I think starting with a summary is a waste - you need to maximise the use of space on your CV, especially at the top. When I read resumes/CVs I skip the summary for two reasons:
People know what employers want to hear and as a consequence all summaries read the same.
Summaries generally contain information that an employer cannot reliably judge from a resume/CV.
Don't mean to be a downer, I just think you're recent success is probably related to the rest of your resume.
Being out of work is not a problem, it's a fact of life in the industry. What's important is how you deal with it.
I hire developers and I'd guess about half of the people I interview are out of work. Being laid off is often a matter of luck so that actually doesn't interest me very much. How the candidate has responded to being out of work interests me a lot. It's a chance for me to see how they have responded to a real life problem. What are they doing with their time? Do they still programme for fun? Are they keeping their existing skills honed? What are they learning to give themselves an edge?
An out of work developer who hasn't written any code for nine months is completely different from one who's putting together their own Linux distribution.
On contrary, this could do Linux a lot of harm. Being anti-SCO and pro-Linux go hand in hand. An anti-SCO worm looks like a pro-Linux worm and it taints the entire open source community.
It will bring open source and virus writing closer together in peoples' minds. A quick glance up at some of the sad and vidictive posts already on this page will help to re-inforce that impression no end. How depressing.
On the contrary, it may strengthen Dean's hand. This is the last of the great symbolic victories that can be eeked out of this war (assuming we were lied to about WMD) and there's still an entire election year to go.
As long as coalition troops continue to die, as long as innocent Iraqis are killed in the crossfire and as long as the US haemorages money on the occupation the worse Bush, his neo-cons and their war will look. All of these things will continue well into next year.
this made war between them untenable--their economies would collapse the moment the shooting started, because trade would be cut off.
According to Alvin Toffler, in his book War and Anti-War, Germany and Britain were each others biggest trading partners when they went to war in 1914. Which is not to say that their economies didn't collapse, only that interdependence wasn't a barrier to war.
If Evolution is true, marriage (1 Man/1 Woman) is a result of natural selection and therefore is right and good.
You are assuming that an exclusive, monogamous pair-bond is the method that has been 'selected', it is not. Human pair bonds are accompanied by *very* common and predictable patterns of adultery. Male and female patterns are quite different reflecting their different roles and stakes in reproduction. There is also evidence to suggest that, historically, males have set up harems whenever circumstances have allowed.
As to whether it's 'right' or 'good' that's a moral question which has no bearing on evolution.
For the others a lot of discussions will start half full just when the article is widely available.
...which is much the best place to join them anyway. It's enough time for the (frequently tangential) themes and discussions to emerge and for the moderation system to subdue some of the early noise.
I am glad somebody else has noticed this. If it takes off I expect to see a Java version before too long called JXmingwin, a Python version called PXmingwin, a KDE gui version called KPXmingwin a Gnome GUI version called, guess what, GPXmingwin and perhaps the whole thing bundled into a library called libXmingwin. Before too long there will be a fork and we'll have OpenPXmingwin and FreePXmingwin. Perhaps we'll see a cywin port called cygFreeXmingwing. Eventually it will be ported to OSX where it will be called 'iWin'.
Mind you I'll take the name cygFreeXmingwin over 'Mono' any day.
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2) People who are out of work cannot buy things made by corps who are farming out their labor to other countries.
...and the US is the only place in the world that buys stuff?
It's the 'open source' methodology applied to humour: everybody has to write their own half-baked copy of somebody else's good idea and nobody does anything original.
If only the community would rally around. If we combined our efforts instead of everyone doing there own thing we could make one, truely world-class, *BSD is dying post.
Unfortunately I don't think there is a viable system for micropayments and it's not because of a lack of a system to do it. Jakob Nielsen has been heralding the dawn of micropayments for a long time and so far they just haven't caught on. The problems as I see them are many:
Firstly a significant number of sites, within any given field, have to jump at once and go into micropayments at the same time. If they don't then the sites that charge will lose visitors to the sites that don't.
Not everyone intends or needs to make money from their website and again, where two sites offer a similar service, people who charge will lose visitors.
The infrastructure for micropayments needs to be in place. It's going to take integration with Internet Explorer (or maybe AOL) and a few years to get any kind of meaningful infrastructure going. If it's done by a plugin that plugin needs to be part of the Windows/IE install.
Do you charge differently for different regions and annoy large numbers of people (who *will* find a way around it)? Or do you price out large chunks of the world and again, annoy large numbers of people?
Lastly I just don't think people like paying in this way - it feels like money is leaking away. People were clamoring for flat rate internet access charges in the UK precisely to get away from this feeling. It's all too easy to lose track of what you are spending - it's not necessarily the amount you rack up (although it can be) so much as the surprise and the variability.
I don't think micropayments can work for anyone other than for niche players offering a unique or highly desirable service.
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But they say open-source software can never die...
...dear God! LOTUS MUST NEVER BE OPEN SOURCED! NEVER YOU HEAR!!!
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- People know what employers want to hear and as a consequence all summaries read the same.
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Summaries generally contain information that an employer cannot reliably judge from a resume/CV.
Don't mean to be a downer, I just think you're recent success is probably related to the rest of your resume.L.
I hire developers and I'd guess about half of the people I interview are out of work. Being laid off is often a matter of luck so that actually doesn't interest me very much. How the candidate has responded to being out of work interests me a lot. It's a chance for me to see how they have responded to a real life problem. What are they doing with their time? Do they still programme for fun? Are they keeping their existing skills honed? What are they learning to give themselves an edge?
An out of work developer who hasn't written any code for nine months is completely different from one who's putting together their own Linux distribution.
L.
It will bring open source and virus writing closer together in peoples' minds. A quick glance up at some of the sad and vidictive posts already on this page will help to re-inforce that impression no end. How depressing.
L.
On the contrary, it may strengthen Dean's hand. This is the last of the great symbolic victories that can be eeked out of this war (assuming we were lied to about WMD) and there's still an entire election year to go.
As long as coalition troops continue to die, as long as innocent Iraqis are killed in the crossfire and as long as the US haemorages money on the occupation the worse Bush, his neo-cons and their war will look. All of these things will continue well into next year.
L.
According to Alvin Toffler, in his book War and Anti-War, Germany and Britain were each others biggest trading partners when they went to war in 1914. Which is not to say that their economies didn't collapse, only that interdependence wasn't a barrier to war.
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Yes indeed, what would Windows be without FTP?
</sarcasm>L.
Gonna blow up Saudi Arabia are you?
L.You're obviously new to imperialism.
L.You are assuming that an exclusive, monogamous pair-bond is the method that has been 'selected', it is not. Human pair bonds are accompanied by *very* common and predictable patterns of adultery. Male and female patterns are quite different reflecting their different roles and stakes in reproduction. There is also evidence to suggest that, historically, males have set up harems whenever circumstances have allowed.
As to whether it's 'right' or 'good' that's a moral question which has no bearing on evolution.
L.I don't know, perhaps if you could provide some form of evidence or reasoned argument it would become clearer to you?
L.
OK, so the story has been run before. We get the message.
Reposted comments become as irritating as reposted stories after the first dozen or so...
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Sometimes I like to write big long descriptions of any moderately-complex procedures being stored in a file.
I really don't like having to put a hash in front of each line.
It gets rather cumbersone and ugly after a while.
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For the others a lot of discussions will start half full just when the article is widely available.
...which is much the best place to join them anyway. It's enough time for the (frequently tangential) themes and discussions to emerge and for the moderation system to subdue some of the early noise.
L.
I am glad somebody else has noticed this. If it takes off I expect to see a Java version before too long called JXmingwin, a Python version called PXmingwin, a KDE gui version called KPXmingwin a Gnome GUI version called, guess what, GPXmingwin and perhaps the whole thing bundled into a library called libXmingwin. Before too long there will be a fork and we'll have OpenPXmingwin and FreePXmingwin. Perhaps we'll see a cywin port called cygFreeXmingwing. Eventually it will be ported to OSX where it will be called 'iWin'.
Mind you I'll take the name cygFreeXmingwin over 'Mono' any day.
L.
2) People who are out of work cannot buy things made by corps who are farming out their labor to other countries.
...and the US is the only place in the world that buys stuff?
L.Nobody said it wouldn't be hard. Why should it be anything else?
L.It's the 'open source' methodology applied to humour: everybody has to write their own half-baked copy of somebody else's good idea and nobody does anything original.
If only the community would rally around. If we combined our efforts instead of everyone doing there own thing we could make one, truely world-class, *BSD is dying post.
L.There are some striking firemen in the UK that might disagree with you.
...and some unemployed people who used to work in the coal industry.
...and some unemployed people who used to be in the ship building industry.
...and some unemployed people who used to work in the automobile industry.
...and some disabled ex-soldiers.
...etc.
L.
Unfortunately I don't think there is a viable system for micropayments and it's not because of a lack of a system to do it. Jakob Nielsen has been heralding the dawn of micropayments for a long time and so far they just haven't caught on. The problems as I see them are many:
I don't think micropayments can work for anyone other than for niche players offering a unique or highly desirable service.
L.Sounds interesting, would you care to explain what you did?
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Don't be. It sounds to me like you have a normal and well rounded set of friends. Good for you.