Contract to perm makes bowen a sad panda. Starting to see this a lot lately and it's so shitty.
Friend got fucked out of 3 months pay because they didn't like his "final product" after 3 months so they thought it was kosher under 1099 contract to deny him (partially his fault for not arguing a stronger contract and pay schedule). But since it followed the typical "you need to provide X service in order for your contract to be fullfilled and us to offer a position" it was totes legit.
His first warning sign should've been the 2 other people that worked with him at the same time.
/rant
what the hell kind of contract to hire position doesn't just pay biweekly?
Also, Jasc, what's the point in contract to hire if you're the one doing the hiring. The only reason I have ever seen that made sense was that it was a recruitment agencies way to get their cut without the company just paying out a couple grand lump sum.
i work in a dynamic consulting environment where labor demands change almost weekly. we often start with contract and then go perm if the work solidifies and we just need a new permanent member of the team
however! that just happened, so we are now looking into hiring permanent off the bat. but permanent means willing to relocate to Tampa, FL (i do think relocation assistance is available though, not sure yet, gotta check)
Contract to perm makes bowen a sad panda. Starting to see this a lot lately and it's so shitty.
Friend got fucked out of 3 months pay because they didn't like his "final product" after 3 months so they thought it was kosher under 1099 contract to deny him (partially his fault for not arguing a stronger contract and pay schedule). But since it followed the typical "you need to provide X service in order for your contract to be fullfilled and us to offer a position" it was totes legit.
His first warning sign should've been the 2 other people that worked with him at the same time.
/rant
what the hell kind of contract to hire position doesn't just pay biweekly?
Also, Jasc, what's the point in contract to hire if you're the one doing the hiring. The only reason I have ever seen that made sense was that it was a recruitment agencies way to get their cut without the company just paying out a couple grand lump sum.
i work in a dynamic consulting environment where labor demands change almost weekly. we often start with contract and then go perm if the work solidifies and we just need a new permanent member of the team
however! that just happened, so we are now looking into hiring permanent off the bat. but permanent means willing to relocate to Tampa, FL (i do think relocation assistance is available though, not sure yet, gotta check)
Tampa, eh? That is pretty close (not as close as Delmain, but my family is there) Hmm... I'm not sure I want to move/change jobs yet, or that I'm what you're looking for but we'll see what happens with this company split later this year.
Then when I got the request in my view I could json.loads() without a problem.
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
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I've been doing some scripting for my warthog joystick lately...and hoo boy let me tell you about a really terrible implementation of the "C" language that Thrustmaster uses...Thrustmaster C. I mean, it's functional, and really the fact that I can program my stick and throttle to do crazy stuff, I'm down with...but I wish they had just embedded Lua or something.
Well, shutting down properly is hard. Just shutting down is easy-mode! A fatal exception is still shutting down... just not quite as gracefully as one might like.
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Gah. I wish people would quit adding code to our major hot path in the system. I don't care if it's a relatively quick look up, when you do it on every message arrival for 40,000 messages a second, things go bad very fast.
Well, shutting down properly is hard. Just shutting down is easy-mode! A fatal exception is still shutting down... just not quite as gracefully as one might like.
Well, shutting down properly is hard. Just shutting down is easy-mode! A fatal exception is still shutting down... just not quite as gracefully as one might like.
Well, shutting down properly is hard. Just shutting down is easy-mode! A fatal exception is still shutting down... just not quite as gracefully as one might like.
I vaguely remember that when I used to do a little bit of programming with microprocessors, we would call NULL as a function to reset the device.
I'm not sure if that was considered defined behavior, or if we were just "crashing" it. On these processors, I always assumed that the processor memory mapped the flash and started executing code at position zero (which would probably jump to the proper initialization code?) so it was only a soft reset because we were really just jumping to it, but I never actually looked. (I expect the interrupt table was also there too.)
End on
I wish that someway, somehow, that I could save every one of us
Yeah, typically processors will start executing at 0 or there will be a jump there (x86 is one notable exception), which is usually to the BIOS/ROM init code
It likely won't reset any attached hardware though which can be "fun"
I've been doing some scripting for my warthog joystick lately...and hoo boy let me tell you about a really terrible implementation of the "C" language that Thrustmaster uses...Thrustmaster C. I mean, it's functional, and really the fact that I can program my stick and throttle to do crazy stuff, I'm down with...but I wish they had just embedded Lua or something.
Thrustmaster C sounds like a joke language, like Arnold C, but where everything is replaced with porn terms.
Here's a new personal hell: Trying to teach CSS floating, clearing, and the differences in Relative/Absolute/Fixed positioning to someone who is actively trying to ignore everything you say.
Here's a new personal hell: Trying to teach CSS floating, clearing, and the differences in Relative/Absolute/Fixed positioning to someone who is actively trying to ignore everything you say.
What is the situation in which you have to do this?
Here's a new personal hell: Trying to teach CSS floating, clearing, and the differences in Relative/Absolute/Fixed positioning to someone who is actively trying to ignore everything you say.
What is the situation in which you have to do this?
A doctor asking for assistance, but refusing to just let me do the damn coding for them.
Here's a new personal hell: Trying to teach CSS floating, clearing, and the differences in Relative/Absolute/Fixed positioning to someone who is actively trying to ignore everything you say.
What is the situation in which you have to do this?
A doctor asking for assistance, but refusing to just let me do the damn coding for them.
Why in the world is a doctor writing CSS in the first place?
I am trying to teach myself some basic programming via Codecademy. (Also, I purchased the StackSocial pack Echo[?] posted last week). I am starting with Python and something seems off...
Is this me just being a complete nub or is something weird happening?
You have to calculate the result of the logical operation, use the not modifier on it if it has it then assign it to each variable. The logical operators are the < (more than) and != (different) signs.
Not familiar with Python's syntax, but for example, not not False is a double denial of False, which means that is value is True. So, bool_five should have True assigned to it
EDIT: Was wrong whoops. A double denial of False is False, since not False = True and not True = False. So:
You have to calculate the result of the logical operation, use the not modifier on it if it has it then assign it to each variable. The logical operators are the < (more than) and != (different) signs.
Not familiar with Python's syntax, but for example, not not False is a double denial of False, which means that is value is True. So, bool_five should have True assigned to it:
bool_five = True
No. "not not False" is False.
$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Mar 13 2014, 11:03:55)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> bool_five = not not False
>>> print(str(bool_five))
False
Edit: Oh I see. Yeah, stuff like this usually lets you circumvent the question in silly ways. It's because the interface is going to be re-used for more complicated questions, and they want to give you the freedom to write whatever code you want, rather than being restrictive on the number of lines or whatnot. Students do that sometimes on our own e-labs system, but it's really just not that fruitful for learning.
Shouldn't it also prevent me from typing in the question and getting the answer correct?
I think what's confusing you is that lesson has you set a bunch of variables but never actually do anything with them. It's on you to take the extra step and print the final values so you can see how the various examples evaluated.
The simulation (?) is asking me to assign a value of not True to bool_one.
bool_one = not True
The answer, based on the hint, is not the above, but
bool_one = False
Yes, these both get me the same answer, but I would think copying the question as the answer would give me a 'incorrect' or 'try a different method!' rather than 'Yup'.
Because literally all I did was copy the question into the answer. According to the program (?), I have comprehended this exercise and can move on to the next exercise, where I can probably do the same thing.
I may just be frustrated because I don't see that as learning. I'm not learning how to use conditionals. I'm cheating.
Additionally, I can't remember what all the symbols mean because I haven't done these exercises in months.
I may need to go outside...
edit:
I guess I should throw this out there: I have no programming experience. I'm sorry if I use incorrect or inappropriate terms.
They are asking you to evaluate the expressions they give (eg "not True"), and give a single value answer (ie either "True" or "False"). The reason why what you did works is because it's evaluating what comes after the = itself, and not treating the input as strings
The question is ASKING you to figure out whether they're True or False. The program isn't checking to see if you typed in True or False though; it's using a logical check to see if you entered in something that was equivalent to True or False.
Again, I know it seems silly, and they could've just done this as a multiple-choice question, but they're going to use this same interface for more complicated programming questions, where they want to give you the freedom to write code that's equivalent to their solution and still get it correct. So just go with figuring out which are True or False rather than short-circuiting the program logic.
Yeah, just mentally note what you THINK each answer should be (True or False), then append a Print for each variable like I did above and run it to see if you're right.
I actually remember that exact same lesson confusing me because it seemed like they forgot the step where you do something with the variables, but they're just teaching the concept right now.
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* I know it starts with getting a paid account on padev.net, but I'd like to not spend money until I know what the hell I should be doing.
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Here's a new personal hell: Trying to teach CSS floating, clearing, and the differences in Relative/Absolute/Fixed positioning to someone who is actively trying to ignore everything you say.
Here's a new personal hell: Trying to teach CSS floating, clearing, and the differences in Relative/Absolute/Fixed positioning to someone who is actively trying to ignore everything you say.
What is the situation in which you have to do this?
A doctor asking for assistance, but refusing to just let me do the damn coding for them.
Why in the world is a doctor writing CSS in the first place?
He's a researcher, and he's generating HTML pages from a MATLAB application. His page formatting was all messed up and he couldn't figure out why, but rather than let me build him a template and stylesheet he wanted it explained so he would know in the future. And then he kept trying to fix bugs rather than focus on what I was telling him. After about 15 minutes of that I "had a meeting" and would check back with him tomorrow.
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I am calling a view in my test and I need to get the body of this request to get a value I'm passing in. Here's the unit test call:
response = self.client.delete('/track/c/delete/', data={"c_identity": c.identity})When I put a breakpoint in my view this is what request.body looks like:
b"{'c_identity': '14ffc943-1cab-4e5f-b059-d8886e3e6076'}"So I assume that I have to decode it from bytes to a string so I can do json.loads, right? This is what happens when I decode request.body:
'{\\'c_identity\\': \\'14ffc943-1cab-4e5f-b059-d8886e3e6076\\'}'How do I get this dictionary object? Obviously json.loads() doesn't work on the above.
i work in a dynamic consulting environment where labor demands change almost weekly. we often start with contract and then go perm if the work solidifies and we just need a new permanent member of the team
however! that just happened, so we are now looking into hiring permanent off the bat. but permanent means willing to relocate to Tampa, FL (i do think relocation assistance is available though, not sure yet, gotta check)
I'm not really what you're looking for though.
Tampa, eh? That is pretty close (not as close as Delmain, but my family is there) Hmm... I'm not sure I want to move/change jobs yet, or that I'm what you're looking for but we'll see what happens with this company split later this year.
I figured it out, I had to do the following:
response = self.client.delete('/track/c/delete/', data=json.dumps({"c_identity": c.identity}))Then when I got the request in my view I could json.loads() without a problem.
Professor neglects to mention that the program throws a fatal exception on exit invariably.
Gavindel spends an hour trying to figure out why he's getting this super weird error no matter what he does to his code for the assignment.
Sad face.
It is faster though!
I did it shorter.
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I'm not sure if that was considered defined behavior, or if we were just "crashing" it. On these processors, I always assumed that the processor memory mapped the flash and started executing code at position zero (which would probably jump to the proper initialization code?) so it was only a soft reset because we were really just jumping to it, but I never actually looked. (I expect the interrupt table was also there too.)
It likely won't reset any attached hardware though which can be "fun"
This has the benefit of not running any atexit handlers at all, or flushing any open files and also won't trigger any errors like a throw or abort()
(It's very fun when one of these are buried in a library and your process just mysteriously terminates for no reason)
Also _exit() isn't even standard C, it's a POSIX function that is equivalent to the standard C function _Exit(). :P
Thrustmaster C sounds like a joke language, like Arnold C, but where everything is replaced with porn terms.
What is the situation in which you have to do this?
A doctor asking for assistance, but refusing to just let me do the damn coding for them.
Why in the world is a doctor writing CSS in the first place?
I am trying to teach myself some basic programming via Codecademy. (Also, I purchased the StackSocial pack Echo[?] posted last week). I am starting with Python and something seems off...
Is this me just being a complete nub or is something weird happening?
Steam Me
Not familiar with Python's syntax, but for example, not not False is a double denial of False, which means that is value is True. So, bool_five should have True assigned to it
EDIT: Was wrong whoops. A double denial of False is False, since not False = True and not True = False. So:
No. "not not False" is False.
Steam Me
Edit: Oh I see. Yeah, stuff like this usually lets you circumvent the question in silly ways. It's because the interface is going to be re-used for more complicated questions, and they want to give you the freedom to write whatever code you want, rather than being restrictive on the number of lines or whatnot. Students do that sometimes on our own e-labs system, but it's really just not that fruitful for learning.
I think what's confusing you is that lesson has you set a bunch of variables but never actually do anything with them. It's on you to take the extra step and print the final values so you can see how the various examples evaluated.
bool_one = not True
The answer, based on the hint, is not the above, but
bool_one = False
Yes, these both get me the same answer, but I would think copying the question as the answer would give me a 'incorrect' or 'try a different method!' rather than 'Yup'.
Because literally all I did was copy the question into the answer. According to the program (?), I have comprehended this exercise and can move on to the next exercise, where I can probably do the same thing.
I may just be frustrated because I don't see that as learning. I'm not learning how to use conditionals. I'm cheating.
Additionally, I can't remember what all the symbols mean because I haven't done these exercises in months.
I may need to go outside...
edit:
I guess I should throw this out there: I have no programming experience. I'm sorry if I use incorrect or inappropriate terms.
Steam Me
Also, the biggest teacher is the compiler. Use it.
Again, I know it seems silly, and they could've just done this as a multiple-choice question, but they're going to use this same interface for more complicated programming questions, where they want to give you the freedom to write code that's equivalent to their solution and still get it correct. So just go with figuring out which are True or False rather than short-circuiting the program logic.
I actually remember that exact same lesson confusing me because it seemed like they forgot the step where you do something with the variables, but they're just teaching the concept right now.
If they don't want you using an interpreter to give you the answers then they shouldn't put one right there beside straight-forward questions.
The questions should hopefully be more meaningful later. If you feel that you're cheating then step through the questions yourself!
* I know it starts with getting a paid account on padev.net, but I'd like to not spend money until I know what the hell I should be doing.
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No, that's just how CSS works.
He's a researcher, and he's generating HTML pages from a MATLAB application. His page formatting was all messed up and he couldn't figure out why, but rather than let me build him a template and stylesheet he wanted it explained so he would know in the future. And then he kept trying to fix bugs rather than focus on what I was telling him. After about 15 minutes of that I "had a meeting" and would check back with him tomorrow.