rooting the box does not necessarily get control over this "critical" application. It's not difficult to design an application that is resistant to a root attack by using encryption.
Also, I'm unclear as to the legal theories by which a bad recommendation could be illegal.
That's because giving a negative reference is perfectly legal (1st Amendment and all), but it is generally not good business practice. The reason is, as you note, the potential for legal action accusing company of libel/slander/defamation.
I am a landlord, and this applies in my business for renters. Landlords get sued all the time for negative references, so some won't give references at all. Those of us who do simply remove any subjectivity from the conversation (who can really say if a renter was "clean", "a good neighbor", etc.?).
The way I handle it is to get permission from an applicant to seek references from former landlords, fax that permission letter to the former landlord, along with the following questions:
What were the applicant's rental beginning and ending date?
What is the amount of rent paid by the applicant?
Would you want to rent to applicant in the future?
The answers to those questions tell me everything I need to know from that reference. We never get into if he paid rent on time, or often he was late, or if he damaged the unit, etc. These are all things that could be debated in a court of law (is rent on time if it's paid after the first but before late fees kick in?, was that damage or was it really normal wear and tear?) On the other hand, the answer to question #3 could be "no" for any number of reasons, but it is not debatable, because it asks the landlord specifically for his opinion, and only he knows his own opinion. No one can question whether or not that is his opinion.
Incidentally, I don't ask the former landlord if applicant was evicted or caused damages. This information is public record, so I already know.
If the job is server-side Java, there is no point to asking the candidate to manually reorder Strings, implement a linked-list, or twiddle bits. If the candidate actually did any of that on the job or any of their previous jobs, they would or should have been fired.
I do a lot of interviewing, and some of my favorite questions to ask are "tell me the difference between X and Y." It shows a much deeper understanding of the important facts than "tell me some weird corner of the API" type questions ever will.
For instance, if your resume says you know J2EE, Spring, and Hibernate, you better be able to tell me what's the difference between Entity EJBs and Hibernate. You'd also better be able to tell me how Spring and EJBs differ and how they collaborate.
If you can't, then your resume has a date with my shredder.
It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. If you vote against it, your opponents will pick out all the sensible provisions of the bill that no sane person could disgree with
That makes no sense. The Democrats control the Senate. They could have fixed the bill if they wanted to.
Why could Obama not convince the Democrats in the Senate to fix the bill? Lack of leadership, clearly. And now he thinks he wants to lead the country? Ha.
I voted for him in the primary, but I will vote for McCain in November. I don't agree with some of his positions, but he shows true leadership.
I run Debian at home, and security.debian.org doesn't have any mirrors, so it would be a little hard to set up a fake mirror and refuse to distribute security updates (or distribute old versions of packages).
I chose my mirror to be the university I attended, and I'm pretty sure they are not going to screw with the packages.
Your loss. As of about 10 years ago, Java has matured significantly. There is a lot of good stuff there once you get past your bigotry.
You're safe avoiding EJB, however. The first usable J2EE spec was released about a year ago, and there are several more mature frameworks out there. If you're going to kill some brain cells, learn Spring instead.
But what can I say? My own bigotry has caused me to avoid PHP.
You are not being very specific about what you are looking for. PL/SQL may be fine if you only have Oracle data, but most shops have a mix of data sources.
The last project I did was for a company that needed to process 25M objects, each of which spanned about 30 tables, inside of 24 hours. This company had standardized on J2EE, and was (I shit you not) actually trying to perform all of this processing using entity EJBs for data access, and all kinds of remotable calls for each transaction. Needless to say, it didn't fucking work.
Maybe PHP would have fared better. Somehow, I doubt it. In the end, we wound up denormalizing their schema and using a proprietary ETL tool, but PL/SQL probably would have sufficed on a sane schema. The client did not, however, want to maintain reams of PL/SQL code, and I can hardly say I blame them.
Why is that? PHP can be run from the command-line, just like Perl.
Oh, really? Gee, I'm so glad to know that.
For my next data processing gig, I won't even bother keeping the processing close to the data. I'll just whip up some hare-brained PHP script. I'm sure whatever needs processing will be processed sometime before the year 2050. Maybe.
I've traveled a lot. Germany is the only place where I've asked a question in english to someone off the street and have the person turn around and walk away. Sure the french may berate you, but I'd rather like that. Choose your poison.
This is truly shocking to me. I have never heard of a German person being so rude. Are you sure you weren't in Austria?
Just kidding. Austrians are polite as well, if a little weird.
I've had very sociable friends live for a year in France and a year in Germany. They came back from Germany depressed from not having made a single friend. Came back from France with a string of lovers and life friends.
My wife and I went on a trip to Austria, and some random chick from one of her college classes (that she didn't know very well) insisted that we stay with her and her boyfriend, whom we had never met before. They showed us around town, the nightlife, etc.
At one point, we mentioned in passing that we were planning on doing a little skiing in the Alps. The boyfriend happened to be going skiing with some friends around the time we wanted to go, and he insisted that we join them. We had never met this guy. Seriously. So we're skiing with and hanging out with these random people we had just met.
I wonder a bit whether you do not have learned any language at school? In Germany you *must* learn a foreign language (normally English). In high school ("gymnasium" -
You answered your own question. I'm pretty sure your average Hauptschule graduate is not going to be speaking much English. This holds for rural areas, as well. Once you leave the major cities, just try to speak English with somebody. Good luck.;)
It was a bit of a surprise for me, actually. I speak German, and all through high school, my German teachers kept saying that all Germans speak English. That's why it was so surprising that my wife was not able to communicate with anyone outside of a major city without me translating. I was really expecting more English to be spoken.
By the way, in the US, you'll find the same thing, except we don't have separate schools for smart, medium, and stupid people. But you will find that the better students in the US do learn a foreign language in high school, since it is required for acceptance in a good university. My wife and I both speak three languages, actually.
And it's a really tough language to learn as a second language because of all those things you have to know (the grammatical sex of every noun, the many irregular verbs, etc.).
I speak English natively, and I found German to be simple to learn. Because English is Germanic, an English speaker already has a sizable German vocabulary, and that frees up some brain power to concentrate on all the arcane German grammar rules. Also, since German spelling rules don't have many exceptions, reading and writing are also simple, as long as you don't freak out over a few 35-letter word stuck next to each other.;)
Another thing that is helpful is that grammatical errors in German don't usually change the meaning of what's being said; and even if they do, the change is usually so insignificant that the listener/reader can figure out what the speaker/writer was really trying to say. If I were to say "der Haus" in place of "das Haus", you would certainly know what I meat. On the other hand, if a non-native speaker in Mandarin even gets so much as one tone wrong, it would change the entire meaning of the sentence, and the Chinese person would be completely lost as to what the speaker was trying to say.
Summary: German grammar is a bit unwieldy, but the consequences for a foreigner messing it up are small. An English speaker, with his already-large German vocabulary, should be able to pick up passable German very readily.
Like most Europeans, two, three or more languages are very common. Most non English Europeans jump at the chance to talk to a native English speaker to help their English.
I did not notice this at all throughout Europe. In Germany and Austria, no one ever switched to English on me. In France, no one switched to English on my wife. In Spain, despite our embarrassingly bad crash-course Spanish, no one switched to English on us because in Spain, unlike the US, people only speak one language: Spanish. If you're lucky, they'll maybe speak Catalan as well as Castillian Spanish. But anyway, they could not possibly have switched to English because no one there speaks it.
The whole "they like to practice their English" ruse really means, "you speak to fucking slowly and have exhausted their patience." Try speaking more quickly--even if incorrectly--and you'll find the conversation won't revert to English.
Actually, listening to a Japanese person try to speak any other language drives me nuts. I swear that language must have fewer than 5 sounds in it, because Japanese people just simply cannot pronounce anything but Japanese in any understandable way.
And it's not just Engrish, either. I speak three languages, and I can't understand Japanese people speaking any of them. Supposedly Turkish and Japanese are similar languages. I guess the Japanese and the Turks can just speak with each other all day long.
Spain is the 8th nominally-ranked GDP country in the world:
Who gives a shit about nominal GDP? What on earth is that supposed to tell me about quality of life? That sounds like something Borat would put in his satirical Kazakh national anthem.
I mean, geez, Mexico is even in the top 15 on that list.
Spain is ranked 10th in the Economist's quality-of-life index ranking (before the US, Japan, Germany, and the UK)
Quality of life is very difficult to quantify in order to produce ranks. Does it include how ungodly hot it is in Spain? I mean, y'all may party 'till 5am every night, but that doesn't change the high incidence of homelessness and street crime. Say what you want about the US, but you're not going to get pickpocketed in Washington, DC like you will in Madrid.
Spain is on the high income list by the World Bank and on the IMF's advanced economy list
Admittedly, my perspective may be skewed a bit because I live in a high-income area of a high-income country, but Spain did not seem high-income to me at all.
Look, I have nothing against Spain. I have a great time there every time I go. But there is no way I would have the same economic opportunities there that I do in the US (and that includes the current state of the US economy). Spain is a great country to visit, but not to try to make a living.
Other than that, I agree with your premise. As long as everyone can check out the project and build from the command line, it doesn't much matter if developers like this or that IDE, vi, emacs, TextPad, whatever. Let them use whatever they find to be most productive.
1. Close mouth 2. Check out latest stable release of svn 3. Cheers!
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As a Perl-Fu artist who has been living in a world of *nix for the past 12yrs. Let me just say that seeing someone use Ubuntu doesn't clue newb to me.
It was "I don't know what a superblock is" that clued newb to me. I mean, come the fuck on.
I'm all for power, but someone who chooses Slack or regular Debian over Ubuntu is probably the type who likes hot wax poured on their balls.
How the hell did you know that?
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Since I didn't understand anything you just said, and I'm a C# Programmer who has Ubuntu installed on a few machines, I highly doubt the $10/hour lunk at the airport is going to notice...
You're just upset because you can't fetch $10/hr, yourself.
Be that as it may, if said customs agent thinks you're suspicious, he's going to lock you in a cage until an expert can examine your hard disk. An expert whose resume is longer than "C# certified, and can insert a LiveCD into a CD-ROM drive".
If you're not going to use TrueCrypt correctly, why use it at all?
I'm sorry you had to go through all that, but I'm not sure how your story is relevant.
Would you have been considered any more or less of a suspect if you invoked your right to remain silent and your right to counsel? I can't see how your providing information to this sheriff would have led to your being charged with this crime.
Do you really think the DA would have filed charges against you? What did the victim say about "whodunit"? Why would the assailant call 911? Whose prints were on the gun? Did the victim have a history of diagnosed mental illness? What was your relationship to the victim? Did you have motive to murder her?
I still can't imagine what truthful information you could have given that sheriff that would have led to the DA filing attempted-murder charges against you. No motive. Her prints on the gun. Her history of depression. You are the one who called 911. Dozens of people to testify that you cared for the victim.
So that is my question for you. Would you have been considered any more or less of a suspect if you invoked your right to remain silent and your right to counsel? That is what this discussion is about.
Ah, but what if you didn't have an appointment soon, and they found out that you lied? Ha!
I always have an appointment soon. For varying degrees of "soon".
Go to the barbershop on the corner and get a haircut. Or substitute "I have some errands to run" if you feel uncomfortable with the whole appointment idea.
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Read grandparent post again, then decide whether or not your reply makes any sense at all.
Methinks you are too used to seeing Postgres trolls in the MySQL posts to catch the joke. Apparently the mods are, too.
I'm still waiting for data partitioning from Postgres. Maybe once they get it it will be a real database. ;)
rooting the box does not necessarily get control over this "critical" application. It's not difficult to design an application that is resistant to a root attack by using encryption.
Also, I'm unclear as to the legal theories by which a bad recommendation could be illegal.
That's because giving a negative reference is perfectly legal (1st Amendment and all), but it is generally not good business practice. The reason is, as you note, the potential for legal action accusing company of libel/slander/defamation.
I am a landlord, and this applies in my business for renters. Landlords get sued all the time for negative references, so some won't give references at all. Those of us who do simply remove any subjectivity from the conversation (who can really say if a renter was "clean", "a good neighbor", etc.?).
The way I handle it is to get permission from an applicant to seek references from former landlords, fax that permission letter to the former landlord, along with the following questions:
The answers to those questions tell me everything I need to know from that reference. We never get into if he paid rent on time, or often he was late, or if he damaged the unit, etc. These are all things that could be debated in a court of law (is rent on time if it's paid after the first but before late fees kick in?, was that damage or was it really normal wear and tear?) On the other hand, the answer to question #3 could be "no" for any number of reasons, but it is not debatable, because it asks the landlord specifically for his opinion, and only he knows his own opinion. No one can question whether or not that is his opinion.
Incidentally, I don't ask the former landlord if applicant was evicted or caused damages. This information is public record, so I already know.
If the job is server-side Java, there is no point to asking the candidate to manually reorder Strings, implement a linked-list, or twiddle bits. If the candidate actually did any of that on the job or any of their previous jobs, they would or should have been fired.
I do a lot of interviewing, and some of my favorite questions to ask are "tell me the difference between X and Y." It shows a much deeper understanding of the important facts than "tell me some weird corner of the API" type questions ever will.
For instance, if your resume says you know J2EE, Spring, and Hibernate, you better be able to tell me what's the difference between Entity EJBs and Hibernate. You'd also better be able to tell me how Spring and EJBs differ and how they collaborate.
If you can't, then your resume has a date with my shredder.
It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. If you vote against it, your opponents will pick out all the sensible provisions of the bill that no sane person could disgree with
That makes no sense. The Democrats control the Senate. They could have fixed the bill if they wanted to.
Why could Obama not convince the Democrats in the Senate to fix the bill? Lack of leadership, clearly. And now he thinks he wants to lead the country? Ha.
I voted for him in the primary, but I will vote for McCain in November. I don't agree with some of his positions, but he shows true leadership.
I run Debian at home, and security.debian.org doesn't have any mirrors, so it would be a little hard to set up a fake mirror and refuse to distribute security updates (or distribute old versions of packages).
I chose my mirror to be the university I attended, and I'm pretty sure they are not going to screw with the packages.
Generally I avoid Java.
Your loss. As of about 10 years ago, Java has matured significantly. There is a lot of good stuff there once you get past your bigotry.
You're safe avoiding EJB, however. The first usable J2EE spec was released about a year ago, and there are several more mature frameworks out there. If you're going to kill some brain cells, learn Spring instead.
But what can I say? My own bigotry has caused me to avoid PHP.
Does sarcasm make you feel better?
Yes, in fact it does. Thank you for asking.
You are not being very specific about what you are looking for. PL/SQL may be fine if you only have Oracle data, but most shops have a mix of data sources.
The last project I did was for a company that needed to process 25M objects, each of which spanned about 30 tables, inside of 24 hours. This company had standardized on J2EE, and was (I shit you not) actually trying to perform all of this processing using entity EJBs for data access, and all kinds of remotable calls for each transaction. Needless to say, it didn't fucking work.
Maybe PHP would have fared better. Somehow, I doubt it. In the end, we wound up denormalizing their schema and using a proprietary ETL tool, but PL/SQL probably would have sufficed on a sane schema. The client did not, however, want to maintain reams of PL/SQL code, and I can hardly say I blame them.
Why is that? PHP can be run from the command-line, just like Perl.
Oh, really? Gee, I'm so glad to know that.
For my next data processing gig, I won't even bother keeping the processing close to the data. I'll just whip up some hare-brained PHP script. I'm sure whatever needs processing will be processed sometime before the year 2050. Maybe.
I never claimed to be smarter than a 3 year old.
I've traveled a lot. Germany is the only place where I've asked a question in english to someone off the street and have the person turn around and walk away. Sure the french may berate you, but I'd rather like that. Choose your poison.
This is truly shocking to me. I have never heard of a German person being so rude. Are you sure you weren't in Austria?
Just kidding. Austrians are polite as well, if a little weird.
I've had very sociable friends live for a year in France and a year in Germany. They came back from Germany depressed from not having made a single friend. Came back from France with a string of lovers and life friends.
My wife and I went on a trip to Austria, and some random chick from one of her college classes (that she didn't know very well) insisted that we stay with her and her boyfriend, whom we had never met before. They showed us around town, the nightlife, etc.
At one point, we mentioned in passing that we were planning on doing a little skiing in the Alps. The boyfriend happened to be going skiing with some friends around the time we wanted to go, and he insisted that we join them. We had never met this guy. Seriously. So we're skiing with and hanging out with these random people we had just met.
So, there ya go. One anecdote to refute yours. ;)
the food was awful as always
Clearly, you have never been to England.
I wonder a bit whether you do not have learned any language at school? In Germany you *must* learn a foreign language (normally English). In high school ("gymnasium" -
You answered your own question. I'm pretty sure your average Hauptschule graduate is not going to be speaking much English. This holds for rural areas, as well. Once you leave the major cities, just try to speak English with somebody. Good luck. ;)
It was a bit of a surprise for me, actually. I speak German, and all through high school, my German teachers kept saying that all Germans speak English. That's why it was so surprising that my wife was not able to communicate with anyone outside of a major city without me translating. I was really expecting more English to be spoken.
By the way, in the US, you'll find the same thing, except we don't have separate schools for smart, medium, and stupid people. But you will find that the better students in the US do learn a foreign language in high school, since it is required for acceptance in a good university. My wife and I both speak three languages, actually.
And it's a really tough language to learn as a second language because of all those things you have to know (the grammatical sex of every noun, the many irregular verbs, etc.).
I speak English natively, and I found German to be simple to learn. Because English is Germanic, an English speaker already has a sizable German vocabulary, and that frees up some brain power to concentrate on all the arcane German grammar rules. Also, since German spelling rules don't have many exceptions, reading and writing are also simple, as long as you don't freak out over a few 35-letter word stuck next to each other. ;)
Another thing that is helpful is that grammatical errors in German don't usually change the meaning of what's being said; and even if they do, the change is usually so insignificant that the listener/reader can figure out what the speaker/writer was really trying to say. If I were to say "der Haus" in place of "das Haus", you would certainly know what I meat. On the other hand, if a non-native speaker in Mandarin even gets so much as one tone wrong, it would change the entire meaning of the sentence, and the Chinese person would be completely lost as to what the speaker was trying to say.
Summary: German grammar is a bit unwieldy, but the consequences for a foreigner messing it up are small. An English speaker, with his already-large German vocabulary, should be able to pick up passable German very readily.
Like most Europeans, two, three or more languages are very common. Most non English Europeans jump at the chance to talk to a native English speaker to help their English.
I did not notice this at all throughout Europe. In Germany and Austria, no one ever switched to English on me. In France, no one switched to English on my wife. In Spain, despite our embarrassingly bad crash-course Spanish, no one switched to English on us because in Spain, unlike the US, people only speak one language: Spanish. If you're lucky, they'll maybe speak Catalan as well as Castillian Spanish. But anyway, they could not possibly have switched to English because no one there speaks it.
The whole "they like to practice their English" ruse really means, "you speak to fucking slowly and have exhausted their patience." Try speaking more quickly--even if incorrectly--and you'll find the conversation won't revert to English.
Kanji, though, will just drive you nuts.
Actually, listening to a Japanese person try to speak any other language drives me nuts. I swear that language must have fewer than 5 sounds in it, because Japanese people just simply cannot pronounce anything but Japanese in any understandable way.
And it's not just Engrish, either. I speak three languages, and I can't understand Japanese people speaking any of them. Supposedly Turkish and Japanese are similar languages. I guess the Japanese and the Turks can just speak with each other all day long.
I think Chinese is an easier language.
I speak three languages, so I thought I'd add Chinese. How hard could it be?
Big mistake. My brain doesn't do tonal languages. It just doesn't.
Spain is the 8th nominally-ranked GDP country in the world:
Who gives a shit about nominal GDP? What on earth is that supposed to tell me about quality of life? That sounds like something Borat would put in his satirical Kazakh national anthem.
I mean, geez, Mexico is even in the top 15 on that list.
Spain is ranked 10th in the Economist's quality-of-life index ranking (before the US, Japan, Germany, and the UK)
Quality of life is very difficult to quantify in order to produce ranks. Does it include how ungodly hot it is in Spain? I mean, y'all may party 'till 5am every night, but that doesn't change the high incidence of homelessness and street crime. Say what you want about the US, but you're not going to get pickpocketed in Washington, DC like you will in Madrid.
Spain is on the high income list by the World Bank and on the IMF's advanced economy list
Admittedly, my perspective may be skewed a bit because I live in a high-income area of a high-income country, but Spain did not seem high-income to me at all.
Look, I have nothing against Spain. I have a great time there every time I go. But there is no way I would have the same economic opportunities there that I do in the US (and that includes the current state of the US economy). Spain is a great country to visit, but not to try to make a living.
What if I have a huge batch data-processing job to do? If I only have PHP and Java in my toolbelt, I'm in trouble.
Better add PL/SQL or some other batch-processing language.
I think you misspelled 'maven' as 'ant'. Oops.
Other than that, I agree with your premise. As long as everyone can check out the project and build from the command line, it doesn't much matter if developers like this or that IDE, vi, emacs, TextPad, whatever. Let them use whatever they find to be most productive.
Advice for you:
1. Close mouth
2. Check out latest stable release of svn
3. Cheers!
As a Perl-Fu artist who has been living in a world of *nix for the past 12yrs. Let me just say that seeing someone use Ubuntu doesn't clue newb to me.
It was "I don't know what a superblock is" that clued newb to me. I mean, come the fuck on.
I'm all for power, but someone who chooses Slack or regular Debian over Ubuntu is probably the type who likes hot wax poured on their balls.
How the hell did you know that?
Since I didn't understand anything you just said, and I'm a C# Programmer who has Ubuntu installed on a few machines, I highly doubt the $10/hour lunk at the airport is going to notice...
You're just upset because you can't fetch $10/hr, yourself.
Be that as it may, if said customs agent thinks you're suspicious, he's going to lock you in a cage until an expert can examine your hard disk. An expert whose resume is longer than "C# certified, and can insert a LiveCD into a CD-ROM drive".
If you're not going to use TrueCrypt correctly, why use it at all?
I'm sorry you had to go through all that, but I'm not sure how your story is relevant.
Would you have been considered any more or less of a suspect if you invoked your right to remain silent and your right to counsel? I can't see how your providing information to this sheriff would have led to your being charged with this crime.
Do you really think the DA would have filed charges against you? What did the victim say about "whodunit"? Why would the assailant call 911? Whose prints were on the gun? Did the victim have a history of diagnosed mental illness? What was your relationship to the victim? Did you have motive to murder her?
I still can't imagine what truthful information you could have given that sheriff that would have led to the DA filing attempted-murder charges against you. No motive. Her prints on the gun. Her history of depression. You are the one who called 911. Dozens of people to testify that you cared for the victim.
So that is my question for you. Would you have been considered any more or less of a suspect if you invoked your right to remain silent and your right to counsel? That is what this discussion is about.
Ah, but what if you didn't have an appointment soon, and they found out that you lied? Ha!
I always have an appointment soon. For varying degrees of "soon".
Go to the barbershop on the corner and get a haircut. Or substitute "I have some errands to run" if you feel uncomfortable with the whole appointment idea.