On a serious note, Alka-Selzter's slogan used to be "pop, fizz, oh what a relief it is." A while back, some genius in marketing changed it to "pop, pop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is."
Everyone decided they suddenly needed two tablets. Sales doubled.
Except that there is no such thing as "lassie faire" capitalism
Yeah, it's called laissez-faire capitalism...
Sheesh.
Paul
Re:It's not too OLD to code, but rather too YOUNG.
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Anyways, without any college, getting a decent job will be tough because kids who know C and HTML, in my experience, are a dime a dozen.
Maybe I have high standards, but for me, you can't say you "know HTML" unless your code passes the validator.
There are far, far too many sites with shoddy coding. Like eBay, for instance.
Paul
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Ah, quitcher whinin'. I'm 21 and have roughly two years of full-time work experience under my belt. Why? Co-op. Co-op is your friend.
When I was in high school, I took an unpaid co-op placement at Southam (they own lots of newspapers in Canada). That lead to a (paid!) summer job at KPMG. My Shad Valley job was at Dofasco, a big steel company.
I'm now an undergrad at Waterloo, studying CS. I'm on my sixth and final work term, and I've worked for school board, a university, a tech company, a web dev house and a startup, the latter two in SF.
My point here is if you have the skills, people will hire you, regardless of your age.
If you're going to university ("college" to you US folk), look for one that has a co-op program, internships, a "professional experience year," or something similar.
I'm working at a SF startup right now, and we have about a dozen engineers; until last week, I was the only guy under 30. (Yes, all the engineers are male.) We have a couple people in their forties with kids just younger than me.:-)
The last company I worked at was composed mostly of people from 27 and up.
By default, my posts: [ ] Can be freely quoted [ ] Can not be quoted [ ] none of the above, ask permission first!
And you have the option to override that for individual posts.
You could give option 1 more granularity, and change it to "freely quoted by everyone," "freely quoted by slashdot," "freely quoted by noncommercial entities," "freely quoted by people who aren't Jon Katz" and so on...
Being a Nokia phone owner, I've noticed they have a zillion different models for each series.
Sometimes the same series of phones has different features. The 6185 has a built-in vibrator; the 6190 requires a battery with a vibrator.
The first digit is the series number; the third digit usually indicates the technology: xx1x GSM 900/1800 (europe) xx2x TDMA 800 xx3x GSM 900/1800 (europe) xx5x GSM 900/1800 (europe) xx6x TDMA 800/1900 xx7x CDMA 1900 xx8x CDMA 800/1900 xx9x GSM 1900
Two great sites are Steve Punter's PCS guide (lots of Canadian info) and Steve Romaine's west coast site (also has Canada-specific info). Even if you're not Canadian, there's tons of info on various phones and technologies.
My old Nokia 2190 was virtually indestructible. I have dropped it from four feet off the ground onto cement sidewalks and parking lots numerous times, and it still works. The battery would fall out, I'd put it back in and it was business as usual.
Slashdot Mirror
PHP: Header("Location: $url");
Python: print "Location: %s" % url
Perl: print "Location: $url\n\n";
et cetera
sheesh.
Paul
so, they've patented easter eggs :)
Paul
Everyone decided they suddenly needed two tablets. Sales doubled.
Paul
Yeah, it's called laissez-faire capitalism...
Sheesh.
Paul
Maybe I have high standards, but for me, you can't say you "know HTML" unless your code passes the validator.
There are far, far too many sites with shoddy coding. Like eBay, for instance.
Paul
When I was in high school, I took an unpaid co-op placement at Southam (they own lots of newspapers in Canada). That lead to a (paid!) summer job at KPMG. My Shad Valley job was at Dofasco, a big steel company.
I'm now an undergrad at Waterloo, studying CS. I'm on my sixth and final work term, and I've worked for school board, a university, a tech company, a web dev house and a startup, the latter two in SF.
My point here is if you have the skills, people will hire you, regardless of your age.
If you're going to university ("college" to you US folk), look for one that has a co-op program, internships, a "professional experience year," or something similar.
Paul
The last company I worked at was composed mostly of people from 27 and up.
I'm 21, fwiw.
Paul
You get stuff like line 1 of field "foo" of card 6 ... which might translate to document.forms[6].foo[1].value in JavaScript :-)
Paul
I wonder if MS users can see the site if they've turned on IE's PICS support...
Nope...
bash-2.03$ telnet bankofamerica.com 80
Trying 165.37.203.7...
Connected to bankofamerica.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error
Server: Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP3
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 23:44:18 GMT
Content-length: 305
Content-type: text/html
Connection: close
Credit for hypertext belongs to Vannevar Bush (As we may think) and Ted Nelson (project Xanadu).
Paul
By default, my posts:
[ ] Can be freely quoted
[ ] Can not be quoted
[ ] none of the above, ask permission first!
And you have the option to override that for individual posts.
You could give option 1 more granularity, and change it to "freely quoted by everyone," "freely quoted by slashdot," "freely quoted by noncommercial entities," "freely quoted by people who aren't Jon Katz" and so on...
Paul
The artists get screwed over by the label.
Then the label spends its cash on attorneys.
Lovely!
Paul
<?php
if ( $lang == "en" ) {
include("en.inc.php");
} elseif ( $lang == "fr" ) {
include("fr.inc.php");
}
?>
and en.inc.php could look like:
$welcomeMsg = "welcome to my site";
Paul
When you quote roman and italicized text, you should reverse both. So your quote sh/could have looked like:
Go rent/buy Playing by Heart.Great movie.
typegeek
Paul
(Angelina's in it. duh.)
Paul
The Nokia 6190 lets you do that, if you're lucky enough to have a GSM provider.
Paul
Paul
You sure he isn't a UW cs prof? :)
Paul
Sometimes the same series of phones has different features. The 6185 has a built-in vibrator; the 6190 requires a battery with a vibrator.
The first digit is the series number; the third digit usually indicates the technology:
xx1x GSM 900/1800 (europe)
xx2x TDMA 800
xx3x GSM 900/1800 (europe)
xx5x GSM 900/1800 (europe)
xx6x TDMA 800/1900
xx7x CDMA 1900
xx8x CDMA 800/1900
xx9x GSM 1900
2160, 2170, 2180, 2190
5110+, 5120, 5130+, 5160, 5170, 5180**, 5190
6110+, 6120, 6150+, 6160, 6161, 6162, 6185, 6188*, 6190
* = Canada only, + = European, **5180= CDMA 800 only
Two great sites are Steve Punter's PCS guide (lots of Canadian info) and Steve Romaine's west coast site (also has Canada-specific info). Even if you're not Canadian, there's tons of info on various phones and technologies.
I haven't tested my 6185 yet. :)
Paul
PHP rulez :)
Paul
Sheesh. Like what have you done for me lately, baby?
Paul
So all the slackers go and take ACTSCI 221.
This was when they changed C&O 230 to MATH 239. I really wish someone would write course notes that didn't suck for that course.
Paul