Robs Latest Postings. Posted Tuesday, 2. September 2. 01. 5When Apple made a phone, it turned out it wasnt really competing in the handset business it was competing for the next dominant personal computing platform. The more I think about an Apple car, the more I think that it might be the basis of their future computing environment a space that is completely aware of and responsive to its occupants. In that sense it might be more of a long term competitor to the Amazon Echo and whatever Android variant Google is pitching at the same space than to Teslas cars. From this perspective, maybe the thing thats kept the Apple. TV on hold for so long is that they were trying to go down this road, but they kept failing to pull it off to their standards in the living room. Perhaps they learned a few things along the way. Just a thought. Addendum. Team Foundation Server 2008 Keygen Mac' title='Team Foundation Server 2008 Keygen Mac' />Three points for clarification Im actually not claiming that an Apple Personal Space is either the focus of any initial product or any concrete long term plan. The i. Phone almost ran the i. Pod operating system, and it doesnt seem like Steve envisioned the success of the App Store and thus i. OS as a platform. Im pointing out that Tesla focuses on cars, Uber focuses on transportation, and Google focuses on technology, while Apple focuses on experiences. If they trap a user in a physical bubble, its in the companys DNA to turn that bubble into the worlds most carefully studied and controlled experience. Obviously the i. Phone upended the incumbent handset industry, so Nokia certainly saw Apple as a competitor. But I doubt Apple ever viewed Nokia that way, because they never saw Nokia as competing in the personal computing business. The competitors were Microsoft and Google Apple was after the growth of a new industry the sales in an existing one were collateral damage. If Apples first offering is disruptive, it will most likely be due to innovations they bring to the auto manufacturing process and are thus relatively invisible to consumers. Any truly compelling mass market computing environment would evolve iteratively over years. Posted Saturday, 2. February 2. 01. 5The old What if they hired carpenters they way they hire programmers jokecommentary didnt sit right with me the first time I read it, and after stumbling across it again I now see why. Among other things Its a complaint without a solution. Ive never met anyone in the software industry who is happy with the hiring process, and that includes everyone whos designed the process. Nobody seems to have a solution to separating the potential stars from the mehs, and anyone who claims they do either doesnt have enough perspective to understand the difficulty of the problem young interviewers who have been trained in one particular hiring style seem to be blessed with the arrogance of blind faith, or theyve perfected the art of hiring the mediocre a sufficiently rigorous process can probably rule out almost all the disastrous hires, but will likely also lose a few starsand its finding the stars that is the problem. Pouting that interviews suck without suggesting any improvements is just childish, and doubly so if youre complaining not about the bizarre puzzle question or culture fit interviews, but about being questioned on knowledge and experience. Technical interviews can be annoying and they can be done badly, but Id still much rather work in an industry that does tech interviews than one forced to rely solely on CV reviews and personality driven poking at soft skills. Engineers arent carpenters. Theres always a terrific slight of hand going on when software developers try to draw analogies to other fields. Blue collar credentials and being treated like a unique, creative, and highly paid professional just arent compatible. Php Grid Open Source Download For Mac on this page. Programmers are the architects and structural engineers who design the buildings they get programming languages and frameworks and IDEs to hammer the nails. I have no doubt that the industry is full of coders banging out one CRUD app after another, but their work bears a lot more relation to architects customizing a house design to a particular site or, a better analogy, 1. The exceptionscoders who really want nothing more than to follow some formula and take no responsibility for the resultare exactly who interviewers are trying to weed out. Its disrespectful to carpenters. Of course, there are carpenters who are creative craftsmen of the first order. Those arent the guys youre going to bend over backwards to hire to frame your walls. The whole story seems to be built on the premise that the only skill a carpenter has is the ability to drive a nail straight, making any notion of an interview farcical. Returning the first point, I suppose the implication is that driving a nail is the fizzbuzz of carpentry. The interviewee is worse than the interviewer. Lets just cover the first few questions So, youre a carpenter, are youHow long have you been doing it If the only way you can describe your work is Im a programmer. For ten years now. I just dont believe you. Yes it would be friendlier if the interviewer led a bit with What kind of work have you been doing or Tell me about some of your favorite projects. The main premise of this complaint about programming interviews is that a programmer is a programmer is a programmer, and the details dont matter, and thats straight up bullshit. Have you worked on high performance systems Distributed applications User interfaces Large scale software Theres a hell of a difference between a framer, a cabinet maker, and a furniture maker. Microsoft Project Professional 2010 Product Key Generator crack incl Microsoft Project Professional 2010 Serial Number, MS Project Professional 2010 crack. Rick Astley Never Gonna Give You Up Official Music Video Listen On Spotify http Download Ricks Number 1 album 50. SerialNumber. In Offers serial numbers, cracks and keys to convert trial version software to full version for free. Working. Serialio s mobile scanning solutions. 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Have you built a lot of brown houses before I dont see a lot of brown paint in the world. Some, but not much. There is, however, a lot of brown stain, and brown shingling, and brown brick. And all those kinds of brown would seem to be of major interest to a carpenter if something is being stained instead of painted then Id think that would affect the choice of wood. Maybe even how its joined. I dont know Im not a carpenter. Questions like this are exactly how a good interviewer separates a blinkered newbie from an expert with perspective. If youre building a software library that will be called by a UI, then responsiveness matters. If youre writing an order processing system open to the public, then you need to consider denial of service issues. If the overall software system will be distributed, then the architecture needs to take rollout into consideration. Shrugging off context is only a professional qualification for field goal kickers. What about walnut Have you worked much with walnut In this hypothetical, were talking about a job building houses. Houses are most commonly built using platform framing of stud walls made from spruce, pine, or fir. Soft woods. Relatively cheap. Walnut is an expensive hard wood. The database recognizes 1,746,000 software titles and delivers updates for your software including minor upgrades.