I was setting my eBay security questions and one of the choices were:
Now I've seen sites that allow you to "type your own question" and "type your own answer" but unless they forgot a text field, this seems like a bad idea!
Not only would you need to remember "your own phrase" you would also...
Not really. It's essentially one password, with a press of the return key as one character.
It adds complexity to the log in process, which isn't generally a good thing (users would probably choose one good password, and one quick to type password). Don't forget @AviD's rule: "Security at the ex...
I have a very dumb :-) question:
Are emoticons (if rarely placed - one or two times) in a PhD thesis considered unorthodox?
I have an introduction where I give an apt example and appended some small footnote where I make fun of the author (that's me) and I was so laughing when writing this I al...
I meant that if people work on such lame theses they have questions like these, it probably doesn't matter what's in them and it's everything about the presentation
at which point blowing someone (during thesis defense) might help
sometimes I get the impression that we expect of people to have long years of formal education just because we haven't a clue how else to keep them busy without doing too much damage
@TildalWave employers like an easy way out of the hard problem of actually working out whether prospective employees will be any good, so substitute an easily checked benchmark (qualifications) for good interviewing
well that and the need ways to filter out candidates easily at an early stage where they have too many of them
@RоryMcCune Maybe workplaces should adopt Ninja Warrior style elimination rounds. Start with 100 people, expecting about 75 of them to fall at the first obstacle, 20 more to fail somewhere before the end of the course, and then only having to pay attention to about 5...
formal education is basically only as good as I can be assured that a candidate will to some extent know (or know how to pretend to know) what I'm talking about
@TildalWave yeah it's easier to hire for keenness/aptitude and train specific skills, definitely $employer is down that line as they've got a wide range of internal training courses
@TildalWave I remember when I started as an accountant (many years ago) we were basically taught auditing from scratch as the degree had only covered it quickly in first year
which is ironic as that's what most professional accountants spend their time doing
really accountancy degrees should be "here's a load of sets of books which are missing/crap/dodgy in a variety of ways, lets get them to final P&L/Balance sheet"
@Simon that's a low level of coherence, even from you :op
@Matthew Some organizations do have such an interviewing process. See the U.S. Navy SEALs BUD/S course for one example, or SAS's selection for another.
oh I'm happy with most of what I learned too, what I'm trying to avoid tho is to pretend that such knowledge can only be acquired through formal education or that it actually matters... most often, beyond meeting some arbitrary qualification requirements requested by those that don't even know anything about the position they're hiring to fill, it doesn't
and if I see requirements that go beyond those needed to qualify for an astronaut candidate (e.g. usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/423817000), I just laugh it off and move on
and what really annoys me are those job offers where there's a long list of requirements and nearly nothing is said on what's actually offered to those that would/could qualify
@MarkBuffalo Yeah - I'm also a bit dubious about the need for specific qualifications post-formal education. Either they have to reflect current practice, or you get people whose knowledge is outdated
@Simon No, I think the right path is learning about XYZ coordinates, velocity, etc
@Simon The ability to draw a shape on the screen, along with moving the shapes, etc., is the best way to start. You need sold fundamentals before you can really get into it.
Once you have those fundamentals down, you can start developing using any language and framework. If you just pick it up right away, you're going to be overwhelmed and not know what to do
Four-legged chairs are by far the most common form of chair. However, only three legs are necessary to maintain stability whilst sitting on the chair. If the chair were to tilt, then with both a four-legged and three-legged chair, there is only one direction in which the chair can tilt whilst ret...
I have a question.
Iv'e been reading on a lot of forums to fix my problem(s) but no forum gives me the right answers or I'm doing it wrong.
I know this is a bit of a weird site to do this but i need to start somewhere. Also I never did get a good password by using a cracking program like Hydra, ...
@kalina pls you're combining sunning yourself on a beach and duff duff duff'ing it in clubs, both activities likely more interesting than scanning the questions on Sec.SE
hey @TerryChia @AviD have I just found you a list of #Hipster-Langs to go read! fll.presidentbeef.com
@Ohnana You jest, but I remember about 15 years ago, some crazy x86 developer wrote a .NET compiler for x86, so that he could build ASP.NET websites using assembly. And then he did build his personal website using only that.
yeah, a small minority of the men in the world will call you a bitch for wearing makeup and the rest will call you out for lack of effort by not making yourself look as presentable as possible for them
Some make-up is fine but if you've got 12 inches on and aren't comfortable of leaving your house without the said make-up on your face then yes, you're a basic one.
The flu is one of these things that people think they get..until they really get it...then they know they have never had it before. The one time I've really had the flu I legit thought I may die...it was so bad that part of me actually wanted to just die to be put out my misery.
Had various things. My graded scale from best to worst is: Mumps (actually vaguely fun), Measles (boring), Flu (awful), Tonsilitis (pain for 17 months - really not fun), Labyrinthitis (what the hell is broken inside my head?)
I think I use endorphins because even the max amount of painkiller I am allowed doesn't kill pain enough (I noticed when I had to have various operations involving toenail removal and cauterisations etc)
I would look at suspensions not so much as a punishment for the person who is breaking rules, but as a way to protect the rest of the community from that person's behaviour.
The first suspension a user gets is not just for doing one thing wrong - they already have a history before mods suspend.
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I knew this beta male that was into polyamory, and he'd come home to his wife in the garage with five rich guys from Wall Street while he was chopping onions in the kitchen like an asshole
Moral of the story is, if you don't keep your woman in line, five rich guys from wall Street will show up at your house with rolexes and do it for you.
I was setting my eBay security questions and one of the choices were:
Now I've seen sites that allow you to "type your own question" and "type your own answer" but unless they forgot a text field, this seems like a bad idea!
Not only would you need to remember "your own phrase" you would also...
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