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  1. Re:Another day, another batch of applications on Joel Rants About Resumes · · Score: 1

    I completely and utterly disagree. Not only does it give you experience in each case to help you know what to do in the next interview, but statistically, "unseen things" happen to said resumes. I believe you should also apply multiple times for the same job in different formats.

    Unfortunately - inherently, no hiring system is even really fair, impartial, etc. The employer is not asking them all into interviews, following them around their current job for a week or two, or attempting any other portion of forming a decently accurate representation of the applicant in the first application-weeding round. The only thing you can do is do what you can to get noticed.

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  2. Review styles on The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect · · Score: 1

    I don't understand what you guys are complaining about. The first few lines tell you it's plausible, it's got 8 out of 10 stars, that it's got some content that might turn some people's heads and gets you wondering about how all the highlights could come about. Sounds like enough tidbits were given to know the jist of it as well as to warn some people.

    Do you want your ideas about the book biased by a review?

  3. Why not? on Hardware and Software Art · · Score: 1

    Modern art has always confounded me. This is on display at the Tate gallery. I think I've seen this somewhere before... hmm....

  4. Re:Just buy a console! - I tried that! on Gamers, Upgrade your Systems · · Score: 1

    I don't know about anyone else but I am unimpressed with console games. I'm a RPG girl and there is a stifling scarcity of good games. Could I play Neverwinter Nights or Morrowind on PS2? Not really. Not without a great deal of pain :)

    So I challenge you - show me a fantastic PS2 RPG and I'll shut up. *g*

  5. Remember Newton's First Law (inertia) on Do-Not-Email Registries? · · Score: 1

    Nuf said.

  6. No doubt in my mind on Benford on Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    I find it amazing that NASA has had the fantastic track record that they've had. I am a scientist and know about little peculiarities and set-backs you can encounter in an experiment setup and execution. When lives are involved, you try everything a million times before the "run that counts" - but probability dictates something obscure will come up every so often. When you're blasting through the atmosphere with your nose on fire, there is enough opportunity to eventually get those odd situations.

    I completely agree though, learn from your mistakes, make the possibilities the least and get out there and learn something amazing.