Of people using their "I'm trapped in my job/life because $BOGUS_REASON"
I'm in my thirties. I graduated with a 80ish average in high school. I dunno what that even hits on the GPA-o-meter.
I've never held a job for more than 30ish months.
I never went to college.
I make $150K a year as a sofware development consultant.
The companies are not tossing your resume because it lacks a degree.
They are tossing it because you haven't expressed anything to them that they want.
Do yourself a favor. Learn to sell. Get a partime job as a salesman in a commission based job--even grow into it fulltime. You will certainly make better money than slave. Go to the library. Read Books by Zig Zigler, Dale Carnegie and the like. Once you are able to sell crap TVs and "Extended Warranties" and make 3-5K a month, you are ready to Get a real job without a Degree.
At 35, a degree is a useless peice of paper that will not get you a job. You are old enough to get there on your merits.
If a 35 year old came to me with only his newly minted degree as his sole reason for being hired, I'd show em the door faster than Anna Nicole Smith wolfs down a cheeseburger.
The 4:3 when the refer to TVs is not some magic scanline modifier.
IT'S THE FUCKING ASPECT RATIO!
Example:
A 15" monitor is approximately 12 inches wide, and 9 inches tall.
hence 12/9... 4/3! Holy Mother of God Math!
NTSC Defines 480 scan lines. PERIOD*. It has 29.997 frames per second, each frame consisting of 2 fields (240 viewable alternating lines), which are interlaced images.
oh, and by the way.. it's Horizontal , not horisontal
*well, actually NTSC-VHS only does 525 interlaced lines... VHS images are considerably poorer than standard broadcast TV!
Today's rant brought to you by The committee for the abolishment of pathetic overated posts.
Gentoo is the one true distribution. All others are crap:p
All kidding aside, as a developer who is new to Linux as a way of life, you really may want to Look into Gentoo, as it lends itself to a lot of learning quickly, and as a developer, you should be savvy enough to pick it up:)
Yes, but in a place that has power outages, laptops perform better than desktops because the laptop battery power supply acts like a UPS, allowing you finish what your doing and save your data without losing it. In areas like this, desktop computers require UPS units that are an added expense
I can't disagree with you there, but my point was the orginal poster said it wasn't going to be plugged in except at night. Lots of luck!
There are a few things I'd probably want to point out.
1. A 4 year old laptop, regardless of what is running, will not last a day on a battery. I'd be quite suprised to see it go 60 minutes.
2. Why not games like Oregon Trail. For the love of all that's holy, why would you assume that Oregon trail would "confuse" them. Let them learn what OT is! Sweet jubus, They might actually learn something about an area outside the 10mile radius around their village.
3. Give them tools. BASIC, C, Java, whatever. Some manuals (online/otherwise) and let them learn to Hack! That's the greatest gift you can give: "Give a child a game, keep him occupied for a day. Give a child a compiler, you keep him occupied for life!"
A six year old can certainly be interested in creating new software, even if it is as simple as ANIMAL an ELIZA, it's still damn fun.
I prefix this rant with the statement that I do indeed code a great deal of code with JNI.
Every Modern Language that you would want to write a browser in DOES support an interface to C.
It just so happens that Java's Retarded interface(JNI) to native code is completely braindead.
I'm still quite suprised that SUN has repeatedly failed to make interfacing to Native code simple and easy... Making JNI the only way to do that is encouraging developers to reinvent the wheel, because they can't easily leverage existing code.
At Least with.NET, p/invoke makes getting at existing libraries trivial.
I'm suprised at how "expensive" people feel Visual Studio is.
As a professional developer, I use both VS.net 2003 and Eclipse (3.0m9) almost every day.
Last year, I worked pretty close with an MS consultant on a project, and he let me in on a few things.
Microsoft only prices the software high so that people give them a percieved value. The consulting groups then turn around and hand out copies of VS.NET,SQL Server and Win2k3 like candy at halloween.
18 months or so ago, There was an article about MS giving away VS.NET CDs at some university, and people started asking about the licensing. The answer generally was "go ahead and use it"... Which illustrates MS's position on devloper tools. Get them into the hands of the users, don't worry about making money on them.
Another effect of this mentality, is the VS.NET installer has a spot for a product key, but it is disabled, thereby allowing anyone to install the product over and over.
Microsoft will likely price the Express editions at $100 +/- $50 , and then proceed to give them away in cereal boxes:)
My old grandpappy taught me the most important lesson in job acquistion:
You can slide furthur on bullshit than you can on concrete.
Now, there's a difference between bullshitting and lying.
JAKE Well, they aren't the kind of guys who write letters. You were outside! I was inside! You were to keep in touch with the band. I kept askin' ya' if we were gonna play again.
ELWOOD What was I gonna do?... take away your hope?... take away the thing what kept ya' goin' in there? I bullshitted you, okay?
See, the difference between Bullshit and Lying, is that people want to hear the bullshit..../kidding aside...
So tell them what they want to hear, not what you want them to know. Employers don't really care that you like to hug teddy bears for goodwill, but they certainly want to know if you will show up to work 5 days in a row.
Employment and Skills. A resume with more than that is fluff, and probably smells like it.
Now, that being said, I have an unusually long resume, but that's cause I know-it-all.:p
I find it odd, that someone would refer to that as "friction".
It's called barrier to entry. If the barrier to entry into the market in relation to the reward is low (ie, grabbing your source, and peddling their services with it) then you will one day find yourself staring at competitors with the same product.
There is hardly a need to be so abrasive, especially of people working on open source software.
The mono C# compiler isn't "a work of crap". It's a compiler. Use it, don't use it, but until TummyX has written a better one, I'd suggest you not denounce that with such fervor.
PNET C# compiler's features are to be lauded, to be sure, but I'm thinking that you may be overstating the impact of the facts. Is it really amazing that a compiler can emit (in your emphasis) *PURE* il? So does mcs. It just does it for a singular language. There are other compilers for.NET that emit il for other languages too, I just don't see it as an opportunity to flame others for their hard work.
I Have downloaded the source to PNET and I've discovered that I'm going to be using Mono in the long run. I'm sorry that you feel one has to fail for the other to succeed.
You *Can't* get permits to carry a handgun. Period.
I have never, ever felt uncomfortable walking around Canadian cities. Ever.
I do have several (registered) firearms. All rifles. If I wanted a handgun, I can get one, but I can't carry it.-- I can only go from home (along a declared route) to the range and back. The handgun needs to be double locked too (trigger and case ).
I think that while, yes, crime happens, even here, handguns are not what everyone needs./I am Canadian.
True, your life is worth more than the crap you have, but maybe--just maybe the long term solution is to raise the bar.
Get trained in self-defence. Lots of it.
Get Knife. Get Trained With that!
And finally, Move to a fucking country where you aren't scared to walk around *ever*.
I mean, holy christ, are you really that scared? Maybe you live in the largest shithole city that in on the planet, and maybe you don't. You live your life in fear, and that ain't healthy.
Either fix the fear by training yourself to overcome your (possible) attackers,
== or ==
Move somewhere where that ain't a problem. I got one word : Canada.
Sure, there's crime here, but I've never, ever felt scared walking through any area of any City I've ever been in here.
I've sure felt scared in US cities, but never here.
But then, Canadians tend not to be afraid of one another.
This is the first time I've *EVER* heard of someone using the word "Homebrew" in relation to actual alchohol. For certain, this has to be a first on slashdot.
I think I've spent waaaaaay too many years in the geek culture.
*sigh*
That being said, I'm a little dissapointed by the article. The guy hasn't even built it yet, he just has an Idea for one.
I'm cautious about what google is doing these days.
I mean, yeah, Profitability is somewhat of a mandatory thing (duh!) and there isn't alot of "paying" to google for it's services outside of advertising.
To Me, text ads have been far more successful, with the exception of the ThinkGeek ads sometimes shown here. I've clicked on more Text Ads than anything else.
I sure as heck don't click on Flash ads, or ones that do funky groovy DHTML overlay crap. Even if I was interested, I sure ain't now.
Somehow, I'm sure that Google will find a balance that doesn't piss people off.
You're deploying a "technology preview" to 1500+ users? Thunderbird is great and all (I use it), but that's ballsy.
Eh? I've always been stymied by people who view anything less than "1.0" as "not ready for the enterprise"
In the Open Source world, version numbers are somewhat irrelevant. One day it's.37 and the next it's 1.0... Even the linux kernel, when going from 2.2 to 2.4 and from 2.4 to 2.6 was fairly arbirtrary... it's not like alot of changes didn't go in after the version rollover. (and critical bug fixes too)
Simply put. All software has bugs. Version numbers are simply markers for points in time. While some builds are more stable than others, you shouldn't sit pining for a 1.0 version, when 0.6 is probably damn fine, and less bugs than Outlook.
Better yet, ever heard of the "3.0" Microsoft Schedule?
Microsoft tends to release software FAR too fricken early, known as 1.0 (Opensource would call that 0.2)... It's buggy, useless and not worth looking at.
Then 2.0 comes out, delivers the bare minimum of functionality, but still sucks featurewise, and has some significant bugs (Opensource calls this 0.5)
Then 3.0 comes out, delivers the promise of 1.0, not too buggy, but functional. Looks like a real app now. (Opensource calls this 0.8)
Then 4.0 comes out, and Has tons of bells and whistles, and a huge userbase, 'cause they've gone thru 4 versions. Opensource calls this 1.0
And more to the point, I picked up those habits in the same place... VDE!
Damn I loved that editor. Worked nice in the CP/M Mode on my Commodore 128. I must have written thousands of lines of code in that, and more documents than you can shake a stick at.
When I'm on Windows, I often move between two editors: TSE ( a Wordstar style editor -> derrived from Quickedit, has an OS/2 version ) and Scite, an Opensource editor that works pretty fine.
Buildings made of mud (in adobe brick or rammed earth construction, as it is called these days) are much sturdier than the frame matchbox you are living in. In fact, rammed earth walls are so durable that some of them are still standing after 5000 years of rain/wind/hail etc. And they are more energy efficient too.
Erm... True, some are sturdier, and will last. So are the Mainframe apps from the 60's. You illustrate my point precisely.
My point is, that we re-create the same dwelling/software over and over again. Not that the original was less than functional.
As for the energy efficiency, um, I'd have to call bullshit there. Part of a energy efficent dwelling has to do with the balance of breathability to airtightness. Mudhuts are not all that well sealed. If you have ever seen the huts that those in the third world live in, you would not ever want to trade. Trust Me.
Besides, my House is quite energy efficient. I live in Canada. If it ain't, I couln't afford the natural gas bills.;)
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I'm tired too.
Of people using their "I'm trapped in my job/life because $BOGUS_REASON"
I'm in my thirties. I graduated with a 80ish average in high school. I dunno what that even hits on the GPA-o-meter.
I've never held a job for more than 30ish months.
I never went to college.
I make $150K a year as a sofware development consultant.
The companies are not tossing your resume because it lacks a degree.
They are tossing it because you haven't expressed anything to them that they want.
Do yourself a favor. Learn to sell. Get a partime job as a salesman in a commission based job--even grow into it fulltime. You will certainly make better money than slave. Go to the library. Read Books by Zig Zigler, Dale Carnegie and the like. Once you are able to sell crap TVs and "Extended Warranties" and make 3-5K a month, you are ready to Get a real job without a Degree.
At 35, a degree is a useless peice of paper that will not get you a job. You are old enough to get there on your merits.
If a 35 year old came to me with only his newly minted degree as his sole reason for being hired, I'd show em the door faster than Anna Nicole Smith wolfs down a cheeseburger.
What the hell?
... 4/3! Holy Mother of God Math!
How is this marked "Informative"?
The 4:3 when the refer to TVs is not some magic scanline modifier.
IT'S THE FUCKING ASPECT RATIO!
Example:
A 15" monitor is approximately 12 inches wide, and 9 inches tall.
hence 12/9
NTSC Defines 480 scan lines. PERIOD*. It has 29.997 frames per second, each frame consisting of 2 fields (240 viewable alternating lines), which are interlaced images.
oh, and by the way.. it's Horizontal , not horisontal
*well, actually NTSC-VHS only does 525 interlaced lines... VHS images are considerably poorer than standard broadcast TV!
Today's rant brought to you by The committee for the abolishment of pathetic overated posts.
Gentoo is the one true distribution. All others are crap :p
:)
All kidding aside, as a developer who is new to Linux as a way of life, you really may want to Look into Gentoo, as it lends itself to a lot of learning quickly, and as a developer, you should be savvy enough to pick it up
Gentoo: Beats the first rule
From the prefbar site: (LOOK FURTHUR DOWN!)
PrefBar 2.3 RC2 - works with Firefox, and has many new features
Yes, but in a place that has power outages, laptops perform better than desktops because the laptop battery power supply acts like a UPS, allowing you finish what your doing and save your data without losing it. In areas like this, desktop computers require UPS units that are an added expense
I can't disagree with you there, but my point was the orginal poster said it wasn't going to be plugged in except at night. Lots of luck!
There are a few things I'd probably want to point out.
1. A 4 year old laptop, regardless of what is running, will not last a day on a battery. I'd be quite suprised to see it go 60 minutes.
2. Why not games like Oregon Trail. For the love of all that's holy, why would you assume that Oregon trail would "confuse" them. Let them learn what OT is! Sweet jubus, They might actually learn something about an area outside the 10mile radius around their village.
3. Give them tools. BASIC, C, Java, whatever. Some manuals (online/otherwise) and let them learn to Hack! That's the greatest gift you can give: "Give a child a game, keep him occupied for a day. Give a child a compiler, you keep him occupied for life!"
A six year old can certainly be interested in creating new software, even if it is as simple as ANIMAL an ELIZA, it's still damn fun.
2c+GST
I prefix this rant with the statement that I do indeed code a great deal of code with JNI.
.NET, p/invoke makes getting at existing libraries trivial.
Every Modern Language that you would want to write a browser in DOES support an interface to C.
It just so happens that Java's Retarded interface(JNI) to native code is completely braindead.
I'm still quite suprised that SUN has repeatedly failed to make interfacing to Native code simple and easy... Making JNI the only way to do that is encouraging developers to reinvent the wheel, because they can't easily leverage existing code.
At Least with
I didn't say you should download them illegally dumbass.
:p
What I did imply, is that it's damn easy to get a MS employee to hand you a legit copy.
And, by the way, if the MS Lawyers come knocking on your door, tell them to go away until they get a warrant.
I'm suprised at how "expensive" people feel Visual Studio is.
:)
As a professional developer, I use both VS.net 2003 and Eclipse (3.0m9) almost every day.
Last year, I worked pretty close with an MS consultant on a project, and he let me in on a few things.
Microsoft only prices the software high so that people give them a percieved value. The consulting groups then turn around and hand out copies of VS.NET,SQL Server and Win2k3 like candy at halloween.
18 months or so ago, There was an article about MS giving away VS.NET CDs at some university, and people started asking about the licensing. The answer generally was "go ahead and use it"... Which illustrates MS's position on devloper tools. Get them into the hands of the users, don't worry about making money on them.
Another effect of this mentality, is the VS.NET installer has a spot for a product key, but it is disabled, thereby allowing anyone to install the product over and over.
Microsoft will likely price the Express editions at $100 +/- $50 , and then proceed to give them away in cereal boxes
My 2c+GST.
I think the trouble here is that the guys who came up with KaZaa are not the ones currently owning it.
:p
KaZaa works pretty darn nice for what it is.
KaZaa originally didn't ship with spyware, its just the current owners who do that.
My old grandpappy taught me the most important lesson in job acquistion:
... take away ... take away the thing
.../kidding aside...
:p
You can slide furthur on bullshit than you can on concrete.
Now, there's a difference between bullshitting and lying.
JAKE
Well, they aren't the kind of guys
who write letters. You were outside!
I was inside! You were to keep in
touch with the band. I kept askin'
ya' if we were gonna play again.
ELWOOD
What was I gonna do?
your hope?
what kept ya' goin' in there? I
bullshitted you, okay?
See, the difference between Bullshit and Lying, is that people want to hear the bullshit.
So tell them what they want to hear, not what you want them to know. Employers don't really care that you like to hug teddy bears for goodwill, but they certainly want to know if you will show up to work 5 days in a row.
Employment and Skills. A resume with more than that is fluff, and probably smells like it.
Now, that being said, I have an unusually long resume, but that's cause I know-it-all.
The first 8-10 revisions in a 2.X release tend to go quite quickly.
.10 :)
:p
Some even say, that the kernel isn't stable till at least
It sure seemed that way when it went from 2.2 to 2.4
The 2.4.0 to 2.4.10 seemed like overnight, and then it slowed down to a small humm
10 bucks says he still licks his own balls tho'
Yes there is!
Try out kMeleon
It was started as an IE with Moz knockoff.
I find it odd, that someone would refer to that as "friction".
It's called barrier to entry. If the barrier to entry into the market in relation to the reward is low (ie, grabbing your source, and peddling their services with it) then you will one day find yourself staring at competitors with the same product.
Hey dude.
.NET that emit il for other languages too, I just don't see it as an opportunity to flame others for their hard work.
Chill it out man.
There is hardly a need to be so abrasive, especially of people working on open source software.
The mono C# compiler isn't "a work of crap". It's a compiler. Use it, don't use it, but until TummyX has written a better one, I'd suggest you not denounce that with such fervor.
PNET C# compiler's features are to be lauded, to be sure, but I'm thinking that you may be overstating the impact of the facts. Is it really amazing that a compiler can emit (in your emphasis) *PURE* il? So does mcs. It just does it for a singular language. There are other compilers for
I Have downloaded the source to PNET and I've discovered that I'm going to be using Mono in the long run. I'm sorry that you feel one has to fail for the other to succeed.
Paper production is not responsible for deforestation.
Wood-pulp paper products are almost entirely from newgrowth forest, where reforestation happens at greater than 1.1 planted trees/harvested one.
Feh
That don't jive with the Canadian view dude.
/I am Canadian.
You *Can't* get permits to carry a handgun. Period.
I have never, ever felt uncomfortable walking around Canadian cities. Ever.
I do have several (registered) firearms. All rifles. If I wanted a handgun, I can get one, but I can't carry it.-- I can only go from home (along a declared route) to the range and back. The handgun needs to be double locked too (trigger and case ).
I think that while, yes, crime happens, even here, handguns are not what everyone needs.
True, your life is worth more than the crap you have, but maybe--just maybe the long term solution is to raise the bar.
Get trained in self-defence. Lots of it.
Get Knife. Get Trained With that!
And finally, Move to a fucking country where you aren't scared to walk around *ever*.
I mean, holy christ, are you really that scared? Maybe you live in the largest shithole city that in on the planet, and maybe you don't. You live your life in fear, and that ain't healthy.
Either fix the fear by training yourself to overcome your (possible) attackers,
== or ==
Move somewhere where that ain't a problem. I got one word : Canada.
Sure, there's crime here, but I've never, ever felt scared walking through any area of any City I've ever been in here.
I've sure felt scared in US cities, but never here.
But then, Canadians tend not to be afraid of one another.
Feh.
This is, without a doubt, today's DUMBEST idea.
Fuck me jesus with a chainsaw, I can't wait for tomorrow's dumb idea.
I was going to post something more insightful, but then I realized this is Wednesday, and Timothy has posted the news item.
Holy Mother of God.
This is the first time I've *EVER* heard of someone using the word "Homebrew" in relation to actual alchohol. For certain, this has to be a first on slashdot.
I think I've spent waaaaaay too many years in the geek culture.
*sigh*
That being said, I'm a little dissapointed by the article. The guy hasn't even built it yet, he just has an Idea for one.
It doesn't even seem that tricky to me.
feh.
I'm cautious about what google is doing these days.
I mean, yeah, Profitability is somewhat of a mandatory thing (duh!) and there isn't alot of "paying" to google for it's services outside of advertising.
To Me, text ads have been far more successful, with the exception of the ThinkGeek ads sometimes shown here. I've clicked on more Text Ads than anything else.
I sure as heck don't click on Flash ads, or ones that do funky groovy DHTML overlay crap. Even if I was interested, I sure ain't now.
Somehow, I'm sure that Google will find a balance that doesn't piss people off.
You're deploying a "technology preview" to 1500+ users? Thunderbird is great and all (I use it), but that's ballsy.
.37 and the next it's 1.0 ... Even the linux kernel, when going from 2.2 to 2.4 and from 2.4 to 2.6 was fairly arbirtrary... it's not like alot of changes didn't go in after the version rollover. (and critical bug fixes too)
Eh? I've always been stymied by people who view anything less than "1.0" as "not ready for the enterprise"
In the Open Source world, version numbers are somewhat irrelevant. One day it's
Simply put. All software has bugs. Version numbers are simply markers for points in time. While some builds are more stable than others, you shouldn't sit pining for a 1.0 version, when 0.6 is probably damn fine, and less bugs than Outlook.
Better yet, ever heard of the "3.0" Microsoft Schedule?
Microsoft tends to release software FAR too fricken early, known as 1.0 (Opensource would call that 0.2)... It's buggy, useless and not worth looking at.
Then 2.0 comes out, delivers the bare minimum of functionality, but still sucks featurewise, and has some significant bugs (Opensource calls this 0.5)
Then 3.0 comes out, delivers the promise of 1.0, not too buggy, but functional. Looks like a real app now. (Opensource calls this 0.8)
Then 4.0 comes out, and Has tons of bells and whistles, and a huge userbase, 'cause they've gone thru 4 versions. Opensource calls this 1.0
feh.
I can't live without Joe.
:)
And more to the point, I picked up those habits in the same place... VDE!
Damn I loved that editor. Worked nice in the CP/M Mode on my Commodore 128. I must have written thousands of lines of code in that, and more documents than you can shake a stick at.
When I'm on Windows, I often move between two editors: TSE ( a Wordstar style editor -> derrived from Quickedit, has an OS/2 version ) and Scite, an Opensource editor that works pretty fine.
Ahh.... VDE.
I'm going to grab the latest Joe right now!
Buildings made of mud (in adobe brick or rammed earth construction, as it is called these days) are much sturdier than the frame matchbox you are living in. In fact, rammed earth walls are so durable that some of them are still standing after 5000 years of rain/wind/hail etc. And they are more energy efficient too.
;)
Erm... True, some are sturdier, and will last. So are the Mainframe apps from the 60's. You illustrate my point precisely.
My point is, that we re-create the same dwelling/software over and over again. Not that the original was less than functional.
As for the energy efficiency, um, I'd have to call bullshit there. Part of a energy efficent dwelling has to do with the balance of breathability to airtightness. Mudhuts are not all that well sealed. If you have ever seen the huts that those in the third world live in, you would not ever want to trade. Trust Me.
Besides, my House is quite energy efficient. I live in Canada. If it ain't, I couln't afford the natural gas bills.