Young people only, I guess. My focal range might not qualify. And I don't do PowerPoint.
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John Larkin Highland Technology Inc
Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom timing and laser controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
Doing FPGA and PLC code development is a bit of an odd combination.
It sounds like an office job-- is that wording under Physical Demands borderline under the ADA or whatever it's called?
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
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No old folks, no color blind, no wheelchairs.
Routinely required to kneel and crawl?
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Annual performance reviews there must be rather unpleasant. ;)
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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" While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, crawl, reach, and stretch "
I guess I'm out too. I'm overqualified because I can also poke in my nose with my finger.
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Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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I believe "grovel[1]" or "prostrate oneself[2]" might be the more appropriate terms.
[1] - To behave in a servile or demeaning manner; cringe. - To humble or abase oneself, as in making apologies or showing respect. - To lie or creep in a prostrate position, as in subservience or humility. [2] - To cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
Hilarious....
"While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, crawl, reach, and stretch." ... and kiss the boss' ass ;-) ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Typical braindead HR cut-and-paste requirements. All that business about crawling creeping fingering ... is apparently used for a bunch of job requirements from dishwashers and delivery drivers to accountants and engineers:
I think you could master powerpoint. I hate to say this, but kids in middle school do powerpoint presentations. It used to be a program only to be used by the guys wearing ties when dealing with the suit.
This job, while not technical, has a funny requirement in the last sentence.
++++++++++++++++++While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to sit.
Sure I could, but PowerPoint is a form of cartooning that pretty much shuts off hard thinking. I work with people who can only communicate through PP and Excel. Excel is like tweeting; it forces complex thoughts into tiny boxes. The people who PP and Excel are usually incapable of expressing serious concepts in concrete ways. You should see the gibberish they put together.
I hate to say this, but kids in
They use to use crayons.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology Inc www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom timing and laser controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
Adobe Acrobat is far better for technical presentations. I use it all the time to conduct design reviews because Adobe allows hierarchical "pushes" and "pops" just like a good schematic capture does.
And Adobe is easy to use. PowerPoint is painful.
...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
And communicated better when they did. Powerpoint is a complete waste of time, on both the creation and consumption side...
Excel, or spreadsheets generically, can be useful for some very limited things, but it's rarely limited to the things it's useful for, and I have seen some nightmares put together by excel-heads who make a byzantine solution with excel to do something that is easily and neatly done with a database (do not insert "access" for "database" here, access is crap on toast...it's a "database" about like a squashed insect is a Pitts.)
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I make presentations on a whiteboard. I bring my own markers, because the ones at my customers sites are usually pitiful.
If they need more detail, they get a PDF that they can study on their own time. The last one that I sent out, last week, was 151 pages.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology Inc www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom timing and laser controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
A complex Analog/Mixed-Signal design review may take as much as two days... going thru all the worst-case simulations, etc. ...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
I use Excel a lot, but primarily to organize or view data. All BOMs are in Excel as are even (Dig5iKey) shopping lists. I also use it to keep the equations for switching regulators among5 other "engineering" uses. If something changes it's not a problem to recalculate. I probably have a dozen spreadsheets open at any given time (I rarely reboot my work system).
There are times when I should use a database but not enough of them to warrant learning how to effectively use one.
HR must be getting sloppy...forgot to mention "rollover & heel" :-)
crawling creeping fingering ... is apparently used for a bunch of job requirements from dishwashers and delivery drivers to accountants and engineers:
Odd that so many people use those same requirements. Sounds like age discrimination and ADA violations to me. I wonder if the ads for an HR manager require stooping and kneeling and crawling.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology Inc www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom timing and laser controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
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I used it for the first time a couple weeks ago (Open Office version). It took like twenty minutes to figure out the basics.
I quickly encountered that phenomenon that Phil pointed out some time back, about how it constrains your /thinking/, and constrains what you communicate. Very confining. I didn't like it.
-- Cheers, James Arthur
I disagree, but perhaps my mind is less constrainable? I don't mean that to be insulting, I simply mean in the sense of, some people are more open to suggestion than others.
It helps more to simply have the best tool for the job. You can do a lot in Excel, but it's not always the best, if you have other options available to you.
You can run a waveform in Excel, but it's not going to be nearly as useful as Spice.
You can run data in Excel, but it may be better to use the more flexible environment of MATLAB (or Octave) instead, especially if you have a lot, and you need to manipulate it in many ways.
If you just have some data to tabulate, Excel is better than MATLAB.
If you've got a more algorithmical problem, a scripting environment like MATLAB, or your favorite general purpose one (Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.) may be a good solution. If you're working more with loops than built-in library functions, your program will run very slowly, in which case an even more general-purpose language, like Java, or a lower level language (C/C++, etc.), will run faster.
If you really need to make a point, you might even use assembly (especially if the point was, say, optimizing an inner loop for a particular architecture), or even do it on an FPGA (video, encryption, etc.).
Tim
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