Yeah, I'm puzzled over this. When I was a 14 year old I fell madly in love with Star Wars. I wanted to be Princess Leia and I wanted to marry Han Solo. Cool stories don't need to be separated by arbitrary gender binaries.
Write a book review? Writing credit. Act as an editorial board for a journal? Editing credit. Do a blind peer-review for an article? Service credit. For a full time professor, these freebies are things that get listed on the CV and put into the promotion and tenure portfolio for 3-4 years down the road. It's something they jump on, because that's less original research that they have to produce. (Two published papers vs one published paper and being on the editorial board of two journals - you can bet they'll jump on #2.)
See that username? (Yeah. San D'Oria Tarutaru.) I played XI for a decade. Ran a successful Dynamis linkshell for four years. Finished 99 Gjallarhorn. Last December, my friends quit and moved to XIV.
XI's graphical limitations were really beginning to show, and short of a massive engine overhaul, there was little they could do to improve it any more. It held on strongly for so long for a PS2 era game, but it just wasn't as fun any more.
My lovely 40" Samsung television was hooked up to the PS2, and finally said, "I'm sorry. I do not speak the Olde Tongue." Gave up trying to get it to work.
Poor old Final Fantasy XI, the red headed stepchild of the MMO world, brought them a solid 120 million profit over all its years of operation. So, need to remake VII to let it reclaim the title of most profitable game ever.
Granted, converting a PS2 game to a PS3 game was a significantly easier task since they were able to re-render all the environments and models for 1080P and recycle those, but they went above and beyond and recreated all the menus too. X was a beautiful game and it showed in the remake.
I also enjoyed the release of FFIII and FFIV on the DS. If they give the same care and attention to the other games they wish to remake, they'll do really well.
This is the teacher/professor's laptop of choice. Most of the things they need to access are web based anyway; the most graphic intensive thing they'll run is using it for a video presentation. My husband is still lugging around his original Surface Pro and has decided to ask for one of these Surface Books as a replacement when it's time for a refresh rather than a Surface 4 or 5 or whatever number they'll be at then.
Just put a note to yourself in both places where you copied the code that you DO have the function duplicated elsewhere, so if you ever have to change it in one place, you know to check and verify you do or don't also have to check it on the other place. A dev at my last job who duped some code that would create a PDF out of a Word document with mad-libbed bookmarks from the customer's file forgot to leave himself a breadcrumb trail. Took us two weeks to chase those bugs down until he remembered.
I got an email last year from a former manager asking if I knew the password to the Word document I'd created four years prior, then assigned all ownership rights to the person who was taking over my role. I totally could not remember. I had to say, "Sorry, Ken should know." The document contained sensitive information and was locked for a reason. Not my fault someone else didn't remember the password I'd given them, or better yet, change it to something the could easily remember.
Stuff I did: Wrote a lengthy, personalized cover letter that included every key word in their list of required and preferred qualifications (even if it was to say I didn't have it.) Kept my actual resume 100% honest and truthful, but also included all the key words I did have. HR software scans both resume and cover letter. Did my homework and gushed over the software project and how exciting and cool it sounded (it is, in fact, exciting and cool and I'm happy to be here.)
I think the biggest plus, though, was that I didn't have to relocate. Already living 20 minutes away didn't hurt at all.
If you quit on your own terms and took a break for a few months to do something worthwhile, you have a lot less of a problem picking up where you left off. When asked why you left your last job, immediately indicate it was your choice to do so (even if it wasn't exactly a choice), and then explain what you did besides immediately start looking for a job.
At my last job, I ran into issues with my boss. We both agreed it'd be better if I quit. (No employment insurance that way, but I retained positive rehire status, which is more important than people realize.) So I quit, and took the summer off. I published a book on Kindle, and when that inevitably didn't make me an overnight millionaire, I started applying for jobs. I got an interview by the second application, and framed the terms of ending my previous employment as, "My boss and I both agreed the position really wasn't what I had expected it to be. So I took a break, and pursued my dream of publishing a novel. Now that I've done that, I'm ready to get back to work."
On the topic of matching requirements - match them in the cover letter with the qualifier of "I may not have (x) but I do have (yz)" - (x) will get picked up by the HR scanning software, and get it in front of a pair of human eyeballs. Which is really all you need to get an interview if NOBODY has all the qualifications.
Pretty much all the above, which is why I'm able to sit in my office during lunch break and read slash dot, instead of being stuck at home taking care of a household full time as well as a child neither my husband and I wanted. My fridge is keeping my food cold, a roomba is keeping the floor clean , and hormones are keeping me perpetually not-pregnant.
That frees me up to have a career of my own.
I'd add clean running municipal water as the most disruptive technology of the century before that, but still the most essential one today. We had a water main break last night and productivity inside and outside of the home died completely. Restaurants closed. Nobody could do laundry. We had to melt ice from our fridge (!!!) to have water to drink. Three hours later the water was restored, but we're still under "boil alert" until further notice.
Some of the arrangements of the FF tracks have been outstanding for orchestra and/or rock band, however. The main theme to FF VII as played by orchestra is just as dramatic as any symphonic tome poem from the 19th century. Uematsu's take on a Carl Orff style choral piece worked well in VII, VIII, and XI.
The music for Final Fantasy Tactics was scored as if it was for orchestra, and then they reprogrammed the PS1 synthesizer to actually be able to play it. (That body of work would do well to be re-arranged into a suite of 4-8 pf the best pieces, because the individual scenes do repeat a lot.)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I started programming in BASIC when I was 12 or so. The biggest problem for me was access to a computer - we didn't get one at home until I was 17, so anything I did was either at school or a computer lab outside of school. Access isn't an issue for most kids today, where toddlers get Leap pads and the smart ones will start tinkering with them by the time they're 7-8.
Oh sure, we were calculating velocity and acceleration and angles, but we were putting it to practical use with a Hot Wheels car on tracks set to angles to make them fly through a target. It was tons of math but also lots of giggling 17-year olds playing with cars like they haven't done in ten years.
During another unit, we calculated our own personal horsepower by running up the stairs.
They apologized for 1.0 because it was bad. But 2.0 was pretty good, and the new expansion (dubbed 3.0) is so crammed with fan service that we decided that they're never going to remake 1-6, they're just going to put all the contents of those games into XIV and call it done.
Their new DX11 client launched without a hitch, though - some people's FPS went up even as their GPU usage went down, and the graphics are a bit prettier.
Most of the people demanding a Mac native client were already playing the game - they just wanted something that they could play and also alt-tab out to surf the web and check email and crap the way the Windows people do.
Husband is currently grading final papers for college classes. He slaps them into software that detects plagiarism, then another software that picks out vocabulary level, typos, etc, and assigns a grammar score. Only then does he read it, quickly skimming over it and seeing whether there are citations on the "plagiarized" parts, if there are any, and whether he agrees with the AI score. Nine times out of ten, he does, and he uses the grammar score assigned by the AI. If someone plagiarized whole paragraphs without citations, they get an incomplete and need to do a rewrite. If someone didn't write the required number of words or pages, they get points knocked off the grammar score. It's faster than manually marking 150 papers, but still takes him about 15-20 hours of labor over the course of 2-3 days.
Army hospitals too. My father worked in the records department of a 13 story giant Army medical center in the '80s and '90s. While the records themselves were fat paper folders, much of the patient information was kept in a database (which I think by the '90s was an AS/400) - and part of the job of the record keepers was to take the new information from the doctors and update the patient files in the database. So while the historical record was all on paper, the most up to date stuff was in the database where it belonged. They had about 30 people doing this kind of data entry full time for a hospital of 100 doctors.
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There was a small campaign on Tumblr to rename the outfit from "Slave Laia" to "Hutt-Slayer Leia."
Yeah, I'm puzzled over this. When I was a 14 year old I fell madly in love with Star Wars. I wanted to be Princess Leia and I wanted to marry Han Solo. Cool stories don't need to be separated by arbitrary gender binaries.
Write a book review? Writing credit. Act as an editorial board for a journal? Editing credit. Do a blind peer-review for an article? Service credit. For a full time professor, these freebies are things that get listed on the CV and put into the promotion and tenure portfolio for 3-4 years down the road. It's something they jump on, because that's less original research that they have to produce. (Two published papers vs one published paper and being on the editorial board of two journals - you can bet they'll jump on #2.)
And when they're thinking about their work, they think in terms of jargon. Just like how a veteran coder is going to think programatically.
See that username? (Yeah. San D'Oria Tarutaru.) I played XI for a decade. Ran a successful Dynamis linkshell for four years. Finished 99 Gjallarhorn. Last December, my friends quit and moved to XIV.
XI's graphical limitations were really beginning to show, and short of a massive engine overhaul, there was little they could do to improve it any more. It held on strongly for so long for a PS2 era game, but it just wasn't as fun any more.
My lovely 40" Samsung television was hooked up to the PS2, and finally said, "I'm sorry. I do not speak the Olde Tongue." Gave up trying to get it to work.
Poor old Final Fantasy XI, the red headed stepchild of the MMO world, brought them a solid 120 million profit over all its years of operation. So, need to remake VII to let it reclaim the title of most profitable game ever.
Granted, converting a PS2 game to a PS3 game was a significantly easier task since they were able to re-render all the environments and models for 1080P and recycle those, but they went above and beyond and recreated all the menus too. X was a beautiful game and it showed in the remake.
I also enjoyed the release of FFIII and FFIV on the DS. If they give the same care and attention to the other games they wish to remake, they'll do really well.
This is the teacher/professor's laptop of choice. Most of the things they need to access are web based anyway; the most graphic intensive thing they'll run is using it for a video presentation. My husband is still lugging around his original Surface Pro and has decided to ask for one of these Surface Books as a replacement when it's time for a refresh rather than a Surface 4 or 5 or whatever number they'll be at then.
Just put a note to yourself in both places where you copied the code that you DO have the function duplicated elsewhere, so if you ever have to change it in one place, you know to check and verify you do or don't also have to check it on the other place. A dev at my last job who duped some code that would create a PDF out of a Word document with mad-libbed bookmarks from the customer's file forgot to leave himself a breadcrumb trail. Took us two weeks to chase those bugs down until he remembered.
This guy doesn't even have the animal dung though.
What about all the cities where they've put in Google Fiber? What about the temporary Google Kansas?
I got an email last year from a former manager asking if I knew the password to the Word document I'd created four years prior, then assigned all ownership rights to the person who was taking over my role. I totally could not remember. I had to say, "Sorry, Ken should know." The document contained sensitive information and was locked for a reason. Not my fault someone else didn't remember the password I'd given them, or better yet, change it to something the could easily remember.
Stuff I did: Wrote a lengthy, personalized cover letter that included every key word in their list of required and preferred qualifications (even if it was to say I didn't have it.) Kept my actual resume 100% honest and truthful, but also included all the key words I did have. HR software scans both resume and cover letter. Did my homework and gushed over the software project and how exciting and cool it sounded (it is, in fact, exciting and cool and I'm happy to be here.)
I think the biggest plus, though, was that I didn't have to relocate. Already living 20 minutes away didn't hurt at all.
If you quit on your own terms and took a break for a few months to do something worthwhile, you have a lot less of a problem picking up where you left off. When asked why you left your last job, immediately indicate it was your choice to do so (even if it wasn't exactly a choice), and then explain what you did besides immediately start looking for a job.
At my last job, I ran into issues with my boss. We both agreed it'd be better if I quit. (No employment insurance that way, but I retained positive rehire status, which is more important than people realize.) So I quit, and took the summer off. I published a book on Kindle, and when that inevitably didn't make me an overnight millionaire, I started applying for jobs. I got an interview by the second application, and framed the terms of ending my previous employment as, "My boss and I both agreed the position really wasn't what I had expected it to be. So I took a break, and pursued my dream of publishing a novel. Now that I've done that, I'm ready to get back to work."
On the topic of matching requirements - match them in the cover letter with the qualifier of "I may not have (x) but I do have (yz)" - (x) will get picked up by the HR scanning software, and get it in front of a pair of human eyeballs. Which is really all you need to get an interview if NOBODY has all the qualifications.
Pretty much all the above, which is why I'm able to sit in my office during lunch break and read slash dot, instead of being stuck at home taking care of a household full time as well as a child neither my husband and I wanted. My fridge is keeping my food cold, a roomba is keeping the floor clean , and hormones are keeping me perpetually not-pregnant.
That frees me up to have a career of my own.
I'd add clean running municipal water as the most disruptive technology of the century before that, but still the most essential one today. We had a water main break last night and productivity inside and outside of the home died completely. Restaurants closed. Nobody could do laundry. We had to melt ice from our fridge (!!!) to have water to drink. Three hours later the water was restored, but we're still under "boil alert" until further notice.
I happily plonked down $60 to go to a Distance Worlds (Final Fantasy) concert. The house was sold out that night.
Some of the arrangements of the FF tracks have been outstanding for orchestra and/or rock band, however. The main theme to FF VII as played by orchestra is just as dramatic as any symphonic tome poem from the 19th century. Uematsu's take on a Carl Orff style choral piece worked well in VII, VIII, and XI. The music for Final Fantasy Tactics was scored as if it was for orchestra, and then they reprogrammed the PS1 synthesizer to actually be able to play it. (That body of work would do well to be re-arranged into a suite of 4-8 pf the best pieces, because the individual scenes do repeat a lot.)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I started programming in BASIC when I was 12 or so. The biggest problem for me was access to a computer - we didn't get one at home until I was 17, so anything I did was either at school or a computer lab outside of school. Access isn't an issue for most kids today, where toddlers get Leap pads and the smart ones will start tinkering with them by the time they're 7-8.
Oh sure, we were calculating velocity and acceleration and angles, but we were putting it to practical use with a Hot Wheels car on tracks set to angles to make them fly through a target. It was tons of math but also lots of giggling 17-year olds playing with cars like they haven't done in ten years.
During another unit, we calculated our own personal horsepower by running up the stairs.
They apologized for 1.0 because it was bad. But 2.0 was pretty good, and the new expansion (dubbed 3.0) is so crammed with fan service that we decided that they're never going to remake 1-6, they're just going to put all the contents of those games into XIV and call it done.
Their new DX11 client launched without a hitch, though - some people's FPS went up even as their GPU usage went down, and the graphics are a bit prettier.
Most of the people demanding a Mac native client were already playing the game - they just wanted something that they could play and also alt-tab out to surf the web and check email and crap the way the Windows people do.
Husband is currently grading final papers for college classes. He slaps them into software that detects plagiarism, then another software that picks out vocabulary level, typos, etc, and assigns a grammar score. Only then does he read it, quickly skimming over it and seeing whether there are citations on the "plagiarized" parts, if there are any, and whether he agrees with the AI score. Nine times out of ten, he does, and he uses the grammar score assigned by the AI. If someone plagiarized whole paragraphs without citations, they get an incomplete and need to do a rewrite. If someone didn't write the required number of words or pages, they get points knocked off the grammar score. It's faster than manually marking 150 papers, but still takes him about 15-20 hours of labor over the course of 2-3 days.
This only applies to chimps and doesn't affect the real workhorses of the lab, like rats and rhesus monkeys.
Army hospitals too. My father worked in the records department of a 13 story giant Army medical center in the '80s and '90s. While the records themselves were fat paper folders, much of the patient information was kept in a database (which I think by the '90s was an AS/400) - and part of the job of the record keepers was to take the new information from the doctors and update the patient files in the database. So while the historical record was all on paper, the most up to date stuff was in the database where it belonged. They had about 30 people doing this kind of data entry full time for a hospital of 100 doctors.