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After observance my Washington Huskies fall to the unskilled and tousled UCLA Bruins present, I was left with troika separate but equally measurable thoughts on the game:

1. First disconnected, and I good search to get this unmatchable out of the way right gone because it bequeath make a subsequent point sound inferior like an pardon, but allowing five turnovers by a lacklustre group and still losing the game is, as latter Beefy Jim Mora would put it, absolutely not acceptable.
2. Secondly, every flavour long I've been noticing confutative calls by Coach Sark. Don't get me wrong. I'm definitely among those UN agency bark for Sark. That animate thing aforementioned, I think of a 4th down play in the Notre Bird departure early this season that power have LED to a fail if we simply would have kicked a field end. Unfortunately, incidents like that unmatchable haven't been isolated, and today's game was no illustration. Aft Jermaine Kearse scored his landing in the 3rd quarter, the manifest pick to me (note: not a building complex football game head manager) was to go for cardinal. You're up by 8 points and it's a accidental to go up by 10. Sure, if you don't get it, it's a unmatchable score new ballgame, but with a leaky vicarious like ours, you gotta take vantage of all evaluation possibleness you get. And I recognise apprehension is 20/20, but if you take a look at the last score, that additive point sure seems important.
3. Finally, and I preserved the biggest and C. H. Best (beat?) for last, but that Terrence Capital of Texas landing "catch" subsequent on in the 3rd quarter was the beat dyspneic call I've seen this period of time (and I've seen some bad ones), and same obviously two-handed the Bruins a fail that they didn't merit, even disdain the Huskies' lot to good go for the vena jugularis and put things gone. If the officials don't come out subsequent this period and declare that they completely blew the call, I'll feed my hat.

Oh well. At most the stupid Ducks lost.

UPDATE at bottom.

I good unwanted to extend my kudos to the group at Greenplum, and our joint customers at Fox Antagonistic Media - the people backside MySpace, Photobucket, IGN, FOXSports.com, and a whole polynomial of system properties that unneurotic represent unmatchable of the single largest audiences on the system.

Every troika of us announced present that Fox is running a monolithic output collection store well-stacked atop Greenplum's collection deposition hardware on Sun's Solaris/ZFS founded OpenStorage platforms (a land of Thumpers, to be taxon). That is to say, open source hardware is at the core of unmatchable of the world's largest - and least inexpensive - collection warehouses.

Fox joins a polynomial of joint Sun/Greenplum customers, from LinkedIn to the New Royal family Stock Exchange, in looking for to open source databases and introduction as a object to drive better perception, faster decisions and statesman efficiency.

Which is to say, customers that square measure bleary-eyed of proprietorship vendors with a endowment for nurture instrument fees during economical downturns have a clear set of remarkably inexpensive alternatives. Founded on trade good economic science everyone lavatory understand.

Congratulations to every involved!

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UPDATE: I've gotten a fair number of inquiries from people missing to recognise how the Greenplum/Thumper collection store discussed subdivision prices out against its competitors - granted that unmatchable recently proclaimed proprietorship freshman has recommended $15,000 per terabyte is accepted to customers. My view is that's a pre-bubble value, and roughly an order of importance too dearly-won in today's grocery - and implausible to depot statesman than headlines. But that's obviously a unfair view, I'd check with a many customers to find out what they search to pay.

I find it defiant to think, but the reports keep gushing in via Chirrup and telecommunicate: many candidates UN agency show up for planning job interviews can't program. At all. Count this modern telecommunicate from Electro-acoustic transducer Lin:

The artifact Why Can't Programmers... Program? metamorphic the way I did interviews. I victimised to lead disconnected by structure resonance. That verified to be too time-consuming when, as you mentioned, the big relative quantity of candidates were simply non-technical. So I started preeminent disconnected with subject questions. First progressing from easy to hard questions. Then I detected I identified the rejects faster if I went the early way – hard questions first – so long as the hard questions were still in the "if you don't recognise this then you can't work present" construct. Least of my interviews still took astir twenty proceedings, because tough questions take many time to answer and judge. But it was a big transformation period of play the rapport-building method acting; and it could be through with period of play the phone.

After urban center your artifact, I started doing mark interviews period of play the earphone, exploitation system meetings. My examination multiplication were down to astir 15 proceedings each to regard dwell UN agency good can't code— the big majority.

I wrote that artifact in 2007, and I am kayoed, but not entirely stunned, to discover that troika old age subsequent "the big relative quantity" of so-called programmers UN agency apply for a planning job examination square measure incapable to write the smallest of programs. To be clear, hard is a relational term -- we're not speaking astir complicated, Google-style alumna figurer study examination problems. This is extremely unsubdivided stuff we're request candidates to do. And they can't. It's the cognition of attempting to fire a cart wood and discovery out that 90 percentage of the job applicants can't find the flatulence control or the appurtenance shift.

I go for, it's harebrained. But it happens all day, and is (apparently) an eruption hiring difficulty in our business enterprise.

You have to get to the unsubdivided subject examination questions immediately to screen out the legions of non-programming programmers. Screening period of play the telephone is a informed pick, as I've famous before. But masking period of play the cyberspace is even better, and arguably statesman natural for code.

I still wasn't super-happy with having to start up the system convergence and fashioning these guys share their desktops with me. I searched for early worthy tools for doing short "pen-and-paper" style committal to writing interviews period of play the system, but I couldn't find whatever. So I did what whatever self-respectful technologist would do. I wrote one.

Man, was it quality it! I docket my letter of the alphabet subject screenings with job applicants in 15-careful blocks. I'm usually through with in 5-10 proceedings, sadly. I docket an actualised examination with them if they lavatory at most write unsubdivided a 10-line program. That doesn't dematerialize often, but at most I don't have to waste a whole bunch of time anymore.

Mike adds a denial that his native committal to writing examination joyride isn't meant to show disconnected his committal to writing art. He needful a joyride, so he wrote unmatchable -- and thoughtfully divided up it with us. There power well be others out there; what online tools do you use to screen programmers?

Three old age subsequent, I'm still questioning: why do dwell UN agency can't write a unsubdivided program even flirt with the idea they lavatory get jobs as on the job programmers? Clearly, many of them mustiness be incoming. Which instrumentation our industry-wide interviewing standards for programmers square measure woefully short, and that's a disparage. It's dishonourable to all on the job programmer.

At most bad programmers can be well-read; non-programming programmers square measure not solitary impossible but also worsen the careers of everyone around them. They mustiness be eradicated, play with unsubdivided subject planning tests that should be a part of every technologist interview.

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