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Prototype 2 Complete Walkthrough
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Part 3...
Predator and Prey
Burned From Memory
Last Resort
Spotted Cat (Blacknet)
Long Horizon (Blacknet)
Stun Circuit (Blackent)
Clockwork (Blacknet)
Fly in the Ointment
Divine Intervention
Operation Firehawk
Lost in the System
A Labour of Love
Murder Your Maker
Predator and Prey
This is direclty continued from the green zone. You are initially asked to go to a telemetry truck which is trying to locate Athena and defend the truck from the mutants. Aiming can be a bit difficult but you will get used to it soon. Some of the monsters which come below also throw rocks and stuff at you - especially Hydras. Now, you can automatically defend yourself by hitting the X button when something is thrown at you - the X - defend prompt is shows whenever you are in danger of being hit. If you manage to defend youeself atleast twice then you get a bonus - that is easy.
After you are done with the Brawlers and Hydras, a Goliath shows up. But you cannot kill one from a copter so just land in the zone shown and the engineer gets into the copter. Now, fly the copter to another location where you get the coordinates for Dana Mercer. Go there and get out of the copter (hold E). After you speak to her it's mission over.
NOTE: You now can hijack copters...
Burned From Memory
And I thought that the Red Zone could not get any worse and Dana tells us of some brawling going on between the forces of humans and mutants. When you reach the locale, you see that the Blackwatch are trying to destroy the remaining Whitelight barrels - since that is our goal too, let's help them. Start taking the canisters that are marked on the screen and jump your way to the incenerator. You can use R to target lock onto the incenarator and throw the canisters from a distance or you can walk into the incenerator and Heller puts them inside by himself - throwing from a destance is better though.
After the first batch is destroyed, a truck carrying more of the canisters is intercepted. Make your way to each canister and throw them in the incenerator also. If you summon your Brawlers then you get a bonus. Even though you are helping them a lot, the Blackwatch still want you dead so exit this area.
Last Resort
This is a great mission, filled with good fights. We are informed of a certain Cantrell who is in a Blackwatch base which is under lockdown. To reverse the lockdown, Heller has to destroy all of the fuel tanks around the area. If you use the various launchers with the soldiers around here to destroy the tanks then you can get a bonus. After you destroy the tanks, a large wave of enemies come at you. Kill all of them and Cantrell finally decides to leave the base. Go to where Cantrell is and summon your Brawler Pack to help you out. You need to kill all of the Brawlers and on Juggernaut who are trying to kill him. After the creatures an Evolved with a Whiplash arrives to stop you. Best set your hounds on her. The whip can be a bit irritating but just hold on and try to make ranged attacks or power attacks. Consume her to get the Whipfist.
The whipfist is a really good weapon form. Especially again copters or other vehicles since it can make ranged attacks as you hold down the click and also cause a lot of damage with those attacks. In large groups also it is particularly effective - just jump in the middle of a large horde and see what happens - just one click will take out the entire family!!! Some copters then show up for our whip practise - destroy them with the whip and consume Canrell (R and E will make you grab a far away enemy and bring him closer to you.)
Spotted Cat
This is the longest Blacknet mission in the game so hol onto your seats. The first in Gentek Support where you are disguised as one of their soldiers and use their weapons to kill mutants - you cannot turn into Heller even if you wanted to. Just make sure to kill everything and the birds should be targeted with R to make for easier kills. After two waves you will get to the scientists, consume all of them to get to the next part.
The second is a Stronghold mission. Go to the stronghold and target the sentry guns on top and throw atleast one car so that it destroys atleast one gun for a bonus. After you take out both the guns and make your way inside the base. Keep going and you will come to a room with four whitelight canisters. Target the incenerator with R and you will be able to throw the canisters from a distance. Take care of the canisters and kill the evolved in this place and get out of here.
The last one is a suppression mission. Head to the waypoint and start killing everyone. When you see an enemy vehicle though (you'll see one with each wave) bring our your pack and ask them to destroy the vehicle. Keep this up even for APCs, copters and the tanks and you will get a big bonus. After the tank is destroyed in the last wave you can consume Rottweiler to end this.
Long Horizon
The last three Blacknet mission will not be in sequence and you occasionally jump from mission to mission.
The first part here is Cargo Delivery. Go to the target, you find him in a cage - use anything to destroy the cage and he comes out. The Evolved puts up a fight but you can take him out easily. Kill him and then consume him to get the location of the copters. This cargo delivery is a bit different than the others since you will need to destroy the copters yourself and when they drop the packages, you need to pick them up and go to the next copter. The final copter has an evolved so you will have to kill him to end this mission.
The second part is Stronghold. Go to the spot and you see the soldier being surrounded by a pack of Brawlers - strange that they are not attacking him. Anyway, when you try to consume him the pack starts to attack you so kill all of them and consume the soldier. The next location you have is that of a Blackwatch Base. Go there and you find it under attack. If you are patient enough then you will be able to consume the Doctor without causing an alert thereby gaining a bonus. Your next target Chaplin turns out to be an Evolved so kill and consume him. As soon as you come out of the base, some troops see you. To get a bonus here you will need to kill all of the 8 troopers who saw you come out including the two Orions.
Stun Circuit
This is the last cargo delivery in the game so automatically, one is led to believe that it is also the most difficult. You will be under hellfire from Blackwatch all during this mission and you are certain to be shot down more than a few times so you gotta bring your A game into this mission.
The second part is Suppression. You now need to find Collins who is in a convoy of tanks. Go there and hijack one and destroy the rest to draw him out. He doesn't want to figth so he just starts running. Go behind him and after a long chase you will finally face him but he gets into a chopper. Take down the chopper and kill and consume collins.
This is the longest blacknet op in the game. The first part is Gentek Support and my favourite support mission. Firstly, you get to fly a copter and kill birds and hydras from the copter and also rescue three Gentek scientists. Go to each zone and clear out the mutants, then land to pick up the scientists. After you get all three of them, they unveil their masterplan. You now need to head to maximum altitude and haul out of the copter.
The second part is an Infected Salvage. This time, you need to take on a Goliath and kill it - nothing more to that.
The third is also an Infected Salvage. Go to the base and release the specimes inside. Now, go in and kill and consume all of them to get a bonus. There are two different switches which release 3 of the specimens at a time, you ought to release them one switch at a time and after you take out the first three, go back for the second switch and hit it. After you consume all of them, go out of the base and all of the Blacknet mission will have been completed.
Fly in the Ointment
First order of business is to hunt Lincoln and consume him. Get into his gunship and go to the zone. You will come to one of the four commanders - Eliss's copter and you are to escort him safely to the meet. Go behind his copter and take out any of the mutants which you come across. You leavee Ellis for a short bit now and go to another location to kill a few more mutants but you hear that his copter has been shot down so we need to rescue him. Go to his location and start taking out the Hydras which show up. After a lot of killing, he gets into an APC.
Now, we need to continue and escort the APC thru the streets till it reaches the meet place. You will come across a lot of Hydras and they also throw rocks at you so you better have a finger on the X button. After a long long time, you get to the palce where Firehawk is being initiated. Consume all of the commanders to get the info on Project Firehawk.
Divine Intervention
A Government agent named Griffin knows the whereabouts of Amaya. Use your pulse to locate him and you come to a chopper. Follow the chopper patiently and he lands in the base. As soon as you go in, three Evolved crash the party and take away Griffin. Instead of fighting, just follow the Evolvedd with the blue follow sign on him. Run behind him and he leads you to a rooftop where you can fight them.
The three together can be a little problem but nothing too difficult. You can get a bonus if you hit them with six different kinds of attacks - pretty straight forward. After you defeat all of them, consume Agent Griffin to get Amaya'a location.
Operation Firehawk
Hell is going to break loose and the Thermobaric Copters are going to help do that. Go to the base and get into one of the copter. This gets you a bonus. Take out the choppers which are below on the landing pads and continue to the ones which are already flying. You will be followed by some attack choppers which can take you down easily so keep moving and if your chopper gets destroyed you ought to hijack another one just because you can make things faster.
After you take out all of the one flying around, Galloway calls you and gives you the location of the ammo depot where all of the thermobaric missiles are being stored. You need a chopper to hit the warehouse and if you are already in one then you can take out the warehouse pretty easily.
Lost in the System
Head on towards Dr.Carson's lab and get into the lab. If you take out the soldiers here one by one and take it slow you will get to Carson without raising an alert - hence giving you a bonus. After you consume him, head outside and wait for a copter to pick you up. Before the copter gets to you, a Goliath comes in the fight and takes you on. You can get another bonus here if you can kill the Goliath without taking any damage but that is really tough to do - especially if you are not using a copter or tank. After you kill the Goliath, wait for a copter.
As you go towards where Maya is, your copter is intercepted. Three of Mercer's henchmen come in to kick you. Take them down and consume them to get a hold of Mercer's plans for Heller's daughter.
A Labour of Love
One of the best missions in the game - also one of the simplest. Just head to the location where the Rooks is and you see that there's a really strong door keeping you out. Start knocking down the door and after a while, you see an Alpha Juggeranut come at Heller who consumes it and gets a pair of Juggernauts to beat up the door. Now, you ought to defend the Juggernauts from getting killed while they try to rip the door open. This is diffcult and they will die. But fortunately, there are more Alpha Juggernauts nearby, kill them and consume them and you get another pack. Go back to the door, target it and use C to command your pack to destroy the door. Defed them properly or you will run out of AlphaNauts.
Go inside and see the rest of the drama unfold.
Murder Your Maker
Finally! Alex Mercer himself...
After you start the fight, Mercer uses his Blade. If you try to use your blade, he will instantly counter your attacks. You can use either your claws or whipfist here. Using the claws you can jump up in the air and then hold the attack button to make a powerulf lunge. Occasionnaly you will be prompted to Block or Dodge so watch your screen and be ready to hit the buttons. Alex Mercer can kill you very very quickly. Do not stay close to Mercer for more than a second or he will tear Heller apart. ALways be on the move. After you deplete his health fully, he jumps up to come at you, dodge and then hit E to make Heller beat the crap out of Mercer.
The second part of the fight has Mercer using his whipfist. This can be extremely annoying. I used Tendrils here. You see, Mercer can do only two kinds of attack when he is near you. One is a combo and it is followed by a power attack. Immediately after the power attack, he is open, keep hitting him with the Tendrils and after a few hits, he jumps over Hellers head - make one more hit and use the block because he will do a power hit at you. If you goes away from Heller then you will need to either block or dodge depending on the situation. If he is using the quake ability then jump in the air and hover around for a few seconds before coming back down. Take him out just like the last time and onto round 3.
Before you start the round, hold V to use the Devestator against the Flyers. After that you see that Mercer has the Alpha Hammerfist on him. He can hurt you even if you use the shield here. I preferred to use my blade now. Jump and strike, jump and strike and even the power strike if you can. The blade is the fastest of all the powers you have and you will need all the speed here. Do not stay close to Mercer for even a second. Make your strike and jump away. The usual dodge and block are also to be done. Finally, after you get his health to null he starts to jump around. Use your counter and LMB to tear his arms out one by one - a few times and watch the fun.
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The giant gray cylinder has loomed over the North Baltimore landscape for decades, providing heating gas for city homes and a familiar landmark for drivers on the Jones Falls Expressway.
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But it will not go quietly. It will literally go out with a bang.
The Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. plans to implode the Melvale Gas Holder — about 25 stories tall — near Cold Spring Lane and the JFX, the last of more than a dozen gas storage facilities that once served Central Maryland, and one of the last in the country.
Unlike the gas holder demolitions in South Baltimore during the 1990s, in which three structures were dismantled piece by piece, BGE plans to blow up the 258-foot-high structure early next year, flattening it in seconds and then recycling the metal.
Company officials acknowledge that removing the city's last gas holder represents a milestone of sorts for BGE, a direct descendant of the nation's first gas company, the Gas Light Co. of Baltimore, founded in 1816.
"It's obsolete," said Blake Gardner, director of gas operations and integrity management for BGE. "There are fewer and fewer of these out there. I can't imagine there are any still operating," at least in the United States.
BGE officials say Baltimore will continue as a center of gas distribution for more than 650,000 households and businesses, but the Melvale holder, which dates to the 1930s, is expensive to maintain and the company has more efficient ways to store gas. They also note that the gas holder has been empty and out of service since 1997. The demolition project could cost several million dollars, but the officials do not have an exact figure.
Christina Nyquist, a spokeswoman for the American Gas Association in Washington, said her organization does not keep records about gas holders around the country, but she could not point to any others still in operation.
For local historians, the removal will mark the end of an era.
"It's the last of its kind," said Wayne Schaumburg, who teaches history and leads walking tours of Baltimore architecture. "It's huge. It will certainly change the visual landscape as you come down the Jones Falls Expressway."
The Melvale gas holder is part of a 26-acre tract BGE owns off the 2100 block of W. Cold Spring Lane. Officials plan to use part of the property to build an electrical substation; the rest will remain undeveloped for now. Baltimore's Jones Falls hiker-biker trail, which will open later this year to connect downtown with North Baltimore, will go through the property.
Kathleen Kotarba, executive director of Baltimore's Commission on Historical and Architectural Preservation, said gas holders were such a powerful symbol of the company that an illustration of those in South Baltimore used to be printed on its stock.
Schaumburg compared BGE's plan for the gas holder to the demolition of Memorial Stadium on 33rd Street after the opening of Oriole Park at Camden Yards. He hopes BGE can save "a piece" of the last gas holder, the way the Maryland Stadium Authority salvaged stainless steel letters from Memorial Stadium and the Baltimore Museum of Industry has preserved the cupola from the now-razed Wm. Knabe & Co. piano factory, which stood on the present site of M&T Bank Stadium.
"It's one of those things: As technology changes, the new comes in and the old goes out," he said. "It's a shame to lose it, but I can understand why BGE wants to do it. I can't think of any adaptive reuse for it."
This will be the first implosion of a Baltimore structure since a Mercy Medical Center garage was taken down in 2007. BGE officials say it probably will require temporary closings of the nearby light rail line and the Jones Falls Expressway.
Other gas holders weren't imploded because they were near other facilities within BGE's Spring Gardens complex or elsewhere, said Steven Stultz, senior project manager in charge of the gas holder demolition for BGE. This one is a prime candidate for implosion, he said, because it is far from homes or businesses. The work can be done early on a weekend morning, when it won't interfere with commuter traffic, he said.
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The Melvale gas holder is a 24-sided polygon, made of steel by the Bartlett Hayward Co. in 1933 to serve households and businesses in North Baltimore. It could store 7 million cubic feet of gas manufactured at the Spring Gardens complex. Later, it stored natural gas brought by pipeline from other locations.
Baltimore's early gas holders were built in horizontal sections that fit into each other, like a collapsible drinking cup. The telescoping design allowed roof and wall sections to rise and fall as gas volume changed, and employees could gauge gas output by observing the roof level.


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The board is faced with trimming about $3.6 million from the district budget in the face of shrinking state funds. District staff have recommended a slew of cuts, including the closing of Rising Sun, across-the-board salary reductions and eliminating 34 teaching positions.
District staff have recommended cutting 18 elementary school teaching positions, the elementary music teacher, one counselor, two vocational teachers, two high school music teachers, a business teacher, a science teacher, four full-time English positions and one part-time position, a math teacher, a P.E. teacher, a part-time home economics position and the high school librarian.
The board is required to notify all teachers it intends to lay off before March 15. However, district Superintendent Patrick Sweeney said there's a chance that not all the positions would be eliminated if additional revenues could be found or if other cuts are agreed upon.
Staff also recommends closing Rising Sun, the district's smallest school. It houses close to 40 students in kindergarten through fifth grade.
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Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-08 10:25 • by Incen (unregistered)
That would be wronganswer.pk(question, text)
My music database, small by many standards, consists of 6000 entries. My girlfriend's is just 200. A magnitude of 30 times is just irrelevant.
My maths is a touch rusty, but isn't the difference between 6000 and 200 just 1 order of magnitude?
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-08 11:10 • by JB (unregistered)
What I don't like at all with the "Fixed Answer" is that if you need additional attributes on the questions (ex: order, background color, font, whatever), you need to have all these columns on both tables. This is ugly, and must certainly be against the rules of one of the normal forms (don't ask me which one, this is much too old for my brain to remember).
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-08 12:07 • by ChiefCrazyTalk (unregistered)
Huh? You went from Vendor, to intern, to FTE, to back to being an intern? Not the usual career progression...
1.477 to be exact
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-08 15:34 • by Andrew (unregistered)
I worked with a girl that once basically told an internal customer to kiss her axe. This of course broke up the meeting and led to about half a day of "OMG, did she say that" gossip. Early in the second half of the day, the customer said all will be forgiven if the offender would just appologize. Of course she didn't. They ended up terminating her that afternoon.
Why did she not care about her job? She was about to be rich. You see, she had just opened an bank account and put a minimum balance of $1,000 in there. She had this contact over seas who need an US bank account so they could export their money before the evil foregin government seized it. As a result, the cussing co-worker would be given a 10% cut of $10,000,000. So why should she care?
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-08 16:19 • by baboo
The question wasn't "How would you implement a system to track employee leave requests through the approval process?" It was, "What underlying data structure would you use?"
Assuming that the poster's statement that they were looking for someone with "SQL experience" really meant that they were looking for someone with the ability to reason intelligibly, Mary could have answered something like this:
"OK, so the data you can depend on a leave request having that will completely define an individual leave request for one employee, are:
1) a unique employee identifier
2) the start of the leave period
3) the duration of leave period.
The other major part of a leave request is the approval chain. Here's a good way to frame this part of the problem - Every leave request has an ultimate "approval authority," which is defined by your company's internal organization and policies.
Assuming a uniform, hierarchical organization, a really simple way to represent this would be to define a numerical value to the different levels of approval - section manager approval == 10, store manager == 20, regional manager == 30, etc.
Based on the duration and start time of the leave period, you could algorithmically define a numerical required approval level for each leave request, which would be stored in a member variable (or column, or whatever) of the proposed data structure.
A member variable would store the next approval level required. Another would be used to store the status of the request transaction (essentially, "It's being sent up," or "It's being kicked back") And another would be used to store a text message to go along with the request - for lower-level requesters, this would be populated with maybe something like, "Sally needs leave for toenail therapy," and then maybe at the next higher level, "Employee SLLY1443 needs this weird therapy, and I can cover for her absence by realigning people from one of my other sections - recommend approval." If it gets kicked back down, this might be populated with something like, "No, I need more info on the impact of the absence of this employee before I approve." etc.
So, the data structure might look something like this:
1) INT Employee ID
2) DATETIME Leave start datetime
3) DATETIME Leave duration
4) INT Required approval level
5) INT Current approval level
6) INT Next level/Employee ID
7) INT Array Previous levels/Employee IDs
8) BOOLEAN Sent-up/Kicked-back Status
9) TEXT Message
... I mean, I just pulled this out of my ass, based on a few assumptions, without being able to ask any questions.
Mary/Paula's answer of "Uh... I think maybe a variable, a constant, and a flag?" was just retarded.
You don't want your problems solved, do you? You're complaining that FAT32 is not a good solution to your problem, but you reject every better solution out of hand.
ntfs-3g is not complicated; you install it with your package manager and then it just works. You don't have to mess with FUSE yourself, all that happens behind the scenes. All you would do is click a few times and your life would become simpler.
And it's hardly difficult to stop Windows applications being able to write anywhere in your Linux fs tree with the Ext2 IFS. All you have to do is, um, only mount a partition you want them to be able to write to. They can't mysteriously access partitions you haven't mounted, you know. So you would replace your current unsatisfactory FAT32 shared partition with a vastly more flexible Ext3 shared partition, and your life would become simpler.
You're welcome to hang onto your FAT32 partition -- that's your choice, even if it is a stupid choice and the worst possible way to achieve your goal. But please don't tell lies about "having" to keep it. There are alternatives, you've been told about them, and you have rejected them for entirely arbitrary reasons. You don't "have" to keep a FAT32 partition -- you have chosen to keep a FAT32 partition.
Magnitude is probably the wrong word. My collection is 30 times the size of hers.
No, I don't. Where did you get the idea that all DBMSes are bloated and poorly designed? Embedded Firebird is a 3MB download (Windows version), SQLite is 1/10th the size and its feature set is probably still sufficient for your purposes.
And I didn't even mention MySQL, nor would I recommend it. PostgreSQL and Firebird have similar feature sets but are far less quirky than MySQL and have more generous licenses.
Apple just released the new Mac Pro. The standard configuration comes with eight processor cores. And you are still writing single-threaded apps? Ok, this is an extreme example, but even most portables have at least two processor cores these days. The times where people have tolerated GUIs that totally lock up whiile an operation is in progress are coming to an end. Which means you have to deal with concurrency even when there is only one user. DBMSes don't solve all of your concurrrency problems, but they can help a lot.
All the painstaking work has already been done for you. If simple queries are fast enough, you don't need to optimize them. But it is a lot easier to optimize them later on if you are already using an RDBMS.
Bogus for the reason I already mentioned: Embeddable DBMSes are available for easy local use.
Please don't repost points that have already been refuted. If you know how to use copy & paste, you know how to back up a .fdb (Firebird Database) file. Of course the database should not be open when you do this, but closing it is simple to do in application code. Oh, and lest you might misunderstand: You can also use any other file extension.
This is absolutely ridiculous. You could just as well argue that people need an MCSE in order to use Windows. If your application uses a database, you can hide the databasey details just as well as you would hide the bit fiddling details of your own C++ implementation.
Sorry, but WTF does that have to do with relational databases?
Yes, there is at least one crucial benefit: If you use them, you don't have to waste time on problems that have been solved before (dozens of times).
Actually, a little googling provided me with links to numerous C++ APIs for the above-mentioned DBMSes.
If the C interface was the only interface, that would be convincing. Only it isn't. If you don't like the C interface, use another.
Actually, it's a bogus reason by definition. And Firebird is not an "obscure package" but one of the best known and popular open-sourec RDBMSes.
Sorry, I meant to say "file format". Anyway, why would I write code to create in-memory data structures and then code to serialize them if I can just pump the data into a database in the first place? That seems to be doubly redundant to me. If you already have the data structures for some other reasons then this might make more sense. And writing even complex SQL queries is ridiculously simple compared to writing C++ code that extracts the same information from a custom file format.
If an RDBMS provides you with features you don't need, how about... not... using.. them...? In any case, this is no reason for not using the features that you do have a use for. Unless you are indeed suffering from NIH syndrome as I suspect.
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-08 18:53 • by TopicSlayer (unregistered)
What I love most about the "don't reinvent the wheel" crowd is their ability to espouse the wide wheel variety from which you should chose rather than reinvent your own and all the while fail to realize that said variety would not exist if everyone advocated this principle.
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-09 00:42 • by vt_mruhlin
But there's different kinds of wheels for different uses!
My workplace is more of the "pretend you invented the wheel in the first place" type. My boss wants me to talk about how one of the apps handles database connection pooling tomorrow. Like I need to give some freaking presentation to say "if it needs to make a database connection, it gets one out of the pool. If the pool's empty it waits."
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-09 04:50 • by Andrew (unregistered)
Can you spell "bureaucratic"?
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-09 08:53 • by AdT (unregistered)
Do you know what a straw man argument is? I did not say it's always bad to "reinvent the wheel". Chemisor did not even try to reinvent the wheel, he invented a cube on an axis and said it would roll well enough for his purposes. But when you choose not to use on of the existing wheels I feel you should have a good reason while the reasons Chemisor brought forward consisted of:
a) unsubstantiated prejudice
b) invalid generalizations
and, in my eyes also
c) reasons made up post hoc to support his preconceived world view
Actually, I don't care whether Chemisor wants to use databases or not. But since he publicly argued that databases cannot be used for certain purposes, stating reasons that make no sense, he was asking for contradiction. :-)
For example, in one of his first posts in this thread, he wrote: "It did not use a database because it was intended as a consumer product" which makes no sense whatsoever - there are lots of consumer products that make successful use of databases, etc.
It is necessary to contradict such claims lest some lurkers might think they actually have any substance.
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-09 11:06 • by Richard (unregistered)
I'd ask for more information, like what existing systems there were to integrate with. After all, I assume you've got some kind of employee database somewhere.... have you?
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-09 11:10 • by MemeDude (unregistered)
My thoughts exactly!
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-09 13:27 • by Bob (unregistered)
Mary? Is that you?
All right, so we are having a flamewar now! :)
I really did not intend things to do down the toilet like this, but let's try to be amicable. I'll try again to explain how databases look from my point of view.
First of all, I was not referring to embedded databases. I think I knew about them before I read your posts, but I certainly did not think of them when I wrote mine. In my mind, "using a database" and "using a database format" are two entirely different things. When you say your app uses a database, I see something that communicates to a central server, which handles numerous simultaneous connections. Call it a terminology problem, but that's how I, a total database ignoramus (as I have admitted several times) interpret what you say. When you use an embedded database, to me that's just like using a custom data format with a packaged library, which is pretty much what I do anyway except that I write the library.
You counter that an embedded database is already fully written and debugged, but this is not particularly relevant to me since writing serialization code for a class is a trivial exercise completed in a few minutes. And then there's the size of it. You say embedded Firebird is "only" 3M in size and I gasp, because most of my applications weigh in at less than a 300k (without system libs of course). Would you have me increase my app footprint by a factor of 10 just to have database features that I am probably not going to use? My serialization code is insignificantly tiny by comparison.
You say that concurrency and data integrity are important, but you are still thinking of some database frontend, are you? Something that runs a query and displays a result in a form. So lets talk about that.
How do you get your data to the UI? When I design data structures, I think of how they look in memory, not how they look on the disk, which I consider to be a separate problem. When I write a UI screen I'll be accessing objects in memory, not rows in a query, and I would need some way to convert one into the other. From what I can see in Firefox's API, you either copy the data field by field, or you use macros which probably do the same thing, but autogenerate the code for you. Note how this process is identical to writing a serialization routine, and the generative macros are your only work savings. I could, I suppose, write such macros to automatically make serialization routines, but I just don't see the point, considering that now I more or less just cut-n-paste the copy constructor to make them.
This brings me to the subject of "goddamn text". I'll repeat once again that I haven't written any database-using code, so all I know about SQL I've read in books. Those books, such as "SQL Unleashed", show examples exclusively in text form. In pretty much every example you use a shell-like interface to write your queries and get back text results. Now, I don't know how the database really handles these things, and maybe there is no text involved in the middle. And yet, when you get fields from a query, you look them up by name, so there's got to be some in there. In my mind, this generates instant revulsion, because text means parsers. Using text and parsers is inherently inefficient in both speed and code size, so until I can verify that the query results come back in some machine-readable form, I'd be very uncomfortable using them. Feel free to enlighten me, if you know how this works.
Let's talk about concurrency. When I said you did not need it, I was thinking of a central server database with multiple connections. Naturally, in a single user application with an embedded database, any concurrent connections will come from the same user. The thing is, in anything I design, there will be a single data path. Yes, I might, very rarely, make multiple views of the same data, in which case the views will access the data in memory in a document object, not the database directly. Data manipulation is separate from serialization in my mind.
Part of this is because most of this manipulation does not affect the database. A business inventory is always changing, orders are always coming in, and the database is churning all the time. A home user will not be changing his data sets frequently. Your 6000 CD music index will not change. You probably add new records now and then and delete old ones, but you never modify them. Most tasks you perform are read-only; searching and statistical analysis are what most people do with data. New data does not come in very often.
In view of this, concurrency is almost a non-issue. You hardly ever write anything, much less write anything multiple times. Same with data integrity. Data is added so rarely that the odds of you losing power during the exact microsecond that you are writing your data to the disk are astronomically small. I get maybe three or four power failures per year, all of them during extreme weather conditions. A partial write that corrupts your whole file is even less likely. I'm tempted to say that you should just restore from backup if that happens; after all, I would bet good money that it won't happen in your lifetime.
Most applications would just write a new file on save and move it over the old copy, solving this problem. You said that this would cause an unacceptable slowdown, but you forget that the data set is small. My disk can write ~50M/sec, and with your 6M CD index you would not even notice.
> The standard configuration comes with eight
> processor cores. And you are still writing
> single-threaded apps? The times where people have
> tolerated GUIs that totally lock up whiile an
> operation is in progress are coming to an end.
Just because an application is single threaded, doesn't mean it locks up while an operation is in progress. That's what asynchronous IO is for, which I use extensively. IMO, it is far easier and simpler to get working than ensuring thread safety. It all also integrates beautifully into the event-driven architecture which every modern UI framework uses. No, I wouldn't get to use multiple cores, but since I don't have any tasks that are CPU bound, why would I care?
> Yes, there is at least one crucial benefit: If you
> use them, you don't have to waste time on problems
> that have been solved before (dozens of times).
If I use them I'd have to waste time on figuring out how to use a foreign API. An API that won't integrate well with my existing code and will require constant hacks to my data model to "fit it in". Code reuse is not always appropriate. Sometimes reinventing the wheel really is the easier way to go. You may disagree, but you already know your databases and think in ways that complement their APIs. I don't.
> Actually, a little googling provided me with links
> to numerous C++ APIs for the above-mentioned DBMSes.
Which are all nothing but wrappers for the C API. This is usually worse than using the C API in the first place, since most people don't know how to design a proper OO API anyway. Then there's a very real chance of introducing extra bugs in the wrapper itself. But no, I'm not really bashing them, so don't take this negatively; it's just a personal bias.
> Anyway, why would I write code to create in-memory
> data structures and then code to serialize them if
> I can just pump the data into a database in the
> first place? That seems to be doubly redundant to me.
I would reverse this argument and say that the in-memory data structures come first, and so the whole discussion of how to store them in a file is a separate issue. As you can see, I am not thinking in a database-oriented fashion. It might be because I am not thinking of applications that view and modify the data, but rather of applications that analyze it. By analysis I don't mean viewing the data in different ways; I mean actually making sense of it, displaying statistics on it, deriving some useful knowledge from it, or just plain making pretty graphs with it. None of those things can be done with an SQL query; you really do need to load stuff into memory and work on it.
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-09 14:16 • by Dr. Furter (unregistered)
Interviews put people in strange places mentally. Unfortunately everybody has to interview so for those that it completely freaks out, it is not a pretty scene. I feel bad for then I really do, but I still can't hire them. "Mary" was probably one of those people and coupled with what was likely only meager design skills, you get this.
WTF indeed.
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-09 16:29 • by Kelly (unregistered)
I showed my friend this, expressing annoyance at how all the stupid-people stories on Daily WTF seem to be about females. As a 20-something female myself, I was saddened by this. His response:
friend: well, i certainly wouldn't expect there to be fewer misogynists in the male-with-no-social-skills echo chamber that is technical blogs
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-09 16:34 • by Kelly (unregistered)
Actually, I had absolutely no SQL skills when I entered my first development job right out of college. I majored in applied math and only minored in computer science, so I never took a database course. Within a few weeks I understood relational database design pretty well. A year and a half later, I consider myself as much of a SQL and relational database design pro as any non-DBA developer (who happens to be using SQL) would generally be expected to be.
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-09 17:55 • by Harrow (unregistered)
This happens to me about three or four times a year, although I admit that usually I get fifteen or twenty minutes.
I generally use the Borland Database Engine for such shortsighted requests because I like to give my clients what they deserve...
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-09 21:17 • by dml
I kind of see what you mean (probably articles that specifically mention a female stand out more) but aren't essentially all the articles on this website about "stupid people" or at the very least the code they produce? Many of them are about males, whether it says so or not. Stupid people are exactly what the site is founded on.
In fact, looking at the backlog of interview articles, I can find at least one about a dolt who was referred to with masculine pronouns. And one that was about a chauvinist male getting his comeuppance.
I'm sympathetic to your concern, but I really don't think there's any gender bias here.
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-11 15:34 • by Vootie (unregistered)
Heh. Yeah, there's a lot of people out there who think that just because some people are clueless about computers that means that everyone has to be, so they can fake it until they learn it on-the-job.
Within some limits you can certainly pick stuff up, if you're bright and have decent work experience, but not the whole job experience from scratch. Not in computers.
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-11 15:41 • by Vootie (unregistered)
> I showed my friend this, expressing annoyance at how all the stupid-people stories on Daily WTF seem to be about females. As a 20-something female myself, I was saddened by this.
You know, there are a lot more female chauvinist pigs out there these days than male chauvinist pigs.
Rhetorical Question one:
I suppose you've considered the possibility that God might be a female.
How often have you considered the equal possibility that the **Devil** is one?
Rhetorical Question two:
I'm sure you're familiar with the term "misogynist" -- a man who hates women.
What's the term for "a woman who hates men"?
Maybe you're the rare exception but not many women ever grasp the idea that there are just as many bad & stupid women just as there are bad and stupid men.
:-/ (is there an emoticon for rolling eyes?)
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-13 14:06 • by Smash (unregistered)
I don't know elsewhere, but we brazilians became quite fond of the japanese emoticon for rolling eyes => ¬¬
also available with a sweat drop => ¬¬'
or in a angry, throbbing vein mood => ¬¬*
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-14 12:16 • by Grovesy
For some reason in the UK, (V-) was vendor, (I-) was independant contractor
never made sense to me.
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-14 12:58 • by Random832
As a long-time reader, I can assure you that at least 95% of the "stupid-people stories" are about males. In fact, when I really think about, I can only recall two (Not two percent - two stories. There was Paula, and then one other that had a similar explosion of "ZOMG sexism" accusations) where the subject was specifically female.
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-01-18 06:50 • by JoeBloggs (unregistered)
I've had it from the other side. A few years ago I was being interviewed for a job as a Windows app developer. After talking to the guy for about 20 minutes about various Windows apps I'd written he then said he had some specific requirements and then asked "Do you have any 'G' 'U' 'I' development experience?" (he spelled GUI out very carefully"). I finally realized that I was just talking to a HR monkey and I'd probably have to talk to someone else later. What got to me, though, was that this guy would probably determine if I got to the 'real' interview. After another ten minutes of me explaining the difference between 'embedded development' and 'embedded SQL'(he was just picking things at random from my CV) I just mentally scratched the company from my list. When they called back I just made an excuse as to why I couldn't come back to see them.
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-02-04 08:50 • by Jesse McNelis (unregistered)
I've given a response sort of like that in a job interview.
Obviously I didn't get the job.
I could easily answer the question at any other time, just on under pressure in a job interview.
Coding is done at a computer, you are generally fairly alone and their isn't someone staring at you waiting for an answer straight away.
To test someone's coding ability by asking a question in an interview is silly.
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-02-23 00:17 • by snow (unregistered)
i agree. the question was misleading unless you're working in the industry primarily as a database administrator or programmer. IMO there's a gap between the industry and academics. Many veterans who may not have gotten a general education in Computer Science are a little narrow. when i think of a database it's more like a well-managed file structure (outside of the code domain) and data structures are records, trees, hash tables, classes, objects, lists etc. why the superior attitude, anyway? what was her level of experience? SQL knowledge and work from an entry-level perspective is interpreted by veterans as equal knowledge. There's ambiguity within the whole field of Computer Science or all software will run perfectly without any errors. In other words, I don't think that was a good question to make a hiring decision on an entry-level basis. B/c data structures and databases aren't considered in the same category.
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2008-02-23 00:34 • by snow (unregistered)
why use the term stupid? it seems like a degree doesn't mean anything. why have it as a choice in college? a college degree is general knowledge and projects related to the basic foundations, which is supposed to get us ready for the industry. It's called talent not how much do we know compared to veterans. New comers with a general education may get confused by the jargon b/c the jargon of Computer Science is so vague and can be misleading at times. Plus, many students come from so many different backgrounds. Ever heard of the expression "a diamond in the ruff". Talent does not equal knowledge. the concept of object models are easily learned not the effective use of them. A person with a beautiful voice and great vocal control may not even know what a 'b' not looks like, but they can easily learn it. Does it mean someone who can recognize a 'b' note will break down the house over someone who doesn't.
are all veteran developers this rude? is it learned on the job?
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2010-06-17 17:26 • by MaryBean (unregistered)
That is exactly what I meant! LOL
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2011-03-02 09:16 • by cindy (unregistered)
Marni handbags
Excellent interview question BTW!
Re: The Case of the Clueless Candidate
2012-10-26 11:00 • by Daniel (unregistered)
Seems you're gonna get stuck in that loop ;)
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This is great as a light lunch or a side dish with almost anything. I actually crave it! Don't try to substitute balsamic vinegar for the red wine variety - it makes it too sweet!
Couscous Salad with Chickpeas and Tomatoes
Quick and easy to make, this salad keeps well and tastes best at room temperature--all of which make for an ideal weekday lunch. Pack it with cut-up fresh pineapple and biscotti.
Yield: 6 servings (serving size: 3/4 cup)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 181
- Calories from fat: 31%
- Fat: 6.2g
- Saturated fat: 1.7g
- Monounsaturated fat: 3.5g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.7g
- Protein: 5.5g
- Carbohydrate: 25.8g
- Fiber: 2.7g
- Cholesterol: 6mg
- Iron: 0.9mg
- Sodium: 373mg
- Calcium: 56mg
- 6 tablespoons organic vegetable broth (such as Swanson Certified Organic)
- 6 tablespoons water
- 3/4 cup uncooked couscous
- 3/4 cup canned chickpeas (garbanzo beans), rinsed and drained
- 1/3 cup chopped seeded plum tomato
- 6 tablespoons (1 1/2 ounces) feta cheese, crumbled
- 2 tablespoons chopped pitted kalamata olives
- 2 tablespoons minced red onion
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon extravirgin olive oil
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- Dash of freshly ground black pepper
- Bring vegetable broth and 6 tablespoons water to a boil in a medium saucepan; gradually stir in couscous. Remove from heat; cover and let stand for 10 minutes. Fluff with a fork.
- Combine cooked couscous and remaining ingredients in a large bowl.
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Couscous Salad with Chickpeas and Tomatoes Recipe at a Glance
- COURSE: Main Dishes, Salads
- CONVENIENCE: Kid-Friendly, Make-Ahead, Portable/Picnic, Quick/Easy
- CUISINE: Mediterranean
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Beans, Rice/Grains
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Low Cholesterol, Meatless
- PUBLICATION: Cooking Light
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Monday, September 22, 2014
Rays announce 2014 Minor League Award winners
The Tampa Bay Rays today named OF Johnny Field Minor League Player of the Year and LHP Blake Snell Minor League Pitcher of the Year.
Rays honor 2014 'Raymond James Community Impact Award' Winners
The Tampa Bay Rays and Raymond James Financial have announced the winners of the 2014 Raymond James Community Impact Award which recognizes non-profit organizations that have made a positive impact on the Tampa Bay community. Each recipient was honored during a pregame presentation prior to the Rays-Yankees game on Tuesday night at Tropicana Field.
Evan Longoria nominated for the 2014 Roberto Clemente Award
Major League Baseball and Chevrolet, the official vehicle of MLB, today announced that Evan Longoria was named the Tampa Bay Rays 2014 nominee for the prestigious Roberto Clemente Award presented by Chevrolet.
Rays return to Tropicana Field for final homestand
Following a six-game road trip, the Tampa Bay Rays return to Tropicana Field on Monday to begin their final homestand of the season during which they will host the New York Yankees (September 15-17) and Chicago White Sox (September 19-21).
Rays open 2015 season at home on April 6 vs. Baltimore
The Tampa Bay Rays will open the 2015 season on Monday, April 6 at 3:10 p.m. versus the Baltimore Orioles at Tropicana Field.
Rays Baseball foundation awards $100,000 to local nonprofits
On Thursday, September 4, the Rays Baseball Foundation, the official charity of the Tampa Bay Rays, awarded a total of $100,000 to 19 local nonprofit organizations through the second cycle of the 2014 Community Fund Grant Program.
Rays Wives to host pet food drive on Sunday to benefit Pet Pal Animal Shelter
The Tampa Bay Rays will host the second of two Dog Days at Tropicana Field on Sunday, September 7 when the Rays take on the Baltimore Orioles at 1:40 p.m. The Rays Wives will also host a pet food drive to benefit Pet Pal Animal Shelter in St. Petersburg.
Rays Baseball Foundation and Helios Education Foundation announce 2014 scholars
In 2012, the Rays Baseball Foundation and Helios Education Foundation teamed up to provide $1 million in college scholarships for students participating in Take Stock in Children in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Sarasota, Manatee and Pasco counties over a five-year period. On Friday, August 29, the Tampa Bay Rays and Helios will recognize a new class of scholars for 2013-14 during a pregame presentation at Tropicana Field.
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How badly would a disaster affect you?
Published on - November 19th, 2012 (by Sarah Gilbert)
The oceans are rising, the climate is warming. Is your house — literally — in order?
No matter what we do, say scientists, the oceans are rising; anything we do to address climate change won't help until, at the earliest, 2100. And the effects of carbon emissions on the climate lag the emissions by at least 40 years and as many as hundreds of years. In a report that was ironically delayed because of Hurricane Sandy, national security experts say violent weather like Sandy could end up being more frequent, and flooding is bound to become more likely; storm activity is not likely to dissipate over the next decades. The report's lead author, John D. Steinbruner, told the New York Times, "You can debate the specific contribution of global warming to [Sandy]. But we're saying climate extremes are going to be more frequent, and this was an example of what they could mean. We're also saying it could get a whole lot worse than that."
The best thing we can all do is prepare financially. While the worst outcomes predicted by that recent study would be impossible to protect ourselves against (global famine, failed states, wars erupting over remaining fertile land, and the like), there are things we can do in the short term to at least prepare ourselves to weather a few storms.
First: Where do you live?
If the twin punches of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy have taught us anything, it is that living below sea level within spitting distance of a coastline — especially the Atlantic and the Gulf Coast, for hurricane danger, but also the Pacific Coast for tsunami exposure — is highly dangerous. While I'm quite sure that many of the residents of Rockaway Beach and the 9th Ward are, and were, without a lot of financial resources, it's also the case that housing in most coastal areas is more expensive than the equivalent housing inland. Like it says in the Bible (and I'm paraphrasing heavily but the concept is sound), better to build your house on a rock than on the sand.
If you are, indeed, one of those lucky souls who has found beautiful beachfront property, or if you live in an apartment building with sea exposures, my best advice is to move farther inland. If you're the resident of a coastal area, I know this is by far the most difficult advice to take. But, if Steinbruner and his team of experts are right, your chances of losing everything are far too high for my comfort.
No one's saying that a storm will hit in the next 30 days, and with about 20 percent of Americans moving each year, chances are you might be antsy and ready for a move before any dangerous weather strikes your neighborhood. If you are, I'd suggest, find someplace on high (and not prone to mudslides) ground.
It's not just coastal residents who should consider their address. I lived in Charlotte, N.C., in my early 20s, and one of my colleagues had the sweetest starter home… right in the flood plain. Many of the rivers and creeks had been largely paved over, but the water has a way of going where it wants to. The second time she had to put all her downstairs furniture in the Dumpster, she started looking for a new house, one on a hill.
Second: How do you heat your home?
While it's altogether possible to live without electric lights and phone chargers for weeks on end, as Sandy victims are demonstrating, heat is another matter altogether. And electricity systems can be disrupted for the wealthy on their mountaintops and the less wealthy in their riverside neighborhoods in equal measures. Relying on electric heat can be more expensive (and, thanks to all the coal power Americans still use, far worse for our descendants' chances against Mother Nature) and entirely unreliable in a power outage.
In a perfect world, you would have a high-efficiency natural-gas furnace with some ability to get it going in the absence of electricity. The problem of lighting the igniter is worth looking into, if you already have gas. Planning on redoing the heat in your home? You should think about the new high-efficiency wood stoves. They give off a lot less carbon than their forebears, and I can guarantee you they'll work the same without electricity. (This, by the way, is the top of my wish list; if I have a windfall any time soon, it's going to one of these.)
Don't live in a perfect world? Consider buying a propane heater and stocking enough propane to get you through a couple of weeks. While you're at it, a propane cook stove isn't a bad idea, either; and in post-summer sales you can usually pick one up cheap.
Third: Getting around
You probably already know I am a bicyclist, and I have to admit to feeling a sense of self-reliance when I heard about all the traffic in Manhattan post-Sandy; and how the people were taking to their bicycles. No long lines for gas for me!
But even if you would no way, no how, never trust your family on a bicycle for regular trips, it's a good idea to have a working bicycle; or at least a really great pair of walking shoes and some sturdy rubber boots for good measure — in case of emergency. You can figure out how and where you might need to go in an emergency by checking with your local disaster readiness group (another guarantee: that somewhere near you is a group of people who has thought this through). Equip yourself with whatever gas-free mode of transportation is appropriate. You never know, you might decide you want to start trying this alternative transportation once a week… or twice…
Fourth: Emergency fund
Yep. This is probably obvious. You know you should have an emergency fund. I'm working hard to develop one of my own! It's certain that a hurricane hitting your town would count as an emergency, and it could be that your regular work is interrupted — or, if you're like so many people, your paycheck comes from another state altogether, and it could get disrupted in a storm far away from home. Keep some amount of this fund (at least a few hundred dollars) in cash, where you can access it easily.
Fifth: Insurance audit
Another one you could have thought up on your own. But, it's a good idea to do an audit of your homeowner's or renter's and automobile insurance policies regularly. Lots of localities make it hard to get flood insurance, but it can't hurt to ask, and be as covered as you can in the event of a disaster. Think: you'll have to replace everything on your ground floor and basement if it floods. Everything. Even with low-interest government loans offered after disasters, that could get spendy.
Sixth: Stuff audit
I heard an interview with someone on NPR after Sandy, a man who had recently moved his wife's stockpile of stuff from a storage container to their basement to save money. Among this stuff, a collection of ornaments. These ornaments were, obviously, a complete loss.
My best advice (and here again I am not particularly well-placed to give this advice, given my love of books and my reluctance to let any of them go — but I use them! A lot!) is to not buy the stuff in the first place, or, if you have a bunch of stuff that you can't afford to store somewhere safe, perhaps it's time to put it all for sale and fund your emergency fund, or your high-efficiency wood stove fund, or whatever it is would be a better place to put your money than stuff that will be swept away or destroyed so easily.
Seventh: Food and drink
I know: most emergency preparedness guides start here. But I think you know the drill. Keep water on hand, several gallons, and replace it every few months. Stock up on enough peanut butter and crackers and dried fruit to get you through several days. I feel pretty happy about the oodles of canned fruit and jelly and tomatoes and tuna I have; but I would have to remember that, in a truly awful disaster, I would be eating it straight out of the jar with a spoon. That's where the wood stove and/or propane cook stove would come in handy.
Also remember that whatever you have in the freezer would spoil quickly if your electricity were to go out. While I wouldn't tell you to avoid using a freezer (I can't talk, what with all the beef I have down there), I would tell you to consider this as part of your calculations. You're going to have to eat it all fast, or find some brilliant way of curing or drying it, if the power goes out.
Eighth: Skills
Speaking of brilliant ways of curing and drying food: having skills like this could mean the difference between surviving for weeks without power and having to spend your entire emergency fund on restaurants and motels. There are lots of ways to gain skills in everything from making beef jerky to lighting a fire without matches to rigging a shortwave radio. While you don't need to know how to do everything yourself, it's good to find out what your close friends and neighbors can do, and develop complementary skills. Make it fun; some friends organized "Disaster Relief Trials" to simulate how we could bike emergency supplies around in an earthquake that took out most of the city's bridges. My 10-year-old is taking survival skills classes as part of a year-long curriculum that includes lots of magic and role-playing, too (and he will be our family's chief fire-starter and shelter-gatherer in an emergency).
Imagine. Come up with scenarios. Think about what might happen and how to prepare yourself. Make it fun, make it a community effort, get to know your neighbors. It's possible that preparing for a disaster could improve your life, financially, in well-being and a sense of satisfaction — even if that disaster never comes.
And if a disaster happens and you're in my neighborhood, hurry over; we may as well eat like kings and queens on the contents of my freezer while it's still good.
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All excellent tips. I especially like the idea of not buying a house on the coast. I have friends that talk about buying a house on the coast and I question it. Not just because of recent history, but even historically. Where I live, a storm comes by roughly every 50 years so you are pretty much guaranteed to run the risk of losing everything in your lifetime. Given the changing climate and the storms occurring more frequently, you are risking even more.
I feel for the people that lost their belongings, but at least they still have their lives. If I had a house on the shore and it was destroyed, I probably wouldn't re-build there. I don't think I could handle losing everything again.
We were without power from Sandy for 7 days. With a natural gas fireplace we were warm enough and we could cook on the top of our gas stove. We had topped off the tanks of both cars before the storm hit. The stuff in the freezers we couldn't eat was so old we should have gotten rid of it long ago. We did use some old frozen turkeys to keep the milk and cheese cold in the cooler. I would add to make sure you have the right batteries for your lanterns, etc. D cells were nowhere to be found.
I went to a talk on the economic effects of climate change that noted that Portland, OR will have the best weather in the US in 90 years or so if global warming keeps up. (So if you want your grandkids to be rich…)
I live in the midwest – no coastal hurricanes, etc. here. However, the constant threat of tornadoes and living almost on top of the New Madrid fault lines means a different sort of disaster could affect us. We also deal with ice/snow storms almost every winter with rural electricity outages every few weeks.
We have prepped to the best of our abilities (money, physical, emotional). So far any of the disasters that have occurred (3 weeks of no power in the dead of winter)have been nothing more than an inconvience (sleeping on mattresses on the floor of the kerosene heated kitchen).
Great post! I know this isn't necessarily related to money, but every individual or family should have an emergency preparedness plan in place. Where would you take shelter in event of a tornado? Where would you evacuate your family and pets if you found your home in a hurricane's path? Do you own a battery-operated radio in case the power goes out and cell service goes down? What about something as simple as flashlights and plenty of batteries?
These situations can affect any of us, regardless of whether we live on the coast. I live in the mountains of Virginia. We're definitely not in a flood plain, but earlier this year, a derecho (severe storm with high winds) knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of customers during 100-degree weather. Many of our neighbors had gas-powered generators, which would've come in handy. My husband and I were fortunate to be able to take our pets and stay at the home of a co-worker who was out of town at the time and volunteered his home. That storm and power outage–it took nearly a week for power to be restored to our neighborhood–taught us a valuable lesson about planning for these situations. Thanks for the reminders in this post!
Living in Minnesota means tornados in the summer (yes, even in the city), and all iterations of snow in the winter. I have thought much about disaster preparedness, particularly after Katrina. With these drought conditions seeming to be ongoing (we've had only a day or two of rain in the past several months), a fire in the winter months is a scary thing. If the fire engines can't navigate the city streets after a huge snowfall, the outcome is not good. I need to take additional steps of my own.
This has been on my mind lately as I keep my emergency fund in an online account, so it takes 1-internet access and 2-three days to access the funds. Am thinking about moving some of it in case of a natural disaster-type emergency.
Have also been lagging on getting renter's insurance which takes about 10 minutes to do and is really affordable.
In addition to what you've listed my emergency kit also includes crank-up radios/flashlights, and generally always keeping our cars full of gas. Unfortunately the heat in our rental is electric but it has an emergency setting where it can switch to gas if needed.
Having many friends and relatives affected by Sandy has us deciding to get a generator that runs off our home's natural gas line. It's an expensive proposition that may only get used 10 to 12 hours per year (that's about how much, on average, our power goes out here). We're looking at just under $10,000 for the generator. My husband and I have decided we are each going to drive our cars a few more years.
I think we'll be hearing about the stories (and babies!) that resulted from this storm for years to come.
If you only lose power for 12 hours per year let me suggest something like a much cheaper Honda gasoline generator (about $2-3K new). Yes a gas generator is a much better and solid power plant, but unless you do welding on a regular basis it's going to be a bit of overkill.
For a $10K investment you might want to look instead at a solar electric installation that will not only supply you with sustainable backup energy but also reduce your power bill in the long term (you can sell power back to the utility while you're not using it).
I lived in a rural area without electricity for a while, so I'm quite familiar with the options…
Thank you. We have actually looked at solar panels. We've been quoted $30k!
Before Sandy, I think we would've been ok with the gasoline generators. But the gas lines in NY and Jersey were ridiculous just a few short weeks ago. My sister called me from while sitting in line in her car and said, "I've been sitting in line for an hour and I'm hoping there's a gas station at the end of it." She wasn't kidding. For two weeks if you saw a line, you assumed gasoline at the end of it. That day she spent 3 hours and 45 minutes in line.
It's $30K if you want to continue living as if nothing happened, with powerline-level power to run anything you want. But you could set up a small 1000W system and cope with emergencies. Things like electric light and TV don't require a lot of power. Even a freezer will maintain with daytime power only.
If you start running toasters and coffee makers and microwaves and electric irons and hair and clothes dryers and an electric stove you'll deplete your batteries very quickly, but if you ration your electricity during an emergency, a basic setup will keep you going for a long time.
Basically you need 1) solar panels, 2) battery bank, 3) inverter. Batteries wear out and need replacement but usually only if you drain them repeatedly; if they are hooked to power line 99% of the time then they last a long time. A good sinus wave inverter will run motors and computer workstations and sensitive gear, but a cheaper one with a modified sinus wave will run lights and TVs and laptops just fine (thought your LPs will sound weird in them and your battery backups will go bananas).
Solar panels keep dropping in price. Right now Lowes has a 250W panel for $750. 4 of them is $3,000. A lead battery bank is about $2,000, an inverter another $1,000 (for sinus wave), plus parts and labor… you have a 1,000W system to keep you safe for about $10K.
You could even add a small wind turbine just to balance you out during cloudy days or nights for about $1,000 for the gear if you have the space to install it.
All you have to do is make your coffee on the propane stove while the emergency lasts and you'll save $20K for the fancy electric behemoth. The trick is to figure out how much wattage you really need in an emergency– my answer: if it's a real emergency, not much at all.
Thanks El Nerdo! We'll check it out.
Yeah, I depleted a quarter-tank of gas being trapped (literally, on a divided highway) in a 2 hour traffic jam that ended… at a gas station.
I disagree that the article is not relevant to personal finance. This is one of the reasons why we keep emergency funds to begin with, why not take steps to make the needed funds that much smaller? I, especially, appreciate the occasional reminder to do more to be prepared for an emergency. I live in an area unlikely to flood; however, severe hurricanes and tornados have been known to blow through. Natural disasters should not serve as the only reminders to be prepared, since it does you no good if you lose everything first.
I was in New Jersey (visiting family) when Sandy hit. To be on the safe side, we decided to leave Lakewood, New Jersey the day before the storm hit, to avoid potentially being unable to leave or without power for several days.
I got a hotel room for my family in downtown Philadelphia for a few days. My wife and I went out for Cuban food. Downtown Philadelphia was largely unaffected, other than all the stores being closed for a day. We ended up staying a couple extra days, and leaving from Philadelphia rather than Newark, but all in all, it was no big deal for us. We turned the hurricane into a Philadelphian mini-vacation, and it was actually fun, mostly.
This was all because we had an emergency fund. I spent about $1,000 out my emergency fund, but it meant that we had a fun time in Philadelphia, rather than being stuck at a flooding Jersey shore.
Then we flew back home to California, where I live 5 miles from the beach, in the mountains, in a home heated with Propane. We're about as secure as could be in case of a natural disaster. We're at 300 feet above sea level, we have a well, and failing that, a creek (but the creek is about 40 feet below the house). We have a 500 gallon propane tank. I think I'm going to get a propane generator and hook it up to kick on automatically when the power goes out.
We aren't "living off the grid" exactly, but we fairly easily could be. The biggest risk at our place is a redwood tree falling onto our house, but all the trees survived the last big earthquake (Loma Prieta in 1989, and we're only a couple miles from the epicenter), so they seem pretty stable, or at least they were then.
I've tried to talk to friends about this. I consider it another form of life insurance. Don't complain about how horrible it is when you're caught unprepared, you chose to be that way and I only have enough for my family. We learned this during blizzards up north.
The recent disasters and having a growing family have me considering our emergency preparedness so this article was well timed for me. Independent of where you live, it's prudent to have at least 72 hours worth of emergency supplies on hand for your family. That's easy to say, and it's said over and over by every emergency preparedness site but I struggled with where to start. After a few weeks of reading I decided to go at it with these priorities:
Water, Food, Shelter, Information, Tools
Start with water, it becomes the most critical the quickest. The guideline is a gallon a day per person. You can buy cases of bottled water and rotate them or you can go with storage containers. Head down to your local Walmart and check out their camping section. They have water containers at good prices and they're a nice place to start. If you want larger volume containers head to Amazon.
Next up, food – if you're staying home and you've lost power the first thing to do is start eating out of the fridge and freezer before it spoils in a long term power outage. Second, stock up the pantry. I didn't want to throw out giant cans of beans or chili that I'll never eat every 2 years so I figured out what our regular pantry meals are – beans & rice, canned soups, mac & cheese with chicken, chili, etc. Add some oatmeal, canned fruits and veggies and you'll get up to 3 days of meals pretty quickly. Even better, it's real food you eat so just rotate your grocery stock through it and you won't be wasting.
Food part 2 – you don't really want to eat all that food cold do you? How are you going to cook it? Grill it? Camp Stove? Both good options, make sure you have enough fuel for your emergency time frame. We went camp stove and propane bottles.
Shelter – not many natural disasters where we live so this was my 3rd priority. The good news is we like to camp and already have a tent and tarp so I'm checking this off the list.
Information & tools – every emergency preparedness site in the world is happy to give you this list – hand crank or battery operated radio, flashlight and tons of batteries, multi-tool, duct tape, and the list goes on.
The most important part of emergency preparedness is to realize you need to prepare and just start. Build your 3 day supply, the decide if you want to go up to a week, two weeks, etc. It depends on what your particular disasters may be. Just get started!
I want to become a "Prepper" now (maybe minus the weapons and ammo). Can anyone direct me to books or websites or even classes on this?
I think the skills is the most important part. I have 8 hens and a rooster but would be unable to slaughter them, so much for the emergency preparation! In case of a real big emergency, money shouldn't buy much. Having reserves of gas, food, water can be a better edge against a disaster.
At least you'll have the eggs!
I am semi-prepared–we live on a hill, have bottled water, lots of battery-operated light and flashlights, batteries, non-perishable food, etc. ALL stored in the BASEMENT, in the same room as the sump pump. So I'm moving everything, including the first aid kit upstairs.
April Dykman wrote a post for GRS about a year ago called, "Preparing for an Emergency." It discusses how to create an emergency bag and a plan for the event that you have to evacuate your home quickly. The idea is that you have the necessities available and a written plan to refer to so that you're not forced to make the critical decisions on the spot. http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2011/09/07/preparing-for-an-emergency/
Regarding #7 and #8, see also: http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Chow-Well-When-Power/dp/B001B2HIIS
The surprising thing I find about Sandy, is that it almost universally (across party's) made politicians realise that they are bringing disaster to their back door. AND YET, because the economy is still stuffed, the environment and sustainable energy is on the back burner?
R&D into clean energy can create jobs and help lessen the chances of more Sandys' but it looks like no one really cares …
One can add a propane/natural gas adapter to any gasoline-powered generator.
There are websites where you can even order an efficient Honda inverter generator already adapted for tri-fuel (gasoline/natural gas/propane) operation.
After watching video of all those gasoline lines, anyone with a portable generator should make adding a propane/natural gas adapter a priority.
Sandy blew our fence down but I was so grateful for insurance because it covered it. Having it definitely leads to peace of mind.
I've always been looked at be my friends as being slightly insane for being prepared for natural disasters and end of the world events. I bought gold reserves 10 years ago held on and turned out to be a nice little earner while still keeping enough back for and end of the world currency!
I got hit by a tornado, it really helped me downsize. Miss my library the most.


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