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Cool! Business Insider has decided to obey European law, so I can unblock them!
I agree entirely with Joe. When I send details of people I need to HR, I never, ever demand degrees, because I know that a lot of the best people I've worked with never got one, but HR always adds the requirement to the job spec.
I have to pound the fact that I want to see people with skills, not degrees, into the tiny brains of almost every HR department I work with.
So no snark from me, either.
Big Blue and no snark really burns, damnit!
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Five+ years of experience is often accepted as an alternative to the degree requirement.
For instance, I don't have a degree, but I have 40 years of dev experience.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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As long as you don't get screened out by knee-jerk robots in HR, that's fine.
If I found that the CV of someone of your abilities had not been passed on to me, I'd blow a fuse.
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The bug “allows a network man-in-the-middle (or a malicious package mirror) to execute arbitrary code as root on a machine installing any package.” The joy of ... oh, just scroll down, there's another waiting lower on the page
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I'm sure glad Windows uses the OSS model so security issues are a thing of the past.
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A Bobby Tables attack?
Really?!?
The Linux "We're as Safe as Houses" brigade left everyone open to Bobby Tables attacks???!!!
Actually, it's just the kind of bollix-up I'd expect. People who are too busy being clever make the stupidest and most obvious mistakes.
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Microsoft Research recently published a paper in which they talk about the potential of VR in work environment. They claim that VR office based on immersive head-mounted displays (HMDs) will enable immersive, flexible and fluid office work. Are you virtually working or virtually working?
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Next: Microsoft announces "Microsoft Office VR: More expensive crap you can waste your money on."
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So, priorities:
0. Icons
1. Ridiculous headsets that no-one wants (except for playing games) and that no-one will ever use for just doing their job.
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24,387,982. Fix bugs
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Officials with the widely used PHP Extension and Application Repository have temporarily shut down most of their website and are urging users to inspect their systems after discovering hackers replaced the main package manager with a malicious one. The joys of centralized package managers, part way-too-many
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Well, at least the windows app store is safe.
... For the same reason that Linux has historically been safer than windows -- given its number of users, it ain't worth using as a vector.
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The European Union’s Copyright Directive has led a tortured life, even by the standards of EU law. They usually get everything working so smoothly with their legislation
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Something else we can blame Italian politicians for!
As usual, what they're trying to do is right (for people, not corporations), but sorting out the minutiae is a bigger task than deciding what to do.
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The impact occurred just moments after totality began — the moment when the last bit of Moon slipped into the deeper part of Earth's shadow. Are we sure it wasn't Moonbase Alpha blowing up?
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I thought this article would be interesting until I found out that asteroid isn't just a more vulgar term for hemorrhoid.
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I told the NSA that all it would take is one little lag in the temperature regulation of their top secret server farm, and the whole thing would go kablooey, but they didn't listen!
And it turns out that an eclipse is one massive temperature-change too many.
I love to say "I told you so!"; I find it so satisfying.
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Wine 4.0 released with Vulkan, Direct3D support among other features "Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people."
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More accurately, "Direct3d 12 support".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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So they've been working on wine since 1994. Here we are, almost 25 years later, and they STILL struggle to get anything meaningful to run on it. By "meaningful", I'm not talking about games. Even before they (Microslop) switched the interface to WPF, Visual Studio wasn't running successfully on Wine. Today, more than 10 years after WPF hit the streets, you still can't run a WPF app in Wine (that I'm aware of).
Sorry, but I'm tired of waiting...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Security researchers across the globe united in a project dedicated to sharing URLs used in malicious campaigns managed to take down close to 100,000 websites actively engaged in malware distribution. "Say we can, say we will. Not just another drop in the ocean "
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For the sake of all that is OCD, that should have been 256 researchers.
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255 - indexed by zero...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Mmm. Except they aren't given a serial #, they're counted. Therefore 'zero-index' as a concept here is broken.
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enhzflep wrote: Except they aren't given a serial #, they're counted. Like birthdays, you mean.
OK, so you can tell your girlfriend/wife that she's a year older than she says, but I'm sticking to the convention.
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I do.
We've actually laughed about that. She's not so insecure as to dispute the truth...
My cards always wish her well for turning X years old, not for having her Nth birthday.
Unconventional? Sure. That's about how strange most people seem to us, too.
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