As much as I abhor their monopolistic practices and snicker at some of their poorly executed products, they are still not going away in my lifetime. MS would likely be happy to recruit you for some sort of tech position.
.. but the general steps are:
Find a specialization where you feel you could leverage your talents
Train yourself and/or get training in that area
Find companies you would like to work for
Make contacts at those companies--network!
Apply for any positions you might be qualified for THROUGH YOUR NETWORK. Best not to apply in an automated way (i.e. online), because you will have much better results being recommended by an employee
Profit! (of course)
Pro tip: the day before any interview cram on any relevant or related topic(s). It may or may not help, but over time you will improve your interviewing and hopefully your tech abilities.
If 2-6% is nothing, why not donate that percentage of your monthly salary to a good cause?
Yes, please invest in my new bitcoin exchange. I'm calling it Mt. DevNull. Catchy!
Incremental improvements in compression are all you are going to get these days. The field is pretty mature, so 2-6% is exciting. Well, to compression geeks.
Either an old dog that can't move fast or it's BS. Dogs are rather capable to getting out of the way and backing in is typically done slowly.
No, he wandered out and got hit by another vehicle coming by. I was parked already and had let him out to do his business. It wasn't the fault of backing in directly, but if I had been facing the other way I may have seen before he walked out into traffic.
Ha, I knew that was you when I saw the subject line.
I actually did back in the night my dog was run over in the parking lot. He wandered around the back side of the truck while I was getting my stuff out and then into the parking lot without my seeing him. If I had parked front end in that night it may not have happened.
One news site mentioned that Putin has "pressed the pause button" on his invasion of Crimea. What is happening now is that the pressure of the oligarchs, watching the ruble and the Russian market take a dive, are putting pressure on him to back off.
I predict that threats of economic sanctions and actual real-time market forces will bring this to a resolution in about a month.
(Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about.)
So out of curiosity, how many women have you dated who wanted to go dutch on dates? Didn't expect you to buy them flowers or jewelry? Didn't want you to open doors for them? Didn't expect you to protect them in a fight?
Not the person you're replying to, but I felt I should step in here...
She most certainly would expect me to defend her in a fight; but equally, I'd expect her to defend me in one. (neither of us is particularly physically inclined, but we're also not really the types to get in to fights; so thus far it hasn't been a situation that has arisen)
Well, let's be real here. Would you defend her if she were fighting Catwoman?.. and would she defend you in a fight against Batman?.. on acid?
If you tried it, you would notice that Atom doesn't have a language definition for C#.
So, for the moment, at least, Atom is just a "Oh, someone did that. That's nice." I understand I could write or port a language definition, but I am not going to do so just to try out a new pet text editor.
No plans to try it. If I'm going outside my IDE, why not just use emacs?.. which I've been using for 30+ years. Cygwin does most of what I need. Yay FOSS.
So I'm stuck here in Visual Studio 2012, a nice env for C# (apparently crappy for C++, but whatever..) and the fuckers no longer support emacs key bindings. I could give a shit about Emacs LISP, but give my my key bindings or give me death, or maybe retirement would be nice. Oh yeah, get off my lawn you script kiddies!
Sorry.. we do have a dress code where we work. If someone can't manage to wear clean clothes that include long pants and a collared shirt every day because it's a little too restraining, they can't work here.
Didn't get the memo? It's the 21st century. Pants are *so* optional.
I had written a well-crafted response to yours but for some reason I neglected to commit the reply... an error on my part.
Hate when that happens!
I was in Texas when this happened. There was a lot wrong in that situation but the most significant was that the people there did not have a fighting chance. They literally cowered in place waiting their turn to have a bullet put into their head.
Yes, I remember that of course. I fully understand where you are coming from, and I'm not really opposed to competent gun ownership. I am very much opposed to guns in the hands of the stupid, untrained, insane, and of course, criminal. The problem is, there are a lot of those people and it is difficult to discriminate. Guns are a grave responsibility, and a lot of owners don't take this seriously. They don't apparently realize that it is now very easy to kill somebody through their carelessness. Woohoo.. celebratory gunfire!! Not so much. (queue YouTube vid of accidental wedding party killing)
This is just a single story. These things do not happen as often as you might think. But times are getting increasingly more difficult and as that happens, people become more on-edge. Look to history or even the news to discover what it takes to lead up to these nightmarish situations. We've been in a global financial crisis for quite some time. Some increase in frequency is to be expected. You seem to draw comfort in knowing you do not live in a "3rd world country." Well, Europe isn't exactly a 3rd world country. My only response to that comfort is "yet."
Agreed. If I lived in Somalia, sure, I would have a gun or three. Also, I don't buy your implication about having to be ready to resist against the govt. (You never said that, but seem to be in that mindset.) Granted, I'm a peacenik hippy, but none of us are in the position to confront the police and military with our pea shooters.
We're talking about good, common, decent people and you're talking about tracking and limiting what they can do. Why?
Because they are incompetent mainly. They get drunk and get in arguments and kill their spouses and children. You know, the stupid stuff.
But anyway, my context for some of this is as a martial artist also. I expect I could disarm a gun wielding attacker in maybe 25-30% of the time. If they were stupid enough to be within reach, maybe 70% of the time. It's a fighting chance, and if I were in a to-the-death situation I would take that chance. My point here is that regular training is hugely important. You should be practicing at least monthly, more if you want to think you are competent.
Anyway, it's been fun chatting with you. Take care.
"Does using an IDE make you lazy with the language?"
Yes.
"Would you be better off programming with Notepad?"
Um, hell no. If you have to ask... Studio and other IDE's make me more productive. That's their job. If I had to fish for declarations of variables every minute and remember all the intricacies of the language, I would, well, be living in the 70's.
If I couldn't use an IDE I wouldn't have time to/. QED
"You want us to militarize the entire population apparently."
No. I want everyone to have a fighting chance if they so choose to fight back.
Fight back against whom? Who is attacking you? Dude, you're going to kill the fuckin' UPS guy! True story: it was well after dark one evening, maybe 8PM. The UPS guy pulls up and we heard him shouting "UPS! UPS!" and he had a thick accent so we didn't know at first what he was saying. If I had been armed he could've been shot.
But anyway, I think gun owners have a right to their guns, but they should be way more heavily regulated by the (evil) govt. There should be regular training requirements and restrictions on ammo (same as for buying Sudafed, for example), national database registration, you know, all that stuff.
It's a natural law, a god-given law if you will, not one bestowed upon us by government. You, apparently, would prefer that some people remain helpless.
And even if *ALL* weapons were removed, some people will be weaker than others either individually or in numbers. Do you suggest that smaller individuals or smaller groups remain helpless?
Why are you so fearful? Where do you live?
People absolutely have a right to defend themselves, but guns are really a lousy way of doing that.
Are you insane? You actually want to apply standards which work for YOUR situation to everyone?
I never said that at all.
I did say:
"I am more afraid of owning a gun..."
And the truth comes out. And I get it. You're a coward; a sheep. I'll bet you will be confused to know that there are people who grow up in other countries who feel the same way about automobiles. There are.
I don't put myself in the coward category, but whatever..
Many in Japan have that very same sentiment about driving a car.
OK, Japan is a good model for gun ownership as well.
But here's a clue for you. Gun fights aren't like you see in the movies. Accuracy is important, but not as important as being first. And to be first, you have to be aware and prepared. Skill takes a back seat to being first. And the best clue is the fact you conveniently ignore: places with more guns in the US have less violence. Places with more gun restrictions have more. If you think it's wrong, then please explain Chicago.
There was a story the other day about a guy who accidentally shot an infant. He apparently fired a shot during a domestic argument, like a warning shot. You cannot tell me this guy deserves to own a gun. There are far too many stupid/angry/drunk people who do not have any business having a gun. I used to live near Chicago. If you live in the hood, OK, you may want to carry. I never would. Here, take my wallet please.
I understand the notion of being a sheep. I do. Every Christian is a member of a flock, watched over by our lord shepard. It's kind of programed into us. And we want to believe if we are good people, bad things are "less likely" to happen to us. To that, I invite you to look into the violent crime rate of businesses which are "gun free" as compared to immediate neighbors which do not prohibit guns. You will begin to see why Denny's is selected over others when criminals select victims.
Sheep are livestock. Understand it and never forget it.
You must get mugged a lot, yes? I was held up at gunpoint once.
Anyway, gotta go..
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If 2-6% is nothing, why not donate that percentage of your monthly salary to a good cause?
Yes, please invest in my new bitcoin exchange. I'm calling it Mt. DevNull. Catchy!
Incremental improvements in compression are all you are going to get these days. The field is pretty mature, so 2-6% is exciting. Well, to compression geeks.
I recognized him for his driving etiquette.
Either an old dog that can't move fast or it's BS. Dogs are rather capable to getting out of the way and backing in is typically done slowly.
No, he wandered out and got hit by another vehicle coming by. I was parked already and had let him out to do his business. It wasn't the fault of backing in directly, but if I had been facing the other way I may have seen before he walked out into traffic.
I actually did back in the night my dog was run over in the parking lot. He wandered around the back side of the truck while I was getting my stuff out and then into the parking lot without my seeing him. If I had parked front end in that night it may not have happened.
Did you see a kid get run over or something?
I am outraged! I demand an outbreak of truthiness.
Well, given that 77% of Americans believe in the existence of angels, I don't know what anyone expected.
I believe in Angels. They play baseball in Los Angeles.
They had a pretty mediocre season last year. Maybe you should become a Belieber instead.
I predict that threats of economic sanctions and actual real-time market forces will bring this to a resolution in about a month.
(Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about.)
Anyone?
Maybe Radio Shack can open up a few stores and become profitable again.
In Ukraine, we now call it Anarchist Shack.
So out of curiosity, how many women have you dated who wanted to go dutch on dates? Didn't expect you to buy them flowers or jewelry? Didn't want you to open doors for them? Didn't expect you to protect them in a fight?
Not the person you're replying to, but I felt I should step in here...
She most certainly would expect me to defend her in a fight; but equally, I'd expect her to defend me in one. (neither of us is particularly physically inclined, but we're also not really the types to get in to fights; so thus far it hasn't been a situation that has arisen)
Well, let's be real here. Would you defend her if she were fighting Catwoman? .. and would she defend you in a fight against Batman? .. on acid?
ouch
If you tried it, you would notice that Atom doesn't have a language definition for C#.
So, for the moment, at least, Atom is just a "Oh, someone did that. That's nice." I understand I could write or port a language definition, but I am not going to do so just to try out a new pet text editor.
No plans to try it. If I'm going outside my IDE, why not just use emacs? .. which I've been using for 30+ years. Cygwin does most of what I need. Yay FOSS.
at least it wasn't a failure of the space suit's urine collection system...
which begs the question... is there an efficient fart collection system? In space, no one can smell you toot.
So I'm stuck here in Visual Studio 2012, a nice env for C# (apparently crappy for C++, but whatever..) and the fuckers no longer support emacs key bindings. I could give a shit about Emacs LISP, but give my my key bindings or give me death, or maybe retirement would be nice. Oh yeah, get off my lawn you script kiddies!
That's why I furiously masturbate in front of my webcam as much as possible. Now the poor sods have to watch. I exact my revenge any way I can get it.
Hey, not so furious! You could injure yourself.
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Sorry .. we do have a dress code where we work. If someone can't manage to wear clean clothes that include long pants and a collared shirt every day because it's a little too restraining, they can't work here.
Didn't get the memo? It's the 21st century. Pants are *so* optional.
Alot of the MBAs think there best investment are in accounting and marketing folks.
Even while I worked at Cisco Systems the marketing ppl were paid more then some of out better engineers, which made no sense to me.
Now you're just pissing us off!
Signed,
The Unruly Mob of Geeks
It will ship with the latest copy of Duke Nukem on the console, when they are in production in "2" years.
Ya, people like this should probably not teach gun safety: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l...
I had written a well-crafted response to yours but for some reason I neglected to commit the reply... an error on my part.
Hate when that happens!
I was in Texas when this happened. There was a lot wrong in that situation but the most significant was that the people there did not have a fighting chance. They literally cowered in place waiting their turn to have a bullet put into their head.
Yes, I remember that of course. I fully understand where you are coming from, and I'm not really opposed to competent gun ownership. I am very much opposed to guns in the hands of the stupid, untrained, insane, and of course, criminal. The problem is, there are a lot of those people and it is difficult to discriminate. Guns are a grave responsibility, and a lot of owners don't take this seriously. They don't apparently realize that it is now very easy to kill somebody through their carelessness. Woohoo.. celebratory gunfire!! Not so much. (queue YouTube vid of accidental wedding party killing)
This is just a single story. These things do not happen as often as you might think. But times are getting increasingly more difficult and as that happens, people become more on-edge. Look to history or even the news to discover what it takes to lead up to these nightmarish situations. We've been in a global financial crisis for quite some time. Some increase in frequency is to be expected. You seem to draw comfort in knowing you do not live in a "3rd world country." Well, Europe isn't exactly a 3rd world country. My only response to that comfort is "yet."
Agreed. If I lived in Somalia, sure, I would have a gun or three. Also, I don't buy your implication about having to be ready to resist against the govt. (You never said that, but seem to be in that mindset.) Granted, I'm a peacenik hippy, but none of us are in the position to confront the police and military with our pea shooters.
We're talking about good, common, decent people and you're talking about tracking and limiting what they can do. Why?
Because they are incompetent mainly. They get drunk and get in arguments and kill their spouses and children. You know, the stupid stuff.
But anyway, my context for some of this is as a martial artist also. I expect I could disarm a gun wielding attacker in maybe 25-30% of the time. If they were stupid enough to be within reach, maybe 70% of the time. It's a fighting chance, and if I were in a to-the-death situation I would take that chance. My point here is that regular training is hugely important. You should be practicing at least monthly, more if you want to think you are competent.
Anyway, it's been fun chatting with you. Take care.
Yeah, sounds about right.
Well, I don't know about you, but [THIS SPACE FOR RENT!]. Come on, pony up some cash and I will support beta! Beta is awesome!
Yes.
"Would you be better off programming with Notepad?"
Um, hell no. If you have to ask... Studio and other IDE's make me more productive. That's their job. If I had to fish for declarations of variables every minute and remember all the intricacies of the language, I would, well, be living in the 70's. If I couldn't use an IDE I wouldn't have time to /. QED
"You want us to militarize the entire population apparently."
No. I want everyone to have a fighting chance if they so choose to fight back.
Fight back against whom? Who is attacking you? Dude, you're going to kill the fuckin' UPS guy! True story: it was well after dark one evening, maybe 8PM. The UPS guy pulls up and we heard him shouting "UPS! UPS!" and he had a thick accent so we didn't know at first what he was saying. If I had been armed he could've been shot.
But anyway, I think gun owners have a right to their guns, but they should be way more heavily regulated by the (evil) govt. There should be regular training requirements and restrictions on ammo (same as for buying Sudafed, for example), national database registration, you know, all that stuff.
It's a natural law, a god-given law if you will, not one bestowed upon us by government. You, apparently, would prefer that some people remain helpless. And even if *ALL* weapons were removed, some people will be weaker than others either individually or in numbers. Do you suggest that smaller individuals or smaller groups remain helpless?
Why are you so fearful? Where do you live? People absolutely have a right to defend themselves, but guns are really a lousy way of doing that.
Are you insane? You actually want to apply standards which work for YOUR situation to everyone?
I never said that at all. I did say:
"I am more afraid of owning a gun ..."
And the truth comes out. And I get it. You're a coward; a sheep. I'll bet you will be confused to know that there are people who grow up in other countries who feel the same way about automobiles. There are.
I don't put myself in the coward category, but whatever..
Many in Japan have that very same sentiment about driving a car.
OK, Japan is a good model for gun ownership as well.
But here's a clue for you. Gun fights aren't like you see in the movies. Accuracy is important, but not as important as being first. And to be first, you have to be aware and prepared. Skill takes a back seat to being first. And the best clue is the fact you conveniently ignore: places with more guns in the US have less violence. Places with more gun restrictions have more. If you think it's wrong, then please explain Chicago.
There was a story the other day about a guy who accidentally shot an infant. He apparently fired a shot during a domestic argument, like a warning shot. You cannot tell me this guy deserves to own a gun. There are far too many stupid/angry/drunk people who do not have any business having a gun. I used to live near Chicago. If you live in the hood, OK, you may want to carry. I never would. Here, take my wallet please.
I understand the notion of being a sheep. I do. Every Christian is a member of a flock, watched over by our lord shepard. It's kind of programed into us. And we want to believe if we are good people, bad things are "less likely" to happen to us. To that, I invite you to look into the violent crime rate of businesses which are "gun free" as compared to immediate neighbors which do not prohibit guns. You will begin to see why Denny's is selected over others when criminals select victims.
Sheep are livestock. Understand it and never forget it.
You must get mugged a lot, yes? I was held up at gunpoint once. Anyway, gotta go..
I'm sure AC/DC will be delighted with their new title of oldest rock on the planet.
Well, I handle my rock with zircon encrusted tweezers.
(Just had to get that off my chest.)