A job or not?
Nina has applied for a job at Mærsk Oil. Yesterday she was in Copenhagen again for the third and final phase in the application process. She gave a presentation and feels it went well. Yay!
The HR and other people involved will discuss her application again and will respond within the next two weeks, offering her the job. Or not.
As she sailed through the first and second phase, i already was positive-ish about her chances. Now with her gut feeling the presentation was good too, we're moderately optimistic.
Let the nervewracking nailbiting waiting begin.
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#2 - 9 april 2012, 09:01
Well Rob.. I happen to code much better in VB than in any other language, which is why I actually hate it so much. Pretty much every thing I want to do with it is limited by the fact that MS didn't want me to do it. Actually talk to a container, like a window, so I can move objects around on it? Nope, sorry, you can only do that in VC++, and even then, we will give you vague promises that it is possible, but no usable examples of "how". Want to late bound object and handle there events. Oops, sorry, can't do that either, VB simply doesn't give you access to the libraries needed to bridge the gap. Want to do graphics? Sure, but only what VB supports. Anything else you need added libraries for. You have them? Great, but you won't be able to use them completely, because some things simply can't be done with VB. Etc, etc.I spent 3 years (low priority, but its seriously bugged me) trying to find how to properly deal with "setting" ambient properties for containers and correctly handling late bound objects. One is available only by creating a VC++ dll to produce an ATL bridge. In other words, you can do it, but only by resorting to something other than VB to fix the problem. The other also uses ATL, only... I have seen ***no*** examples, even in VC++ that does it. That's right, a feature so basic that "all" containers from basic windows to simple frames have it, and the only people that know how the bloody heck to do it are MS (its used in their form designers) and less than a half dozen companies selling $200-$300 dlls that allow you to use a MS like form designer in your own applications...The function itself is "one" line of code. The means to use it porperly is probably 5-6 lines, but there isn't one damn person on the earth, aside from MS and those companies that have ever figured out how it works. Want to know MS' solution? "Your too stupid to be trusted with the code or a library command that will do it, so we will simply make our designer a dll, so you can link it into your applications. Gosh!! And that is just what I **didn't** need to do with the feature...Some people claim that MS' way of coding makes for stupid coders. This is based they say on the fact that making it so easy to code is as much about preventing you "from" actually doing any coding than helping you to write any code at all. I tend to agree with them, especially after trying to code some of the things I want to in VB. It won't even do some stuff that I could do in five minutes using Apple Pascal in the old days. Imho, its ease of use and added features "do not" make up for the limitations and clueless adherence to, "This is how MS wants you to do things!", that it suffers from. I want it to do what I tell it too. That is the whole damn point of writing applications in the first place. Oh, and there is nothing like logging into sites dedicated to "experts" on a language, asking a question and realizing that "you" know more than they do and the only answer you are ever going to get from these people, who have been working with VB since Visual Basic for DOS, is "Uh! I have no clue what you mean..", or, "Well, this really stupid solution works, never mind that you just got through telling me it won't for your project."The vast majority of Windows users are barely more knowledgable about either why the computer works, or for that matter the artificial limitations imposed with what they code in, than the average home owner is about how to stop their VCR from blinking. I know from experience that this is the case. Those of us that doesn't apply to are the exception and only because we "know" that we are getting less than what we are promised and that good code doesn't happen by clicking two buttons and adding five commands to a function.
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#3 - 11 april 2012, 02:34
TC: Beyond the simple ability to type in lines of code that we find in textbooks (including the PRESENT math and science texts that Ben is using, right now!), there are two algorithm-rooted BASIC programs that I’d love to create and then unleash on screen:1. Artillery. A cannon is fired from x,y = 0,0 at a given angle and impulse resulting in initial V(x) and v(y). V(x) remains constant (or erodes slowly from friction), while V(y) lessens according to galilean law then reverses till the value of y=0 bang. I mean what could be simpler? Moreover, since this sojourn with my son in BASIC is meant to be TEMPORARY (just for the summer, before moving on to new things) Why should we have to “learn” much of anything complicated? Reading online manuals? Feh! I just want to type some lines and see stuff happen.2. Pong. A ball (more than one pixel) moves at Vx,Vy. When the value of y= either 0 or 1000, the value of Vy reverses sign. The same thing happens to Vx when x= 0 or 1000, but only if the range of y values of the paddle include the y value of the ball. If the value range of the paddle position does NOT include that of the ball, the ball proceeds over the edge and a point is scored. Now I ask you. What could be more satisfying and instructive to program? What could be simpler?I’ll be honest. Though I did my doctoral dissertation in Fortran, I do NOT look forward to the time/effort of doing even these small demos. But to find that I am not even ALLOWED to do them, or to type in the programs in TODAY’s textbooks? Because- quietly - this capability has (largely) vanished?I mean, WTF? These textbooks are STILL BEING PRINTED! Ahs anyone told the publishers that the students don’t have “that kid of computer” anymore?Urgh....---On the OSX front, I have received excellent help from several of you, especially Ron Brinkman!Still, I have a few residual problems.1. Irritating! I pull a folder out of another folder and put it on my desktop. IT DOESN’T SIT WHEREI PUT IT! Instead, it heads out to appear somewhere ELSE on the desktop. Nor even in the same place everytime, but in random places, even BEHIND active windows, so I have to minimize all the windows lookingfor it. Why? (Worse, my icons are generally smallest size on desktop. I experimented sliding up to MAX size and then back down again. And the icons were scattered all over! Or worse, they appear in a big STACK!))(Please! I have used Apples since 1983. I do NOT have snap-to-grid turned on.)2. I do not have Speech turned on, yet the round OSX microphone doohicky-jobby ALWAYS appears on my desktop and there is no way to get rid of it! The best I can do is minimize it.(Please. Again. I am not a dope. I have speech turned off.)3. I fetched the Spotlight thingummy that lets Spotligh index old WordPerfect files. Huzzah! Thanks Ron! Only, now I must open and re-save every old WP file before Spotlight indexes them. That loses my “last date changed” info for that file and it’s laborious. Does Spotlight have a feature like Old Sherlock, in which you can ASK to have a folder full of files indexed?4. Minor irks: Safari does not select the Url in the address line when I click there (unlike other browsers) instead I have to “select all”. Also, can I set the downloads window to automatically CLOSE when it is empty?Thanks folks!
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#4 - 19 april 2012, 07:07
I tried a pair of these In my running shoes which are not as comfortable as all trainers. The are light and flat shoes and Uncomfortable as a walking shoe.SO I tried these because they were the number 1 seller on Amazon. Boy was that a mistake.THEY ONLY HAVE A TINY CUSHION IN JUST THE HEEL! Which does not help my back or much of anything.I had to replace them with the gel Inserts and now I can tolerate my running shoes. The gel are the entire length of your foot and so comfortable!They are worth It for running shoes!I threw away this set of back pain relief.
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#5 - 27 april 2012, 04:28
Congrats to completing the marathon, a great accomplishment [especially considering the circumstances]! I have tried training for 2 marathons and a half-marathon but I haven’t been able to follow through with any training plans because my body has broken down… Sometimes your body [not your brain] knows best :S It’s super frustrating and I’m still trying to recognize that myself…
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#6 - 12 may 2012, 06:37
EC, Don’t sweat the (supposed) ‘being known’ shit. I’d imagine it gets to be more of a burden than anything else. I can imagine, say, Bill Sienkiewicz sighs a bit when he’s still, some 25 years later, being asked to draw elecktra sketches when he’s done _so_ much more since then…You, sir, are an Artist. A top-notch illustrator. Not just a comic book guy. Ok, I’m off to pre-order me a Chicken Fetus...
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#1 - 5 april 2012, 04:43
I ABSO-FREAKIN-LOVE the one of Dan with his quirky smile and otbtun flower! AND the one where Dan has his hands around her waist and she's smiling back at him .. they are great shots. I immediately loved them. It's been great to read your thoughts on the day and see where your highlights where. It was great to meet you Carrie