Comment Yes, but can it... (Score 1) 67
...find fields of gold?
...find fields of gold?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Slashdotters rushing to post that this is lame and/or they did it 20 years ago.
It did cross my mind when there was shepherd's pie on the menu last week...By the time I got there, though, they'd run out of shepherds.
My office building is next to the pathology department, and I can't go to lunch without seeing a hearse loading or unloading.
Yeah, I remember that one. The petrol in station was way the hell out in the middle of nowhere (for the UK, anyway), and was already on the expensive side as a result. The owner said that he wasn't profiteering, rather it was about conserving what little they had. Until they could get another delivery, he wanted to ensure that anyone who wasn't desperate didn't stop there, and anyone who was only bought enough to get them to civilisation.
Made sense to me. Didn't make sense to the Daily Mail, of course.
Seriously, I'm getting tired of the endless stream of apps.
There's a nap for that.
Incidentally, I have type 2 diabetes and my body/mass index is exactly where it should be, I'm not overweight and never have been. It doesn't just affect big people.
From my experience, the boneheads were almost exclusively in the HR agencies.
About a year ago, in my previous job, I was recruiting for some Linux Kernel/Drivers/Embedded C (with a bit of C++) people. I was dealing with some of these boneheads but I made sure I had a very good, strongly-worded chat with them to explain the types of candidates I was looking for, making it absolutely clear that I needed people who were proficient in C, not just C++.
The reply that took the biscuit was, "To be honest, you'd be better off looking for C# programmers."
I want to download all of it and figure out where I should put my Dunkin' Donuts franchise...
...of simpler times hundreds of years ago...
Looks like the RSO had his money on "no".
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.