Treat with extreme skepticism any so-called "health" web site that also sells products. (Notice all the affiliate links with kickbacks.) healingdaily.com is not a health resource, it's a business, and that's a major conflict of interest.
I'm a technical hiring manager at a well-known software company. There
are two times when we look at a candidate's educational background:
when receiving a resume, and when choosing universities for recruiting.
When we receive your resume, we look at experience first. If you also
went to a great, well-known university, it definitely helps your case,
especially since many candidates exaggerate their
experience. It's harder to exaggerate the fact of a top university degree.
Personally, I have found that our stronger engineers have come from
top schools. When I do a phone-screen and ask a practical CS question
(e.g., given two simple algorithms to a solve a problem, which one is
better and why?), the candidates from top schools can do it consistently, and
the others cannot.
When we do campus recruiting, we visit only the highest-ranked
universities in the area.
Hot tip to job candidates: In your resume and cover letter, there
is a difference between describing your skills and boasting about
them. Please learn the difference if you don't want to turn off
the reader.
Avoid stuffy cliches like "I have
a proven track record for blah blah blah" because the person who
decides "proven" is the hiring manager, not you. Steer away from presumptuous statements
like, "I know that I can succeed at your company" because, actually,
you don't know anything about the company until you've worked here.
And don't call yourself an "expert" at something unless you are ready
for me to sling expert-level questions at you during the phone screen.
If you sound full of yourself, your resume goes to the pile labeled
"poor social skills" which are actually at least as important
to success as
engineering knowledge.
Sorry for the cynical tone, but I receive so much bullshit from
job candidates about their experience and skills.
On the other hand, when a truly qualified candidate shows up,
it's like a gigantic breath of fresh air, and I remember what
it's like to work with excellent people.
Not very amusing, perhaps, but high-tech all the same. Keep them in a safety-deposit box and make sure someone trustworthy (e.g., spouse) knows how to get them and use them.
"Toys are hereby declared illegal, immoral, unlawful AND anyone found with a toy in his possession will be placed under arrest and thrown in the dungeon. No kidding!"
Real ISPs come and go, you are not in college forever, and you dont keep the same job forever. However, you CAN keep one of these "second-rate" email addresses indefinitely.
Only if you keep liking your second-rate provider. If they start to suck, you'll have to change that "indefinite" address.
If you want the same email address for life, get your own domain. Then it doesn't matter if your ISPs "come and go" -- just switch ISP anytime you need to.
This sort of thing is vital for decrypting your files after your death, or if you are injured and suffer amnesia, or other morbid scenarios in which your data outlives you.
I do most of my work in Emacs, which has unlimited undo and effectively unlimited copy/paste buffers. You can even run a shell inside Emacs (M-x shell), then cut/copy/paste/edit/delete all you want.
I designed a web site for a jeweler in exchange for merchandise (which pleased my wife very much). I also designed a web site for a limo service in exchange for free rides.
Any programmer who does not learn some graph theory is doing him/herself a disservice. Likewise for combinatorics and other discrete (as opposed to continuous) math.
If you are in a low-end job and have no CS degree, you're
going to have a very hard time getting noticed for a higher-level of
technical position. Especially if your resume if your only tool. I
can only recommend that you network with some higher-up technical
folks in person, and find out (A) if your goals are realistic, and (B)
if they can help you.
You ask whether it's "worth it" to get some more training or a degree.
In return, I'd ask what you're trying to accomplish. Do you want to be
a software engineer, given you don't have a computer science
background? I've known a few excellent people in that situation, but
they are VERY rare.
Also, before blaming the economy: is your resume excellent? Please post it
online and I'm sure you'll receive some constructive criticism from
the Slashdot crowd....
No, a positive "seal of approval" is much easier to think about than a slew of negative labels. It's just one thing, and it says "All is OK."
The labels in the article are indeed negative. There is a strongly perceived difference between "This product does something you might not like" and "This product behaves well."
I don't understand your logic at all. No, I'm not saying anything about penalties. My point was about vendor behavior.
To your first point: negative labels won't cause vendors to be punished. The vendors will just leave off the labels, or will find loopholes so they are in compliance in name but not in spirit. ("I'm not modifying the operating system, I'm ENHANCING it." "My product is uninstallable -- all you have to do is reinstall your OS." Etc.)
As to your second point: FDA food labels are not negative, they are overall neutral. The software labels, in contrast, are all about the presence of bad things. I don't think they're workable.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless you signed a legal contract stating that you will abide by company policy. Contract law is the real thing.
Seems like this would be the PERFECT product to have a rechargeable solar battery!
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No thanks
No one has ever complained.
You think that text-only email would prevent people from being fooled online? Let me introduce you to a fellow named Dave Rhodes....
(NYT on the Internet) and (Child Molestation)
and couldn't imagine what sort of bizarre connection was being implied....
When we receive your resume, we look at experience first. If you also went to a great, well-known university, it definitely helps your case, especially since many candidates exaggerate their experience. It's harder to exaggerate the fact of a top university degree. Personally, I have found that our stronger engineers have come from top schools. When I do a phone-screen and ask a practical CS question (e.g., given two simple algorithms to a solve a problem, which one is better and why?), the candidates from top schools can do it consistently, and the others cannot.
When we do campus recruiting, we visit only the highest-ranked universities in the area.
Hot tip to job candidates: In your resume and cover letter, there is a difference between describing your skills and boasting about them. Please learn the difference if you don't want to turn off the reader. Avoid stuffy cliches like "I have a proven track record for blah blah blah" because the person who decides "proven" is the hiring manager, not you. Steer away from presumptuous statements like, "I know that I can succeed at your company" because, actually, you don't know anything about the company until you've worked here. And don't call yourself an "expert" at something unless you are ready for me to sling expert-level questions at you during the phone screen. If you sound full of yourself, your resume goes to the pile labeled "poor social skills" which are actually at least as important to success as engineering knowledge.
Sorry for the cynical tone, but I receive so much bullshit from job candidates about their experience and skills. On the other hand, when a truly qualified candidate shows up, it's like a gigantic breath of fresh air, and I remember what it's like to work with excellent people.
Not very amusing, perhaps, but high-tech all the same. Keep them in a safety-deposit box and make sure someone trustworthy (e.g., spouse) knows how to get them and use them.
Wow, Burgermeister Meisterburger reads Slashdot!
I still have my Stratego set from childhood. Taught it to my 5-year-old daughter and she loves it.
While you're at it, use the "TCP wrappers" feature to limit connections by host, and most unwanted connections will fail at an even earlier stage.
More info.
An oldie but a goodie (and humorous too) from Chuck McManis on software pricing for the little guy.
It Came Without Warning: godawful science fiction flick about an alien hunter.
Only if you keep liking your second-rate provider. If they start to suck, you'll have to change that "indefinite" address.
If you want the same email address for life, get your own domain. Then it doesn't matter if your ISPs "come and go" -- just switch ISP anytime you need to.
This sort of thing is vital for decrypting your files after your death, or if you are injured and suffer amnesia, or other morbid scenarios in which your data outlives you.
I do most of my work in Emacs, which has unlimited undo and effectively unlimited copy/paste buffers. You can even run a shell inside Emacs (M-x shell), then cut/copy/paste/edit/delete all you want.
I designed a web site for a jeweler in exchange for merchandise (which pleased my wife very much). I also designed a web site for a limo service in exchange for free rides.
And of course algebra...
Update the contents monthly or as needed. An out-of-date password list is just as bad as a missing one.
Plan for the worst case: your home is destroyed and you are killed. A cheery thought.
You ask whether it's "worth it" to get some more training or a degree. In return, I'd ask what you're trying to accomplish. Do you want to be a software engineer, given you don't have a computer science background? I've known a few excellent people in that situation, but they are VERY rare.
Also, before blaming the economy: is your resume excellent? Please post it online and I'm sure you'll receive some constructive criticism from the Slashdot crowd....
Sure, for $5000+! A bit out of reach for home users...
The labels in the article are indeed negative. There is a strongly perceived difference between "This product does something you might not like" and "This product behaves well."
To your first point: negative labels won't cause vendors to be punished. The vendors will just leave off the labels, or will find loopholes so they are in compliance in name but not in spirit. ("I'm not modifying the operating system, I'm ENHANCING it." "My product is uninstallable -- all you have to do is reinstall your OS." Etc.)
As to your second point: FDA food labels are not negative, they are overall neutral. The software labels, in contrast, are all about the presence of bad things. I don't think they're workable.