"Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." -Winston Churchill
It really does amaze me that humans ever managed to crawl out of the evolutionary cesspool. We spend far too much effort attempting to protect the stupid. We should let the universe do much more pruning of the dead wood. Here's your sign...
Back in the prehistoric days a group of us were sitting in a bull-pen outside the datacenter. There were big windows on the datacenter wall so we could all ooh & ahh at the blinky lights on the servers and switches. Suddenly, my workstation froze - and when I (and every other person in the bullpen) yelled and looked up, we saw our network admin standing in the datacenter looking back at us with a "What?" look on his face. In his hand was the Ethernet cable he had just pulled out of a core switch...
The rich don't cook meth, but they will lay-off a single father of 4 young children in order to get a bigger bonus for themselves. The poor don't design new ways to cheat the government on a multi-million dollar defense program, but they will skip out on their drug possession bail bond.
Of course it is ethical. I know my contacts. I've worked with my contacts. I know what they can and can't do. Why would I take the chance of hiring a complete unknown when I can hire someone I know can do the job I need and that I know I can work with??
Don't blame Linkedin if you don't have any friends that are willing to work with you again.
Right - and when you can integrate your SAP Cloud ERP system, your SalesForce.com CRM system, your Workday HRIS, *and* the data from your 500 retail locations that you poll daily, all within your Netezza AppNexus data warehouse to generate dashboards using your MicroStrategy MCDWS BI system, without your IT department, you let us know...
First flight of the Shuttle: 1981 First flight of DC/X: 1993
I don't disagree that the DC/X was killed by NASA jealousy and incompetence - but the shuttle was a mature production program by the time DC/X was testing. No one had money for aerospace in the mid 1990s - both military and civilian programs were being canceled left & right.
I applaud ANY project that is successful at ANY aerospace related engineering. Anything is better than giving the money to 3rd world despots & domestic leeches.
Dousers claim to be able to find water, oil, gas, gold and precious gems buried hundreds of feet below ground. Why would an air gap of 15 feet be unreasonable??
...shouldn't talk about a world they don't understand. The modern farmer is not a hick chewing on a stalk of wheat and wasting natural resources. Farmers manage their resources, including their water & soil. They are using drip irrigation & water reclamation to produce more food more efficiently than ever before. They are also using soil analysis, GPS location and yield results to optimize crop rotation and soil amendment application. Can it get better? Of course. Does the rest of the world need to catch up with the leaders in the field? Absolutely. But don't for a minute believe that agribusiness isn't just as high-tech as every other industry in the world.
Oh, and for the hippies telling me to stop eating beef and that I should live on homegrown lentils, twigs and leaves: fuck-off - I'm an omnivore - I'll eat anything that doesn't eat me first.
...we had an IBM consultant who worked onsite doing the care & feeding of our IBM 390. He would spend most of his day running diagnostics and printing usage reports. I remember looking at some of his reports sitting next to the printer, and the vast majority of the time the only job running was his diagnostics program...
I worked at the corporate office of a large, nationwide restaurant company. Saying you are the best tech guy at a restaurant company is like being the tallest guy in the Munchin Baskeball Association.
...the name of the school on the diploma doesn't really matter for technical positions. It's much more about the contacts you can make from the interaction with other students at the school or what contacts the instructors have because they also do consulting work on the side.
Actually, I say screw the master's degree in Engineering. If you want to get somewhere, get an MBA. It will be completely useless piece of paper, but it's how you show employers that an Engineer can also be a Manager.
As a manager that has needed to hire technical employees AND also an unemployed technical worker desperately looking for a job, I have seen both sides of the hiring process - and I can say without question that it is completely broken. The recruiters have no idea what skills are needed or how to match a technical job description to a technical resume. HR believes that they need to use systems like Taleo, Kenexa, Brassring, etc to collect a huge amount of data from every candidate - and that data is not used by *anyone*. Why does the company need to know the phone number of the boss I had in 1991 *before* I have even gone through the first screening? It is a huge waste of time for the candidates and useless collection of data. Meanwhile, the thousands of 3rd party recruiters are copying and reposting job descriptions all over the internet, so that 1 job opening at 1 company results in hundreds of job posts at Dice, Indeed, Monster, etc. The hiring manager is often not allowed work with recruiters he knows can provide good candidates - he can only consider candidates provided by the "approved" recruiters that have an agreement in place with the HR department. The result of all this nonsense is that the HR department is buried in useless data from unqualified candidates, the hiring manager sees a tiny percentage of the total candidates, the vast majority of the resume the hiring manager does see are NOT a good fit, and your hours of work to craft a resume and complete the online application data entry ultimately goes absolutely nowhere.
The entire HR recruiting process is designed to be a filtering process. They are not looking for the best candidate, they are looking for a reason to NOT hire each candidate. If your resume makes it through all the filter screens, then they assume you must be the best candidate. This is a critical concept - it means that if you are looking for a job, your primary goal should be to NOT be excluded. You need to get past the key word match filters, past the simulators, past the technical tests, past the personality tests, past the phone screens and finally past the in-person interviews. If your resume is still in the stack, you will probably get the job offer - but at any step you could be stopped and excluded from the rest of the process. You MUST think about this on every job you apply for - know what step you at, and try to figure out how to survive the current step's screen.
...I say take Sony, Disney, Warner, etc to the wall. If they want to continue paying the RIAA to chase us, then we should be able to put it right back on them if they are violating GPL terms on their blu-ray discs and media streaming web sites. I'm not saying they are (but it wouldn't surprise me). What's good for the goose is good for the gander...
Slashdot Mirror
...routed to break.com? That would explain a lot...
This author pitches essentially the same story on the same site two days in a row:
http://www.livescience.com/18678-incompetent-people-ignorant.html
"Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
-Winston Churchill
...works.
It really does amaze me that humans ever managed to crawl out of the evolutionary cesspool. We spend far too much effort attempting to protect the stupid. We should let the universe do much more pruning of the dead wood. Here's your sign...
Back in the prehistoric days a group of us were sitting in a bull-pen outside the datacenter. There were big windows on the datacenter wall so we could all ooh & ahh at the blinky lights on the servers and switches. Suddenly, my workstation froze - and when I (and every other person in the bullpen) yelled and looked up, we saw our network admin standing in the datacenter looking back at us with a "What?" look on his face. In his hand was the Ethernet cable he had just pulled out of a core switch...
The rich don't cook meth, but they will lay-off a single father of 4 young children in order to get a bigger bonus for themselves.
The poor don't design new ways to cheat the government on a multi-million dollar defense program, but they will skip out on their drug possession bail bond.
Of course it is ethical. I know my contacts. I've worked with my contacts. I know what they can and can't do. Why would I take the chance of hiring a complete unknown when I can hire someone I know can do the job I need and that I know I can work with??
Don't blame Linkedin if you don't have any friends that are willing to work with you again.
If they sold Tata, Lada, ZAZ, Geely, Chery, etc in the USA this story would never have been written.
Right - and when you can integrate your SAP Cloud ERP system, your SalesForce.com CRM system, your Workday HRIS, *and* the data from your 500 retail locations that you poll daily, all within your Netezza AppNexus data warehouse to generate dashboards using your MicroStrategy MCDWS BI system, without your IT department, you let us know...
First flight of the Shuttle: 1981
First flight of DC/X: 1993
I don't disagree that the DC/X was killed by NASA jealousy and incompetence - but the shuttle was a mature production program by the time DC/X was testing. No one had money for aerospace in the mid 1990s - both military and civilian programs were being canceled left & right.
I applaud ANY project that is successful at ANY aerospace related engineering. Anything is better than giving the money to 3rd world despots & domestic leeches.
Dousers claim to be able to find water, oil, gas, gold and precious gems buried hundreds of feet below ground. Why would an air gap of 15 feet be unreasonable??
...shouldn't talk about a world they don't understand. The modern farmer is not a hick chewing on a stalk of wheat and wasting natural resources. Farmers manage their resources, including their water & soil. They are using drip irrigation & water reclamation to produce more food more efficiently than ever before. They are also using soil analysis, GPS location and yield results to optimize crop rotation and soil amendment application. Can it get better? Of course. Does the rest of the world need to catch up with the leaders in the field? Absolutely. But don't for a minute believe that agribusiness isn't just as high-tech as every other industry in the world.
Oh, and for the hippies telling me to stop eating beef and that I should live on homegrown lentils, twigs and leaves: fuck-off - I'm an omnivore - I'll eat anything that doesn't eat me first.
...that don't have farmville, mafia wars or yoville accounts?
...we had an IBM consultant who worked onsite doing the care & feeding of our IBM 390. He would spend most of his day running diagnostics and printing usage reports. I remember looking at some of his reports sitting next to the printer, and the vast majority of the time the only job running was his diagnostics program...
...A nice piece of fiction, but I wouldn't want to live my life by it.
... is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke (Clarke's Third Law)
"For most people, their house represents the bulk of their wealth, and it is taxed annually at a percentage of its value."
Not in California. Google Proposition 13.
I predict it will be nothing but kiddie lulz, penile enlargement spam and Android ads...
I worked at the corporate office of a large, nationwide restaurant company. Saying you are the best tech guy at a restaurant company is like being the tallest guy in the Munchin Baskeball Association.
...the name of the school on the diploma doesn't really matter for technical positions. It's much more about the contacts you can make from the interaction with other students at the school or what contacts the instructors have because they also do consulting work on the side.
Actually, I say screw the master's degree in Engineering. If you want to get somewhere, get an MBA. It will be completely useless piece of paper, but it's how you show employers that an Engineer can also be a Manager.
As a manager that has needed to hire technical employees AND also an unemployed technical worker desperately looking for a job, I have seen both sides of the hiring process - and I can say without question that it is completely broken. The recruiters have no idea what skills are needed or how to match a technical job description to a technical resume. HR believes that they need to use systems like Taleo, Kenexa, Brassring, etc to collect a huge amount of data from every candidate - and that data is not used by *anyone*. Why does the company need to know the phone number of the boss I had in 1991 *before* I have even gone through the first screening? It is a huge waste of time for the candidates and useless collection of data. Meanwhile, the thousands of 3rd party recruiters are copying and reposting job descriptions all over the internet, so that 1 job opening at 1 company results in hundreds of job posts at Dice, Indeed, Monster, etc. The hiring manager is often not allowed work with recruiters he knows can provide good candidates - he can only consider candidates provided by the "approved" recruiters that have an agreement in place with the HR department. The result of all this nonsense is that the HR department is buried in useless data from unqualified candidates, the hiring manager sees a tiny percentage of the total candidates, the vast majority of the resume the hiring manager does see are NOT a good fit, and your hours of work to craft a resume and complete the online application data entry ultimately goes absolutely nowhere.
The entire HR recruiting process is designed to be a filtering process. They are not looking for the best candidate, they are looking for a reason to NOT hire each candidate. If your resume makes it through all the filter screens, then they assume you must be the best candidate. This is a critical concept - it means that if you are looking for a job, your primary goal should be to NOT be excluded. You need to get past the key word match filters, past the simulators, past the technical tests, past the personality tests, past the phone screens and finally past the in-person interviews. If your resume is still in the stack, you will probably get the job offer - but at any step you could be stopped and excluded from the rest of the process. You MUST think about this on every job you apply for - know what step you at, and try to figure out how to survive the current step's screen.
There has to be a better way!!!
...then you can also do it with these: http://www.as.northropgrumman.com/products/nucasx47b/index.html
...I say take Sony, Disney, Warner, etc to the wall. If they want to continue paying the RIAA to chase us, then we should be able to put it right back on them if they are violating GPL terms on their blu-ray discs and media streaming web sites. I'm not saying they are (but it wouldn't surprise me). What's good for the goose is good for the gander...
I went to Chrome when FF decided to become IE.
It's good to see that "My dick is bigger than yours" is still alive and well in the supercomputer market.
Or, they hire a PR firm to run a blitz to obfuscate the issue, and raise the price of smartphones by 3% as a F-U.