If a car is, say, irreparably damaged or even just in storage for the winter, I can see a point to this - using it purely as storage. But you have to wonder how much extra storage this would really amount to (every little bit helps, I suppose) and how much of the battery's lifetime is killed.
Grad projects and student-assisted research projects (most recently some OCR work and some prime factoring studies) are always released at the end of each study term under some sort of open-source license. I'm not sure _where_, though.
I know my friend used the project he contributed to in his own business software, but don't have any examples beyond such simple anecdotes.
Interesting.
Depending on the number of sets of RPS to be played, and a priority weighting per game to prevent overt/entire losses, you could devise a methodology where the "AI" purposely lost games to give a perception of leaning towards a particular set of choices.
Most major companies have a very fine distinction between "IT" (client support, desktop support, infrastructure development and administration, etc.) and CS/Development/Research (software engineering, etc.)
Particularly, RIM, IBM, Google, Apple, Microsoft and a few others off the top of my head.
Students above all should be aware of such distinctions, particularly for what they put on their resumes.
That "hardcore minority" is the group that will skip you over when hiring for a Software Engineering job because you only have generic and irrelevant "IT" positions in your resume.
I'm sure it's been mentioned already.
But you could just "deal with it";
Go for the IT jobs and make a small career out of it. All the while working on and contributing to independent open source projects and mobile apps and all those goodies in your spare time. There's a good chance you'll hit something notable, eventually. And that will be your ticket in.
I was talking more about industry experience. Your personal experience - your sourceforge and github projects and the sum of your knowledge you can present - will amount to very little when a junior internship position reviewer does not see those 2-3 years "professional experience" on your resume and chucks it in the gutter.
As noted earlier, if he wants to do a software engineering job at some point, there are many, many employers that view first or second tier IT support as an instant resume tosser.
The issue really isn't what he has to say in an interview; it's getting that interview in the first place. Remember, that 1% of people who know the distinction are the ones that matter to his career.
Really, what can be far more important than experience or the positions listed on your resume, are the contacts you make through a given position.
Often, you just can't find any other position, and you can't risk letting this low level tech support be passed up in favor of possibly getting a "real CS" job.
Taking something only transiently related is fine, but your goal in such a position - on top of learning anything and everything possible about a facet of the industry (and how it ties into what you want to do) - is to make connections. Become that "friend of a friend".
Because having a reliable reference and somebody who might contact you out of the blue about an actual CS job one day is far better than nothing, and may actually be the golden ticket.
In an industry so overflooded, there really isn't any choices out there, particularly for people without significantly relevant experience.
I struggled getting even a transiently CS-related internship and only won out because my interview (and ability to tie completely unrelated jobs to the proposed position's desired skills) was just that much better than the people with 3-6 years experience.
In other words, pure luck. Which most people can't be expected to rely upon.
I was using "junior" as a replacement for new/inexperienced/first year college student, not the actual technical or professional term.
I know tons of people that would be nothing without JQuery.
Uh...these days, it can't be done. Because that professional and even unprofessional experience is not attainable for the ~18 year old students that would otherwise going to be attending University/College, without having significant pre-existing connections or gaining an internship (many of which now require professional experience or need to be bought through auction) through said University.
NASA has a bureaucratic problem on top of its funding and public image problems.
A boatload of money is wasted on stupid things and an example of disturbing incompetence is seen almost yearly.
AT&T's argument is that the amount of mobile devices and large bandwidth data users could grow by up to ten times the current amount in under five years.
Reliable, improved and more-efficient space tech and the technology created to solve those problems could go a long way in helping with our more earthly problems.
It seems to me like there's some heavily orchestrated "race to the bottom" between RIM and HP. The amount of stunningly stupid business decisions that have come out as of late from both companies just seems impossibly massive.
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If a car is, say, irreparably damaged or even just in storage for the winter, I can see a point to this - using it purely as storage. But you have to wonder how much extra storage this would really amount to (every little bit helps, I suppose) and how much of the battery's lifetime is killed.
Grad projects and student-assisted research projects (most recently some OCR work and some prime factoring studies) are always released at the end of each study term under some sort of open-source license. I'm not sure _where_, though. I know my friend used the project he contributed to in his own business software, but don't have any examples beyond such simple anecdotes.
Interesting. Depending on the number of sets of RPS to be played, and a priority weighting per game to prevent overt/entire losses, you could devise a methodology where the "AI" purposely lost games to give a perception of leaning towards a particular set of choices.
It's a joke, Francis.
Most major companies have a very fine distinction between "IT" (client support, desktop support, infrastructure development and administration, etc.) and CS/Development/Research (software engineering, etc.) Particularly, RIM, IBM, Google, Apple, Microsoft and a few others off the top of my head. Students above all should be aware of such distinctions, particularly for what they put on their resumes.
That "hardcore minority" is the group that will skip you over when hiring for a Software Engineering job because you only have generic and irrelevant "IT" positions in your resume.
I'm sure it's been mentioned already. But you could just "deal with it"; Go for the IT jobs and make a small career out of it. All the while working on and contributing to independent open source projects and mobile apps and all those goodies in your spare time. There's a good chance you'll hit something notable, eventually. And that will be your ticket in.
So if we don't get the results by next month, we can assume the experiments failed to hold up?
I was talking more about industry experience. Your personal experience - your sourceforge and github projects and the sum of your knowledge you can present - will amount to very little when a junior internship position reviewer does not see those 2-3 years "professional experience" on your resume and chucks it in the gutter.
As noted earlier, if he wants to do a software engineering job at some point, there are many, many employers that view first or second tier IT support as an instant resume tosser. The issue really isn't what he has to say in an interview; it's getting that interview in the first place. Remember, that 1% of people who know the distinction are the ones that matter to his career.
Sorry for being offtopic, but didn't there used to be a far more uglier Borg-Gates icon? Why the change?
Really, what can be far more important than experience or the positions listed on your resume, are the contacts you make through a given position. Often, you just can't find any other position, and you can't risk letting this low level tech support be passed up in favor of possibly getting a "real CS" job. Taking something only transiently related is fine, but your goal in such a position - on top of learning anything and everything possible about a facet of the industry (and how it ties into what you want to do) - is to make connections. Become that "friend of a friend". Because having a reliable reference and somebody who might contact you out of the blue about an actual CS job one day is far better than nothing, and may actually be the golden ticket.
In an industry so overflooded, there really isn't any choices out there, particularly for people without significantly relevant experience. I struggled getting even a transiently CS-related internship and only won out because my interview (and ability to tie completely unrelated jobs to the proposed position's desired skills) was just that much better than the people with 3-6 years experience. In other words, pure luck. Which most people can't be expected to rely upon.
I was using "junior" as a replacement for new/inexperienced/first year college student, not the actual technical or professional term. I know tons of people that would be nothing without JQuery.
Uh...these days, it can't be done. Because that professional and even unprofessional experience is not attainable for the ~18 year old students that would otherwise going to be attending University/College, without having significant pre-existing connections or gaining an internship (many of which now require professional experience or need to be bought through auction) through said University.
NASA has a bureaucratic problem on top of its funding and public image problems. A boatload of money is wasted on stupid things and an example of disturbing incompetence is seen almost yearly.
It says "alleged" after all. What if someone makes a claim against a stock photo thrown up on a government or corporate website?
AT&T's argument is that the amount of mobile devices and large bandwidth data users could grow by up to ten times the current amount in under five years.
CentOS just works for me.
And low, on that fateful day, a million junior web designers did cry out in horror at the violation of most sacrosanct of scripts.
I presume the service will automatically delete the books a week after borrowing?
Reliable, improved and more-efficient space tech and the technology created to solve those problems could go a long way in helping with our more earthly problems.
It seems to me like there's some heavily orchestrated "race to the bottom" between RIM and HP. The amount of stunningly stupid business decisions that have come out as of late from both companies just seems impossibly massive.