"Good code" will be easy to read AND have good comments. For example, my company has some old SQL Reports that need to be maintained on rare occasion. I can kind-of-sort-a make out what the code is doing, but I am not used to that syntax and I havn't been able to find any tutorials for the stuff on the web anywhere. It sure is nice to have comments along with the code that I can read in english what the code is doing. "This will print the subtotals","This pulls the exchange rate", etc. Does that make it a bad programming language? Probably, but it still has to be maintained. Life sure would be alot more difficult for me if the original programmer of those old reports had thought that comments were a waste of his time.
It's been on-line. I've used it to file my taxes for the last 5 years. I think I used firefox last year to do it too, but not totally sure. I used the H&R website once just to compare tax refund results(they were identical by the way) and highly recommend both services. I stick with TurboTax because they have all my info from last year already and pre-populate most everything I need.
I agree with troubles finding quality workers. We searched for 2 months to find someone experienced with PL/SQL on Oracle. We were looking for someone with 3+ years experiance though.
I remember when I graduated college in 2001 (shortly after fall of dot.com boom), there were lots of jobs available but most wanted someone with at least 2 years experience or a 3.5+/4.0 GPA. I had neither. I did have about 1 year experiance as an application programmer job for students paying a measly $7/hour. Fortunately, that provided just enough professional experiance neccessary to get my foot in the door after applying at what seemed like a hundred different companies.
So, to potential IT students, there are IT jobs out there. And the best thing you can do to ensure you get a job after school is to keep your GPA up, take on entry-level jobs or internships, and stay in touch with your network of IT friends. Then come graduation, you'll be all set!
I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but it seems that Firefox 1.5 is the only browser that struggles with this javascript. It works fine with 1.4 and with IE. I havn't tried Opera. I've submitted the problem to Mozilla but I never heard anything back. Maybe someone here is smart enough to figure out a quick fix to the javascript to make it work properly in all browsers.
The script in question can be found here. Enter in the first date like MMDDYY and it will convert it over to MM/DD/YYYY. Problem is, it drops off the last digit. Makes it MM/DD/YYY. Oops!
IF they keep the price down and IF its "FM Quality", I would use it.
Why? I sit at a desk all day programming and I work better with some music in the background. My company frowns on listening to internet radio, as it unneccisarily eats up bandwidth. I'll bring CD's in to listen to but a radio station would be better. I've considered getting Siruis or XM radio just to listen to while at work. If Cingular can give me a simular functionality for a price that is acceptable( $10/month) and since I am already a Cingular customer I would definately look into it.
The only place on campus students would be using P2P is in the dorms.
Here's what you do.
1) Move out of the dorms
2) Buy broadband internet
3) ???
4) Cox Communications profits!
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The concept of sitting a giant hunk of metal next to an asteroid for 20 years to gradually shift its path doesn't exactly make for fast-paced, high-tension action movie fare.
How about.. A second astroid. The ship can only move one astroid at a time.
Reading comments like this make me realize how lucky I am to work in a small IT department of 5 guys. In my situation, going the extra mile is rewarded. This does not mean building new reports or programs without a managers consent, mind you. It means suggesting new things. Putting in extra hours to insure projects are completed on time. Managing your time well without much supervision. I was given a simple set of rules once to use when deciding which projects to work on next.
1) Projects that will bring in new income.
2) Projects that will save money.
3) Projects that will save time.
4) Projects that "make things better".
And honestly, I only work with #3 and #4 projects if someone squeaks loud enough. I have worked mostly this year on #1 level projects and the company has seen a significant growth in the last 4 months because of it. And due to that growth, I have been rewared quite nicely! Probably not as well as the IT manager or the CEO, but respectable none the less.
If I didn't do something it's because you didn't ask me to.
Try doing something that you're not asked to do that will help out the company and you'll find yourself being treated better and probably rewarded. Noone likes a person that does the minimal amount of work required.
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Lot's of chicks to talk to!
"Good code" will be easy to read AND have good comments. For example, my company has some old SQL Reports that need to be maintained on rare occasion. I can kind-of-sort-a make out what the code is doing, but I am not used to that syntax and I havn't been able to find any tutorials for the stuff on the web anywhere. It sure is nice to have comments along with the code that I can read in english what the code is doing. "This will print the subtotals","This pulls the exchange rate", etc. Does that make it a bad programming language? Probably, but it still has to be maintained. Life sure would be alot more difficult for me if the original programmer of those old reports had thought that comments were a waste of his time.
TurboTax Online comes out in January.
It's been on-line. I've used it to file my taxes for the last 5 years. I think I used firefox last year to do it too, but not totally sure. I used the H&R website once just to compare tax refund results(they were identical by the way) and highly recommend both services. I stick with TurboTax because they have all my info from last year already and pre-populate most everything I need.
TurboTax.com will work just fine in Linux, since it's a website ;) 'm pretty sure I filed taxes using Firefox last year.
Something else on your machine must be borken.
Gut tu lufe-a sleshdut! Bork Bork Bork!
I agree with troubles finding quality workers. We searched for 2 months to find someone experienced with PL/SQL on Oracle. We were looking for someone with 3+ years experiance though.
I remember when I graduated college in 2001 (shortly after fall of dot.com boom), there were lots of jobs available but most wanted someone with at least 2 years experience or a 3.5+/4.0 GPA. I had neither. I did have about 1 year experiance as an application programmer job for students paying a measly $7/hour. Fortunately, that provided just enough professional experiance neccessary to get my foot in the door after applying at what seemed like a hundred different companies.
So, to potential IT students, there are IT jobs out there. And the best thing you can do to ensure you get a job after school is to keep your GPA up, take on entry-level jobs or internships, and stay in touch with your network of IT friends. Then come graduation, you'll be all set!
This whole magnet thing sounds like a job for the Myth Busters!
Oh my lord.. That reminded me of that freaky artwork that Phoebe on 'Friends' made with the dolls.
never heard of that. I use AOL.
I believe it actually causes a DoS condition in Firefox.
Source?
I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but it seems that Firefox 1.5 is the only browser that struggles with this javascript. It works fine with 1.4 and with IE. I havn't tried Opera. I've submitted the problem to Mozilla but I never heard anything back. Maybe someone here is smart enough to figure out a quick fix to the javascript to make it work properly in all browsers.
The script in question can be found here. Enter in the first date like MMDDYY and it will convert it over to MM/DD/YYYY. Problem is, it drops off the last digit. Makes it MM/DD/YYY. Oops!
More like this:
bot1:ASL?
bot2:ASL?
bot1:ASL?
bot2:ASL?
bot1:ASL?
bot2:ASL?
IF they keep the price down and IF its "FM Quality", I would use it. Why? I sit at a desk all day programming and I work better with some music in the background. My company frowns on listening to internet radio, as it unneccisarily eats up bandwidth. I'll bring CD's in to listen to but a radio station would be better. I've considered getting Siruis or XM radio just to listen to while at work. If Cingular can give me a simular functionality for a price that is acceptable( $10/month) and since I am already a Cingular customer I would definately look into it.
The only place on campus students would be using P2P is in the dorms. Here's what you do. 1) Move out of the dorms 2) Buy broadband internet 3) ??? 4) Cox Communications profits!
I had the same thought.
So they found the remains of a giant ape. singular. One giant ape != new species. There are giant and dwarf humans, and they arn't a new species
The concept of sitting a giant hunk of metal next to an asteroid for 20 years to gradually shift its path doesn't exactly make for fast-paced, high-tension action movie fare.
How about.. A second astroid. The ship can only move one astroid at a time.
The flying spaghetti monster does exist.
RAMEN!
Reading comments like this make me realize how lucky I am to work in a small IT department of 5 guys. In my situation, going the extra mile is rewarded. This does not mean building new reports or programs without a managers consent, mind you. It means suggesting new things. Putting in extra hours to insure projects are completed on time. Managing your time well without much supervision. I was given a simple set of rules once to use when deciding which projects to work on next.
1) Projects that will bring in new income.
2) Projects that will save money.
3) Projects that will save time.
4) Projects that "make things better".
And honestly, I only work with #3 and #4 projects if someone squeaks loud enough. I have worked mostly this year on #1 level projects and the company has seen a significant growth in the last 4 months because of it. And due to that growth, I have been rewared quite nicely! Probably not as well as the IT manager or the CEO, but respectable none the less.
If I didn't do something it's because you didn't ask me to.
Try doing something that you're not asked to do that will help out the company and you'll find yourself being treated better and probably rewarded. Noone likes a person that does the minimal amount of work required.
it's relatively harmless.
Sound's like something a drug dealer would say.
Soon they'll be able to download tons of free pr0n just like first-world kids. Yes, National Geographic's web master won't know what hit him.
And that you can't take 5 buffalo back to your waggon to feed everyone, but you can shoot them anyway for sport.
This prizes are kind of lame. A new iPOD or PC isn't much motivation to put a lot of time into creating an extension.
What is the advantage to having a bit torrent client built into firefox as opposed to just installing the client thats already available?