The email services screw up all the time. I've seen mail from apple.com being sent to the spam folder (granted, it's been several years since then). Mail from me ends up in spam for one of my friends about once a year.
Recruiters are paid on commission. They're not looking out for the best interest of either you or the employer. They don't understand what your employer really does and they certainly don't understand what it is you do. They're just matching up keywords in an alien language. If the hiring manager says "I'm going on vacation this week" what they actually hear is "get me more resumes".
I leave stuff off my resume if I don't want to get jobs in that area. I know VMS, but hardly anyone uses that anymore so why bother putting it on the resume? I had an interview once where someone saw MS-DOS on the resume and wanted me to talk to some MS-DOS people; so I quickly removed that from the resume to avoid future misunderstandings.
Now that I interview a lot of resumes, it's easy to spot the people who pad out the resume with everything they've ever done on a computer in their entire lives. Why list ten different source code control systems? No one ever failed to get the job because they forgot to list Perforce. And if you do something on the resume, you will be asked about it - so leave off stuff you're not willing to talk about. But you should have the last 4 or 5 jobs you had, interviewers will notice any gaps, though they tend to focus on just the last one or two.
Why? Those are not related to having most technical jobs (and IT support probably doesn't count as a technical job). But on the other hand, anyone can use them, they're not rocket science even though Microsoft does their best to obfuscate the documentation and move around the controls every other release. If someone is not hired because Office is not on the resume, then you wouldn't want to work there anyway.
In my experience, it takes awhile to learn why you're not getting the jobs. Very few companies will ever tell you why you did not get hired. Once you do get a hint of what's going wrong then you can fix things, but by then you may have been looking long enough that this looks bad as well. I actually had one person on the phone screen say that everything looked good with my experience and resume but since others had not been hiring me for quite a few months that she was concerned that there was a hidden problem.
If you lie on the resume you can get past HR too. It's unfair, and I don't advocate it, but I do see a lot of people who will lie through their teeth on that resume. Now, do some of these countries also have problems with cheating in school? We're starting to get that in the US with everything so dependent on test scores in order to get public school funding. Are younger people more likely to cheat/lie to get the job?
I got one job in the 90s when after a month my boss expressed surprise that I really knew what I was doing. He had assumed I had inflated my resume like everyone else he encountered.
Except that they often pay these fresh outta school people a very high salary for having no experience. There is indeed a bias that old people don't understand technology, especially those in the newer social media or startup industries (ie, the low tech end of high tech). Quick turn arounds are favored over slow and deliberate design of longer term solutions, which sort of separates the classes into those with lesser experience to those with more experience.
There was something last week, under the "Important" updates, that was related to Windows 10 upgrade compatibility check. And of course, ALL important upgrades are given the same title "Important Update for 64-bit Windows Systems" or such, and if you look at the description it says some generic nonsense and you have to click on the "More info" button when then moves you over to the web browser before you can actually read it. Annoying because the browser is on the desktop and the windows update is on the metro screen. I'm really baffled why the last few years they've felt compelled to hide what the updates actually do.
Same problem remains. If you keep using the same initial paramter (large prime, elliptic curve, etc) then once that is cracked you have very easy access to what is derived from that parameter. The keys/secrets/whatever still need to be refreshed periodically. Ie, the hardcoded public key may be quite secure for awhile, but over several years it loses security. If the NSA really wants to break your system then they just need to break that one public key, maybe they put their best computers on it for a couple of years, and once broken you're screwed.
True, but people are arguing about what the meaning actually is. If there are two polarized sides, both sides will be firmly and 100% convinced that their interpretation is the only sensible one that any fool can figure out if not blinded by politics.
I just want the better-C-than-C. The problem is people are worried that once you make a switch to C++ that you're on the slippery slope to bloatware. Which is why C++ is much less common in the embedded systems world.
I bitch about Steam, but then the Steam fanboys come out and tell me I'm wrong and that DRM and advertisements are good for my health and well being. All glory to the Hypno-Gabe! Glory to the Hypno-SOE! Glory to the Hypno-Microsoft!
Anyway, if you think this is about the desktop you're wrong. All these changes are because Microsoft is giving up on the desktop and turning into a transition platform for phones and tablets and watches and cranial implants and whatever else is in the future. This is why the desktop features were put onto a back burner. Sure, the fired the Windows 8 exec but this was not a one person conspiracy, there are plenty of people still there who strongly want to make a cross-platform "operating system" because they think the desktop is vanishing, they want that dumb app-oriented view that you see on smart phones to be everywhere, they want the advertising revenue, they want to spy and track and monetize the users, and they don't give a shit about user productivity or getting work done.
That's not what Microsoft thinks though. They see the PC dying off and they're desparately scrambling to clutch at future revenue streams. They bought and destroyed Nokia in order to get a foot into the smart phone market, they added their own ridiculous app store, they're spying and providing advertisements. The only thing that your workstations and servers are good for, in Microsoft's mind, is as a temporary migration path to whatever the new world is going to be.
It's not just a Microsoft failing either. OSX has evolved into primarily an iOS development platform. Google has removed the "do no evil" slogan. Advertising is ubiquitous along with advertising advocates who plead with us to turn of adblock.
Microsoft seems desperate to get alternative revenue sources, rather than just relying on Office and Windows. They look around and see three things that naively look like big money makers: Apple's app store, Google's spying ability, and everyone's ubiquitous advertising (the true high tech money maker). So what new features make it into Windows 8 and 10? An app store along with constant funneling to the app store; integrated bing and voice based bing; spyware/telemetry; and now advertising.
But don't blame Microsoft for this. They're merely copying badly what those other companies already do.
I wish I could have C++, but stuck with C. I don't want the ugly parts of C++, but the simple stuff like slightly better typing, simple non-virtual classes, etc. Most of the people who objected to it are gone now though, so...
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The email services screw up all the time. I've seen mail from apple.com being sent to the spam folder (granted, it's been several years since then). Mail from me ends up in spam for one of my friends about once a year.
Recruiters are paid on commission. They're not looking out for the best interest of either you or the employer. They don't understand what your employer really does and they certainly don't understand what it is you do. They're just matching up keywords in an alien language. If the hiring manager says "I'm going on vacation this week" what they actually hear is "get me more resumes".
You have a Rolodex?
I leave stuff off my resume if I don't want to get jobs in that area. I know VMS, but hardly anyone uses that anymore so why bother putting it on the resume? I had an interview once where someone saw MS-DOS on the resume and wanted me to talk to some MS-DOS people; so I quickly removed that from the resume to avoid future misunderstandings.
Now that I interview a lot of resumes, it's easy to spot the people who pad out the resume with everything they've ever done on a computer in their entire lives. Why list ten different source code control systems? No one ever failed to get the job because they forgot to list Perforce. And if you do something on the resume, you will be asked about it - so leave off stuff you're not willing to talk about. But you should have the last 4 or 5 jobs you had, interviewers will notice any gaps, though they tend to focus on just the last one or two.
Why? Those are not related to having most technical jobs (and IT support probably doesn't count as a technical job). But on the other hand, anyone can use them, they're not rocket science even though Microsoft does their best to obfuscate the documentation and move around the controls every other release. If someone is not hired because Office is not on the resume, then you wouldn't want to work there anyway.
In my experience, it takes awhile to learn why you're not getting the jobs. Very few companies will ever tell you why you did not get hired. Once you do get a hint of what's going wrong then you can fix things, but by then you may have been looking long enough that this looks bad as well. I actually had one person on the phone screen say that everything looked good with my experience and resume but since others had not been hiring me for quite a few months that she was concerned that there was a hidden problem.
If you lie on the resume you can get past HR too. It's unfair, and I don't advocate it, but I do see a lot of people who will lie through their teeth on that resume. Now, do some of these countries also have problems with cheating in school? We're starting to get that in the US with everything so dependent on test scores in order to get public school funding. Are younger people more likely to cheat/lie to get the job?
I got one job in the 90s when after a month my boss expressed surprise that I really knew what I was doing. He had assumed I had inflated my resume like everyone else he encountered.
Except that they often pay these fresh outta school people a very high salary for having no experience. There is indeed a bias that old people don't understand technology, especially those in the newer social media or startup industries (ie, the low tech end of high tech). Quick turn arounds are favored over slow and deliberate design of longer term solutions, which sort of separates the classes into those with lesser experience to those with more experience.
"Let us go, Jesse. It is time to legislate."
Of course the rich Republicans drive around in $80,000 luxury pickups to try and show that they're from a working class country background.
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I remember the horrible toilet paper the schools had in the 70s. Thin, crinkly, single-ply, waxed, utterly unsuitable for its intended purpose.
There was something last week, under the "Important" updates, that was related to Windows 10 upgrade compatibility check. And of course, ALL important upgrades are given the same title "Important Update for 64-bit Windows Systems" or such, and if you look at the description it says some generic nonsense and you have to click on the "More info" button when then moves you over to the web browser before you can actually read it. Annoying because the browser is on the desktop and the windows update is on the metro screen. I'm really baffled why the last few years they've felt compelled to hide what the updates actually do.
Same problem remains. If you keep using the same initial paramter (large prime, elliptic curve, etc) then once that is cracked you have very easy access to what is derived from that parameter. The keys/secrets/whatever still need to be refreshed periodically. Ie, the hardcoded public key may be quite secure for awhile, but over several years it loses security. If the NSA really wants to break your system then they just need to break that one public key, maybe they put their best computers on it for a couple of years, and once broken you're screwed.
Well, they said the mainframe was going to die when the PC came around. It didn't die, it just lost market share.
True, but people are arguing about what the meaning actually is. If there are two polarized sides, both sides will be firmly and 100% convinced that their interpretation is the only sensible one that any fool can figure out if not blinded by politics.
I just want the better-C-than-C. The problem is people are worried that once you make a switch to C++ that you're on the slippery slope to bloatware. Which is why C++ is much less common in the embedded systems world.
I bitch about Steam, but then the Steam fanboys come out and tell me I'm wrong and that DRM and advertisements are good for my health and well being. All glory to the Hypno-Gabe! Glory to the Hypno-SOE! Glory to the Hypno-Microsoft!
What are the upsides?
Anyway, if you think this is about the desktop you're wrong. All these changes are because Microsoft is giving up on the desktop and turning into a transition platform for phones and tablets and watches and cranial implants and whatever else is in the future. This is why the desktop features were put onto a back burner. Sure, the fired the Windows 8 exec but this was not a one person conspiracy, there are plenty of people still there who strongly want to make a cross-platform "operating system" because they think the desktop is vanishing, they want that dumb app-oriented view that you see on smart phones to be everywhere, they want the advertising revenue, they want to spy and track and monetize the users, and they don't give a shit about user productivity or getting work done.
That's not what Microsoft thinks though. They see the PC dying off and they're desparately scrambling to clutch at future revenue streams. They bought and destroyed Nokia in order to get a foot into the smart phone market, they added their own ridiculous app store, they're spying and providing advertisements. The only thing that your workstations and servers are good for, in Microsoft's mind, is as a temporary migration path to whatever the new world is going to be.
It's not just a Microsoft failing either. OSX has evolved into primarily an iOS development platform. Google has removed the "do no evil" slogan. Advertising is ubiquitous along with advertising advocates who plead with us to turn of adblock.
Microsoft seems desperate to get alternative revenue sources, rather than just relying on Office and Windows. They look around and see three things that naively look like big money makers: Apple's app store, Google's spying ability, and everyone's ubiquitous advertising (the true high tech money maker). So what new features make it into Windows 8 and 10? An app store along with constant funneling to the app store; integrated bing and voice based bing; spyware/telemetry; and now advertising.
But don't blame Microsoft for this. They're merely copying badly what those other companies already do.
Someone left a sledgehammer lying in the parking lot. Cool, I thought. So I picked it up, went inside, then smashed my computer. Whoops, I was fooled.
An ad for an app is already an advertisement. Thus once the first ad for an app appears you are at the bottom of the slippery slope.
I'm not sure I want Linus on my desktop.
I wish I could have C++, but stuck with C. I don't want the ugly parts of C++, but the simple stuff like slightly better typing, simple non-virtual classes, etc. Most of the people who objected to it are gone now though, so...