More like a failure to double check settings or something.
- "Are you really sure you want to trash those two satellites?" <click> - "Did you get your boss's approval?" <click>
Or... the Russian version of Clippy,..
"Hi - it looks like you're trying to trash two satellites. Do you want a hand with that?"
<click>
see me on Facebook. Local undersherriff initiated a traffic stop in a dark territory valley (no cellular reception) while I was in my disabled vehicle waiting for traffic to go by before exiting to determine why I was having difficulty re-starting the engine.
You may not know the full story.
Cop: McClusky here
Base: Go ahead, McClusky
Cop: I'm in the Dark territory valley where Susie McSturgess went missing last month, and there's a vehicle here, parked. One person inside, apparently just sitting there.
Base:Proceed with caution, McClusky. Remember, little Susie is still missing
Slashdot cracks me up
Red faced and angry about the coming Surveillance State
Damned happy to have every cop be a walking surveillance unit
Anybody else see the irony?
Anyone else think this was a four-line haiku at first reading?
Like, perhaps, English. So that he could - after all these years as a professional who types out strings of characters that very specific meaning - understand that when he says "could have cared less about my career," he means "could NOT have cared less about my career." Maybe he's been working all these years in languages that don't incorporate the concept of "not" or " ! " in evaluating two values. Are there any? I couldn't care less. Grown-ups who communicate or code for a living should be able to handle that one correctly.
Mod parent up. Totally agree - everyone in the profession should learn to write a document explaining something first. Grammar, spelling, getting an idea across, simple language, pitch to the audience, clear expressions... if you can do it in English (or whatever your native language is) then you're ready to pick up a "Learn to write {programming language du jour} in 10 minutes of your money back".
And read. Read fiction, read essays, read the paper, read a magazine, read emails. Get better and expand your vocabulary.
This is an example of a good password at my company "m7Rx2NqU" -- that's an unrecognizable jumble of characters that only a computer could love, but never a human.
I'd prefer to use "correcthorsebatterystaple" (ala XKCD), but my company's password policies do not let me use a pass phrase, but a jumble of numbers, letters and uppercase.
Tut now. I have a couple of dozen passwords, and literally have no idea what they are. But I do know what the password to my Password storage file is. I don't think I've actually known what my bank websites password is for about 5 years. But I know I can use it and change it.
And BTW, my daughter's router password in "CorrectHorseBatteryStaple" in her student flat. I'd wager that's a common one these days, along with MonkeySlut.
Spying on Americans is wrong.
In communist Russia, Americans spy on YOU.
(Think I got the meme right
Ancient ruins. Basically I want to be a wizard Indiana Jones.
With you there. I'd like to see Persepolis and Petra. I've lived in Rome, seen Athens -and the most amazing thing I've seen is Abu Simbel, in southern Egypt. Over two thousand years old, and it looks like the painters just nipped around the corner when they heard you coming.
Multiple episodes show grey as pink (Klingon uniforms), because one of the guys was in fact colorblind to grey
But can you see "Shades of Grey?" (thank you, I'm here 'til Thursday)
I have two questions for my fellow Slashdoters: "Is this a common concern with new CS grads?" and, if so, "What can I do to supplement my Java-oriented studies?"
I'm a hiring manager. Not knowing low level absolutely counts against you in terms of breadth of knowledge. It generally isn't a deal breaker but it would be treated the same way as not knowing OS theory, not knowing database theory, not understanding algorithms design, or machine learning. Its a hole, you lose a few points and we move on with the interview. As far as it being common CS grads differ a great deal from school to school, the curriculum is not remotely uniform. A recent CS grad can vary tremendously in what they know and what areas the degree doesn't mean anything than they've had some classes in some computer stuff.
In terms of what you can do to supplement. Learn things unlike Java. Definitely at least one functional language and one procedural language so you have something other than OO programming. Learn a low level language and a very high level language. Languages can do double duty so for example Mathematica is very high level and functional while C or Assembler (better choice BTW) is low level and procedural.
I've been a hiring manager (well, a manager who's hired). In general I don't care about the amount of low-level a candidate knows, I'm more concerned about how he writes the program (if that is what I'm hiring him to do) and how he'll fit into the project. Does he know the language syntax. What sort of stuff has he written. What sort of problems has he had, how did he get around them. In real big-boy operating systems, memory management is left to the OS: I just need someone who knows to be careful of the resources. And writes good, clean, maintainable code
A car analogy. I don't care if you're able to tune the engine to get that last fluid ounce of petrol. Just keep an eye on the MPG and most importantly, don't crash.
Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user!
