I highly doubt you have a say in the matter, but...
If you're implying that I lack the authority to circular-file a resume, I'll quickly point out that I own the company. If you were making a different point, then I missed it.
Considering somebody could've forgotten or ran out of space in their experience section
I get so many resumes that I'm not going to waste time with one where the applicant couldn't be bothered to read what he or she was sending me. If it's an ASP.NET open need, then your resume had better scream ASP.NET so loudly that I'd have to have rocks in my head not to call you.
The marginal revenue companies get from people buying replacements for stolen products is simply not a viable business model.
But the revenue from the insurance plans is huge! You pay $7 a month or something for the "privilege" of paying a $150 deductible for a refurb model that cost them $75 in case you lose your phone.
If people didn't fear phone theft, then many fewer people would buy the insurance.
Maybe he's applying at smaller companies where they expect their network admins to be more Jacks of All Trades. He should apply at a large company where the CCNA and a bit of experience will be plenty good enough for entry-level.
Just lie on your resume. If you really do know how to use the technology, just say you used it as part of your job. How would HR or the interviewers know you're lying?
This will not work. You will never pass a technical interview unless your interviewer is utterly incompetent.
By way of example, let's say I'm interviewing for an open need requiring C++. I see a resume that lists 'C/C++'. The first question out of my mouth after "Hi, How are you?" is going to be, "What are the major differences between C and C++?"
If you've worked in both, the answer to that question will be trivial (malloc vs. new, classes, STL, templates, stream IO, etc.) If your answer sounds rehearsed, I'll just keep digging: "Show me on the whiteboard how you'd allocate memory in C vs. C++", etc. If I'm still not convinced, "What was in the C++ style guide of your last project?" (most C++ projects have a style guide to keep developers from doing evil). I'll just keep drilling down until I'm satisfied.
I've had qualified candidates ask me why I was only asking them super-easy questions (I don't ask really esoteric questions--I expect that people know how to work Google), while unqualified candidates must think that I am the biggest asshole ever. Oh well, you can't please everybody.
Sadly, personal experience != 'experience' in the corporate sense.
It's that way for a reason. "I installed __________ and dorked around with it" is basically useless in the corporate setting. You need to have used ______ on an actual project so you know how to apply it to a real problem, know its strengths, and know its warts. No __________ is perfect, after all.
I do a lot of interviewing, and if you've used __________ on a real project, even if it's a personal project, that's good enough for me. But I'm going to want a link to your github repository if you are claiming "personal project" so I can see what this "personal project" actually was. If it's legitimate, then great. You pass.
But you're right, if you just dorked around with ___________, then I'll keep your resume on file and call you if something opens up in the future.
this why IT need more trades / apprenticeships that have ways to letter people learn. The trades schools are nice but should be more drop in to learn X skill.
We have internships in IT. I did 3 of them before having graduated college.
Anyway, when you're in IT, you almost always wind up doing something beyond what you were hired for because a situation always arises where someone needs something done, like, yesterday, and there's no time to hire anyone.
In IT, you're hired for your experience, but you're paid for your brains and agility. Get a job that you're qualified for, excel in it, and expand your skills that way.
Uhh. Could your current, happy relationship possibly have been due to your life experience, which helped you avoid marrying a second train wreck? I find it hard to believe that looks play a diminished role in online dating, given how little attention photoless profiles receive.
I think we all have to have a misfire of a relationship (or several misfires). Personally, I had two before having met my wife. One, I dated only for her looks, and the second was an unhealthy rebound from the first. The second was batshit insane, by the way. Mercifully, I didn't marry either one of them.
Plenty in life is natural but not easy. Just look at "natural disasters".
Why do married people always go on about what hard work it is.[sic]
Because the only married couples who talk about marriage being hard work are the ones who are struggling with it. If you find it difficult to be in a relationship with a person, you should consider that you might be with the wrong person, or that one or both of you could work on your relationship skills (communication, respect, trust, etc.)
I've never found it difficult to be married to my wife. We've faced very difficult situations together, but the key word there is "together".
Childbirth is easy. Millions of women all over the planet deliver babies every day and then go back to work in the fields.
My wife would have bled to death during childbirth had she not been in a great hospital receiving great care. Saving her life didn't look easy, judging by the doctors' stress level.
Important because that shows that the drives are his. Once they know that they're his, then there is no harm in forcing him to decrypt them. The only way forcing him to decrypt could harm him would be if they didn't know that the drives were his, because decrypting them would also prove that he can decrypt them.
The point of the 5th amendment is to protect against self-incrimination, not to protect against gathering evidence. If I tell you how to decrypt my data, that tells you more than just the data. It also tells you that I know how to decrypt the data. Same as with a safe. I don't have to reveal the combination to a safe because that shows that I know the combination, a potentially incriminating proposition.
In the case in the article, the prosecution couldn't show that the hard drives belonged to the suspect, at first. Now, they can, so there is no longer a danger that the suspect might self-incriminate by revealing the decryption password. Because this is no longer a 5th amendment issue, they can force him to decrypt by holding him in contempt.
And maybe when he says he can't afford $100k/year he means $90k is his max? Probably not....but maybe...;)
Depends on the location. In a major tech center (Silicon Valley, NYC, DC, etc.), nobody who is proficient in even one language is going to get out of bed for 90 or even 100k.
Fundamentally you have strings, integers, arrays and the like and you spend a little time learning a new IDE and some syntax and you're more than halfway there.
Not halfway, by a long shot. You should be able to learn the basic language constructs in a few hours. But that doesn't mean a thing. Each language has its own idioms, APIs, standard libraries, typical addons, development frameworks, testing frameworks, etc.
If I sub some Java work out to someone who writes Perl code translated line-by-line into Java, I will reject it for the unmaintainable garbage that it is. If a sub reimplements a JDK or apache commons function, that's a rejection.
To verify proficiency in a language, I usually ask a few compare/contrast questions in an interview because those are hard as hell to answer if you've just read a "_____ For Dummies" book (e.g. "What's the difference between C and C++?" "What's the difference between SOAP and REST?". That type of thing.). Then, I ask to see one of their projects in that language on GitHub. Generally, that tells me all I need to know.
Your points are valid though, but again this has nothing to do with programming or linux, but with your problem.
Well, it kind of does have to do with programming. I guess I just didn't summarize it at the end to bring it into one coherent thought, so I can see why it wouldn't have gone through.
My point was that if beer brewing is as sensitive as sous vide cooking can be, then the obvious, simple programming solution is insufficient. In other words, plunking a temperature probe into the liquid and firing off a bash script that checks the temp every minute, operating an electric stove accordingly, is not going to keep 20L of liquid at a correct, uniform temperature. This is especially true if you have a powerful stove. You can verify this by moving the probe around and seeing the temperature variance.
I have personally used a 1000W heating element in a 15L water bath and without circulating the water, I've noticed a temperature variance of up to 3 degrees at various locations in the bath. If this is OK for beer brewing, then this is not a concern for your application. However, if a variance of 3 degrees is significant, then you need to be aware that the naive solution is insufficient and that you should take measures beyond the simple Linux solution to mitigate this. That means using a proper PID controller, not a naive bash script (among other steps already mentioned).
If you publish an article that questions AGW, you'll never get another research project funded. And if you never get your research funded, you don't get to be a climatologist anymore.
Running a heater for 55 minutes to keep the brew on 65 degrees centigrade is a joke for a programmer.
I don't know much about beer brewing but I'm starting to get into sous vide cooking. It turns out keeping a body of water at 65C is a lot more complicated than you'd expect!
I'm not sure what the tolerances are in beer brewing, but in sous vide cooking it depends. For meat, you can be off by about 1 degree C and never be the wiser. But if you're cooking eggs soft-cooked, you really want to be accurate to the tenth of a degree (63.5C) for consistent results. Also, there is another complication: uniformity. Any idiot can keep the water that is in contact with the thermometer at 63.5C. But what about the rest of the water? It's no good if half of your eggs are undercooked*!
In practice, that means circulating the water and insulating the container, which includes covering it (evaporation will cool the water toward the surface). Also, temperature is controlled with a PID temperature controller which takes care of overshooting the temperature and ensuring that the temperature remains within tolerance, and the average temperature is as close to target as possible. For that 63.5C +/-0.1 degree tolerance, you obviously want to fluctuate between 63.40-63.60, not 63.30-63.50 or even 63.40-63.50 (or some other range).
*Food safety is not a huge concern in this case, by the way. Pasteurization occurs at 57C for 75 minutes. Even if your egg is a underdone and looks like it should make you sick, it won't unless your thermometer is off by a country mile (and even then, your egg would appear to be completely raw, so you'd know something went wrong)!
There are many things that can impair driving. Kids fighting, dog puking, sun shining in your eyes, messing with the radio, and that's just off the top of my head. Who gives a shit if you can detect small changes in eye movement? Is that going to kill anybody? No? Then stop trying to push Prohibition back down our throats.
And by similar logic (i.e. other peoples rules referring to your own identity), you can be baptized a Mormon without consent and in your absence. My understanding is that this is usually after death but I don't claim to know all of the details. Or you might still be on a membership list at a , but have moved on in your faith.
Does that entitle me to free manicotti like being a Pastafarian does? If not, then this is useless to me.
A person's religion is what they say it is, there is no other reasonable way of labeling someone with a religion.
OK, fine. Have it your way. I am hereby Catholic!
So can I now go take Communion in a Catholic Church? No? Why not? I just said that I'm Catholic. You mean there are requirements for being Catholic that I don't meet?
Since only people who accept their Muslim identity by choice give a shit about what "Islam considers" (and not even all of these, if Muslims are anything like Catholics), by this criteria Obama would only be Muslim in the eyes of a hard-line Muslim, despite not taking it on board himself (or his parents taking it on board, either).
I never asked you to give a shit what Muslims believe, hard-line or otherwise. My comment was on doctrine, not the President's religious practices. In fact, I believe I wrote that President Obama is a practicing Christian.
You're operating from the "taint" school of categorization, where Tiger Woods is "black" despite being twice as Asian and just as white.
This is silliness and I'm not sure how you arrived at that conclusion. I was merely pointing out that reasonable people can have different beliefs.
Secularists such as myself consider Obama to be whatever the hell he professes himself to be, which isn't to say he's immune to what's bred in the bone.
But what is bred in the bone in his case, if we're being precise about anything that actually matters?
And this is why I'm not sure where your outrage came from. Again, the President is a practicing Christian. Precision, in my opinion, requires that we recognize others' beliefs, even when we don't share them.
People can pick their own religion or lack there of. What some other folks think means nothing.
That's not quite true. Let's say, hypothetically, that I was to decide that I was Catholic. Well, the Catholic Church has requirements for someone to be considered Catholic, and it turns out I don't meet them. Even if I considered myself to be Catholic, other folks, folks in the Catholic Church, think that I am not. Therefore I am not. I could not take Communion in a Catholic church because "other folks" think that I am not Catholic.
What a person thinks, and what other people think, are different things. However, they are both important in their own ways. You can choose not to care what other people think, but that doesn't make their thoughts meaningless. In case you were wondering, I have chosen not to care that you consider me to be a Pastafarian. I'd speculate that President Obama doesn't really care if Islam considers him to be Muslim.
P.S. If being a Pastafarian entitles me to free manicotti, I intend to claim it. I really love manicotti.
He lost by the time he correct the old bat that claimed obama was a muslim.
I'm not an expert on Islam by any means, but I'm fairly sure that if you are born to a Muslim father, then Islam considers you to be a Muslim by birth. Assuming that that is correct, Barack Obama, Sr. was Muslim by birth, as is President Obama.
Again, I am not 100% certain about this Muslim by birth thing. I could research it, but my research motivation is curtailed by the fact that I don't personally care whether or not Islam would consider President Obama to be Muslim.
I understand that President Obama is a practicing Christian. Just trying to be precise here.
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I highly doubt you have a say in the matter, but...
If you're implying that I lack the authority to circular-file a resume, I'll quickly point out that I own the company. If you were making a different point, then I missed it.
Considering somebody could've forgotten or ran out of space in their experience section
I get so many resumes that I'm not going to waste time with one where the applicant couldn't be bothered to read what he or she was sending me. If it's an ASP.NET open need, then your resume had better scream ASP.NET so loudly that I'd have to have rocks in my head not to call you.
The marginal revenue companies get from people buying replacements for stolen products is simply not a viable business model.
But the revenue from the insurance plans is huge! You pay $7 a month or something for the "privilege" of paying a $150 deductible for a refurb model that cost them $75 in case you lose your phone.
If people didn't fear phone theft, then many fewer people would buy the insurance.
Dude, you have a CCNA.
This was my initial thought, as well.
Maybe he's applying at smaller companies where they expect their network admins to be more Jacks of All Trades. He should apply at a large company where the CCNA and a bit of experience will be plenty good enough for entry-level.
Just lie on your resume. If you really do know how to use the technology, just say you used it as part of your job. How would HR or the interviewers know you're lying?
This will not work. You will never pass a technical interview unless your interviewer is utterly incompetent.
By way of example, let's say I'm interviewing for an open need requiring C++. I see a resume that lists 'C/C++'. The first question out of my mouth after "Hi, How are you?" is going to be, "What are the major differences between C and C++?"
If you've worked in both, the answer to that question will be trivial (malloc vs. new, classes, STL, templates, stream IO, etc.) If your answer sounds rehearsed, I'll just keep digging: "Show me on the whiteboard how you'd allocate memory in C vs. C++", etc. If I'm still not convinced, "What was in the C++ style guide of your last project?" (most C++ projects have a style guide to keep developers from doing evil). I'll just keep drilling down until I'm satisfied.
I've had qualified candidates ask me why I was only asking them super-easy questions (I don't ask really esoteric questions--I expect that people know how to work Google), while unqualified candidates must think that I am the biggest asshole ever. Oh well, you can't please everybody.
Nah, don't even flag it, just be purposefully vague (ASP.NET 5+ years). Need to know more? Ask me during a phone interview.
If I see a required skill that you claim 5+ years of experience, yet none of your projects use that skill, I'll circular-file your resume.
Just sayin'.
Sadly, personal experience != 'experience' in the corporate sense.
It's that way for a reason. "I installed __________ and dorked around with it" is basically useless in the corporate setting. You need to have used ______ on an actual project so you know how to apply it to a real problem, know its strengths, and know its warts. No __________ is perfect, after all.
I do a lot of interviewing, and if you've used __________ on a real project, even if it's a personal project, that's good enough for me. But I'm going to want a link to your github repository if you are claiming "personal project" so I can see what this "personal project" actually was. If it's legitimate, then great. You pass.
But you're right, if you just dorked around with ___________, then I'll keep your resume on file and call you if something opens up in the future.
this why IT need more trades / apprenticeships that have ways to letter people learn. The trades schools are nice but should be more drop in to learn X skill.
We have internships in IT. I did 3 of them before having graduated college.
Anyway, when you're in IT, you almost always wind up doing something beyond what you were hired for because a situation always arises where someone needs something done, like, yesterday, and there's no time to hire anyone.
In IT, you're hired for your experience, but you're paid for your brains and agility. Get a job that you're qualified for, excel in it, and expand your skills that way.
Uhh. Could your current, happy relationship possibly have been due to your life experience, which helped you avoid marrying a second train wreck? I find it hard to believe that looks play a diminished role in online dating, given how little attention photoless profiles receive.
I think we all have to have a misfire of a relationship (or several misfires). Personally, I had two before having met my wife. One, I dated only for her looks, and the second was an unhealthy rebound from the first. The second was batshit insane, by the way. Mercifully, I didn't marry either one of them.
Surly[sic] 'natural'='easy'.
Plenty in life is natural but not easy. Just look at "natural disasters".
Why do married people always go on about what hard work it is.[sic]
Because the only married couples who talk about marriage being hard work are the ones who are struggling with it. If you find it difficult to be in a relationship with a person, you should consider that you might be with the wrong person, or that one or both of you could work on your relationship skills (communication, respect, trust, etc.)
I've never found it difficult to be married to my wife. We've faced very difficult situations together, but the key word there is "together".
Childbirth is easy. Millions of women all over the planet deliver babies every day and then go back to work in the fields.
My wife would have bled to death during childbirth had she not been in a great hospital receiving great care. Saving her life didn't look easy, judging by the doctors' stress level.
"intricate electronic folder structure"
Just describing what they saw.
"detailed personal information"
Important because that shows that the drives are his. Once they know that they're his, then there is no harm in forcing him to decrypt them. The only way forcing him to decrypt could harm him would be if they didn't know that the drives were his, because decrypting them would also prove that he can decrypt them.
The point of the 5th amendment is to protect against self-incrimination, not to protect against gathering evidence. If I tell you how to decrypt my data, that tells you more than just the data. It also tells you that I know how to decrypt the data. Same as with a safe. I don't have to reveal the combination to a safe because that shows that I know the combination, a potentially incriminating proposition.
In the case in the article, the prosecution couldn't show that the hard drives belonged to the suspect, at first. Now, they can, so there is no longer a danger that the suspect might self-incriminate by revealing the decryption password. Because this is no longer a 5th amendment issue, they can force him to decrypt by holding him in contempt.
And maybe when he says he can't afford $100k/year he means $90k is his max? Probably not....but maybe... ;)
Depends on the location. In a major tech center (Silicon Valley, NYC, DC, etc.), nobody who is proficient in even one language is going to get out of bed for 90 or even 100k.
Fundamentally you have strings, integers, arrays and the like and you spend a little time learning a new IDE and some syntax and you're more than halfway there.
Not halfway, by a long shot. You should be able to learn the basic language constructs in a few hours. But that doesn't mean a thing. Each language has its own idioms, APIs, standard libraries, typical addons, development frameworks, testing frameworks, etc.
If I sub some Java work out to someone who writes Perl code translated line-by-line into Java, I will reject it for the unmaintainable garbage that it is. If a sub reimplements a JDK or apache commons function, that's a rejection.
To verify proficiency in a language, I usually ask a few compare/contrast questions in an interview because those are hard as hell to answer if you've just read a "_____ For Dummies" book (e.g. "What's the difference between C and C++?" "What's the difference between SOAP and REST?". That type of thing.). Then, I ask to see one of their projects in that language on GitHub. Generally, that tells me all I need to know.
There's no way this boneheaded bill will get past the Republican controlled House.
Republicans: Preventing boneheaded legislation since 1854!
I've been in software development for 15 years now and I never had any of the stuff provided.
I think this might be more of a Silicon Valley phenomenon. I've never seen this on the east coast, at all.
Sodas, pop, 'Coke' are dirt cheap when bought in bulk.. how else can fast food places give free refills and cheap buckets of the stuff.
It's a lot cheaper in fountains. I forget the cost, but anyway, you pay a lot for individual cans or bottles.
Your points are valid though, but again this has nothing to do with programming or linux, but with your problem.
Well, it kind of does have to do with programming. I guess I just didn't summarize it at the end to bring it into one coherent thought, so I can see why it wouldn't have gone through.
My point was that if beer brewing is as sensitive as sous vide cooking can be, then the obvious, simple programming solution is insufficient. In other words, plunking a temperature probe into the liquid and firing off a bash script that checks the temp every minute, operating an electric stove accordingly, is not going to keep 20L of liquid at a correct, uniform temperature. This is especially true if you have a powerful stove. You can verify this by moving the probe around and seeing the temperature variance.
I have personally used a 1000W heating element in a 15L water bath and without circulating the water, I've noticed a temperature variance of up to 3 degrees at various locations in the bath. If this is OK for beer brewing, then this is not a concern for your application. However, if a variance of 3 degrees is significant, then you need to be aware that the naive solution is insufficient and that you should take measures beyond the simple Linux solution to mitigate this. That means using a proper PID controller, not a naive bash script (among other steps already mentioned).
Also funding bias.
If you publish an article that questions AGW, you'll never get another research project funded. And if you never get your research funded, you don't get to be a climatologist anymore.
You get what you pay for.
Running a heater for 55 minutes to keep the brew on 65 degrees centigrade is a joke for a programmer.
I don't know much about beer brewing but I'm starting to get into sous vide cooking. It turns out keeping a body of water at 65C is a lot more complicated than you'd expect!
I'm not sure what the tolerances are in beer brewing, but in sous vide cooking it depends. For meat, you can be off by about 1 degree C and never be the wiser. But if you're cooking eggs soft-cooked, you really want to be accurate to the tenth of a degree (63.5C) for consistent results. Also, there is another complication: uniformity. Any idiot can keep the water that is in contact with the thermometer at 63.5C. But what about the rest of the water? It's no good if half of your eggs are undercooked*!
In practice, that means circulating the water and insulating the container, which includes covering it (evaporation will cool the water toward the surface). Also, temperature is controlled with a PID temperature controller which takes care of overshooting the temperature and ensuring that the temperature remains within tolerance, and the average temperature is as close to target as possible. For that 63.5C +/-0.1 degree tolerance, you obviously want to fluctuate between 63.40-63.60, not 63.30-63.50 or even 63.40-63.50 (or some other range).
*Food safety is not a huge concern in this case, by the way. Pasteurization occurs at 57C for 75 minutes. Even if your egg is a underdone and looks like it should make you sick, it won't unless your thermometer is off by a country mile (and even then, your egg would appear to be completely raw, so you'd know something went wrong)!
There are many things that can impair driving. Kids fighting, dog puking, sun shining in your eyes, messing with the radio, and that's just off the top of my head. Who gives a shit if you can detect small changes in eye movement? Is that going to kill anybody? No? Then stop trying to push Prohibition back down our throats.
And by similar logic (i.e. other peoples rules referring to your own identity), you can be baptized a Mormon without consent and in your absence. My understanding is that this is usually after death but I don't claim to know all of the details. Or you might still be on a membership list at a , but have moved on in your faith.
Does that entitle me to free manicotti like being a Pastafarian does? If not, then this is useless to me.
A person's religion is what they say it is, there is no other reasonable way of labeling someone with a religion.
OK, fine. Have it your way. I am hereby Catholic!
So can I now go take Communion in a Catholic Church? No? Why not? I just said that I'm Catholic. You mean there are requirements for being Catholic that I don't meet?
I guess I'm not as Catholic as I claimed, am I.
Since only people who accept their Muslim identity by choice give a shit about what "Islam considers" (and not even all of these, if Muslims are anything like Catholics), by this criteria Obama would only be Muslim in the eyes of a hard-line Muslim, despite not taking it on board himself (or his parents taking it on board, either).
I never asked you to give a shit what Muslims believe, hard-line or otherwise. My comment was on doctrine, not the President's religious practices. In fact, I believe I wrote that President Obama is a practicing Christian.
You're operating from the "taint" school of categorization, where Tiger Woods is "black" despite being twice as Asian and just as white.
This is silliness and I'm not sure how you arrived at that conclusion. I was merely pointing out that reasonable people can have different beliefs.
Secularists such as myself consider Obama to be whatever the hell he professes himself to be, which isn't to say he's immune to what's bred in the bone.
But what is bred in the bone in his case, if we're being precise about anything that actually matters?
And this is why I'm not sure where your outrage came from. Again, the President is a practicing Christian. Precision, in my opinion, requires that we recognize others' beliefs, even when we don't share them.
People can pick their own religion or lack there of. What some other folks think means nothing.
That's not quite true. Let's say, hypothetically, that I was to decide that I was Catholic. Well, the Catholic Church has requirements for someone to be considered Catholic, and it turns out I don't meet them. Even if I considered myself to be Catholic, other folks, folks in the Catholic Church, think that I am not. Therefore I am not. I could not take Communion in a Catholic church because "other folks" think that I am not Catholic.
What a person thinks, and what other people think, are different things. However, they are both important in their own ways. You can choose not to care what other people think, but that doesn't make their thoughts meaningless. In case you were wondering, I have chosen not to care that you consider me to be a Pastafarian. I'd speculate that President Obama doesn't really care if Islam considers him to be Muslim.
P.S. If being a Pastafarian entitles me to free manicotti, I intend to claim it. I really love manicotti.
He lost by the time he correct the old bat that claimed obama was a muslim.
I'm not an expert on Islam by any means, but I'm fairly sure that if you are born to a Muslim father, then Islam considers you to be a Muslim by birth. Assuming that that is correct, Barack Obama, Sr. was Muslim by birth, as is President Obama.
Again, I am not 100% certain about this Muslim by birth thing. I could research it, but my research motivation is curtailed by the fact that I don't personally care whether or not Islam would consider President Obama to be Muslim.
I understand that President Obama is a practicing Christian. Just trying to be precise here.