I would not *POST* for FOSS experience, but one of the things that I look for in any job candidate is a commitment to the art besides their paycheck. One of the things that will usually perk my attention on a resume is things that indicate this. Open source software development is one of those things. My experience is that people who are in it for the love of the art itself are usually the hands down leaders amongst their peers.
I'm not kidding, albeit it's fairly likely that such a case would be "dismissed with prejudice," which is to say the judge would rule it unfit to appear before the court in the present, and in it's present form, any time in the future.
The way I like to put it, is everyone likes a tyrant as long as he's "my favorite tyrant".
It should be no surprise that there's someone out there in favor of totalitarian rule, as long as it goes the way he wants.
Where do you think the totalitarians get their support?
Anyway, I'm hoping for "my kind of totalitarian". You know, someone who, with a few of his handy goonies, will use main force to put a bullet in this guy's head. I mean, you know, if he's in favor of totalitarianism of they type HE likes, he can't possibly object to the type *I* like, now can he?
Actually, you CAN sue your neighbor when their cherry tree blooms and sets off your allergies. Really, the deterrence for doing this should be more firm.
I read a few responses to all this, and didn't see a significantly practical recommendation. Purposely focus on the municipal areas and industries where unemployment is low. For example, consider Washing DC jobs in the defense sector.
As an aside, you said your problem was that you couldn't land the interview. You must understand clearly that the purpose of sending your resume to the company is to not land a job, but land an interview. You need to rethink the structure and presentation of your resume specifically around this fact. "The interview is to land the job, not the resume." "The resume is to land the interview".
The only proper way to hire an outsourced IT organization is to retain an option at the time of the contract to direct hire the individual workers provided in the event the contract is no longer considered by you to be in your interests. This is not a hypothetical recommendation. I've seen it done, and seen the option exercised.
Well, with the rise of the SSD, that's no longer as much of a problem.
ORLY!
Let's do some math shall we? Take a simple 4 core Nehalem running at 2.66Ghz. Let's conservatively assume that it can complete a mere *1* double precision floating point number per clock cycle, per core. So. How big is a double? 64 bits, or 8 bytes. Now, that's 2.66 billion * 4 = 10.64 BILLION doubles per second, which is 85 GB/s.
The trick to understanding computing is that all computing really *is* at its heart a throughput problem.
Do you see the asymmetry in throughput b/t the Nehalem and your SSD?
If his theories are based on manipulation, manipulation based theories should have NOT predicted the market bubble, as everyone was being manipulated into being rich. Further manipulation should have predicted an increasing, never-ending bubble. Sounds like he and the banks use the same theories; whoops, model wrong.
While I am sure you are being facetious, as I said, Christians are welcome to tear their book in half and throw away the old part in its entirety. Be that as it may, "new covenant" has the niggling little problem that it does not ameliorate the fact that there is "no statute of limitations for murder". That's why I said Jesus is never quoted to have said...
Well, no not Jesus. But the Old Testament makes it clear, and I'm not seeing that the religion has ripped their Bible in half and left the old part missing. Also, there is no part in the Bible where Jesus is quoted to have said, "please forgive my father; at one time he was a callous murdering bastard".
The more fun one is asking how you can be gay and be a christian. I mean, really, mon. The bible expressly tells all the people you are hanging out with that, ah, if you act on your natural impulses that they have to KILL YOU.
I seriously doubt CA is in a huge financial hole due to Conservatives.
Well. You don't understand our politics very well, then.
A huge chunk of Calfornia's mandatory spending (more than half, if I am to understand correctly) comes from the Voter Initiative system, which is by direct democracy and cannot be over ruled by the governor or the legislature.
One of the problems that California faces is that one of its Propositions, Proposition 13, which is famous for freezing property taxes, does a wee bit more than that. It also basically makes raising revenue through alternative mechanisms politically impractical. Prop 13 was the darling of the Right, as you might guess. So yes, conservatives are, in part, to blame for California's financial problems. The rest of it (the spending part) is to be blamed squarely on the voting public, not the politicians.
A good friend of mine runs a profitable business importing various bamboo products from China. So he goes there all the time, and he's always looking for various products that he might make money importing.
He's a former IT guy. He came home from one trip, super excited, asking me about a deal on USB sticks he found for $XX/GB. It was 3-4X less than everyone else. I did a check on the spot price of the chips, and said "no way, dude, that's a fake" (the flash market is a world wide one). He promptly tested it, filling it all the way up, and copying the files all the way back off. Worked like a charm.... wait for it...... until you tried it between two different computers.
The criminals were pretty clever. Dreams of massive riches had to be shelved on that one.:-)
I think you meant to say, in comparing where you are, "I like snow, far more than I like extremely moderate weather". "Hot" is not the right word to use for Southern California.
I hear what you are saying, though. There are people that want specific things, different than moderate. I had a friend who moved away from here because he "liked the cold". There are certainly places that are colder on average than Southern California. Lots of folks who like that and also like outdoor activities pick Colorado.
It's actually **NOT** hot. Rather the climate has one of the smallest standard deviations from 70 degrees or so of any climate in the world. The hottest days of Summer, usually end of August and early September might go into the mid 100's, but the humidity is generally quite low. You should pay attention to that, because the heat indexes of most every other major metropolitan area in the country are far worse than San Diego in Summer. And those are on the rare "hot" weeks. There just aren't so many of those.
As for the cold, it hasn't snowed in San Diego in 40 years. And no, you're not paying with that via it being "hotter". It's the fact that the temperature gravitates towards a pleasant MIDDLE TEMPERATURE, with relatively low humidity, that makes it so worthwhile.
It's true that precipitation is quite low, yes. While this may or may not turn out to be a water supply problem eventually, in the present what it means is lots of days for rollerblading, mountain biking, surfing, and other fun out door activities.
There is an airport nearby me, off of Aero Drive. This airport is a training airport famous as an international destiation. Why? Because they have some of the most fly days of any airport in the world, and that matters a lot!
Slashdot Mirror
Well it could have been worse.
*shrug*
I would not *POST* for FOSS experience, but one of the things that I look for in any job candidate is a commitment to the art besides their paycheck. One of the things that will usually perk my attention on a resume is things that indicate this. Open source software development is one of those things. My experience is that people who are in it for the love of the art itself are usually the hands down leaders amongst their peers.
C//
For your edification:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
Same set of people who think that people aren't fit to bear arms... except when it's the people they personally prefer.
C//
I wasn't talking about "win," I was talking about "sue". :-)
I'm not kidding, albeit it's fairly likely that such a case would be "dismissed with prejudice," which is to say the judge would rule it unfit to appear before the court in the present, and in it's present form, any time in the future.
Ooops. I put a sarcasm tag on this with angle brackets to be sure no one misinterpreted, but I hit submit too quickly--slash deleted....
The way I like to put it, is everyone likes a tyrant as long as he's "my favorite tyrant".
It should be no surprise that there's someone out there in favor of totalitarian rule, as long as it goes the way he wants.
Where do you think the totalitarians get their support?
Anyway, I'm hoping for "my kind of totalitarian". You know, someone who, with a few of his handy goonies, will use main force to put a bullet in this guy's head. I mean, you know, if he's in favor of totalitarianism of they type HE likes, he can't possibly object to the type *I* like, now can he?
C//
Actually, you CAN sue your neighbor when their cherry tree blooms and sets off your allergies. Really, the deterrence for doing this should be more firm.
I read a few responses to all this, and didn't see a significantly practical recommendation. Purposely focus on the municipal areas and industries where unemployment is low. For example, consider Washing DC jobs in the defense sector.
As an aside, you said your problem was that you couldn't land the interview. You must understand clearly that the purpose of sending your resume to the company is to not land a job, but land an interview. You need to rethink the structure and presentation of your resume specifically around this fact. "The interview is to land the job, not the resume." "The resume is to land the interview".
C//
The only proper way to hire an outsourced IT organization is to retain an option at the time of the contract to direct hire the individual workers provided in the event the contract is no longer considered by you to be in your interests. This is not a hypothetical recommendation. I've seen it done, and seen the option exercised.
C//
BTW, if it's "500k per year" for the developers, they are not being paid that. Companies like SAIC have HUGE wrap rates.
Slashdot is HQ'd in the US, not in England, bub.
Well, with the rise of the SSD, that's no longer as much of a problem.
ORLY!
Let's do some math shall we? Take a simple 4 core Nehalem running at 2.66Ghz. Let's conservatively assume that it can complete a mere *1* double precision floating point number per clock cycle, per core. So. How big is a double? 64 bits, or 8 bytes. Now, that's 2.66 billion * 4 = 10.64 BILLION doubles per second, which is 85 GB/s.
The trick to understanding computing is that all computing really *is* at its heart a throughput problem.
Do you see the asymmetry in throughput b/t the Nehalem and your SSD?
C//
If his theories are based on manipulation, manipulation based theories should have NOT predicted the market bubble, as everyone was being manipulated into being rich. Further manipulation should have predicted an increasing, never-ending bubble. Sounds like he and the banks use the same theories; whoops, model wrong.
While I am sure you are being facetious, as I said, Christians are welcome to tear their book in half and throw away the old part in its entirety. Be that as it may, "new covenant" has the niggling little problem that it does not ameliorate the fact that there is "no statute of limitations for murder". That's why I said Jesus is never quoted to have said...
Well, no not Jesus. But the Old Testament makes it clear, and I'm not seeing that the religion has ripped their Bible in half and left the old part missing. Also, there is no part in the Bible where Jesus is quoted to have said, "please forgive my father; at one time he was a callous murdering bastard".
C//
The more fun one is asking how you can be gay and be a christian. I mean, really, mon. The bible expressly tells all the people you are hanging out with that, ah, if you act on your natural impulses that they have to KILL YOU.
C//
I seriously doubt CA is in a huge financial hole due to Conservatives.
Well. You don't understand our politics very well, then.
A huge chunk of Calfornia's mandatory spending (more than half, if I am to understand correctly) comes from the Voter Initiative system, which is by direct democracy and cannot be over ruled by the governor or the legislature.
One of the problems that California faces is that one of its Propositions, Proposition 13, which is famous for freezing property taxes, does a wee bit more than that. It also basically makes raising revenue through alternative mechanisms politically impractical. Prop 13 was the darling of the Right, as you might guess. So yes, conservatives are, in part, to blame for California's financial problems. The rest of it (the spending part) is to be blamed squarely on the voting public, not the politicians.
C//
A good friend of mine runs a profitable business importing various bamboo products from China. So he goes there all the time, and he's always looking for various products that he might make money importing.
He's a former IT guy. He came home from one trip, super excited, asking me about a deal on USB sticks he found for $XX/GB. It was 3-4X less than everyone else. I did a check on the spot price of the chips, and said "no way, dude, that's a fake" (the flash market is a world wide one). He promptly tested it, filling it all the way up, and copying the files all the way back off. Worked like a charm. ... wait for it... ... until you tried it between two different computers.
The criminals were pretty clever. Dreams of massive riches had to be shelved on that one. :-)
C//
You are not required to tell them, even if it's the truth. Perhaps that's your point?
C//
I think you meant to say, in comparing where you are, "I like snow, far more than I like extremely moderate weather". "Hot" is not the right word to use for Southern California.
I hear what you are saying, though. There are people that want specific things, different than moderate. I had a friend who moved away from here because he "liked the cold". There are certainly places that are colder on average than Southern California. Lots of folks who like that and also like outdoor activities pick Colorado.
C//
It's actually **NOT** hot. Rather the climate has one of the smallest standard deviations from 70 degrees or so of any climate in the world. The hottest days of Summer, usually end of August and early September might go into the mid 100's, but the humidity is generally quite low. You should pay attention to that, because the heat indexes of most every other major metropolitan area in the country are far worse than San Diego in Summer. And those are on the rare "hot" weeks. There just aren't so many of those.
As for the cold, it hasn't snowed in San Diego in 40 years. And no, you're not paying with that via it being "hotter". It's the fact that the temperature gravitates towards a pleasant MIDDLE TEMPERATURE, with relatively low humidity, that makes it so worthwhile.
It's true that precipitation is quite low, yes. While this may or may not turn out to be a water supply problem eventually, in the present what it means is lots of days for rollerblading, mountain biking, surfing, and other fun out door activities.
There is an airport nearby me, off of Aero Drive. This airport is a training airport famous as an international destiation. Why? Because they have some of the most fly days of any airport in the world, and that matters a lot!
Basically, the weather is always "good" here.
Gettin' it yet? :-)
C//
One of the most pleasant climates in the world, that's why. Although I think San Diego, where I live, is a bit better of course. :-P
C//
Amateur radio operators have been using devices that can put out 5 to 1500 watts since the 1930s (possibly earlier)
Yes, but this is known to cause madness. Check out the evidence:
http://www.w8mrc.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ham_car_inside.jpg