"Can politics be simplified to a ten minute test?"
That's about how long as it takes me to put on a pair of shoes, grab a beer, and stroll down to the local primary school to cast my vote every couple of years. Who presumes I spend longer on politics?
Man gotta have skillz.. No seriously.;-) Demonstrate an understanding of principle concepts across different computing niches; that's what makes you an asset to your employer and, should you need other work, yourself.
Income: if you do not need the money, then you do not need the money. Three hours work pays my weekly rent (and I am not earning executive dollars) because I am comfortable in a smallish flat near (not on) the beach.
Fun vs career: there's a lot of crap about how cool is required in a job (*cough* Google *cough*). Work is survival for almost all people, and any child of immigrant parents knows the discipline they had to endure shit jobs.
If you need the money or a stronger career path, take the 66% increase. Either way, two job offers is a lot more than most people have. Good for you.
Ok, so you've got advice going to both directions: work-work-work vs. play-play-play. A truth: if you're not working, and you're not playing, then you're wasting time.
From my experience in the great down under, web development work is probably the only (decent) computer work with public advertisments for part-time placements. Everything else is very formal, very full-time, very BSc/BE/equiv. exp.
Well put. What I find more curious is the emotive argument:
"Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?"
Because one compromise equals another, and an unquantified "sizable" percentage is a statistically valid measure: And capitalisation is necessary after a colon. Please criticise everything you read, and throw most of it away (this article - and comment - included).
It is great to get support for and exposure to Linux from a major vendor.
With respect to quality however, it is my long-standing experience with Dell laptops that they are cheap in price, and cheap in quality. IBM-now-Lenovo laptops are superior in general build quality, and I shall never buy another.
Perchance it will make it easier to get that damned refund for the unused pre-install of Windows too?
Browsing and, incidentally, development. Use ctags (or compatible) and in vim press ^] over a symbol and vim will launch to the location that symbol is defined. Pop back by pressing ^T. See C++ development using vim and ctags for more options. Awesome.
You clearly performed poorly in English comprehension testing in primary school.
Gary McKinnon: I was in search of suppressed technology, laughingly referred to as UFO technology. I think it's the biggest kept secret in the world because of its comic value, but it's a very important thing."
He interchangeably uses "suppressed technology" with "UFO technology." I'm certain the United States Government has tons of suppressed technology as well as any other government for obvious reasons.
Gary McKinnon does not use the two terms interchangably, but instead identifies they are not synonymous, and that users of the incorrect term are either (a) simply ill informed, or (b) dissenters, employing emotive language to emphasise the absurdity of his claim, and do so incorrectly.
"To be forced to watch commercials [...] about how I'm an evil baby-killing sealsucker for downloading movies"
You're lucky you don't smoke. Every time I sit down I see pictures of lungs, hearts, and arteries torn open demonstrating the dangers of smoking. My AU$13 is going to my home theatre where I can smoke and I won't be educated about it.
I love to hate dealing with people who use the word "framework" more than once in a sentence. This article has a lot of big words that don't mean much more than "run more than one J2EE application on the same machine."
So there's inherent virtualisation capabilities in a Java Virtual Machine? Shit.
The short answer: in a second! The long answer: if you can afford it. I'm not serving three concurrent life sentences comprising marriage, children, and mortgage. *g*
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Man gotta have skillz.. No seriously. ;-) Demonstrate an understanding of principle concepts across different computing niches; that's what makes you an asset to your employer and, should you need other work, yourself.
Two tradeoffs exist: income; and career vs fun.
Income: if you do not need the money, then you do not need the money. Three hours work pays my weekly rent (and I am not earning executive dollars) because I am comfortable in a smallish flat near (not on) the beach.
Fun vs career: there's a lot of crap about how cool is required in a job (*cough* Google *cough*). Work is survival for almost all people, and any child of immigrant parents knows the discipline they had to endure shit jobs.
If you need the money or a stronger career path, take the 66% increase. Either way, two job offers is a lot more than most people have. Good for you.
Ok, so you've got advice going to both directions: work-work-work vs. play-play-play. A truth: if you're not working, and you're not playing, then you're wasting time.
From my experience in the great down under, web development work is probably the only (decent) computer work with public advertisments for part-time placements. Everything else is very formal, very full-time, very BSc/BE/equiv. exp.
Bios_Hakr thinks Negatyfus is a chump, and I'm a punk. I think he needs to reevaluate.
Can it detect my apathy when they call? What becomes their tactic?
Less course-work Masters degrees.
Good point, but moot. He's writing a paper that smacks of, "last weekend we went to the beach." Troll, I know, but droll: not academia.
I believe these copyright holders have wasted my time and owe me tens of dollars.
It certainly doesn't have any 0xC0EDBABEs.
It is great to get support for and exposure to Linux from a major vendor.
With respect to quality however, it is my long-standing experience with Dell laptops that they are cheap in price, and cheap in quality. IBM-now-Lenovo laptops are superior in general build quality, and I shall never buy another.
Perchance it will make it easier to get that damned refund for the unused pre-install of Windows too?
Clearly FOSS is for cleaning your teeth; nothing more.
Browsing and, incidentally, development. Use ctags (or compatible) and in vim press ^] over a symbol and vim will launch to the location that symbol is defined. Pop back by pressing ^T. See C++ development using vim and ctags for more options. Awesome.
Gary McKinnon does not use the two terms interchangably, but instead identifies they are not synonymous, and that users of the incorrect term are either (a) simply ill informed, or (b) dissenters, employing emotive language to emphasise the absurdity of his claim, and do so incorrectly.
With pop[ular] music in its current state, do I have more choice neurons, or less?
I love to hate dealing with people who use the word "framework" more than once in a sentence. This article has a lot of big words that don't mean much more than "run more than one J2EE application on the same machine."
So there's inherent virtualisation capabilities in a Java Virtual Machine? Shit.
Fire this person immediately.
Be sure to deface the web server running on a system with no ports open. *grin*
The short answer: in a second!
The long answer: if you can afford it. I'm not serving three concurrent life sentences comprising marriage, children, and mortgage. *g*