After submitting several sample HOWTO pieces, I got a gig at MaximumLinux magazine as a Contributing Editor. I successfully submitted articles after that and was eventually authoring a monthly column. What my employers didn't know was that I was in my late 40s at the time. I didn't meet my editor, Bryan, until a Linux convention in NYC. When I approached him, I could see the surprise on his face when he realized that I was much older than he had assumed.
That was the only experience that involved my age. I contributed to the magazine until it ceased publication and then moved to LinuxFormat for a long run. In the meantime, I was a co-author with the awesome Bill Ball on the RedHat Unleashed and Fedora Unleashed series.
The takeaway here is that the quality of the produced work and the enthusiasm for the task at hand are what counts and that employers who use age as a screening technique (and ignoring older candidates out-of-hand) are missing out on valuable talent.
I appreciate the opportunity that those publishers and editors gave me that might have been lost to us both had I been ignored because of my age.
If you know it's a lie, then it's not an exercise of free speech. For consumer issues, it's a crime. For personal issues, there's no law aganst being a dick, but hopefully people will see that for what it is and, as XKCD stated, "Showing [them] the door."
An uncle who served on destroyers long ago told me that "Navy regulations are written in blood". That regulations and training say this is the proper way to do something and you will do it in no other way. That the "proper way" was determined by people dying when it was done otherwise. That some ways of doing things are more than "tradition".
" But they dumbed it down for reasons that where not entirely clear."
A lot of GNOME devs work at Red Hat and a lot of their work is targeted towards the needs of Red Hat no the private user. Fedora is pretty much the desktop/workstation companion to their enterprise servers. When Fedora was first launched, the package manager was pitiful, all the apps were compiled specifically to not be able to use any potential copyright infringing codecs and so on and so on. I quit using it and stopped writing about it for Pearson because it was such a gutted OS. If a home user wanted to use it, there was way too much work to get it in shape.
AFAIK, the corporate customers don't want the users in a corporate environment to have too much control of their workstations and screw things up or waste time making it look snazzy. It seems to be a "Less choices, more productive work from the employee" kinda corporate decision. And it's enforced on the GNOME devs that work there, so no wonder it has become what it is. That's what is is supposed to be.
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The story sucked. The special effects were outstanding, especially in 3D.
That's one explanation for this behavior . . . .
I'm trying FF57 for 64-bit Linux.
Facebook brings it to a screeching halt.
How do I prove I'm a Prime Member?
They should know better.
You know it will happen. Especially for nudes.
Can't you do stuff to the photo to change the hash? I mean, it can't be that simple, no?
People who are pissed on . . .
They should get the book "Baby's First VPN".
What is the market value of those companies that exist to fix Microsoft's mistakes and poor security choices?
After submitting several sample HOWTO pieces, I got a gig at MaximumLinux magazine as a Contributing Editor. I successfully submitted articles after that and was eventually authoring a monthly column. What my employers didn't know was that I was in my late 40s at the time. I didn't meet my editor, Bryan, until a Linux convention in NYC. When I approached him, I could see the surprise on his face when he realized that I was much older than he had assumed.
That was the only experience that involved my age. I contributed to the magazine until it ceased publication and then moved to LinuxFormat for a long run. In the meantime, I was a co-author with the awesome Bill Ball on the RedHat Unleashed and Fedora Unleashed series.
The takeaway here is that the quality of the produced work and the enthusiasm for the task at hand are what counts and that employers who use age as a screening technique (and ignoring older candidates out-of-hand) are missing out on valuable talent.
I appreciate the opportunity that those publishers and editors gave me that might have been lost to us both had I been ignored because of my age.
Everything that accomplishes to a certain level is then monetized and the user experience diminished.
Just open-source Windows10 Mobile and BBOS and you will have one.
If you know it's a lie, then it's not an exercise of free speech. For consumer issues, it's a crime. For personal issues, there's no law aganst being a dick, but hopefully people will see that for what it is and, as XKCD stated, "Showing [them] the door."
Any download links in case I need a browser in an XP Virtual Machine for some reason?
Nobody likes our browser? Let's make it available for more platforms that we've never really supported. That's the ticket!
What if my preferred breakfast is glazed donuts?
The you are doing it right.
Please explain why US Navy warhsips have crews who "lack basic seamanship certification".
This jumped out at me, too.
Reduced time and money for training are the culprits.
More training is the solution.
An uncle who served on destroyers long ago told me that "Navy regulations are written in blood". That regulations and training say this is the proper way to do something and you will do it in no other way. That the "proper way" was determined by people dying when it was done otherwise. That some ways of doing things are more than "tradition".
The right way.
The wrong way.
The NAVY way.
All it takes is for people to pay attention.
But no impossible for our computational overlords.
I believed I used free will to type that, but in fact, I did not.
We have a difficult time getting developers to create them.
It's the correct number, but I've never seen the code arrive and the app just turns itself off.
What utter bullshit.
They are not splitting open, just expanding to accommodate the new double tweets.
It's a feature, not a bug!
" But they dumbed it down for reasons that where not entirely clear."
A lot of GNOME devs work at Red Hat and a lot of their work is targeted towards the needs of Red Hat no the private user. Fedora is pretty much the desktop/workstation companion to their enterprise servers. When Fedora was first launched, the package manager was pitiful, all the apps were compiled specifically to not be able to use any potential copyright infringing codecs and so on and so on. I quit using it and stopped writing about it for Pearson because it was such a gutted OS. If a home user wanted to use it, there was way too much work to get it in shape.
AFAIK, the corporate customers don't want the users in a corporate environment to have too much control of their workstations and screw things up or waste time making it look snazzy. It seems to be a "Less choices, more productive work from the employee" kinda corporate decision. And it's enforced on the GNOME devs that work there, so no wonder it has become what it is. That's what is is supposed to be.