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A multiple-choice test can't show who's good at real admin work, but it can show who understands the product well enough to invest in. "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
What about the guy with a note from his doctor?
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If you want to provoke an argument among computer programmers, ask them to pick their favorite coding language. But even more contentious in an environment where engineers literally have agents, is which is the most lucrative. "Past performance does not guarantee future results."
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Seems true. my.Salary == Salary(C#) + Salary(SQL) .
Bear in mind, though, that Microsoft and others create easy-to-use languages and frameworks in order to drive salaries (and therefore their own payroll) down.
The popular/in-demand languages are at the bottom; aim for those. Being at the top of that scale may decrease your ability to get a job. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, you need to play the odds; don't rely on making the low-percentage shot.
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Were I a hiring type manager, I could post thousands of bogus job ads for some technology listing very low salaries in order to affect such "research" and decrease the expectations of job seekers.
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better is to focus on being well rounded, with a firm grasp of algorithms, design principles, and the ability to pick up new languages and concepts rapidly.
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They got that right.
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Do we want to try new languages again and again.
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Yes.
Until someone gets it right (or at least better).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Today, Yahoo and Mozilla announced a five-year partnership that would make Yahoo the default US search engine for Mozilla's Firefox browser on mobile and desktop. "Instead of the cross, the Albatross about my neck was hung."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yahoo
What's Yahoo???
Let me guess. Some ad-riddled ripoff with a klunky user interface?
Way to go FF. You're looking less and less attractive every day.
Marc
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Goodbye, Firefox.
Hello, Google Chrome.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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The fight is about who gets to control the default home page of Internet Explorer and the enormous amount of attention that page commands. "It's Rock'em Sock'em Robots time!"
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the default home page of Internet Explorer and the enormous amount of attention that page commands.
Please tell me that's sarcasm.
Marc
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It looks like alot of people need to learn how to set their home page to google
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And I always thought sandboxing referred to programming.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Before launching into his presentation on the intricacies of building an Azure-based Web site, traffic in an Azure cloud, Microsoft's Jeffrey Fritz explains what caused a widespread Azure outage across most of the northern hemisphere. "Into each life some rain must fall"
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Quote: "It's my cheerful duty to say, I'm sorry. Let's talk about what happened."
Cheerful?!?!?!
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Safari is offering O’Reilly books and videos for free to every K-12 student and teacher in the U.S. Sorry about that US-only bit
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It might more accurately be called "I Can Manipulate Boys Into Programming While I Sit Back and Take Credit." So, it should have been titled, "Barbie becomes an IT manager?"
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Around my house that's worded as, "I have the tits; I make the rules".
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Barbie becomes an IT manager?
Wait a second? Have you been working at the same companies as me?
You got par on the IT Manager's course.
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Didn't read the article as it's rubbish, but I did read the screenshots of the pictures from the book. People really need to get a freaking life if they think that's newsworthy. Talk about being uptight. Nowhere did the book say girls can't be programmers. Just another case of someone with no life making a mountain out of a molehill.
Jeremy Falcon
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I agree. I don't psychoanalyze every single word as to what it means and what they could have meant. So Barbie can't do it all. That's realistic. Most everyone, male and female, can't.
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Fine, so don't publish. Publish, and be damned.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Yes, but the title "I can be a computer engineer" is just a tad misleading. And the attitudes seem to come from 5 decades ago.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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That's being overly anal and pedantic man. Here's a thought, maybe the person that wrote it isn't a super computer genius. Seriously, anyone that makes a big deal out of this, especially to the tune of that article, really needs to get out more and get laid.
Jeremy Falcon
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I like her "Ken do" attitude
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