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  1. Re:Join MSDN Technet on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 1

    I highly doubt you have a say in the matter, but...

    Considering somebody could've forgotten or ran out of space in their experience section, most people will ask before they discard the resume. My point is you want to be asked to create the repertoire factor and have a chance to show what you're talking about.

  2. Re:Work for a local IT company on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 1

    Interesting, because the clients that use these consulting firms expect quality, as in they don't expect problems w the consultant brought in in regards to down time / misconfiguration because it is after commercialized under a contract and with deliverable. I've seen where they have a mix of people, like a senior and jr. admin working together, but sending in somebody new to handle somebody's corporate network is a great way to lose a contract and go out of business.

  3. Re:Mod parent up! on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 1

    Alright, I'll put it in layman's for you:

    List the things you've learned, skills involved in the project AS SKILLS, don't say they're personal or professional it can't possibly help you. If they need to know they can ask and often will, but at that point you can justify yourself by getting granular and providing technical examples of what you know.

    Guy who built his own framework = dreamer
    Guy who built his own framework and explained how he improved the coding world with it = new hire

    They're the same guy btw.

  4. Re:Just do it on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 1

    I tend to pick stuff up as I work on it, but at that point I'm getting paid, to me it makes a huge difference. I could, but won't learn PHP for example, it wouldn't benefit me.

    As I said there's different learning approaches, not understanding that speaks very poorly of you.

  5. Re:Work for a local IT company on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 1

    Assuming they want to teach you sure, most employers in IT are looking for people to hit the ground running. They might be willing to cross train you, but that's only so they can use you better... actually OP might benefit from that. Hopefully he understands that SQL and Exchange have little to do with each other though.

  6. Re:Work for a local IT company on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 1

    It's hard because its cutt-throat, there's 20 bidders per contract, but people wouldn't do it if it wasn't profitable... duh. I'm also talking from the POV of the employee, with which I respond to most of what you just said with: Don't Care.

  7. Re:Work for a local IT company on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They pay you $20 an hour and charge $160, I have some serious ethical problems with that.

  8. Re:Join MSDN Technet on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 1

    bizspark is a great program, but technet is meant for the scenario, bizspark is meant for you know... businesses.

  9. Re:Mod parent up! on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 1

    I've worked both in corporate and outside of it, nobody's ever asked me how many years of corporate IT experience do you have?... hasn't even headed in that direction. Could HR / recruiter's problems w you have something to do with your overly optimistic attitude (satire) ?

  10. Re:Join MSDN Technet on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 1

    Nah, don't even flag it, just be purposefully vague (ASP.NET 5+ years). Need to know more? Ask me during a phone interview.

  11. Re:Just do it on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 0

    Aka go learn it yourself, your approach doesn't work for everyone. I'm sure that if he could do that he wouldn't be asking above said question. Not helpful.

  12. Re:Just do it on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 1

    Meh, I actually agree, I've seen worse. We have an instance of K2 workspace that is there so the former developer could learn it. SQL at least is something a lot of people know / care about. K2 is like biztalk's anus.

  13. Re:Constitution on The NSA: Never Not Watching · · Score: 1

    let's quote Sen. Lindsey Graham

    "This was created by the Congress, and if we've made mistakes and we've gotten outside the lane then we're going to get inside the lane. But the consequence of taking these tools away from the American people through their government would be catastrophic."

    Do I even need to comment?

  14. The elephant in the room on The NSA: Never Not Watching · · Score: 1

    These agencies were able to do all this through a secret court with a gag order. Why do they have a secret court available? What else can they request at this secret court? Black bags over suspected terrorist's heads?

  15. Re:lets try to get rid of the 115 jobs as cost 2 h on Lenovo Announces Grand Opening of US Manufacturing Facility · · Score: 1

    I'll supervise.

  16. Re:what on Temporal Cloak Erases Data From History · · Score: 1

    On that note, I'll believe it when I see it, why no video?

  17. Re:From experience on Mozilla Plans Major Design Overhaul With Firefox 25 Release In October · · Score: 1

    Dedicated developers seem to have a brain tumor in regards to this, they're always looking for ways to improve an application, but can't emphasize with the users that they are creating for. My biggest criticism of the Moz team is this disconnect and the fact that anybody with leadership/management experience can spot it in under 5 seconds, yet they haven't remedied it and instead maintain the attitude of we do w/e we cause we're OSI.

  18. Re:From experience on Mozilla Plans Major Design Overhaul With Firefox 25 Release In October · · Score: 1

    8 or 8.1? :)

  19. Re:Finally looks exactly like Chrome on Mozilla Plans Major Design Overhaul With Firefox 25 Release In October · · Score: 1

    basically it doesn't play nice with local DNS always.

  20. Re:Finally looks exactly like Chrome on Mozilla Plans Major Design Overhaul With Firefox 25 Release In October · · Score: 2

    Actually, it's called an address bar, not a search bar. By your logic, why don't we just open our OS's with a single blinking cursor and imply what we want by typing it in. Thankfully we moved away from that in the 90s, lets not re-invent history.

  21. Re:Finally looks exactly like Chrome on Mozilla Plans Major Design Overhaul With Firefox 25 Release In October · · Score: 4, Informative

    coincidentally, IE gets confused on the corporate intranet with aliases seemingly all the time, where i have to put the http:/// in there to show I'm not searching for a corporate server on google.

  22. From experience on Mozilla Plans Major Design Overhaul With Firefox 25 Release In October · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't redesign the UI once it's accepted by the users, you can't possibly improve it, it's already been accepted... just add features as you need to and stay within the design constraints of the UI.

    However, if their goal is to have new devs join their team and venting their frustration, then... score!

  23. Re:Finally looks exactly like Chrome on Mozilla Plans Major Design Overhaul With Firefox 25 Release In October · · Score: 0

    One can argue it's only useless if you have nothing to search for... making you useless in turn :)

    I use mine all the time and appreciate it.

  24. Re:I think... on Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? · · Score: 1

    doesn't stop the morons with mod points from joining in on this discussion anonymously however :)

    I don't even think they were ever in a hole past the first year, they get royalties and licensing fees off peripherals and games, which far outweigh the console being sold at a loss. I believe they pioneered this and others adapted to this model (Sony & Nintendo).

  25. Re:The ONLY Way this should work is... on Watching the Police: Will Two-Way Surveillance Reduce Crime? · · Score: 1

    The only time they hold all the cards is when there's no witnesses, they know their word will win. Sometimes its best to make a scene and attract passerbys, people have been known to avoid jail by doing that.