Just a starter level job at a restaurant. I don't have my degree yet so I'm going to take whatever job I can get. It sucks though. I'll be cutting my current pay in half again no matter where I go
My friend was applying to this job she had to do a test for. She failed, and after many phone calls it turned out that every single applicant (out of 60 or so) had failed the test, and the recruiter didn't even know this, or didn't do anything about it.
@KitFox This was a rather standard kind of job. My friend knows she was perfectly qualified. 60/60 applicants fail the test. That means the whole recruitment process is in some way completely botched up.
@Cerberus No, you shouldn't assume that, and your friend was right to question it. Although it could be also that she has incorrectly assessed her abilities.
@Cerberus If you are about to invest a lot of money in a company, that is true. If you are just a consumer who wants to know if a five year warranty is going to be any good, you should just assume.
Isn’t this unprotected multi-collider super-attractor of low-quality answers actually an off-topic “How do I choose the right identifier name for blah?” question?
I need a word to describe the state of being the only one of something. For context, it's for the UI of a scientific device that detects and analyzes cells. In this particular case, we are talking about a particular cell that the device has judged to be the only one there.
The phrase needs to b...
I often feel the same way, and I don’t think it is usually a reaction to my own work.
For the record:
This question is specifically off-topic here, because it asks help for naming something in a program. It should be closed for that reason. The best answer is to bame your column “Unique” and put a “yes” or “no” boolean answer under it. You could also go for “single-valued vs. multi-valued”. In any event, this question does not belong on ELU. — tchrist46 secs ago
@KitFox I sometimes have a failing for smart cute girls, but it’s something I try to hide/avoid/control because I know from experience that no good comes of it.
@JohanLarsson well parts of me like the idea of easily integrating javascript development into IDEs, but on the other hand, it misses the point of javascript, for me at least.
@JohanLarsson no, it's meant to be dynamic. type inference is great, but I would prefer to see enhancements to c# (that constructor thing creating members is good for static typed languages) rather than tying down javascript
I buy books based on (1) Is it by an author whom I already know that I enjoy? (2) Has it been recommended by a friend I trust? (3) Has it been garlanded by Locus, Nebula, or Hugo, and in that order?
@MattЭллен Judy Garland Judy Garland, AKA Miss Show Biz, was a wonderfully beautiful actress and singer from the 1930s to the late 1960s, when she unexpectedly died a premature death caused by her drug usage. She's the woman who made "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" the Christmas standard it is today, and sung "Over the Rainbow" in The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
There's this question on Philosophy SE about endangered languages, and I figured that it hinges on an argument similar to a need for biological diversity. But what I don't get is how biological diversity requires the utmost effort to save any species (when there are plenty), unless one subscribes to speciecism. And ideas?
@KitFox I think that in the current market, the very opportunity is a rarity, especially if the student is my age (with no experience beyond anything picked up in high school).
@KitFox So, how does the need for diversity become an argument to save some species, even when its disappearance wouldn't make things undiversified? I just don't get it.
Paid is always attractive, of course. I suppose that for a person who thinks like I do, the opportunity to start working on something that is applicable in the real world is very appealing. Working with real professionals on something would be a very cool experience, provided said professionals are not doing so begrudgingly.
Anyway, @Kit, sorry that that wasn't particularly useful. I have to go out and run some errands now, but I wish you luck with the internship things! Good day, folks.
Note that this can go even more bizarre. People sacrificing much (or at least putting effort in) to save a single species in one country. As if the animal kingdom knows about the national borders.
As if biodiversity on a national level is important (too).
In a visual novel my friend and I are writing, I created a female character who is obsessed with making furniture out of (living) people. Yeah, it's weird, but everyone in the story has their quirks. In the story, a bunch of social pariahs are trapped together in a hotel. She's one of the charact...
But if you are admitting RGB metameric matches instead of pure spectral frequencies, you cannot sort those because every spectral frequency (and mix thereof) has infinite metameres indistinguishable by the human vision system.
@Mitch But there are people who lobby for the survival of almost extinct species because the species is almost extinct. (And not because they are furry, cuddly. Although, perhaps that is the reason.) So, it appears that they give preference to the existence of some species above the/any/some individual. Those people must have a name.
@KitFox You can read Locus Reviews, irrespective of award status.
When someone says something in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way for a brief moment, somebody within earshot asks about it on ELU. — John Lawler26 mins ago
I need a word to describe the state of being the only one of something. For context, it's for the UI of a scientific device that detects and analyzes cells. In this particular case, we are talking about a particular cell that the device has judged to be the only one there.
The phrase needs to b...
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