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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
> The PM's get paid to do the mock interview. This violates the anti-moonlighting clause that most companies have. > Will a Google PM be ok in doing this mock considering that it may be considered unethical? There is no incen
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
Depends on your definition of "with professionals". Existing outplacement services like Lee Hecht Harrison offer in-person sessions with coaches who can practice behavioral questions in a mock interview scenario. They aren't
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> On the other hand, I'm reminded of the arguments against emacs using 8 MEGS of memory and how terrible that is. Yeah, but back then Moore's Law was running full steam and we were getting tremendous advances in processor and
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
Amen to this. I would be much more inclined to try Sudden Coffee out if there were an option for a one-time purchase, especially if registration were not required (I really don't want to deal with yet another password). As a side ques
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
> Sadly, at no point in the interview is the question asked in the headline answered. I beg to differ. He touches on problems with the post-secondary education system, increasing hostility from the public against the elite, the collap
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> Intellectual humility doesnt get grants though. Amen. In industry, intellectual humility doesn't help get promotions or get hired either.
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> How does this perform in adverse weather conditions? One could ask the very same thing about WWI era aircraft. Look at where we are today. Presumably there would other defense systems to fall back on during adverse weather. Even if
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15 hours is just the minimum that Texas chose to require for continued licensure. I'd be rather surprised if successful PEs didn't spend as much time in independent study as successful software developers.
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> Is this expectation that you're always on the learning treadmill an issue for other professions like doctors and lawyers? Of course. A certain minimum is even required by law for licensure for some professions. " For dedic
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DeWalt Technicians' fingerless gloves are fairly good. They're not insulated per se but are reasonably thick work gloves that happen to be fingerless. I've used them at work in offices that were cold and typing with them i
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
What's your point? The article is about how to make existing Windows UWP apps work on mobile form factor displays and devices. It doesn't sell anything or attempt to persuade people to port their apps to Windows.
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Grab Nemeth, et al's "UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook" from your favorite online bookseller and work through each chapter. That'll get you basic fluency with the Unix command line and common administration
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> He was famously into management by fear. The article you linked to says precisely the opposite and is more in line with the blog post. LeMay made it clear that results were expected and got them.
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Donald Knuth did say once that he's not much of a fan of unit tests. See his answer to the second question of his interview at: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856 Then again, there are proba
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
> The relationship between the two roles would be much better without "I'm better than you" or "you can't do what I do, so you test" attitudes. Both sides, and the organization, profit when we work together
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
Since we're talking about various X-ism's today, your prejudice against nurses and test engineers is showing. (Seriously, I'm starting to wonder if I should give up the QA profession for good, even though I prefer it to being
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
> I'm not referring to that type of support; this is merely support for the base platform. I'm referring to the entire ecosystem of Microsoft products, of which you'll find most are x86 only. Windows Server comes with II
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> Potentially capable; their support for non-x86 has always fallen short. " Microsoft will continue to provide mainstream support for Itanium-based systems until July 2013, and extended support until July 2018. " -- http:&#x
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So, basically, somebody who never uses a web browser? 404 and 500 should be familiar just from browsing the web for more than a few weeks.
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If you're 40, you have ( or should have) nearly a couple of decades of hard-won experience in building software, working within organizations to get things done, and subject matter expertise in the types of projects you worked on [0].
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
Doctors, lawyers, and engineers have other forces regulating their competence. In addition to licensing, they also bear personal liability for malpractice. As a result, malpractice claims that stick in those fields is significant news bec
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The crowdfunded Open-V implementation of RISC V comes to mind. https://www.crowdsupply.com/onchip/open-v However, it doesn't look like they're going to come remotely close to hitting their funding goal. Fabr
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How so? The OEMs want to make hardware that runs Windows. Microsoft provides a specification[0] and certification suites[1] that defines what "Windows-compatible" means, which OEMs then follow. Nothing coercive about that. Ther
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There's Visionect's 32" e-ink display ($3599 for the dev kit or $4699 if you want the color version): https://www.visionect.com/product/development-kit-with-grays... There isn't any technological li
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> Many people think floating point numbers are magically precise. Even worse, it kicks in earlier than one might naively think. People are often surprised to hear a value as simple as 0.1 has no matching floating point representation.
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> When looking at the advancements in GPUs these days, where are the improvements coming from? A considerable chunk of it is process improvements. Take a look at the chart at http://wccftech.com/nvidia-pascal-gpu-analys
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That story about Einstein doesn't illustrate what you think it does. Einstein was a theoretical physicist, not an experimental physicist; there's no reason for him to have known the precise value. However, you can bet that Einst
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> Just to confirm, is this a smart-phone based spectrometer? (Why don't they use that term?) Spectrometers generally produce a single spectrum from a light source. A hyperspectral imager produces a spectrum for each pixel in the im
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Another paper from 2013 also touched on cosmic radiation as a cause when attempting to quantify differences in transient error rates in memory based on the location of the machine. From the PC World writeup ( http://www.pcworld.co
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I think part of the article that's getting glossed over is: " A refrigerated egg, no matter the source, will be good for four or five weeks. Unrefrigerated eggs are best used within a week, though they may be fine for two. "

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