Here's Ask the Headhunter's take on how to be your own headhunter. He's not hawking his services as a headhunter; he's offering excellent advice on how to get (and keep) a job. The articles section is invaluable, along with his newsletter (free) and book (cheap).
Nick Corcodilos, the Headhunter is not actively working as a headhunter anymore. All he's doing is selling his book and offering lots of free good advice. I definitely recommend anyone look into it, even if they currently have a job.
See my previous post (linked) about how ATH went around as a good meme in the Perl community awhile back.
Ask the Headhunter sells a book and offers a free website and newsletter. All three are simply spectacular sources of advice, whether you are unemployed or not. I hype it every chance I get (and made a recent post about it here on slashdot; I wonder if the article submitter discovered ATH through my post).
Nick Corcodilos is not trying to hype his services as a headhunter. He no longer even works as a headhunter. A common misconception about headhunters is that job seekers should look for them or hire them. That is not true, and rarely happens. Headhunters are hired by employers looking to fill a position. You're not likely to be able to hire a headhunter to get you a job; instead you'll be contacted by a headhunter if he's aware of you through his contacts and thinks you're suitable for a position he is looking to fill.
Corcodilos is looking to sell his book, but he gives out tons of free advice through his website and weekly newsletter. He's even interacted with interested geeks on slashcode based forums like use Perl;. ATH floated around as a meme in the Perl community due mainly to Andy Lester starting around 2002. That was very convenient for me because I was "surplussed" in late 2002. I bought the ATH book immediately and have found its advice invaluable ever since (yes, I do have a job, and I still find the advice invaluable). Andy Lester used the ATH information to help in making hiring decisions.
The comparisons you suggest between job boards and headhunters don't make any sense, since headhunters don't offer a service to job seekers. If you read the site, you will see this for yourself.
Execution is manifestly not cruel and unusual under the definition of those who wrote the amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. They all expected capital punishment to continue.
IIRC, the police officer who did a MADD seminar for us years ago when I was in school seemed to talk as if "point one oh" was ten times as much as "point one," so I've always assumed that the numbers aren't really decimal fractions of anything and are instead some confusing non-mathematical scale. Or else he just didn't know much math.
ll the work done by the previous congress could be reversed through a "review".
And that would be just fine with me. Most of the "work" of Congress is to decide how to divide up the public pie of favors. If we made these favors unconstitutional, or at least forced them to expire through sunset laws, maybe Congress could get busy doing something I might agree is really "work."
I don't know if New Mexico is like Texas, but our legislators are barely paid enough to compensate for their time. Most continue to work at their full time career (usually lawyers, but last year I worked with an Oracle developer who is running for the legislature this year) taking leaves of absence for the biannual sessions because there is no way they could live off of what the state pays them let alone live in the lap of luxury. Most state legislatures are more like this and less like the U.S. Congress, which is far more likely to give rise to the chauffeur-driven public servents you are referring to.
Years ago when my family was in Albuquerque we had some creepy looking panhandler come up to our car in a restaurant parking lot. He looked a little bit unstable and dangerous. We decided to eat somewhere else and took off as fast as we could. Under those circumstance, having to wait 30 seconds for the car to start would have been completely unacceptable and possibly life threatening.
Perhaps New Mexico needs to do something about its panhandling problem first so it will be safe to install this measure.
That is manifestly NOT what happened in the case of the Unisys LZW patent. Unisys stated informally to everyone that they could continue to use LZW compression in software for GIFs or whatever, then reversed their decision and instantly made tons of shareware and gratis software authors liable for IP infringement.
I know that was a case of patent law and not copyright law, but I believe the principles are the same. Most IP licenses are revokable by the IP owner; unless they tell you otherwise up front, the IP owner can come back and tell you you have a completely different set of rights and costs to use their IP tomorrow. Formal licenses like the GPL can explicitly agree to be irrevokable; informal agreements like you are talking about usually do not include this. In other words, anyone can pull a Unisys and tell you one thing while quietly getting ready to extort licensing fees from you.
Instead of compiling a resume, follow the advice of Ask the Headhunter's Nick Corcadilos and create a working resume: win the job by doing the job. Check out that website for the best job hunting advice I have ever seen. Read everything you can from the site, and get his book as well. He also produces an excellent weekly newsletter by email.
Best advice ever about how to stand out from the crowd, bypass the resume/job listing sinkhole and get directly to a manager who wants to hire you.
Responding to economic forces does not in any way exempt anyone from being subject to moral and ethical evaluations.
Right; that's why he used the word "sort of."
I don't think he was arguing that they have a right to spam; just that under strict economic analysis, they will continue to do so as long as there is economic benefit.
Everyone always says that as long as there are people willing to buy this product, spamming will continue. Well, looking at the products advertised by spam, I have trouble believing anyone buys these products.
I don't believe the problem is that spamming successfully brings in new customers. I believe the problem is that spammers sell their service to unsuspecting "businesses" that believe whatever phony lines they are handing them about how it will be good for their business. As long as there are small businesses who believe this, spammers will find a market for their services and spam will continue, even if the premise that spam has a nonzero response rate is untrue. Eventually as it becomes commonly accepted knowledge that businesses are not successful with this type of advertising, spam should drop off.
Many on here like to listen to "glass audio", or "antique radio". You can learn a lot about technolgy and design issues when restoring an old radio. Many of these same issues occur in modern day electronics as well (like dried out capacitors).
If you know anything about this, perhaps you can answer a question I've been wondering about. I have the ability to tell from another room when a television is on, even when that television is muted, and even when I don't have any visual cues (reflected light). I suspect this is because of sound, but I'm not completely sure. I know that some older televisions when muted actually still produced the sound, just very, very quietly. But I left my television on with my DVD player as input last night, with no sound, and I could still tell it was on this morning. Is there something in modern televisions that makes a background noise that I am picking up? Would older televisions and electronics do this, too?
My apologies if this is completely unrelated and you don't know; I've just heard people talk about the "warmth of the sound" from old radioes and wondered if there were a connection.
For some reason I've always been fascinated with the history of how mankind discovered various mathematical concepts. Awhile back I saw a book with a title like The History of i which was actually about how i (the imaginary number component, or square root of -1) was postulated and developed, but I didn't get a chance to order the book. Anyone know what its real title is, and/or how I might find it?
Knocking out those who are not technologically elite would disallow most of the corporate sites. Most of those are not done by anybody who has any sense of technology or web design.
Oops, I misunderstood the comment about jewelry. Thought you meant all watches were worn that way; now I see you just meant gold watches. Anyway, mine's not gold.:)
I have to use my watch as the standard. Since the days of high school I've gotten used to other clocks around me always being significantly off. At work our PCs sync to something that appears to be off every other week. The clock in our phone PBX system slowly loses a minute a week or so, periodically being reset when someone somewhere (I wish I knew who) just can't stand it any more. The company gave me a clock as a thank you gift a few years back, but it no longer works. The clocks in my cars slowly gain about a minute a week. I even discovered the other day that my laptop is losing 20 minutes every time it goes to sleep.
But my watch... that's what the real time is. I can set my watch periodically off of a good known time source (in 15 years this has gone from a phone number I could call, to an official US clock on the web, to my NTP-synchronized Linux PC), and then I can always depend on it. When other people around me are confused because all the clocks contradict, I can give them the definitive time.
I sure don't wear a watch to show off wealth. My last four watches have been the exact same Indiglo/Timex/IronMan model, for about $20 at Wal-Mart or Target. Periodically I will lose one or it will break, in which case I just buy another; the only difference each time is the color and band. The watch has a countdown timer built-in which is invaluable for me when cooking or doing laundry, and of course an alarm that comes in handy, too. As long as they keep making these, I'll keep buying them.
My current watch has a velcro band. It sure isn't "jewelry for men."
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Ask the Headhunter (the website with the original article) has some good advice about hiring.
Here's Ask the Headhunter's take on how to be your own headhunter. He's not hawking his services as a headhunter; he's offering excellent advice on how to get (and keep) a job. The articles section is invaluable, along with his newsletter (free) and book (cheap).
Nick Corcodilos, the Headhunter is not actively working as a headhunter anymore. All he's doing is selling his book and offering lots of free good advice. I definitely recommend anyone look into it, even if they currently have a job.
See my previous post (linked) about how ATH went around as a good meme in the Perl community awhile back.
Ask the Headhunter sells a book and offers a free website and newsletter. All three are simply spectacular sources of advice, whether you are unemployed or not. I hype it every chance I get (and made a recent post about it here on slashdot; I wonder if the article submitter discovered ATH through my post).
Nick Corcodilos is not trying to hype his services as a headhunter. He no longer even works as a headhunter. A common misconception about headhunters is that job seekers should look for them or hire them. That is not true, and rarely happens. Headhunters are hired by employers looking to fill a position. You're not likely to be able to hire a headhunter to get you a job; instead you'll be contacted by a headhunter if he's aware of you through his contacts and thinks you're suitable for a position he is looking to fill.
Corcodilos is looking to sell his book, but he gives out tons of free advice through his website and weekly newsletter. He's even interacted with interested geeks on slashcode based forums like use Perl;. ATH floated around as a meme in the Perl community due mainly to Andy Lester starting around 2002. That was very convenient for me because I was "surplussed" in late 2002. I bought the ATH book immediately and have found its advice invaluable ever since (yes, I do have a job, and I still find the advice invaluable). Andy Lester used the ATH information to help in making hiring decisions.
The comparisons you suggest between job boards and headhunters don't make any sense, since headhunters don't offer a service to job seekers. If you read the site, you will see this for yourself.
I'll trade you ten CueCats for one!
Execution is manifestly not cruel and unusual under the definition of those who wrote the amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. They all expected capital punishment to continue.
IIRC, the police officer who did a MADD seminar for us years ago when I was in school seemed to talk as if "point one oh" was ten times as much as "point one," so I've always assumed that the numbers aren't really decimal fractions of anything and are instead some confusing non-mathematical scale. Or else he just didn't know much math.
ll the work done by the previous congress could be reversed through a "review".
And that would be just fine with me. Most of the "work" of Congress is to decide how to divide up the public pie of favors. If we made these favors unconstitutional, or at least forced them to expire through sunset laws, maybe Congress could get busy doing something I might agree is really "work."
I don't know if New Mexico is like Texas, but our legislators are barely paid enough to compensate for their time. Most continue to work at their full time career (usually lawyers, but last year I worked with an Oracle developer who is running for the legislature this year) taking leaves of absence for the biannual sessions because there is no way they could live off of what the state pays them let alone live in the lap of luxury. Most state legislatures are more like this and less like the U.S. Congress, which is far more likely to give rise to the chauffeur-driven public servents you are referring to.
Years ago when my family was in Albuquerque we had some creepy looking panhandler come up to our car in a restaurant parking lot. He looked a little bit unstable and dangerous. We decided to eat somewhere else and took off as fast as we could. Under those circumstance, having to wait 30 seconds for the car to start would have been completely unacceptable and possibly life threatening.
Perhaps New Mexico needs to do something about its panhandling problem first so it will be safe to install this measure.
I'm trying to adjust to new glasses this week and thought it was just them. Glad to hear it wasn't just me.
My eyes are in actual pain now. I found it literally impossible to read that comment.
That is manifestly NOT what happened in the case of the Unisys LZW patent. Unisys stated informally to everyone that they could continue to use LZW compression in software for GIFs or whatever, then reversed their decision and instantly made tons of shareware and gratis software authors liable for IP infringement.
I know that was a case of patent law and not copyright law, but I believe the principles are the same. Most IP licenses are revokable by the IP owner; unless they tell you otherwise up front, the IP owner can come back and tell you you have a completely different set of rights and costs to use their IP tomorrow. Formal licenses like the GPL can explicitly agree to be irrevokable; informal agreements like you are talking about usually do not include this. In other words, anyone can pull a Unisys and tell you one thing while quietly getting ready to extort licensing fees from you.
Instead of compiling a resume, follow the advice of Ask the Headhunter's Nick Corcadilos and create a working resume: win the job by doing the job. Check out that website for the best job hunting advice I have ever seen. Read everything you can from the site, and get his book as well. He also produces an excellent weekly newsletter by email.
Best advice ever about how to stand out from the crowd, bypass the resume/job listing sinkhole and get directly to a manager who wants to hire you.
You are an idiot, aren't you?
Perhaps, but I'm not sure that has any bearing on this discussion. Why don't you log in and take credit for your remarks?
CmderTaco is actually ID 533794.
Responding to economic forces does not in any way exempt anyone from being subject to moral and ethical evaluations. Right; that's why he used the word "sort of."
I don't think he was arguing that they have a right to spam; just that under strict economic analysis, they will continue to do so as long as there is economic benefit.
Everyone always says that as long as there are people willing to buy this product, spamming will continue. Well, looking at the products advertised by spam, I have trouble believing anyone buys these products.
I don't believe the problem is that spamming successfully brings in new customers. I believe the problem is that spammers sell their service to unsuspecting "businesses" that believe whatever phony lines they are handing them about how it will be good for their business. As long as there are small businesses who believe this, spammers will find a market for their services and spam will continue, even if the premise that spam has a nonzero response rate is untrue. Eventually as it becomes commonly accepted knowledge that businesses are not successful with this type of advertising, spam should drop off.
Work has already been done on this. Have you seen the Markov blogger on use Perl? Soon all bloggers will be replaced with a Perl script.
Thanks! I'm glad to hear more about this, particularly from the point of view of technical folks who can explain it.
Many on here like to listen to "glass audio", or "antique radio". You can learn a lot about technolgy and design issues when restoring an old radio. Many of these same issues occur in modern day electronics as well (like dried out capacitors).
If you know anything about this, perhaps you can answer a question I've been wondering about. I have the ability to tell from another room when a television is on, even when that television is muted, and even when I don't have any visual cues (reflected light). I suspect this is because of sound, but I'm not completely sure. I know that some older televisions when muted actually still produced the sound, just very, very quietly. But I left my television on with my DVD player as input last night, with no sound, and I could still tell it was on this morning. Is there something in modern televisions that makes a background noise that I am picking up? Would older televisions and electronics do this, too?
My apologies if this is completely unrelated and you don't know; I've just heard people talk about the "warmth of the sound" from old radioes and wondered if there were a connection.
For some reason I've always been fascinated with the history of how mankind discovered various mathematical concepts. Awhile back I saw a book with a title like The History of i which was actually about how i (the imaginary number component, or square root of -1) was postulated and developed, but I didn't get a chance to order the book. Anyone know what its real title is, and/or how I might find it?
Knocking out those who are not technologically elite would disallow most of the corporate sites. Most of those are not done by anybody who has any sense of technology or web design.
Oops, I misunderstood the comment about jewelry. Thought you meant all watches were worn that way; now I see you just meant gold watches. Anyway, mine's not gold. :)
I have to use my watch as the standard. Since the days of high school I've gotten used to other clocks around me always being significantly off. At work our PCs sync to something that appears to be off every other week. The clock in our phone PBX system slowly loses a minute a week or so, periodically being reset when someone somewhere (I wish I knew who) just can't stand it any more. The company gave me a clock as a thank you gift a few years back, but it no longer works. The clocks in my cars slowly gain about a minute a week. I even discovered the other day that my laptop is losing 20 minutes every time it goes to sleep.
But my watch ... that's what the real time is. I can set my watch periodically off of a good known time source (in 15 years this has gone from a phone number I could call, to an official US clock on the web, to my NTP-synchronized Linux PC), and then I can always depend on it. When other people around me are confused because all the clocks contradict, I can give them the definitive time.
I sure don't wear a watch to show off wealth. My last four watches have been the exact same Indiglo/Timex/IronMan model, for about $20 at Wal-Mart or Target. Periodically I will lose one or it will break, in which case I just buy another; the only difference each time is the color and band. The watch has a countdown timer built-in which is invaluable for me when cooking or doing laundry, and of course an alarm that comes in handy, too. As long as they keep making these, I'll keep buying them.
My current watch has a velcro band. It sure isn't "jewelry for men."