Actually...
I quite like the ad, bit of tongue in cheek humor.
Job ad for designer proves its point with MS Paint shocker
The City of Los Angeles has sparked plenty of chuckles with a job ad for a “Graphics Designer” that shows how desperately a new hire is needed by apparently using Microsoft Paint to illustrate the opportunity. The local government authority posted the ad to Twitter last Friday, as follows. https://t.co/rVbTTIAFBR pic.twitter. …
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Wednesday 24th January 2018 00:03 GMT JoJ
Re: Actually...
Into my fourth decade in advertising, only because of legal issues that prohibit euthanasia, I will gladly confirm that that is a very good advertisment indeed. Of course I couldn't say that in real life unless we'd extracted a six figure budget for opinion groups, colour psychology reaction cohesion, intranet-compliant cognitive impairment perdition therapy for the hapless customer employee who obviously doesn't realize that we his master's agency can fire anyone daring to touch and despoil our magnificence...
But the little echo of who once thought this advertising game was easy and so imagine how I'd be able to do so well... that voice definitely approved.
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Monday 22nd January 2018 07:20 GMT Lysenko
Re: Polygraph Examiner
What other pseudo-science do they use there? Graphology? Lay Lines? Crystals? Dowsers? Tea-leave readers?
You forgot homoeopathy, prayer and the mystic power of pyramids.
I remember playing with an FBI approved polygraph at University. It took less than ten minutes to learn how to force a "lie" response to all control questions and render the pile of junk useless as it registered everything as deceptive. The lecturer (who was heavily into yoga and meditation etc) could flatline the thing on any question except when being told jokes.
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Monday 22nd January 2018 16:04 GMT Robert Moore
Re: Polygraph Examiner
What other pseudo-science do they use there? Graphology? Lay Lines? Crystals? Dowsers? Tea-leave readers? Trump?
If you leave out phrenology you need your head examined.
I prefer Reverse Phrenology. Where you change the bumps on the head to change the personality. Cheap and very effective. :)
Mine's the one with a large wrench in the pocket.
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Tuesday 23rd January 2018 18:21 GMT JimboSmith
Re: Polygraph Examiner
What other pseudo-science do they use there? Graphology? Lay Lines? Crystals? Dowsers? Tea-leave readers? Trump?
You may be surprised but a large merchant bank in the UK used to use Graphology I believe. What they'd make of my scrawls (if they could read it) is anyone's guess.
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Tuesday 23rd January 2018 10:01 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Re:Please, we who know anything about dowsing
Please, do you think ANYONE who knows anything at all about dowsing will come close to the James Randi 'Educational Foundation'?
The dowsing I do is with metal probes, usually just thick wire. Take 2 pieces, about 2.5' long each, and two pieces of metal tubing, at least as long as your hands are wide. Insert the wires into the tubing, and add two bends, to secure the tubing at one end of the wire, but not so tight that it can't move freely. The bends should be 90degrees, so that when you hold a tube vertically, the wire points horisontally.
Hold one probe in each hand, about a foot apart, elbows close to the side of your body, and the lower arms level.
Walk in a steady pace while holding the tubes as steady as possible.
When you near an 'anomaly' the probes will usually begin to move towards each other, and finally cross as you pass over the 'anomaly'.
This anomaly may be metal, water or anything else that can change the local geomagnetic field.
There's no indication of how massive or how deep the anomaly is, and of course, ground conditions will have an influence.
Trying to dowse in the rain is of course useless.
Why some seems more sensitive than others(I'm barely over 50% hit rate), if your clothing matters or anything is not something being researched.
Exactly HOW your body and the wires work with the geomagnetic field is unknown, and there's not a single scientist in the world willing to even look at a theory in fear of being brutally destroyed by debunkers.
Which is also why you'll never see any good dowsers being 'tested' by JREF...
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Tuesday 23rd January 2018 14:07 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Re:Please, we who know anything about dowsing
I had a go once, with what sounds like a similar set-up (although I suspect it was just wire coat hangers stuck into empty biro cases). Some hippy handed them to me at a stone circle and they did indeed cross over consistently at certain places in and around the circle. I can't explain it - it was most bizarre...
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Tuesday 23rd January 2018 16:48 GMT Stevie
Re: Re:Please, we who know anything about dowsing
JREF rules said that the dowser need not explain HOW they do what they do, nor why, only to demonstrate the effect with results beyond those predicted by statistics.
JREF rules said that the dowser and JREF representatives would work together to design the testing, but that all applicants had to first pass a double blind test.
Not one dowser applicant passed that double blind (and there were many that tried).
James Randi said in the public blog attached to that challenge that of all applicants to the testing procedure, only dowsers honestly believed they could do what they said and they were honestly bewildered when the DB tests produced the results they did.
No shaming involved.
Question for everyone: If you had [insert ESP power] and could make it work reliably enough to charge money for doing it in public or for others' benefit, would you rather be a practitioner of [insert ESP power] or a practitioner of [insert ESP power] with an extra million dollars in your pocket? For doing nothing extra? And getting the chance to poke the hated skeptic in the eye in public?
I know what my answer is to that.
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Tuesday 23rd January 2018 17:44 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Re:Please, we who know anything about dowsing
Why some seems more sensitive than others(I'm barely over 50% hit rate)
And you do you determine the hit rate? Dig holes everywhere you go, after the fact?
Is that independent of the "miss" rate? Is it basically a boolean choice (there is something here, or not)?
Would flipping a coin be faster?
.... if your clothing matters or anything is not something being researched.
If it really works, then yes, your clothing matters. Wearing chainmail WILL affect the results
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Monday 22nd January 2018 19:03 GMT Chichicaste
Re: Polygraph Examiner
Well, for a very simple reason, criminals are not experts in this matters and most of them will crack or tremble when a cop or interviewer will ask them to take this kind of test, is not because the test is a reliable one but its a PSYCHOLOGICAL burden for a criminal even when they are not admitted in legal courts but still gets any lowlife a run for his money, also remember that cops can lye and act like the "machine is telling them that he or she is lying" so they can put pressure on anyone that does not understand and honesty majority of people are always scared of the sole mention of taking a poly.
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Monday 22nd January 2018 08:44 GMT RyokuMas
Meh...
"The Register hopes that the next time the City needs a software developer it does so with a BASIC program."
The average BASIC programmer of yesteryear is miles ahead of some of the stack-overflow-copy-pastas I have heard calling themselves "developers" in more recent times. Especially in game development.
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Monday 22nd January 2018 09:00 GMT CheesyTheClown
Re: Meh...
I started wit BASIC, debug.com and edlin way back when. I did demo coding in the glory days of counting clock cycles to blit in mode-x. I can implement bressigham lines and circles from memory in pretty much any language.
Last night I was at work writing hashing code for implementing EAP for my homegrown radius server for fun until midnight.
I am more than happy to cut and paste from stack overflow. Especially in the rare cases I have to slop some shit together in Python because I’m on a Remote Desktop to a machine which has nothing but Python and a policy against installing software.
To be honest though, thanks to Stack Overflow, when I needed a quick and dirty fix for editing 48 Cisco configurations embedded as base64 in XML rags on 20 files, it took me 25 minutes to learn enough Python to write a short but functional program to do that. I did that last week and I hope to wait another year before writing more Python. But let’s be honest, Stack Overflow is one of the greatest programming resources EVER!
I just wish there was a suitable replacement for Dr. Dobbs. We lost way too much when they went bust.
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Wednesday 24th January 2018 09:20 GMT 's water music
Re: Bonus points
AIUI the major reason it is preferred by educators for dyslexics is that the lower case 'a' glyph is styled as it is typically written. Combine that with free availability going back to the times when there weren't many free fonts and you build an unstoppable momentum among primary age educators.
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