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Comment Reminds me of Dirac and his wife (Score 2) 453

Complete polar opposites personality wise, they met by chance at Princeton in the 30's as she was the recently divorced sister of a colleague of Dirac's. No dating algorithm in the world would have paired them up as matches and yet they had two children and were happily married the rest of their lives. Dirac's own children were at a loss as to how the marriage was successful since it defied logic that a mathematical genius who rarely spoke ended up with a talkative, self described "scientific zero" and yet, there they were.

Comment Re:With one fire (Score 1) 151

"the process is the product." They truly believed that managing the process of building the plane was a more important product over the plane itself.
       

The meaning behind "the process is the product" slogan was to infer that controlling the process of how the product is made, in theory, ensures the quality of the product. It doesn't infer that they don't care about the the end product.

You're interpreting a marketing slogan a wee bit too literally. (Most likely to bolster your argument.)

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with Boeing.

Submission + - Have you ever been accused of cheating on a technical screen? 1

An anonymous reader writes: Recently I was interviewing for a large online retailer who shall go unamed. During the intial phone screen I was asked the usual types of questions one would use to screen a potential linux SA. I recently received feedback from their HR that essentially accused me of using the phone screen to cheat by looking up answers to questions while the interview was ongoing. Needless to say, I did not cheat or otherwise use notes or a computer in any way during the interview to assist me in answering the questions. I answered everything from memory and am puzzled by the accusation and I'm quite angry that I've been unfairly accused of cheating or that I would even resort to doing something like that during a tech screen. I would have been more than happy to have had the interview conducted in person and my answers would have been exactly the same as everything came from memory. Has this experience ever happened to you and if so, how did you deal with it? I'm worried I will be "blacklisted" for future positions with this employer due to these false allegations that I cheated during the technical phone screen. Having been on both sides of these types of calls what are some ways to deal with this issue and ensure people are not cheating by googling answers? What are some ways to indemnify yourself against such accusations as not every employer wants to take the time to set up and schedule a face to face interview? The best I could do was explain that I did not use notes or a computer of any kind and that I am disappointed they were given that impression during the interview. Is cheating on interviews really that widespread in the tech industry? I'd assume anyone who successfully faked their way through the initial technical screening interview would be caught up when they actually had to produce something or solve problems in later face to face interviews.
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Submission + - Blizzard in trouble over Diablo III DRM (geek.com)

The_Myth writes: Blizzard appears to be under investigation in Korea, France and Germany over Diablo III requiring an "always connected" internet connection to play. The limitations on being unable to onsell or return Diablo III and the lack of capacity on Battle.Net have caught the attention of consumer advocacy groups who are preparing for potential class action lawsuits. Who knew that piracy could potentially cost a game publisher less than legal settlements?

Submission + - Ellison doesn't know if Java is free (cnet.com)

Emacs.Cmode writes: Among the highlights emanating from U.S. District Court in San Francisco courtroom 8 today was Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's response to a question regarding the status of the Java programming language, which his company acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems in 2010.
Asked by Google's lead attorney, Robert Van Nest, if the Java language is free, Ellison was slow to respond. Judge William Alsup pushed Ellison to answer with a yes or no. As ZDNet reporter Rachel King observed in the courtroom, Ellison resisted and huffed, "I don't know."

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Learning Python, 4th Edition 163

thatpythonguy writes "Learning Python is a well-written book by an experienced Python trainer that has served the Python community well since the first edition was published in 1999. Now, at its fourth edition, this book by Mark Lutz arguably continues to be Python's bible." Read on for the rest of Ahmed's review.

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