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Brigette makes a very interesting and important point with this.

ME: Candidate accepted another offer.
CLIENT: I thought she really liked our company.
ME: Yes, she did
CLIENT: I don’t understand why she would throw away a great future here.
ME: She is very talented. She will have a great future wherever she chooses.
CLIENT: But we’re #1 in our space!

Companies need to realize interviews are two-way streets. You are not only choosing the candidate, the candidate is choosing you as well. While you are taking 3+ months to hire someone (looking for perfection) putting candidates through multiple interviews and tests - another company recognized her worth and made her an offer far above the market range. If you want the best talent improve your hiring processes. Candidates have negotiating power too. 

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Personal experience seems to point to employers delaying getting back and delaying moving what should be a fairly simple process forward. This leaves people not knowing what is going on, sometimes for weeks at a time.

Employees who are keen to make a start will say so, we appreciate that there are processes. This is about the endless waiting and waiting for people to get back and keep us updated.
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When using a GNU Linux system it is really useful to be able to manage what running process are doing, this could be simply seeing what system resources are being used, or stopping processes from running, to changing how they run with tools such as nice / renice.

The console / terminal top, gives you a view of all the running processes and allows you to control these processes easily.

TOP

HTOP

If you would like a slightly different tool that allows you to move up / down the process list, you may want to loop at htop. This seems to offer the same functionality as top. Top is probably better for running so you can keep an eye on what things are doing.

OTHER RELATED TOOLS

These tools offer the sort of functionality that is achieved by commands such as :

• ps
• nice
• renice
• kill
• killall

But you need to look these up and read up about them on on the man page(s).

REFERENCES

• top man page
• htop man page
• Free Software Foundation

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Recovering Hg and Au, with a Shaker Table from Tailings, Sudan, Africa

One of the really nice things about IRC, is the number of interesting channels and discussions, with numerous knowledgeable people. There was a link and discussion in ##chemistry on Freenode the other day, which showed the extraction of Mercury (Hg) and Gold (Au) from mining waste material, Tailings.

Interesting process and idea, especially, if this can be demonstrated to be commercially viable.

• Recovering Hg and Au from tailings (video)

Granted anyone watching this video, who has a knowledge of Health and Safety issues around Hg, may want to look away.

Interesting reaction between Mercury (Hg) andNitric Acid ($HNO_3$).

• Tailings

#mercury, #gold, #recovery, #mining, #tailings, #process,

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