It's remarkable how rarely I get asked this stuff.
Usually the interviews I'm in are like "do you mind being oncall", "can you work in heavily formal environments", and "can you give us an example of how to troubleshoot 'foo' ".
I hate those shops - I like your idea better
I happen to love doing contract to hire work - I get paid, you get work performed.
If I like the company (and they offer, so far they have), I'll go perm. If not, thank you and I'm on my way
The FTE gig is the worst gig ever. Crap wages, crap work, too many hours, and you get laid off with the same notice as a contractor (but are expected to slave 'for the good of the company'). It's no wonder so many places outsource these days.
When something becomes "popular" it has to attempt to reach the "people"
Joe six pack and his daughter Buffy need stuff for the common salt-of-the-earth types... you know, morons.
What saddens me is that with all these gee-whiz computers and trillion of sites, we can't have simplistic Joe six pack summaries with Jimmy Neutron details for those who wish to click a bit further.
Meh. Guess I should just shut up and chew my paste.
I run 64bit Win7 just fine as my gaming/art box, haven't found anything incompatible yet.
I don't run Office, though - just portable apps, Adobe CS video/graphics, and games.
Uninvited might be a bit strong, but that's the gist, yes
I'd say it's more like people with strong religious convictions going to a public beach. If you don't like the native beach attire (or think it might offend), you should probably avoid the beach.
Cosmopolitanism goes both ways, you know
I see this sort of thing in my state. I find people move here and try to make it like the place they came from. We'd rather you didn't - we like it the way it is (and if they don't... maybe they should go home?)
Yes, but this is slashdot... home of the knee-jerk reactionary.
Besides - most people here aren't citizens, they're subjects of whatever country they are from. We're constantly being reminded that slashdot is no longer an 'American' site, as if we are somehow to blame for them coming here.
Checked my Win 7 box, it's got 59 when counting all users. Several are chrome tabs
I really should use lynx on my windows box like I do my BSD box.
I think it was supposed to be a grimace
FreeBSD 8 here, 41 processes (though obviously as noted some of those were created by the act of looking).
If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as if he had lost his senses. When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him.