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I think it's brilliant. In one fell swoop they've got a guide to how well you communicate, how you respond to unusual requests, flexibility, and all manner of other stuff whilst giving those who might be rather less serious about applying a fence they probably can't be bothered to jump. And they've given themselves a bit of entertainment in the process. Tis a thankless task reading these forms. How University Applications staff don't go stark raving mad is beyond my ken (although, thinking about one from my college days, perhaps they do!)
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If it's for their own entertainment ("Dance, my puppets, dance!!!"), then I'm all for it--that's my kind of company.
My whole family has done the radio-drama thing with telemarketers. Dad and mom pulled an "Oh my god! You're telling me I have cancer!?!" routine on a lady calling about supplemental cancer insurance. And I got 3 levels of supervisors one time while discussing how many of my goats I would have to sell to get into the "great oil futures investment opportunity."
vuolsi così colà dove si puote
ciò che si vuole, e più non dimandare
--The answer to Minos and any question of "Why are we doing it this way?"
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In my metropolitan area? You would probably be the only applicant. I once applied for a position with an education agency and they then wanted me to get a certified copy of my degree before sending the stuff to the hiring manager. A year later the same job was still posted on the boards. Clearly that wasn't working for them.
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Nice. How about a John Donne inspired poem like this:
My code doth not float upon a cloud
but treads upon the bits of earth.
Its view does not inspire unchecked sums of devotion
rather it is an efficient declaration
of such human contrived variables
that inherit from the base and simple.
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I like internet social media but I am opinionated and getting tired of BS behavior of so called administrators on “popular” site which for obvious reasons will remain unmentioned. But it starts with first letter of an alphabet.
While participating in a discussion, one of the censors contributed to the resolution of the problem by making the following comment:
""--- Quote ---How are you going to explain this to your professor if another student makes it work? Or if the professor has a GPS that works?
--- End quote ---
That would be quite amusing. Student A demonstrates. His works. Student B demonstrates. Hers works. Doaa-Sawaftah demonstrates. Hers doesn't work. Explanation? "GPS doesn't work in Palestine". Whole class bursts out laughing.""
I found this offensive and called such comment as coming from “pathetic moron” and “poking his nose into what is not his business”.
Of course my comment was deleted within an hour and I have been banned from posting there ever since. Reason - constant whining!
OK, big deal.
The real kicker – every time I access the site ( I have ongoing project I am helping with) my banishment date keeps moving further away at random intervals.
Talking about petty “little napoleon” of “Some like it hot” fame.
I guess I better not attend any bithday party decorated with big birthday cake.
Cheers Vaclav
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Vaclav_Sal wrote: I am opinionated
Admitting it is the first step.
Vaclav_Sal wrote: called such comment as coming from “pathetic moron”
That's your error. Please don't do that.
modified 20-Apr-15 20:04pm.
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Vaclav_Sal wrote: But it starts with first letter of an alphabet.
Which alphabet?
It probably doesn't matter because I have no idea what this post is about. Am I missing anything?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Vaclav_Sal wrote: constant whining
So you come here to whine about it. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
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If only there were a practitioner of black magic we could contact... 
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You called?
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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wait, you don't use sorcery to perform your job?
like sacrificing a virgin or goat every now or than?
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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At times, usually on the weekends, I look up in the sky and make predictions of future events based on the flight of a helicopter. Does that count?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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will do 
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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Last sunday I would not have placed any bets on the survival of the helicopter. I finally understand now why this particular type of rotor head is considered to react strongly to external influences (like wind).
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Vaclav_Sal wrote: poking his nose into what is not his business
Of course it's his business; that's why it is called social media.
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Vaclav_Sal wrote: for obvious reasons
???
Vaclav_Sal wrote: But it starts with first letter of an alphabet
The first letter of AN alphabet ? That's first class hinting.
Let me clarify something : are you upset by something going on the Internet ?
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If you look really, really hard, you'll see that there are other web-sites on the Internet.
You cannot actually fight someone who is present as just a stream of characters in a forum, so don't bother trying.
If someone has prevented you from expressing your opinion, then he's a wanker, and -- as long as you do not also suppress other people's opinions -- you are the better man, so let him continue to be a wanker in your (mathematical) relationship, and you continue to be the better man.
If you really can't let it go, find out who is the site's actual owner (mods are normally just subscribers, who are given a little power, and usually let it go to their heads), and put in a complaint.
Don't write a lenghty diatribe to complain, though; just something like:
"[link] is what I was banned for. I think [mod's name] is out of control, and giving the site a bad reputation"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If a software development firm were to name itself "App-o-Matics", would Ulysses S. Grant turn over in his grave, or would he gravely grant access to all the database tables?
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The court is still out on that one.
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My son asked my how much my employer payed me for each character, wow.
Got my regex expression to work with a negative lookahead and now it works! And my validator works!
WooHoo.
I tried to tell my 11th grade son about regex and 4 characters in an hour to make it all work is really quite a deal. But he shook his head, quoted the price per character and walked off.
children, pfft.
It's regex for goodness sake.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.
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... knowing the right four characters: priceless. 
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He doesn't pay you "per character" - he pays you four knowing which for characters to use...
it's an old joke...[^] but that doesn't mean it's not true.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So you're not just one type A character; you're four of them?
If psychiatry weren't utter bollocks, I'd suggest that you get therapy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Reminds me of the old joke:
A well known rich businessman's wife broke her hip. The businessman got the best bone surgeon in town to do the operation. The operation consisted of lining up the broken hip and putting in a screw to secure it. The operation went fine, and the doctor sent the business man a fee for his services of $50,000. The businessman was outraged at the cost, and sent the doctor a letter demanding an itemized list of the costs. The doctor sent back a list with two things:
1 screw $ 1
Knowing how to put it in $49,999
TOTAL $50,000
The businessman never argued.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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