I've heard one argument that posits one of the causes for this rift is the prohibitive costs of legacy computer hardware/software. The old 286 in my father's office growing up probably ran him $4,000 - $5,000. If you can imagine paying a much larger chunk of your income for a home PC that was not designed with modularity or expandability in mind you can begin to see why the boomer generation is so careful around electronics.
You may want to keep in mind that using "ELT" vs "ETL" (even if that's what order Teradata works in) makes it harder to search for the job on most sites.
FYI -- I was about to apply for this until I noticed the 2-month contract. I'm more junior than what you're looking for but if you dropped the pay & extended the contract a bit I'd definitely be interested.
The usual argument is evolutionary; i.e. men have a biological incentive to embrace monogamy to help prevent the chances of being cuckolded while women do not. I'm not supporting it, as it is an equally untestable hypothesis, just mentioning it for the sake of the discussion.
I wish they'd give us some idea of how they are testing beyond mentioning "customer workload"; maybe even release their own benchmark by simulating some typical customer workload. The dbench bashing seems out of place without some further explanation.
True, it may not have been as ultra-sophisticated as the article lets on, but the fact that there would be no obvious reason to pursue the attack on 34 different companies seems to belie the commercial-hack theory.
The FCC regulates almost all aspects of local exchange carriers. The entire business is so mired in regulation that it would be legally impossible to let it naturally die. Really, the FCC's main responsibility isn't to legislate its death, but to un-legislate the necessity of its existence.
That's all well and good, but when you look at it from the interviewee's perspective he/she has to determine, based on what little knowledge they have of the interviewer, whether or not they want to hear the bullshit answer or your preferred, realistic version of the answer. Right now, it is probably a safer bet to stick to the bullshit answer until more interviewers like yourself swing the tide back over. In the meantime, however, you could be missing out on great applicants that have just been programmed to give you the bullshit answer by the sitting majority.
Now if only they had a product that did something beyond letting you use iTunes with non-Apple devices. The user base for this won't be remarkably large (non tech-savvy people who have owned iPods in the past but who are now switching to a generic player).
They are generally funded by coalitions of multinational telecommunications companies (AT&T, BT Group, Telstra, Bharti, etc) and built and maintained by specialized marine fiber-laying companies.
It's not a permanent label for the age group... it was originally used to describe 18-24 year olds almost 20 years ago. This crap is pretty subjective but I would guess gen X is now in their mid-thirties.
I'd love to see them add another data point to the next challenge. We have user ratings & date; when teams actually started utilizing date instead of ignoring it like Cinematch the scores shot up significantly. Imagine if they added something else to the dataset; perhaps movies that have been "viewed" and/or "queued" by users but have not been rated or something more off-the-wall like some basic demographic data or what level of Netflix plan they subscribe to.
TL;DR --> McDonald's owns every www.mc(state).com site and uses each domain for recruiting purposes instead of a central page.
Somewhat anti-climatic but I made it all the way through because I recognized the blog/author and was pining for an article similar to this classic from last year...
Given the wording of the question this is the route I would have taken; give him the engineering solution, not the comp sci solution. I guess this question has a certain merit for weeding out theorists from pragmatists.
I'd wait on your purchase... the current models will handle 360p okay via Hulu but will lag noticeably while trying to run fullscreen or even windowed 480p. I really think the next major selling point for netbooks will prove to be more HD video capabilities. VIA and Habey have already introduced hardware decoders (the VX855 and BIS-6550HD, respectively) that are able to handle 1080p. These or something similar could easily be included in next-gen netbooks.
We needed 75 hours in FL for the bright futures scholarship. I joined the local volunteer fire station and got my first responder cert. from the county. It's not always boring.