Comment On Routers, Routers, Everywhere

Bob... Billy Bob:

The real WTF is all the crying mac users and apple fanbois with hurt feelings attempting to justify the laughable design choice of a single buttoned mouse as though it were the pinnacle of user interface enlightenment.

BottomCod3r:

At my company, we make sure to hire competent engeneers by using a process with no less than 12 interviews. Sometimes, they would do multiple interviews the same day with a math test in the end of the day.

PS: I am a TopCod3r biggest fan !

Bob:

Was it Mr. Buttle, in the server room with the candlestick er... I mean mouse?

Endo808:

"The upshot of this is that a lot of unqualified boobs got hired"

Am I the only person this really annoys?

And upshot is a positive thing UP-SHOT i.e the point at which a downward curve shoots back up again. The opposite of an upshot is a downfall or perhaps better for this sentence a downside.

Unless you think it's a good thing that lots of unqualified boobs got hired?!

Endo808:

"The upshot of this is that a lot of unqualified boobs got hired"

Am I the only person this really annoys?

And upshot is a positive thing UP-SHOT i.e the point at which a downward curve shoots back up again. The opposite of an upshot is a downfall or perhaps better for this sentence a downside.

Unless you think it's a good thing that lots of unqualified boobs got hired?!

danixdefcon5:

Jay:

gabba:

Gotta respect CommQuack. Not every company has the expertise to interview a philosopher intelligently.

True. My company once hired a philosophy major to be a software engineer after an inadequate interview, only later to discover that he was completely unable to implement Anselm's Ontological Argument in Java.

I know at least one thing that you can do:

public boolean hamlet() {
return (2B || !2B);
}

MacUser:

"...even right clicking (take that, Mac applicant)!"

The author never uses a Mac. Any Mac user can right-click with the one-button Mighty Mouse. Do your homework.

Mr B:

Endo808:

Unless you think it's a good thing that lots of unqualified boobs got hired?!

It would annoy me, *if* it had been used incorrectly.

Kiss me I'm Polish:

jordanwb:

realmerlyn:

even right clicking (take that, Mac applicant)

Hey, stop dissing on the Mac, using your decade-old view of what a Mac does. OS9 and OS X have had completely integrated support for multi-button mice from the beginning. Be nice.

Certainly took them long enough. Windows had multibutton mouses in Windows 3.1 (possibly earlier)

Using an Apple notebook, where you get to use only one button and not even a touchpad tapping to simulate clicks, I always feel like somebody just cut my fingers. I've just recently discovered they had some cryptic multitouch, which involves putting your TWO hands on the touchpad.
I'm sorry, it's difficult to be nice ;,(

Someone who doesn't invent their own definitions:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=upshot

notice how no one likes to use Dell, HP or Lenovo trackpads, they all lug their mice around with them rsp. use the trackpoint?

BottomCod3r:

At my company, we make sure to hire competent engeneers by using a process with no less than 12 interviews.

usitas:

danixdefcon5:

Jay:

gabba:

Gotta respect CommQuack. Not every company has the expertise to interview a philosopher intelligently.

True. My company once hired a philosophy major to be a software engineer after an inadequate interview, only later to discover that he was completely unable to implement Anselm's Ontological Argument in Java.

I know at least one thing that you can do:
public boolean hamlet() {
return (2B || !2B);
}

Refactor:
public boolean hamlet() {
return true;
}

Jay:

Chalito:

I never really understood commissions, I mean on one hand it seems like a highly capilistic system, yet it always seems to fail in practice. What you end up with is people trying to get the "most" of anyting that's comissioned (sales, referrals whatever) instead of the best.

Congratulations, you've just realised the main problem with capitalism :)

While this may have happened at a basically capitalist institution, it is more typical of the problems of socialism. Under capitalism, people are rewarded in proportion to how they satisfy the customer efficiently. Give the customers what they want at a reasonable price, and they come back for more. Under socialism, people are rewarded in proportion to how they satisfy a bureaucrat's arbitrary rules, that have no direct relationship to satisfying the actual customer.

Like in the United States for the past few years, banks have been rewarded by the government based on the number of mortgage loans they made to people from various demographic groups: basically they had to loan money to people from poor neighborhoods and to ethnic minorities. The probability that the money could be repaid was not a factor in the equation. (Well, except in the perverse sense that they were rewarded for loaning to poor people, and poor people are presumably less likely to be able to repay.) The results were a shocking surprise only to government officials.

Good try, but it wasn't really like that, at all. The sub-prime lending fiasco was more like the Enron scandal. All of the institutions were effectively insuring each other's loans, and with deregulation, they set up incentive deals a LOT like the CommQuack HR people's.

Optimistic projections
cheaper insurance
???
Profit!!!

(At least, until the whole thing came crashing down.)

The problem had a lot more to do with fat cats than with po' folk.

Captcha: odio (I agree)

Many commission schemes give counter-productive results because they are arbitrary and poorly thought out. Like, a company I worked for many years ago considered giving programmers bonuses based on lines of code produced. They never implemented the plan, which is too bad, because I had it all worked out how to make a bundle. Like, never write "x=x+7;". Instead write "x=x+1;" seven times. Never use a loop, just copy and paste the same code repeatedly. Etc.

In this case, an obvious better plan would be to pay the commission only if the new hire proved to be a good choice, like if he got a favorable rating on his first annual review or some such. Also, it creates a pretty obvious conflict of interest if an employee gets a bonus when a candidate that he proposes is hired, and that same employee or his friends have a say in which candidates are hired. That's like saying that the coach of one of the teams is also the umpire.

Jay:

My company once hired a philosophy major to be a software engineer after an inadequate interview, only later to discover that he was completely unable to implement Anselm's Ontological Argument in Java.

jordanwb:

realmerlyn:

even right clicking (take that, Mac applicant)

Hey, stop dissing on the Mac, using your decade-old view of what a Mac does. OS9 and OS X have had completely integrated support for multi-button mice from the beginning. Be nice.

Certainly took them long enough. Windows had multibutton mouses in Windows 3.1 (possibly earlier)

50% Opacity:

havokk:

The one-button mouse was responsible for the worst atrocity in user interface design, the double-click.

Ever tried to teach a complete newbie how to double-click? It's painful.

Ever had users ask you "right click or left click"?
Both are painful, really. And Windows uses *both* techniques extensively... ;-)