entertained, informed, and isn't trying to make me hate my life and fear everyone.
CNN on the other hand (Which seems to be in ever hotel and waiting room on the planet) delivers the news with the same false forthrightness no mater if they're covering a cat up a tree or a massacre of orphans. They attempt to give all news the same mock gravity and seriousness so you'll stay tuned it, and be afraid to turn away. Which in turn makes it all worthless.
The approach of Stewart and Colbert is that the news is the entertainment, not much more than the Mystery Science Theater of news. Compared to the major outlets which focus on entertainment, and try to cram news into that mold, succeeding at neither entertaining nor informing.
Let me add to the pile of "gee this is stupid"...
Next time I loose some rare item in a sever crash or just to in-game wear and tear, can I clam this as an operating loss on my taxes?
Also, what's my tax status if I imagine I made a dust bunny worth a billion dollars? Taxed? If not, would I be taxed if I traded my $1Bil dust bunny for a piece of lint my friend thinks is worth $1bil?
Seems like I could hide a gadget under a desk that could tell what you were writing on it. Or what keys you were pressing on a keyboard resting on it. Or what they're writing on the whiteboard on the shared wall.
Of course I'd just use it so I could tell what my employees were IM-ing during the meetings, but my first thought was not cleaner keyboards.
I have before. It's no big deal.
However now I own the company, so fuck you.
Someone doesn't like working for me, they can quit too.
Quitting is extreme? In what sense?
If he's skilled enough to get one job, he's skilled enough to get another. There's no reason for a Flash developer (or any person with all their fingers and toes, and an IQ above 90) to not find some way to provide food and shelter for themselves. However people believe it will happen, so people do stupid things like take the first job offer, or selling their morals for money.
Not only should he quit, he should think about donating the money he's already made to a charity that fights whatever moral issues he had.
Or he could just change his Big List of Morals to match what he's thinking (which is: money > this moral problem) and get on with the job without guilt.
Mmmm... Cyber Monkey...
Just in time for Christmas!
QR Codes are not as sophisticated, but can reconstruct the original data when 30% image is missing or distorted. Since these guys are obviously pretty clever, I can't imagine this feature would be overlooked.
Just starting to think that?
Shit. I first heard the term "Web 2.0" back in 1997. And it was used then as marketing hype. Of course then the terms being hyped were VRML, frames, Shockwave, and push.
I wrote a number of them circa 1995...
If he leaves for EA he gets what's coming to him.
If you have proper backups, a disk crash is no more grief than installing a new drive.
I've had two hard drives fail in the last 6 months (Same model. Adjacent serial numbers even)
Here's now much grief they gave me:
1) Get a new hard drive.
2) Unplug old drive.
3) Plug in new drive.
Exactly the same as if I replaced them before they failed.
True enough, though a hash could be exploited with some kind of injection attack.
However what if, instead of getting their hands on my hash, they get something that looks like my finger, at least to a sensor?
Well then I am fucked, and the argument about consequences are real. Can't change my finger. Well, I can up to 10 times, but an authentication scheme with only 10 possible hashes is obviously lousy.
Okay, maybe not a jello mold finger, but what about a Bic pen or a magic marker?
Just because no one has figured it out yet doesn't mean they won't tomorrow, and with stuff from their junk drawer.
Going with only a single authentication and calling yourself "secure" is foolish.
I can't see how there would be any other answer. A company doesn't spend $1.7 billion without kicking the tires and having a plan.
(Well, the other answer would be "They're snakeshit crazy" but every other action the company has taken indicates they're stone cold sane, if not downright clever.)
A Greedy Reader has already given two possible answers:
1) Steal directly from them
2) Extort money out of them.
Of these I'd go with #1. With #2 you will absolutely get caught and nailed to the wall, if not in other places.
How about:
3) Profit by telling them so they have better security. Or would doing the right thing make you feel like too much of a tool.
Afterward I'd also suggest:
1) Give up your career in crime if you're too much of a pussy to go through with it. "serendipitous independent research" like hell. Where do you think you are?
I really can't think of anything I'd be less likely to see/read/watch/participate in than a "critique of high school social politics". Sounds like something shown at 3:15am on the public access station.
I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with games having more depth, but the thoughts they provoke should enhance the game, not make me fall asleep.
You're right, I couldn't find my source so I was going from memory.
That will boost the Xbox numbers here by a lot, certainly there hasn't been anything like a Must Have Game for the 360 in Japan in the year since it launched. But if the only games they keep releasing here are translations of American sports and shooters, well, they're screwed, because those games just don't sell in Japan. Get some RPGs, fighting games, something based on a good anime franchise, a trading card game, or a port of a game-center game and they might have a chance.
But look at the top 50 games in Japan this week. Not a single xBox game on the list. The console has been out a year...