The best way to get hired is to have skills that are in high demand. I just searched drupal on monster.com and got 210 hits for the entire market served by Monster. I got no hits for the medium-size city where I live. That makes it a relatively small niche in my view. But if Drupal is the way you want to go, I would advise you to develop guru-level Drupal skills, so you can nail every question in a technical interview.
And regarding your lack of a degree, I don't hold it against a candidate when I'm looking to hire someone. The fact that someone is self-taught I see as a fairly reliable indicator of certain traits I look for in a developer. You can't thrive in this business long-term if you're not capable of learning and mastering new technologies on your own. People that can't do that end up working in the same cubicle at the same large company for 25 years maintaining some legacy system built with technologies that happened to be fashionable when they were hired right out of college.
I'm not an apple fan, I like Linux. However all hardware manufacturers are guilty here not just apple.
However, few hardware manufacturers are as pious and self-righteous as Apple is.
Why aren't they using union workers in US plants, and complying with US environmental laws rather than China's much more lax laws?
If they did that, they could employ some of the poor 99%ers at the OWS encampments, who can't make payments on the student loans they took out to get degrees in filmmaking or women's studies.
You must not be old enough to remember how popular George H.W. Bush was after leading the coalition that drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait in early 1991. That was a far bigger deal than this, and unemployment never went above 7.8 percent during his entire term. But go ahead and count those chickens if you want.
Remember Ike's warning about the Military-Industrial Complex? In that same speech, he also said:
the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
Think about that the next time someone tries to discredit research because it was funded by an oil company.
Ike's warning has been borne out. Public policy has become the captive of a scientific-technological elite, who, unsurprisingly, are a bunch of dishonest frauds.
I've been part of two large, high-profile projects that cratered spectacularly (as I knew they would) and I consider it some of the most valuable experience of my career as a software developer. I've told that to interviewers a number of times. If they don't get it, then I don't want to work for them.
Does it make it trivial to synch your data, your email, your bookmarks, your movies, and music? By trivial I mean, no user action, just plug into your computer! Does the UI make it easy to access all those features? Not being able to access a feature is about the same as not having a feature in the first place.
Can you change the battery in your iPod when it stops holding a charge?
I think you are misunderstanding what is meant by "the fruits of all human endeavour".
Uh, judging from this idiotic bullshit:
I'm not referring to actual physical objects. I'm referring to the abstract concepts which underlie those objects; for instance, not loaves of bread, but knowing how to bake a loaf of bread. Think like the pure mathematician, who considers their work done when they have reduced a problem to a set of equations that they know they can solve {rather than when those equations themselves are solved, which would be mechanical work}.
I think you're the one who misunderstands what it means.
You are such a brazen bullshitter, you must be an academic or a politician. You made an idiotic, indefensible statement, and now you're making a pathetic attempt to dig yourself out of the hole you're in.
By the very act of choosing who you do and do not wish to give the software to, you are committing violence against those to whom you choose not to give the software.
Yet another idiotic statement. Violence? How so?
You may have written the software, but it belongs to everyone.
Can you prove that, please?
Those to whom you choose not to give it, are justified in using reasonable force to obtain it.
Spoken in the true spirit of every sniveling, fascist jackboot that ever marched someone off to a gulag. You were probably a big admirer of the Soviet Union, back in its murderous heyday.
Software which is written for the sole purpose of making money is software we can do without.
What's with this "we" bullshit? Speak for yourself, not for me.
We did not need it before it was written, and we will not need it afterward.
First, I'd appreciate it if you'd either defend your ridiculous remark about all fruits of human endeavor being owned by all of humankind, or renounce it. I expect you to do neither, however. After all, religion doesn't have to make sense.
You are still missing the important distinction. Certain things -- such as a car -- will be diminished by the act of sharing, and so can be considered subject to ownership. Other things are not diminished by sharing. The canonical example being that if you light a candle from my already-lit candle and then take it away, my room does not get any darker than it was before. Such things are, once a prototype exists, infinitely plentiful and cannot be considered subject to ownership.
I'm not missing the distinction at all, it's just completely beside the point. Some software I write I won't give to anyone unless they first agree to certain terms, and if they violate those terms, then they're committing fraud against me.
If I copy a piece of software from you, you still have the original. You lose exclusivity over that software --
Perhaps I wrote the software so I could sell it and make money. By giving away fraudulently obtained copies, you're violating my rights. The people who you "share" it with are benefiting from my labors, without my consent and without compensating me.
but that would be a form of artificial scarcity, which is absolutely not welcome in the Age of Plenty.
There's no scarcity, if you want software, you're free to buy it from whomever you please, on whatever terms you can agree on.
And if that GNazi Richard Stallman ever gets his way, and succeeds in taking away the right of free contract from myself and many other software developers, trust me, you'll see a lot less software being produced, and that will be a form of artificial scarcity.
I am not asking to drive away your car -- then you would no longer have it.
Wait a minute, according to you, my car belongs to all of humankind, since it is a fruit of human endeavor. By that logic, I have no right to prevent others from driving it.
Do you see now how moronic your logic is?
However, I believe that I would be perfectly within my rights to run my own measuring instruments over your car some time while you were not using it, taking all reasonable care not to damage your car,
Well, it's sitting in my garage right now. I'm not using it. Why don't you try to lay a measuring tape on it and see what happens to you?
and take notes on my own pad with my own pencil; then build another car, exactly like yours or with certain differences of my own choosing, using my own materials, my own tools
What's this "my" bullshit you're talking about? According to you, you don't "own" anything, but instead those tools belong to "all of humankind."
If the creator of a piece of software doesn't have the right to dictate the terms under which others may use that software, then the GNazis are some of the biggest violators in the world, because they certainly do that with the GPL.
We believe that all the fruits of all human endeavour properly belong to all of humankind.
My car is a fruit of my endeavors. Come to my house sometime and try to drive it away and see what happens to you.
Nobody has the right to impose their will on my neighbour and say that they should not use a particular program: to do so would be a form of violence.
It's called Freedom of Contract: The right to deal with others on mutually agreeable terms, and to have those agreements honored. If I sell or otherwise provide you with some software on the condition that you don't "share" it with your friends, then you are obligated to honor that agreement. If you don't like those terms, then don't accept the software. Even the GPL recognizes this, as evidenced by the restrictions it imposes on me, should I choose to use a piece of GPL software.
A huge mistake: in the cartoon, as everyone knows, Lisa Simpson plays a BARITONE saxophone. In this real-life adaptation, she's playing a TENOR saxophone. How could they miss that? There must be 100 episodes with a baritone sax in it.
That's almost as bad as episode 2F09 of Itchy and Scratchy, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a "magic xylophone" or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Forgive me if this is a repeat, but Google is solely offering up the US version of history, sadly.
As an American, I'd love to see more of the world from the rest of the world, but apparently I can't look to Google for that.
And here I was thinking maybe I could.
Anyone have any good suggestions for me on this front?
You act surprised that the contents of the US National Archives are US-centric.
As for "seeing more of the world from the rest of the world," my only suggestion is for you to use the resources provided by the governments and companies of other countries, and if you find them lacking, blame them, not the USNA and Google.
In gods name, if you are ever, ever, ever, ever so lucky as to be on a jury, you need to do a wikipedia search for "NULLIFICATION". Its when the jury says, yeah, sure, he did that, but you know what, we think your whole regime and law is a bunch of bull.
To be "lucky" enough to find yourself on a jury, you must first be lucky enough to live in a country where due process includes trial-by-jury. And even that's no guarantee that nullification will be an option; the regime, with its effective monopoly on force and power, has to recognize (i.e. grant) the jury's right to judge the law as well as the facts.
Jury nullification has a long history in US law, and English law before that, but in the US the courts are making it harder and harder for jurors to nullify unjust laws, for example by replacing jurors who are deemed "uncooperative" by one or two of their fellow jurors with more "cooperative" ones.
After RTFA, it appears that the fine does not stem from the fact that he had a podcast. He was fined because he had on some guests from a deemed racist political party. Certain European countries get very limp-wristed on these issues and try to deny that such people and problems exist. They would rather sweep the problems of racism under the carpet and pretend these whackjobs don't exist. That is where the fine came from.
Ah, the guy wasn't fined because he had a podcast, he was fined because of the content of his podcast. That's a very important distinction.
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The best way to get hired is to have skills that are in high demand. I just searched drupal on monster.com and got 210 hits for the entire market served by Monster. I got no hits for the medium-size city where I live. That makes it a relatively small niche in my view. But if Drupal is the way you want to go, I would advise you to develop guru-level Drupal skills, so you can nail every question in a technical interview.
And regarding your lack of a degree, I don't hold it against a candidate when I'm looking to hire someone. The fact that someone is self-taught I see as a fairly reliable indicator of certain traits I look for in a developer. You can't thrive in this business long-term if you're not capable of learning and mastering new technologies on your own. People that can't do that end up working in the same cubicle at the same large company for 25 years maintaining some legacy system built with technologies that happened to be fashionable when they were hired right out of college.
I'm not an apple fan, I like Linux. However all hardware manufacturers are guilty here not just apple.
However, few hardware manufacturers are as pious and self-righteous as Apple is.
Why aren't they using union workers in US plants, and complying with US environmental laws rather than China's much more lax laws?
If they did that, they could employ some of the poor 99%ers at the OWS encampments, who can't make payments on the student loans they took out to get degrees in filmmaking or women's studies.
As an EU citizen, I find US practices completely unacceptable
What part of Europe are you from? The part whose ass we kicked, or the part whose ass we saved?
The prez just won his second term
my thoughts exactly
You must not be old enough to remember how popular George H.W. Bush was after leading the coalition that drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait in early 1991. That was a far bigger deal than this, and unemployment never went above 7.8 percent during his entire term. But go ahead and count those chickens if you want.
FFS, just say "price". That's what you're talking about. That's all you need to say.
Never trust a woman with large feet ...
Or an adam's apple, for that matter.
Thanks for the link, but I can't look at it now. I'm out of pocket for a few days. But for all intensive purposes, I think you're correct.
Remember Ike's warning about the Military-Industrial Complex? In that same speech, he also said:
(http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/indust.html)
Think about that the next time someone tries to discredit research because it was funded by an oil company.
Ike's warning has been borne out. Public policy has become the captive of a scientific-technological elite, who, unsurprisingly, are a bunch of dishonest frauds.
I've been part of two large, high-profile projects that cratered spectacularly (as I knew they would) and I consider it some of the most valuable experience of my career as a software developer. I've told that to interviewers a number of times. If they don't get it, then I don't want to work for them.
That should be tattooed on your forehead.
Thank you. The link I posted was working a few days ago. I should have checked first.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9005566792 811497638&hl=en
http://rpitch.sourceforge.net/
You're just making O'Reilly's franchise more valuable.
Windows is the only desktop OS that is not also a religion.
You are such a brazen bullshitter, you must be an academic or a politician. You made an idiotic, indefensible statement, and now you're making a pathetic attempt to dig yourself out of the hole you're in.
Yet another idiotic statement. Violence? How so? Can you prove that, please? Spoken in the true spirit of every sniveling, fascist jackboot that ever marched someone off to a gulag. You were probably a big admirer of the Soviet Union, back in its murderous heyday. What's with this "we" bullshit? Speak for yourself, not for me. If you don't need it, then DON'T STEAL IT.And if that GNazi Richard Stallman ever gets his way, and succeeds in taking away the right of free contract from myself and many other software developers, trust me, you'll see a lot less software being produced, and that will be a form of artificial scarcity.
Do you see now how moronic your logic is?
Well, it's sitting in my garage right now. I'm not using it. Why don't you try to lay a measuring tape on it and see what happens to you? What's this "my" bullshit you're talking about? According to you, you don't "own" anything, but instead those tools belong to "all of humankind."If the creator of a piece of software doesn't have the right to dictate the terms under which others may use that software, then the GNazis are some of the biggest violators in the world, because they certainly do that with the GPL.
As for "seeing more of the world from the rest of the world," my only suggestion is for you to use the resources provided by the governments and companies of other countries, and if you find them lacking, blame them, not the USNA and Google.
It's called "capitalism."
To be "lucky" enough to find yourself on a jury, you must first be lucky enough to live in a country where due process includes trial-by-jury. And even that's no guarantee that nullification will be an option; the regime, with its effective monopoly on force and power, has to recognize (i.e. grant) the jury's right to judge the law as well as the facts.
Jury nullification has a long history in US law, and English law before that, but in the US the courts are making it harder and harder for jurors to nullify unjust laws, for example by replacing jurors who are deemed "uncooperative" by one or two of their fellow jurors with more "cooperative" ones.
Ah, the guy wasn't fined because he had a podcast, he was fined because of the content of his podcast. That's a very important distinction.
I feel better now.