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Interview Disaster

johny10151981 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:03:00 GMT

In my last Interview they gave me 4 problem to solve. They said solve at least one if possible two

within hour I solved two. Then they call me again.

In the interview board they asked me whether I have developed any web service using PHP. I said no I didn't. Then I realized by web service they mean something else. So I asked what is web service? they replied that "the page that is executed by php is called web service". then they let me know that they cant hire me cause I don't have enough experience. (I have over 3 f***ing year experience) they are looking for one year experienced programmer.

Money or your life!

leppie — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:26:00 GMT

http://faceless.co.za/comics/faceless.582.jpg[^]

Link to image posted due rest of site containing not so SFW content/language, but funny

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Reputation Upside Down

unknowndentified10111 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT

My hard-worked reputation turns to -456. I just forgot to tag this lounge post as a [ Joke].

Automotive Electrical Quandry

Roger Wright — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:33:00 GMT

A week ago my passenger side electric window stopped working. I tested everything I could reach and found nothing wrong, so surmised that the motor was a goner. I ordered a new one and popped it in place; no joy. So I tossed aside the repair manual and started using my brain instead. I found that, with the cable to the motor disconnected, all voltages were as they should be, but with the motor plugged in, the motor rolled down correctly, but the voltage dropped to 0 when switched to the Up direction. Great... there's a wiring problem somewhere under the dash. Since that window can be operated from either side of the truck, I tried checking it from the driver side switch. From there, it works fine in the Up direction but fails when I try the Down position on the switch. Crikey! The two switches are wired in parallel - how can this happen?

I hate automotive engineers; they do everything backward. Any normal circuit leaves one side of a device grounded and switches the hot lead. But in autos, they run the hot (+12V) lead to the device, and switch the ground. That leads to some interesting side effects when a wiring fault occurs, and makes life miserable for anyone trying to diagnose a problem. This is going to take a while to figure out, and in the meantime, I have a 3/8" ratchet taped inside the door, holding the window mechanism in the Up position until I can find the fault. Grrr...

Will Rogers never met me.

Ah, finally

wizardzz — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:42:00 GMT

I had an interview today, and the coding test? 2 simple projects on a computer with Visual Studio + internet! Wow, that's refreshing. Afterwards the two interviewers went on to riff about how questions regarding fitting pennies in the room or round manhole covers are annoying.

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Happy Birthday Edmund Wells

_Maxxx_ — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:10:00 GMT

200th !

I particularly liked Knickerless Knickleby"

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Is there no end to the lust for power in Google?

Henry Minute — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:56:00 GMT

Today Atlantis, tomorrow The World[^].

So that's where they are building their underwater lair and also why I haven't seen any white cats locally for some time, although, come to think of it, that might have something to do with the snow.

Henry Minute

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It can't just be me? (Ping with microsoft domains)

DaveAuld — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:08:00 GMT

I have tried 1 computer and 1 laptop. (windows 7, 64bit and 32 bit)

Open a command prompt;
Ping microsoft.com
1 reply ok, next 3 time out (207.46.197.32)

Ping google.com
4 reply ok (209.85.147.147)

Is this behaviour the same for everyone else and MS has some sort of additional functionality on their domains as it also happens with msn.com, microsoft.co.uk, msn.co.uk?

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I hope Microsoft and Oracle both go out of business and all of their executives die in a suspicious fires.

MehGerbil — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:07:00 GMT

I'm working in Microsoft SQL 2008 and I've linked to Oracle 11g.
The initial results were encouraging but now I've run up against several walls.

First, let's look at a simple query to the linked Oracle database:

SELECT
T1.ACCOUNT_NBR
FROM
SERVERNAME..CATALOG.TABLE AS T1

If that query actually worked I'd be singing the praises of the respective companies, but alas, that's just too damn easy. The problem? There is a new fangled DateTimeStamp data type is Oracle - because, golly, we really needed it - and it causes the query to crash even though I'm not requesting the field which has the broken data type (1).

Secondly, since that was much too elegant of a solution I dropped back to using the thick "OPENQUERY" function, which evidently can understand mis-matched datatypes while the rest of the server cannot, which is a puzzlement for sure, because it illustrates they can do it but just choose not to make the initial query work, but I digress.

So I use OPENQUERY only to make some progress - you know what I mean, just enough progress to think, "Wow, I might have this licked" only to run into another incredibly stupid road block that makes you want to quit your job and make fries for living. The road block this time is that I'm accessing a view on the remote server through OPENQUERY, and if the view has calculated fields you cannot query them in a sub-query. If you're thinking WTF? at this point, well, that's how I feel about it as well.

It's beyond me why I can go out to the MSDN site and try to learn a simple thing or two about C# only to have the most simple of concepts wrapped in the most obtuse, muddled, and unnecessarily complex examples - and yet when it came to testing providers for linked servers the complexity of the SQL they used could not have been any more involved than SELECT * FROM TABLE - because anything more than that and you're hosed. Evidently churning out thousands of pages of self-aggrandizing drivel is more entertaining then making sure an enterprise level database solution works. Nice.

So to Oracle and Microsoft: I don't give a rat's ass about your stock value, ego, or you're petty squabbles over patents, Java, and what not. I think the both of you deserve a huge kick in the backside for allowing a simple linked query to absorb 4 days of my time only to meet with failure because two leading software companies cannot play nice over the definition of DateTimeStamp.

Die In A Fire.

NOTES
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1: Oracle would probably claim the data type isn't broken. Here's news for you: If it doesn't work because of type incompatibility both Oracle and SQL are broken and both companies can rot in hell. It's a data type for crying out loud, and if you bozos made that complicated it isn't my fault. We aren't trying to create browser here people!

I can't believe I may have to issue these messages

Gary Wheeler — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:22:00 GMT

"Jam detected in travelling fingers"

or

"Glue dispenser overload"

or the ever-popular

"Infeed nip roller off"

Software Zen: delete this;

Golf...

mark merrens — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:34:00 GMT

Well I would have posted this in the 'get togethers' section but that is a ghost town, so...

Anyone in LA playing golf over the next 2 weekends that would let me join your game? Looking to get some golf action but not met anyone who plays! Normally play off 20 on the home course (on a good day).

Feel free to ignore this if:

a) you hate golf.
b) you hate me.
c) either of the above.

Thanks.

"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
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me, me, me

It's not caused by fracking, but FaceBook and YouTube

Eddy Vluggen — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:58:00 GMT

..or so it seems[^].

Bastard Programmer from Hell

Think of the slugs!

Naerling — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:55:00 GMT

Very nice short animation film[^].

It's an OO world.

public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
    public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}

Before you think about buying.....

Henry Minute — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:35:00 GMT

......one of these[^] in a few days time. Or ^{start to talk like this} to amuse.

Have a read of this[^] and then go out and buy it anyway you tasteless fool.

VisualHG?

Super Lloyd — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:44:00 GMT

Anyone using this sh*t?
I just have to rant...

I am experimenting at home with it. It completely destroy my desire to use a SCS!

It might be good.. but every time I start a project using it, all my bin/obj folder get added to the commit list. I just did the test, spending 40 minute forgetting all binary and miscellaneous file manually with TortoiseHG, starting VS, bing, all my bin/obj folder are added again!!

Grr!

Might stick with Subversion after all...

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She finally got home...

mark merrens — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:34:00 GMT

She left LA for Heathrow Saturday afternoon and finally landed about 2 hours ago! They were diverted to Barcelona and dumped in an airport hotel (one phone call, one meal) until about 0430 this morning when they were awoken and taken to the plane which then sat on the tarmac for over an hour whilst they attempted to de-ice. At no time did anyone from BA tell them what was going on. I understand it was snowing and it makes life diffcult but to treat the passengers with such contempt and refuse to tell anyone what was happening is disgraceful. Extremely snotty letter on it's way!

"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum

me, me, me

List to DataTable

Marc Clifton — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:34:00 GMT

It's amazing how quickly one can find a plethora of solutions out there. For example, I was looking for a list to DataTable converter and instantly found this[^] on stackoverflow, which has a reference to this[^] snazzy article on CP, with comments from Josh Smith, and why they got "1'd" is beyond me, because the very first thing I thought of was "what about security permissions"?

Marc

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RIP Bill Hinzman

Nagy Vilmos — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:34:00 GMT

Bill Hinzman[^] has died. Again.

As the original zombie from the original zombie movie, he really was Patient #0.

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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fastest remote display software?

Joan Murt — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:33:00 GMT

Hello all,

I'm in the need of a really fast way to share the display from one to another XP Pro computer that are connected directly by a CAT5e network cable (and not through the Internet, both computers are plugged to the same network).

I've tried RealVNC but it is really slow.

Is it possible to get a faster software that would allow me to share the diplay of one computer to another one?

Thank you in advance!

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Decided to take the ole lady out for a spin before work

Slacker007 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:07:00 GMT

I put her through her paces and she performed just fine, I must say.

ain't she purty?[^]

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