really, who needs all those HTML and web design books? there were umpteen books on an alphabet soup of programming languages, but only two database books representing only 2 (3 if you count msql) databases. a bunch of system admin type books. i don't think this is a great list. it could be pared down to some books on internet protocols, a few tutorial type programming books, and a few books on theory. really, everything else is better online in its constantly updated manual format, such as the books on mysql and programming language reference.
i *do* like real wood pulp format books, but it's mostly for data that isn't changing too much or too often. some things are better online, some are better on paper.
i'm sure it's been said, but you did just fine in your resignation. you offered the appropriate 2 weeks notice, and from what i can tell you were cordial and not sarcastic or hateful at all. i've had the same thing happen to me - the disabling of accounts, seizing of computer, etc, and it's not personal. as you already know, the employer is protecting his own ass. it's hard to judge who is going to get some last minute revenge and who is going to be a professional and part on good terms.
you don't really need to Ask Slashdot how you should resign professionally, since you've already done it. maybe this will serve as an example to all those "professionals" out there reading this site that don't know how to properly seperate themselves from an employer and not make enemies in the process.
just like a private country club should be able to exclude anyone they choose for any reason, including race and gender, PRIVATE schools can pick and choose who they want to keep and who they want rid of, for any reason they choose. i'd have a problem with it if it was a public school, but it's not.
in all seriousness, i'm with you. i grew up in wv, my family is there, and my my wife's family is nearby in PA. i *really* wish i could stay in WV and work, but unfortunately my latest stop (out of the many others not in WV) is in south florida, which has turned out to be a shallow tourist, awful drivers, and developer (the real estate kind) infested hellhole. i want to build my own house, not live in a shitty mcmansion like everyone else; i'd like to see mountains and true wilderness.
if i could live in wv, take a similar job as i have now (developer), even at lower pay, i'd jump on it in a heartbeat. the very low cost of living, beautiful forests, mountains, rivers and pretty decent people of WV are well worth getting paid a little less. i'd be able to live out my dream of buying a large tract of land, building my house, generating my own power and having a garden. screw this $450,000 for a 2 bedroom box on a postage stamp of land down here.
a poster below me noted that Dice has many jobs listed in 304; i haven't checked it lately but i'm headed there next.
very funny. all sarcasm aside, you know that US was founded on and for the most part is a bastion of free expression and basic human rights. america has its flaws, but you can't seriously cast it in the same light as china. you're a fool if you think they're better off than we are when it comes to freedom.
the fucking chinese are slippery thieves, whether its outright fraud like this or dumping their cheap crap on unwitting consumers. how long will americans (and other countries too, i assume) take it from them? why are we even dealing with a country that has no respect for free expression or human rights?
jayson blair and geraldo shouldn't be compared - blair is a plagiarizing liar; rivera is not. bloggers and journalists cannot be held to the same standard. i can post anything i want in a blog, totally made up or not, with or without actual sources and face no real consequence. journalists cannot do that in the real media. i'd say a main difference between blogging and journalism is integrity.
from another angle, i can cite newspapers and magazines (the product of true journalists) in my own work; citing someones blog, which may be here today and gone tomorrow, is not at all acceptable.
gaim is just fine. i *hate* all those cutesy additions that'll i'll get bombarded with on any windows IM. i *like* just plain old text. 15 year old girls do not use linux, so we don't need pretty little im clients that "nudge" people or send "winks".
wow, china really sucks. i thank whoever or whatever rolled the dice that i didn't end up born there. my sympathy to those who were, i hope you can get out.
police are permitted to lie and mislead suspects to get information - why is it wrong for a suspect or other person being questioned (not under oath) to lie to the police?
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.
if you deny that the US had nothing to do with liberating Europe and saving your "arses", you're delusional. no one has lost this argument - the point still stands that control of the internet (if you can even call it that, considering there are root DNS servers all over the world) belongs in the US, where it originated.
Now, at the best of times it's a bad idea to put all of your eggs into one basket. What happens if a terrorist attack takes out communications in the US? Or what happens if you suddenly adopt a China-like xenophobia (i.e. like what's happening in this thread already)? The internet for everyone else'd be pretty fooked, right?
no, it wouldn't. there are already root servers all over the planet.
Invention. No one man or organisation "invented" the internet. Yes, a lot of the underlying networking was developed by Americans. Parts of the topology were developed in Europe. The browser/WWW were was developed by Europeans.
no, the concept and implementation was pretty much a US only project. we tend to not let other countries in on our defense projects. and the WWW is not the internet, get off of AOL. you wanna go that route, remember that gopher was essentially the same thing sans graphics - invented in the USA.
Really, I'd expect more from my American friends here. This reaction is stereotypical of the mindset of current US administration, something that general/. users try and distance the "average American" from. Trying and failing, if this thread is anything to go by.
if you think we'd like to go ahead and be a doormat for the rest of the world to be "nicer", then think again. we stand up for what's rightfully ours here. you can all use it, and that won't change. just don't take advantage of our generosity, which seems to flow to you people even while you're spitting venom at us.
this is a silly argument, and the EU and UN should really shut up and go home, maybe apologize for being so overbearing.
wow, this is really shocking - no, wait, it isn't. we're dealing with the UN and European politicans. what part of "the US invented and paid for the internet" do they not understand? it's been said over and over here, but why in the world should the US have to give up what rightfully belongs here?
you euros can throw out every argument you want, "CERN is in europe", "we invented the web browser", etc, etc - but it doesn't change the facts.
and to think we saved your asses in WWII - some friends you are. this is just another reason for the US to pull out of the United Nations, an organization formed on a good ideal that is rapidly descending into a one world government bully.
it's simple - you want to "own" your own internet? then put one together yourself and it'll be all yours. we've even given away all of the specifications, designs, and protocols you'll need to make it work right.
what's the problem? it's been working great for years now, and you wanna go and mess with that? think you can do a better job? no, that's not it - it's just selfish, childish behaviour from a group of countries (or are you one big country now) who didn't beat us to it.
you're a crybaby. no one will hire you if you expect them to give you an office and conform to all of your silly demands. sometimes we work in cubes. sometimes (often) managers are older and set in their ways. sometimes your estimated project time just isn't soon enough, and someone else will be found that can get it done yesterday. you've got a lot to learn, grasshopper.
now that you've written all this blabbing and signed your name to it, any potential employer who has the sense to search google for your name with trash your resume in a heartbeat.
go work for a few more years before you start handing out "advice" like this...
(also,/. isn't the place to refer to yourself as a ".NET ninja" and be taken seriously. sheesh.)
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XFCE is gnome sans the bloat
xfce also isn't as "dumbed-down" as gnome seems to be
really, who needs all those HTML and web design books? there were umpteen books on an alphabet soup of programming languages, but only two database books representing only 2 (3 if you count msql) databases. a bunch of system admin type books. i don't think this is a great list. it could be pared down to some books on internet protocols, a few tutorial type programming books, and a few books on theory. really, everything else is better online in its constantly updated manual format, such as the books on mysql and programming language reference.
i *do* like real wood pulp format books, but it's mostly for data that isn't changing too much or too often. some things are better online, some are better on paper.
i'm sure it's been said, but you did just fine in your resignation. you offered the appropriate 2 weeks notice, and from what i can tell you were cordial and not sarcastic or hateful at all. i've had the same thing happen to me - the disabling of accounts, seizing of computer, etc, and it's not personal. as you already know, the employer is protecting his own ass. it's hard to judge who is going to get some last minute revenge and who is going to be a professional and part on good terms.
you don't really need to Ask Slashdot how you should resign professionally, since you've already done it. maybe this will serve as an example to all those "professionals" out there reading this site that don't know how to properly seperate themselves from an employer and not make enemies in the process.
just like a private country club should be able to exclude anyone they choose for any reason, including race and gender, PRIVATE schools can pick and choose who they want to keep and who they want rid of, for any reason they choose. i'd have a problem with it if it was a public school, but it's not.
no surprise, the FBI fingerprint center is in clarksburg
i used to be a developer in montana. kick myself every day for giving that job up :(
in all seriousness, i'm with you. i grew up in wv, my family is there, and my my wife's family is nearby in PA. i *really* wish i could stay in WV and work, but unfortunately my latest stop (out of the many others not in WV) is in south florida, which has turned out to be a shallow tourist, awful drivers, and developer (the real estate kind) infested hellhole. i want to build my own house, not live in a shitty mcmansion like everyone else; i'd like to see mountains and true wilderness.
if i could live in wv, take a similar job as i have now (developer), even at lower pay, i'd jump on it in a heartbeat. the very low cost of living, beautiful forests, mountains, rivers and pretty decent people of WV are well worth getting paid a little less. i'd be able to live out my dream of buying a large tract of land, building my house, generating my own power and having a garden. screw this $450,000 for a 2 bedroom box on a postage stamp of land down here.
a poster below me noted that Dice has many jobs listed in 304; i haven't checked it lately but i'm headed there next.
sorry, but i'd rather have the goddamn foreigners serving me food and pumping my gas than writing my software.
this has been around for years in one form or another, how is it news?
very funny. all sarcasm aside, you know that US was founded on and for the most part is a bastion of free expression and basic human rights. america has its flaws, but you can't seriously cast it in the same light as china. you're a fool if you think they're better off than we are when it comes to freedom.
the fucking chinese are slippery thieves, whether its outright fraud like this or dumping their cheap crap on unwitting consumers. how long will americans (and other countries too, i assume) take it from them? why are we even dealing with a country that has no respect for free expression or human rights?
china surrenders?
it's TPS report, you jackhole.
several non-US countries use the mm/dd/yy format incorrectly, and put the day first.
but his "thoughts on Islam" are right on...
Two words: Dan Rather.
(No, retiring doesn't count as "real consequence" if you were about to retire anyway.)
there are always exceptions to the rule.
jayson blair and geraldo shouldn't be compared - blair is a plagiarizing liar; rivera is not. bloggers and journalists cannot be held to the same standard. i can post anything i want in a blog, totally made up or not, with or without actual sources and face no real consequence. journalists cannot do that in the real media. i'd say a main difference between blogging and journalism is integrity.
from another angle, i can cite newspapers and magazines (the product of true journalists) in my own work; citing someones blog, which may be here today and gone tomorrow, is not at all acceptable.
blogging is NOT journalism, journalists are held to a higher standard than your average cheeto-covered, 400 pound and living with parents blogger.
gaim is just fine. i *hate* all those cutesy additions that'll i'll get bombarded with on any windows IM. i *like* just plain old text. 15 year old girls do not use linux, so we don't need pretty little im clients that "nudge" people or send "winks".
at least IRC hasn't been "enhanced" like that...
wow, china really sucks. i thank whoever or whatever rolled the dice that i didn't end up born there. my sympathy to those who were, i hope you can get out.
beautiful scenery there, however...
police are permitted to lie and mislead suspects to get information - why is it wrong for a suspect or other person being questioned (not under oath) to lie to the police?
you're thinking of Godwin's Law:
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.
if you deny that the US had nothing to do with liberating Europe and saving your "arses", you're delusional. no one has lost this argument - the point still stands that control of the internet (if you can even call it that, considering there are root DNS servers all over the world) belongs in the US, where it originated.
Now, at the best of times it's a bad idea to put all of your eggs into one basket. What happens if a terrorist attack takes out communications in the US? Or what happens if you suddenly adopt a China-like xenophobia (i.e. like what's happening in this thread already)? The internet for everyone else'd be pretty fooked, right?
/. users try and distance the "average American" from. Trying and failing, if this thread is anything to go by.
no, it wouldn't. there are already root servers all over the planet.
Invention. No one man or organisation "invented" the internet. Yes, a lot of the underlying networking was developed by Americans. Parts of the topology were developed in Europe. The browser/WWW were was developed by Europeans.
no, the concept and implementation was pretty much a US only project. we tend to not let other countries in on our defense projects. and the WWW is not the internet, get off of AOL. you wanna go that route, remember that gopher was essentially the same thing sans graphics - invented in the USA.
Really, I'd expect more from my American friends here. This reaction is stereotypical of the mindset of current US administration, something that general
if you think we'd like to go ahead and be a doormat for the rest of the world to be "nicer", then think again. we stand up for what's rightfully ours here. you can all use it, and that won't change. just don't take advantage of our generosity, which seems to flow to you people even while you're spitting venom at us.
this is a silly argument, and the EU and UN should really shut up and go home, maybe apologize for being so overbearing.
wow, this is really shocking - no, wait, it isn't. we're dealing with the UN and European politicans. what part of "the US invented and paid for the internet" do they not understand? it's been said over and over here, but why in the world should the US have to give up what rightfully belongs here?
you euros can throw out every argument you want, "CERN is in europe", "we invented the web browser", etc, etc - but it doesn't change the facts.
and to think we saved your asses in WWII - some friends you are. this is just another reason for the US to pull out of the United Nations, an organization formed on a good ideal that is rapidly descending into a one world government bully.
it's simple - you want to "own" your own internet? then put one together yourself and it'll be all yours. we've even given away all of the specifications, designs, and protocols you'll need to make it work right.
what's the problem? it's been working great for years now, and you wanna go and mess with that? think you can do a better job? no, that's not it - it's just selfish, childish behaviour from a group of countries (or are you one big country now) who didn't beat us to it.
sour grapes, indeed...
you're a crybaby. no one will hire you if you expect them to give you an office and conform to all of your silly demands. sometimes we work in cubes. sometimes (often) managers are older and set in their ways. sometimes your estimated project time just isn't soon enough, and someone else will be found that can get it done yesterday. you've got a lot to learn, grasshopper.
/. isn't the place to refer to yourself as a ".NET ninja" and be taken seriously. sheesh.)
now that you've written all this blabbing and signed your name to it, any potential employer who has the sense to search google for your name with trash your resume in a heartbeat.
go work for a few more years before you start handing out "advice" like this...
(also,