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No, my urge is to throwup in my mount a little. This is a *requirement* - not an urge. I dn't even want to put the cert on my Rresume because I don't want endless inquiries from clueless headhunters.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I dn't even want to put the cert on my Rresume because I don't want endless inquiries from clueless headhunters.
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Congratulations anyway - I hate exams, and have successfully avoided them for the last thirty years or so... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I think I missed the start of this--this is part of somebody's hiring process, is it not?
Since it's coming from someone who passes these exams with flying colors, your opinion ought to carry a lot more weight than if it came from others who might not do as well.
With that in mind, you should let them know exactly how pointless it is--otherwise "they" (those making you take the exam) are probably only going to continue believing their own bullcrap.
Not that they're going to change their policy overnight (if ever)...but at least I'm hoping they know what you think about the whole process.
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I was hired and THEN told I needed to have a DBA cert for Sql2008. Well, that particular cert is no longer available, so we had to have the contract amended to include wording like "...or current equivalent..." before I could even start taking tests. That happened on January 1 (6 months after I was hired). I have until about March 15 to get the cert. Last week I passed the first test of three with a 976 out of 1000. Today, test #2 with a 920. If everything goes well with the study process, I hope to take the final test either next Friday, or sometime during the following week.
Everybody associated with the contract except the person that wrote it recognizes that a MCSA is not required to do the job. In point of fact, the person that wrote the contract asked how I was able to perform satisfactorily without the required cert. We all just shook our heads. I offered up, "It's just magic, I suppose." I got the stink-eye from the contract person, and all of my compatriots did the best they could to stifle laughing out loud.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Quote: the person that wrote it
A company lawyer or wannabee lawyer, I assume. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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A DoD civil servant with too many years on the job and too far removed from the actual task at hand, advised by self-important government lackies.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: A DoD civil servant with too many years on the job and too far removed from the actual task at hand, advised by self-important government lackies.
Plain English: A Government Nimrod.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: A DoD civil servant
... but you repeat yourself. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Ugh! Government Workers (an oxymoron obviously). You're scr*wed!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Ugh. I hate having to play that game. Every day I tell myself I have to be grateful to be working for a small startup with people who want to see results rather than paperwork.
I hope at the very least that showing your results to those insist on that crap brings you some smug satisfaction.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Passed with a 920
You overachiever, you!
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: what a giant pointless pain in the ass this whole thing is
It's worth something to companies. I'm not sure what, since it doesn't prove anything, but at least it should make your worth go up a little bit too 
So congrats!
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Congrats, Pointless but an ends to a means!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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More accurately, and end to what little sanity I have left.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Where do I sign up? If the food is as good as the advert, it can't fail!
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Is two different types of salt a "fine selection"...if so, then yes.
Regular table salt and sea salt.
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Not at all.
My wife and I are about as culinary base as two can get.
Just short of putting catsup on everything.
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ive got 3 types of pepper, white, black & pepper in a mill, so I suppose I must be posh
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You can do it in reverse. I know people who think that having ketchup in your kitchen makes you a food pleb. Or that McDonalds is just filthy. Filthy gorgeous!
I used to wish I could plug myself into the mains to charge as an alternative to eating (very boring activity), but these days - well there is something sublime about really good food.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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0. Yes
1. FOX will probably think I am totally nonchalant about my dietary habits whilst not fully comprehending at least half of this sentence.
2. No really, I am a food snob - six cheeses in the fridge [not including 'simple' chedder for the girls] and I beleive there may be some fois gras left over. Unless I did indeed finish it all at lunchtime.
3. I'm also a wine, beer and gin snob.
veni bibi saltavi
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Best Gin? On a reasonable cost basis?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I know it's mass produced, but Gordon's and Tanquaray are always in my cupboard. And I like Boodles and Williams as well.
veni bibi saltavi
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I heard that Beefeater Gin has staff numbering just 4. Heard in the pub so normal disclaimers apply, but impressive if true.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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