I always got the sense, from professional literary types, that they feel really smart... the thing is, they couldn't solve a differential equation if their life depended on it. Yes, I'm sure some of them are smart, but most are not.
That's also the way I feel about most IT people. Most can't even spell. It's not because they are "too busy to bother" (an excuse I've heard), but because they really can't spell.
Interesting. I had a vaguely similar career path. I was a 26 year-old actor/artist/writer doing experimental theatre, working odd jobs and basically getting by. This, despite my math prowess (best in state in high school) and friends and siblings taking the EE and CS route. I had reached the point where the bills just weren't getting paid, and I was getting deeper and deeper into debt. A friend of mine hooked me up with a laboratory helper job at a medical lab. This consisted mainly of pouring urine and cleaning glasswork. During my time there, I came to remember that I really liked science and technology, and by the end my five years there, I was a manager and a system administrator. I left there and worked as a multimedia developer for a while and then as a programmer / web application developer. I don't make crazy money, but between 65k and my healthy investments, I do better than most. I know it's because of my broad outlook and skillset that I can jump anytime I want and do quite well. I can speak in public, write a proposal and manage employees in addition to coding and hacking. If all you can do is program, you're flying without a net.
They need to form alliances with sister organizations such as the International Petroleum Jelly Manufacturing Consortium and the Repetitive Stress Disorder Sufferer's Association.
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Please, write down everything that is obvious... I want to read it.
I think it's important to be diverse. Try both brick and mortar.
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Being able to identify and solve problems in a project and its organization is important for any large software project no matter where you are in the development chain.
This is the kind of astute observation that makes reading/. so fun (and informative!). If I may be so bold to add on to your analysis, I think it's also important for a software developer to be able to read and write. No matter where you are in the development chain.
I don't think I've met a vegetarian that wasn't a pacifist, so maybe all he needed to say was gay vegetarian. And NO, I'M NOT going to make a joke about gays eating meat.
People that can't afford to buy houses are already using this approach. modular, component-based, everyone's-invited approach to building There's a several of these communities in local washes and underpasses already.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a meta-recursive acronym. It means, "All-in-all In All-in-all".
GO VEGAN
Why, thank you for the pep talk.
I always got the sense, from professional literary types, that they feel really smart... the thing is, they couldn't solve a differential equation if their life depended on it. Yes, I'm sure some of them are smart, but most are not.
That's also the way I feel about most IT people. Most can't even spell. It's not because they are "too busy to bother" (an excuse I've heard), but because they really can't spell.
Interesting. I had a vaguely similar career path. I was a 26 year-old actor/artist/writer doing experimental theatre, working odd jobs and basically getting by. This, despite my math prowess (best in state in high school) and friends and siblings taking the EE and CS route. I had reached the point where the bills just weren't getting paid, and I was getting deeper and deeper into debt. A friend of mine hooked me up with a laboratory helper job at a medical lab. This consisted mainly of pouring urine and cleaning glasswork. During my time there, I came to remember that I really liked science and technology, and by the end my five years there, I was a manager and a system administrator. I left there and worked as a multimedia developer for a while and then as a programmer / web application developer. I don't make crazy money, but between 65k and my healthy investments, I do better than most. I know it's because of my broad outlook and skillset that I can jump anytime I want and do quite well. I can speak in public, write a proposal and manage employees in addition to coding and hacking. If all you can do is program, you're flying without a net.
Can you imagine the shame of having a co-worker, or postal clerk, or supermarket butcher comment on how good you look in a negligee?
Gee, it would be kind of flattering actually. I think lavender would nicely offset my big, black beard.
Just google a bit and you can see he's right.
get it? google?
haa haa ha ha ah never mind
Photoshop the fingerprints so the ridges and whorls are real big.
Like double D's or so.
'Software which Just Works'
Software=my Brother-in-Law
Get to work on that project, then I'll be impressed.
Nobody is interested in my worm's protein.
They need to form alliances with sister organizations such as the International Petroleum Jelly Manufacturing Consortium and the Repetitive Stress Disorder Sufferer's Association.
Please, write down everything that is obvious... I want to read it.
Obvious Things
1. You take yourself way too seriously.
2. I'm being a kind of a jerk.
3. There's no way I'm goin to finish th
sticking slashdot in a frameset with your name on the top frame, and claiming you have a new news site for geeks.
I think you just found the answer to this question.
I think it's important to be diverse. Try both brick and mortar.
Being able to identify and solve problems in a project and its organization is important for any large software project no matter where you are in the development chain.
/. so fun (and informative!). If I may be so bold to add on to your analysis, I think it's also important for a software developer to be able to read and write. No matter where you are in the development chain.
This is the kind of astute observation that makes reading
Well you gotta admit, the language for this incredibly irrelevant story does its best to pump it up.
intrepid souls
converted picture frame!
Woo hoo! Converted picture frame?! Will this wackiness never end? Please! My sides are aching!
I don't think I've met a vegetarian that wasn't a pacifist, so maybe all he needed to say was gay vegetarian. And NO, I'M NOT going to make a joke about gays eating meat.
how can you compare a G4 and a P4?
Easy, P4's are NINE LETTERS BIGGER than G4's.
duh
That's a good one. People in Wisconsin are mainly waiting for a Lynyrd Skynyrd reunion.
Onco Mouse, Cancer Mouse, and Harvard Mouse...
I don't think Disney has a thing to worry about.
He couldn't have lied about it. He had a cross on his head .
Probably because of your secret connections to Red Lobster.
I suspect you don't know what "understandable" means. To help you out, "understandable" means you "understand" why they did it.
geez
People that can't afford to buy houses are already using this approach.
modular, component-based, everyone's-invited approach to building
There's a several of these communities in local washes and underpasses already.
Now I don't have to write that book report on "Neuromancer". I can give my teacher this instead.
It took a long time to mold my nose into the shape of my boss's rectum.