Exactly. If you want Metro that's fine I guess (I hate it, it's like modern art compared to a Rembrandt, but whatever floats your boat).
But for Windows 8 to be successful, it HAD to be built on the.NET Framework. WinRT is a joke, a mess and will be a failure. Nobody wants 20% of the.NET Framework that we are all used to to try to write new apps in. They should have paid Novell a few million and bought Mono from them instead.
Nobody has used "linked lists" in 12 years. Of course the candidates can't pass your test! It's because you're an old fogey.
My buddy just failed an interview where I'm at right now. They asked him to write a sort routine. Seemed basic enough to my bosses, but why would a 30-year old have EVER written one?.Sort() has existed for his entire programming career.
Well, since 38% of your positions are unfilled, I would say that our skills are worth more. I mean, who needs a chemical or petroleum engineer? Almost nobody. Who needs programmers? Almost everybody.
Notice that a lot of people on this page are saying that they feel low-balled all the time. And yes, we do create wealth out of thin air by saving you millions.
They're from Asia where schoolteachers are godlike and beat them physically. They are used to abuse and take it and say, "May I have another?" That's why.
The very first question I ask a recruiter or look for on a job posting is a salary expectation. When I look for a job, I know what I'm going to get. If you aren't telling me ahead of time because you are trying to low-ball me after wasting my time, you will never see me in your interview. THIS is why you never get anyone good. Because good people don't waste time on jobs without a salary expectation upfront.
After I gave notice at my last job, my boss complained it was hard to replace me - and not because of a lack of applicants. In a nutshell, he said that all of the applicants either had zero relevant experience or they had great experience and tech skills but had absolutely no interpersonal skills. I've found that the ability to talk to non-technical people is more important to most hiring managers simply because they mistakenly think it's a lot easier to train someone to be technical than it is to train them to work with people.
Now if you prove yourself a hard worker, (and the company is using proper HR policies), The company will see your value as greater and give you a raise, and try harder to retain you.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I've never seen this anywhere I've worked. There are so many things wrong with that statement it's hard to even know where to begin:
1. The best IT people are NOT hard working. They are astoundingly LAZY. They write almost nothing and never look like they are doing anything. And yet their code is fast, clean, maintainable and they are always moving to the next project because the last one is in production and butter smooth. It's 100% impossible for an IT outsider to know who the good employees are.
2. I've never been at a company that used any HR policy that even found good employees period. They SHOULD concentrate on what you accomplished and how much money it made or saved the company. Instead, they usually devolve into twisted popularity contests or seeing who is the most obsequious or who is the best meaningless rule-follower.
3. I've never been at a company (that wasn't a consulting company) where they gave ANY value to IT workers period. Despite the fact that you are out-earning them 2:1 in some cases and that your IQ is 25-30 points higher than theirs, they treat you like you are some dumb plumber or auto mechanic that dropped out of high school and are overcharging them for fixing their car or something.
4. Companies will spend a fortune to attract new talent and pay recruiters 10-15% for the privilege. But they have stupid rules in place that PREVENT them from EVER giving a 5% raise to an IT worker no matter how valuable they are. As such, they spend all their time re-training instead of retaining.
To illustrate the fossil problem, here is what a particularly vigorous advocate of Darwinism, Oxford Zoology Professor Richard Dawkins, says in The Blind Watchmaker about the "Cambrian explosion,"
The Cambrian strata of rocks, vintage about 600 million years, are the oldest ones in which we find most of the major invertebrate groups. And we find many of them in an advanced state of evolution, the very first time they appear. It is as though they were just planted there, without any evolutionary history. Needless to say, this appearance of sudden planting has delighted creationists. Evolutionists of all stripes believe, however, that this really does represent a very large gap in the fossil record, a gap that is simply due to the fact that, for some reason, very few fossils have lasted from periods before about 600 million years ago.
Immediately after the passage above about the Cambrian explosion, Dawkins adds the remark that, whatever their disagreements about the tempo and mechanism of evolution, scientific evolutionists all "despise" the creationists who take delight in pointing out the absence of fossil transitional intermediates. That word "despise" is well chosen. Darwinists do not regard creationists as sincere doubters but as dishonest propagandists."
Most people's Facebook status includes their Marital Status, Religion, etc., several things that are not allowed to be asked in of a prospective employee. So I would think somebody could have gotten them on that.
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Seriously. Icons I use:
Open. Build. Comment/Uncomment. Step Out. Run. Stop. Pause.
A Normal Menu with a button bar with 7 large buttons would be great.
Exactly. If you want Metro that's fine I guess (I hate it, it's like modern art compared to a Rembrandt, but whatever floats your boat).
But for Windows 8 to be successful, it HAD to be built on the .NET Framework. WinRT is a joke, a mess and will be a failure. Nobody wants 20% of the .NET Framework that we are all used to to try to write new apps in. They should have paid Novell a few million and bought Mono from them instead.
Nobody has used "linked lists" in 12 years. Of course the candidates can't pass your test! It's because you're an old fogey.
My buddy just failed an interview where I'm at right now. They asked him to write a sort routine. Seemed basic enough to my bosses, but why would a 30-year old have EVER written one? .Sort() has existed for his entire programming career.
Well, since 38% of your positions are unfilled, I would say that our skills are worth more. I mean, who needs a chemical or petroleum engineer? Almost nobody. Who needs programmers? Almost everybody.
Notice that a lot of people on this page are saying that they feel low-balled all the time. And yes, we do create wealth out of thin air by saving you millions.
They're from Asia where schoolteachers are godlike and beat them physically. They are used to abuse and take it and say, "May I have another?" That's why.
The very first question I ask a recruiter or look for on a job posting is a salary expectation. When I look for a job, I know what I'm going to get. If you aren't telling me ahead of time because you are trying to low-ball me after wasting my time, you will never see me in your interview. THIS is why you never get anyone good. Because good people don't waste time on jobs without a salary expectation upfront.
Wow. Those are low. Remind me not to move to Spokane...
There are 2 types of engineers that can't communicate.
1. Ones that can't communicate with non-technical people. I can find a place for them.
2. Ones that can't communicate with technical people either because they are total jerks. There is NO place for them.
After I gave notice at my last job, my boss complained it was hard to replace me - and not because of a lack of applicants. In a nutshell, he said that all of the applicants either had zero relevant experience or they had great experience and tech skills but had absolutely no interpersonal skills. I've found that the ability to talk to non-technical people is more important to most hiring managers simply because they mistakenly think it's a lot easier to train someone to be technical than it is to train them to work with people.
FTFY
Now if you prove yourself a hard worker, (and the company is using proper HR policies), The company will see your value as greater and give you a raise, and try harder to retain you.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I've never seen this anywhere I've worked. There are so many things wrong with that statement it's hard to even know where to begin:
1. The best IT people are NOT hard working. They are astoundingly LAZY. They write almost nothing and never look like they are doing anything. And yet their code is fast, clean, maintainable and they are always moving to the next project because the last one is in production and butter smooth. It's 100% impossible for an IT outsider to know who the good employees are.
2. I've never been at a company that used any HR policy that even found good employees period. They SHOULD concentrate on what you accomplished and how much money it made or saved the company. Instead, they usually devolve into twisted popularity contests or seeing who is the most obsequious or who is the best meaningless rule-follower.
3. I've never been at a company (that wasn't a consulting company) where they gave ANY value to IT workers period. Despite the fact that you are out-earning them 2:1 in some cases and that your IQ is 25-30 points higher than theirs, they treat you like you are some dumb plumber or auto mechanic that dropped out of high school and are overcharging them for fixing their car or something.
4. Companies will spend a fortune to attract new talent and pay recruiters 10-15% for the privilege. But they have stupid rules in place that PREVENT them from EVER giving a 5% raise to an IT worker no matter how valuable they are. As such, they spend all their time re-training instead of retaining.
http://www.arn.org/docs/johnson/pjdogma1.htm
An excerpt:
To illustrate the fossil problem, here is what a particularly vigorous advocate of Darwinism, Oxford Zoology Professor Richard Dawkins, says in The Blind Watchmaker about the "Cambrian explosion,"
The Cambrian strata of rocks, vintage about 600 million years, are the oldest ones in which we find most of the major invertebrate groups. And we find many of them in an advanced state of evolution, the very first time they appear. It is as though they were just planted there, without any evolutionary history. Needless to say, this appearance of sudden planting has delighted creationists. Evolutionists of all stripes believe, however, that this really does represent a very large gap in the fossil record, a gap that is simply due to the fact that, for some reason, very few fossils have lasted from periods before about 600 million years ago. Immediately after the passage above about the Cambrian explosion, Dawkins adds the remark that, whatever their disagreements about the tempo and mechanism of evolution, scientific evolutionists all "despise" the creationists who take delight in pointing out the absence of fossil transitional intermediates. That word "despise" is well chosen. Darwinists do not regard creationists as sincere doubters but as dishonest propagandists."
Paranoid Schizophrenia
Shouldn't that be Polaroid Schizophrenia?
What's a cap?
So, he's basically Martha Stewart...
Time to put your kid in another day care...
You forgot: - Was he considered to be a Creationist? In that case, all the other questions go out the window even if they were all followed to a T.
I'm not sure if you are joking, but this totally happens to me all the time.
So take a picture of the car and license plate and post it online. Watch the hilarity ensue. (IANAL.)
Yes. All of my media from Microsoft still PlaysForSure.
You are correct sir. It's a CONSTANT struggle to maintain our freedom against tyranny.
Great work?!? All you have to do is not wear pink!
It's a Christian tract site. So, let's see. Already it was used to block political speech, religious speech...
Everything, and I mean everything, just works so easily and quickly.
Everything except Flash websites, apparently...
Exactly this. As far as I can see, Win 8 is going to be a bigger failure than Me and Vista combined.
Most people's Facebook status includes their Marital Status, Religion, etc., several things that are not allowed to be asked in of a prospective employee. So I would think somebody could have gotten them on that.