ph0rk
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Bingo. Also need someone that can do sql all day long.
Yeesh, that is going to be an expensive employee.
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yeah, not the apocolypse...maybe more like the idiocracy http://imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ (which is an hilarious movie btw)
The setup was interesting, but I thought the follow-through was about as subtle as a brick to the head. Whatever magic Judge had with Office Space he forgot to use when he finished that movie.
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I've put these candidates in front of a machine with visual studio on it, and told them to make
the one line C program "hello world". Not a single person has been able to do it yet.
Give me a fucking break.
I'm not surprised, given what I thought the last time I looked at VS
Check out: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000781.html
The guys I used to work with use FizzBuzz as a weed-out mechanism. They can use the language of their choice, too, which is nice (lets you get someone who can code, no matter their language - they can learn whatever you need later).
Sort applicants based on elegance of solution.
I was the guy that would work whenever, for whatever. I worked hard, and long hours. What'd it get me? Fewer people to help. Less time off. More work. Not significantly more pay. It almost got me divorced, and I got to hear one of my son's first words to me..."bye bye daddy".
Ouch. 8 years I spent in IT. The contracting life was awful, the you're-a-contractor-but-we-pretend-you're-almost-a-real-employee gig got real old (AT&T, IBM). I burned out at went to grad school
Never thought I'd be happy earning less than 20k/yri agree with the comments about the "entitlement gen", but i think it's a societal shift, more about brand, packaging, looks...less about substance...
People have been saying stuff like that since they were old enough to talk smack about the younger generation. I'm sure there are bad eggs, but I don't think it is indicative of some sky-is-falling trend.
The generation concept as used in the popular media is bunk anyway (thanks alot, Mannheim). The birth cohort is the only distillation that has much use (or has any validity for talking about intergroup similarities). Even that potentially has issues. Current "gen y"ers are aged 26 to 12. Why anyone would think that is a valid unit of comparison is beyond me.
Besides, everyone knows it's the boomers that broke the gen Y kiddies.
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Bitching about Headfi won't make you fit in here.
Damn, I blew my whole PR budget on HF hate.
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There's really nothing to solve there. If all the questions posted were like yours, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
They'd still be looking for answers that could theoretically be solved by searching, if by a great deal of it I sometimes get the impression that many people would just prefer that newbies don't ask questions at all, which is unfortunate.
Many moons ago I putzed around on the occasional mud while at work (though no real die-hard mudder). It was always interesting to watch people fall over themselves offering help and advice to newbies - a very different climate.
But the people who run the tourist traps like tourists. So...there ya go.
Zing.
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Oh, they know how to use it alright, they just don't. They prefer to start their own personal thread about it.
And the threads get responses. It works, why stop?
A headphone wiki would go a long way to solve those sorts of problems, and the issues of editing would be little different than the issues of selective moderation.
I don't really see much point in a headphone-specific forum other than the odd review/impressions thread, debate about X vs Y, and what ____ is right for me, though. The third thread type results in new pairs of eyes to look at the sponsored ads.
I also think mods could start saying that, and start combining or deleting threads if it's clear there's five 600 vs 650 threads going on at the same time yet again. A few weeks of that, and I bet it would stop. Of course, I could be wrong.
There is a steady influx of new blood making the same mistakes though, so it will be a new way of doing things rather than a temporary fix. I don't really get the impression HF exists to foster discussion anymore, though.
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atrollentionwhoring
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Sociology, more specifically (quantitative) sociology of culture and social theory. I'm going to contribute to society!
My statement was directed by the MP3 player as fashion accessory crowd.
Ah. I can understand that. I am generally more snobby about interested in what material they are listening to, rather than which devices. I find the process by which people pick favored artists or music genres fascinating. I suppose buying habits are a somewhat similar animal. That is - social.
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I don't think (s)he's trying to avoid discipline.
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See sig.
But it said there is no...
I was thinking like a nicotine patch. For stupid. (Your sig is more of a netsec thing).
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i use a macbook. why? don't have the money for a macbook pro because johns hopkins med is taking it all, plus i don't need a macbook pro. so basically your question makes me go
:mikey2: :mikey2: :mikey2: Don't hit your macbook! I was being facetious (and commenting on the part of the chain I was pretty sure postjack -wasn't-).
The only reason to go MBP over MB is video card, or as I call it "play time".
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Thanks everyone -- I have my moments.-10 reading comprehension points -- did you even read the fucking thread? There is no place in the profile for one's gear.
You need the patch.
They make a patch for that? Where can I get some?
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your gear blows btw, i can see it there in your sig. you should buy more shit so i like you.
Yeah, who the hell uses a macbook? MACBOOK PRO BABY!
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wilson would just be there to tell house not to still his [wilson's] sandwich.
Well, he'd watch House take a bite, and -then- ask him why he didn't buy his own sandwich with his fabulous doctoring-money. He wouldn't actually come out and tell House to stop.
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cuddy.
Wait, so would that mean that Cameron would be the one lamenting that we don't just listen to the music anymore/enough?
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Back to the amp analogy, if that's what he's going to feed the thing, then that's what he should test it out on.
I wish more discussions about audio took this tack.
Yes, if headphone X won't reach its potential until you use gear of the quality of Y or Z, then you really don't know what X is really like. But, if you're stuck with gear like a or b, Then X either sounds good compared to other headphones in your current craptacular system, or it doesn't.
There is no truth, only relevance. And bourbon - lots of bourbon.
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As a random thread-crap (from s04e09):
an ampeg svt 8x10 bass stack doesn't usually work without a: a cable from the head to the cab, or b: anything plugged in to the head. And really, sort of out of character. He does piano and the occasional guitar.
But then I guess I suck pretty hard at the whole medical doctor thing, so whatever.
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After several months of goading, a friend finally pushed the Lost Season 1 DVDs on me, so I'm giving them a shot. I'd watched the first few episodes of season 1 last year, and it didn't really do it for me, but I just watched episode 4, and it was pretty good.
I have a working theory that it takes up to 4 episodes of any given show to "grow" on you, and if it hasn't by then, it probably won't. It doesn't often happen with just one episode anymore.
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I guess it just depends what stage of life you are in (college?)
More like the part that makes the college experience possible for the undergrads.
I got the impression from your post (particularly the part bolded) that you were arguing that listening to music in the absence of any other activity was the -only- way to enjoy it, and I thought that position was bunk. You can do that every once and awhile and listen to music as soundtrack the rest of the time.
Someone that would avoid music unless they could listen to it free from distractions would be a sad panda.
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Yes, I think D&D alignments are utterly ridiculous. People don't think that way, and if they do, they're mad.
People don't cast fireballs, either. BG let you be however good or evil you wanted, but your actions had consequences with your companions - I don't see the problem with that. It actually got quite interesting when you had the paladin and the evil cleric in your party.
I don't know if I'd call BG the greatest game of all time, but I'd say it has a fighting chance to be in my top ten. But then, opinions differ: I never liked the old sierra games, myself, I found them quite boring.
Well, except Leisure Suit Larry, but come on.
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I hated Baldur's Gate (played 1 and 2). Far too much annoying and completely idiotic moralizing. They tried to make character interaction meaningful but if you do that, you'd better be able to write any kind of meaningful dialogue, otherwise you end up looking like a bunch of stuck-up buffoons.
what games that you have played have better dialog than BG1/2?
You didn't like the choice to be good evil or neutral?
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aw crap...you guys are gonna get me to drinkin again.
It's almost four - what's the problem?
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you're a superstar
as long as I don't have to wear a pleated skirt and/or knee pads.
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Bands you don't get that everyone else seems to like
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Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Tori Amos, Ani Difranco