http://iaeainternship.bnl.gov/Internship/Home
Just followed the instructions on the above site. What matters here is having good references and also having the specific skills that they are looking for at the time of your application. School prestige/performance is not a huge deal. Good luck!
I just landed an intenship for the IAEA doing.NET development, in Vienna. (http://iaeainternship.bnl.gov/Internship/Home) Can't say much about it yet, I start in a few weeks. Has anyone else worked for the IAEA or the UN and lived abroad, and if so, what was it like? I've spent my entire life in New York and have no idea what working with an entirely linguistically diverse and all-over-the-world team is going to be like, but I'm definetily looking forward to it.
I remember every website/tv show/whatever media acknowledged it somehow for the next few weeks, and people did too. Red white and blue ribbons were on google and slashdot (I think), yahoo went black and white, people wore pins on their lapels. The world as a whole just sufferred a massive loss, again, why not acknowledge it in the same way? What could do more for the image of america abroad than the knowledge that every other person is wearing a pin to acknowledge a tragedy that hapenned on the other side of the planet?
According to the article, these companies are "working" on making their glorified viruses less intrusive and easy to uninstall. Amazingly, the article never points out just how bullshit this is. Anyone who has ever worked on commercial software knows that it is trivial to let the user remove your program (automated installshield or something of the sort). Even if you don't want to bother with that, the user should always be able to just kill the process and delete the executables. However, it's certainly not easy to actively prevent the user from stopping or removing your software, and especially to automatically and invisibly reinstall upon removal. Yet these companies are "working" on making their programs removable? How stupid do they think we are?
Also, tv is losing a lot of its audience because its shifting gears to please the "ADD generation." I haven't watched tv in a few years, and when I turn it on now, I can't help but notice the overabundance of quick cuts, overdramatic music, attention-grabbing sounds, unnecessarily fancy 3d graphics and so on. And this is just on the news. Now, even having the TV on in the background is aggravating, you notice it actively trying to attract your attention. And this is really a new phenomenon, compare Star Treg Next generation to current sci-fi, no show that has conversations lasting over 3 minutes would be allowed now. So, for those of us who are annoyed at receiving all our information in 30 second snippets, TV is becoming extinct.
I think a lot of people who will agree that doing a million things at once is bad for you will find themselves doing that anyway. When everything around you encourages "hypertasking", it's easy to fall into it without even realizing what you are doing.
I try to meditate at least once a day, and it is a great cure. When the mind starts racing, it may be difficult to reign it back in and get it out of the "hypertasking" mode. Meditating is a great way to slow it down, provide some peace and let you either relax or truly focus for whatever work needs to be done. When I meditate on my lunch break, I find that I spend the afternoon much more focused, productive, AND relaxed than usual.
"Israel!" There I said it. *poof* all the assholes instantly appear.
Why don't you use your real name and have your asshole natures on record, at least?
There are many things that make a coder good. Insightful and elegant design are one. But being able to quickly bang out a solution for a self-contained problem quick and dirty style is just as sure a sign of skill, to me at least.
Vote for the lesser of the two evils, so whichever republicrat is less evil, usually not a hard call to make. But give your support otherwise to a legitimate organization. (Libertarian for me). Maybe eventually it'll make sense to vote for one of them.
Also, xvid is BUGGY. It works great when it does work, but I've heard millions of friends complain about "green box" problems or "slow sound/video" etcetc. I know for a fact that it doesn't play well with the ac3 audio codec, with which it's used frequently for some reason. It might be more advanced, but at least the old divx "just works".
I only post in support of "Bill and his buddies" because I work in an almost all-MS environment. I don't like this unfortunate fact and I have a lot of respect and love for 'nix and the associated technologies, but I'm also exposed to enough MS stuff to know that it's not as cartoonishly buggy/insecure/evil as Slashdotters make it out to be. Thus, I feel some need to play devil's advocate. The fact that.NET is not cross platform dissappoints me incredibly as it does you, but it does have it's merits. As for my above comment, it was just irritation at a bad joke.
Jeez, as a technical community can't slashdotters resist making dumb jokes that have been made millions of times before and actually pay attention to the content of something that could be relevant to many of us? I want to see a first post that's not an easy and bad joke for once.
I honestly don't think I've ever seen this many paranoid, uninformed, and irrational responses to one slashdot story. And I am aware of how many of those there usually are.
People almost sound as if ms were trying to make these black holes.
Here's one I've thought about: Mass marketed technology has quietly but surely made the media's influence on our lives more and more intrusive. From the printing press to radios to tv to satellite tv to computers, to video games and god knows what's next, the media has gotten more and more of a foothold into the life of the average american. The problems that this produces are subtle but will eventully become damaging: tv/video game addiction, the degradation of independent thought, the control of popular opinion in the hands of a few, media becoming a source of escapism, and what will happen when virtual reality becomes feasible? When you control a person's senses, you come very close to controlling the person. As technology lets media become more and more immersive, it will be harder and harder to resist. I guess what I'm saying is, can multimedia technology grow to a point that it threatens individualism?
You write a lot of interesting things, and I'm not going to dispute them as I'm sure at least some of them are true. Other than politics though, why do you want.net to fail? Do you code? If so, don't you care about the technical merits of.net? You don't list a single technical reason for why you want.net to fail, and as a technical product, isn't that the main standard on which.net should be judged? An analogy: you may hate the american government and have every right to do so, but is it fair to hate a potentially beneficial government action just because you hate the government?
I'm a sophmore cs student from nyc and a few summers ago stumbled onto an awesome and untapped source of jobs. A lot of my friends in cs do this too. Many research centers (often run by large universities) that don't have much to do with students have a huge need for non professional programmers. However, I'm not sure there are too many of these places outside large cities.
These places do not have the money to pay an adult programmer, but can afford to pay undergrads quite decently. For some reason, they also do not actively look for programmers. However, when I started targeting these places, almost all of them were initially interested and I actually ended up with a few offers. Research centers often require a miriad of small but often highly specified programs, and many researchers are desperate to be untied from the large and hugely expensive software suites they are forced to use when they only need one or two functions of these programs. (like Igor). Also, these are rare places where you get to work with very cool and not commonly seen equipment, meet tons of smart people, and are given the freedom to do your work however you see fit. (It is not likely your boss will understand c++) It is also very cool to have something like "developed a program to do real time memory testing via auditory and visual cues" on your resume before you even hit the mainstream job market.
Believe it or not, there exists a breed of technically proficient users out there who fully know of linux but are windows users regardless. Like myself, I know many such people on my college campus. I have mandrake installed, and use it every once in a while. I have been using it much less since my semi-successful attempt at upgrading kde. Primarily however, I am in win2k. Contrary to popular slashdotter opinion, with some careful set up, win2k can be quite stable and secure. I am a cs major with an emphasis on AI, and I just want to be able to code. I don't have the time to learn the ins and outs of an operating system when a much more hands free one is available. As long as my OS lets me code with minimum headaches, that's what I'll use. I realize the value of linux and actively hope that it will eventually become hassle free enough to support my video card and let me install or uprgrade a program without competing standards that will work on any desktop, but that is not where it currently is. Meanwhile, win2k is out of my hair, my compiler works, and any hardware I add will also work. I can upgrade or downgrade any of my programs in a few minutes. If linux standardization fulfills its promise, the addition of my kind of user to the linux family will be invaluable.
My grandma is at that stage of her life where she should have normally been dead. Not to sound coarse, as I love her, but she is being kept alive by drugs which reduce her life to confusion and pain, and I suspect against her will. A lot of medical science these days seems to have forgotten that quality of life matters as much as life itself.
The government goes after our own folks making essentially a helpful effort, but what about small undisclosed countries probing government computers in the same way, where's the stink about that one? Perhaps said unidentified little countries happen to possess oil.
Slashdot Mirror
http://iaeainternship.bnl.gov/Internship/Home Just followed the instructions on the above site. What matters here is having good references and also having the specific skills that they are looking for at the time of your application. School prestige/performance is not a huge deal. Good luck!
I just landed an intenship for the IAEA doing .NET development, in Vienna. (http://iaeainternship.bnl.gov/Internship/Home) Can't say much about it yet, I start in a few weeks. Has anyone else worked for the IAEA or the UN and lived abroad, and if so, what was it like? I've spent my entire life in New York and have no idea what working with an entirely linguistically diverse and all-over-the-world team is going to be like, but I'm definetily looking forward to it.
I remember every website/tv show/whatever media acknowledged it somehow for the next few weeks, and people did too. Red white and blue ribbons were on google and slashdot (I think), yahoo went black and white, people wore pins on their lapels. The world as a whole just sufferred a massive loss, again, why not acknowledge it in the same way? What could do more for the image of america abroad than the knowledge that every other person is wearing a pin to acknowledge a tragedy that hapenned on the other side of the planet?
According to the article, these companies are "working" on making their glorified viruses less intrusive and easy to uninstall. Amazingly, the article never points out just how bullshit this is. Anyone who has ever worked on commercial software knows that it is trivial to let the user remove your program (automated installshield or something of the sort). Even if you don't want to bother with that, the user should always be able to just kill the process and delete the executables. However, it's certainly not easy to actively prevent the user from stopping or removing your software, and especially to automatically and invisibly reinstall upon removal. Yet these companies are "working" on making their programs removable? How stupid do they think we are?
Also, tv is losing a lot of its audience because its shifting gears to please the "ADD generation." I haven't watched tv in a few years, and when I turn it on now, I can't help but notice the overabundance of quick cuts, overdramatic music, attention-grabbing sounds, unnecessarily fancy 3d graphics and so on. And this is just on the news. Now, even having the TV on in the background is aggravating, you notice it actively trying to attract your attention. And this is really a new phenomenon, compare Star Treg Next generation to current sci-fi, no show that has conversations lasting over 3 minutes would be allowed now. So, for those of us who are annoyed at receiving all our information in 30 second snippets, TV is becoming extinct.
I think a lot of people who will agree that doing a million things at once is bad for you will find themselves doing that anyway. When everything around you encourages "hypertasking", it's easy to fall into it without even realizing what you are doing.
I try to meditate at least once a day, and it is a great cure. When the mind starts racing, it may be difficult to reign it back in and get it out of the "hypertasking" mode. Meditating is a great way to slow it down, provide some peace and let you either relax or truly focus for whatever work needs to be done. When I meditate on my lunch break, I find that I spend the afternoon much more focused, productive, AND relaxed than usual.
I really hope there's nothing to this, but doesn't "white knight" sound a tad politically incorrect?
"Israel!" There I said it. *poof* all the assholes instantly appear. Why don't you use your real name and have your asshole natures on record, at least?
Actually, it's pronounced "Tova", a pretty name if you ask me. Or would you prefer Betty-Sue?
There are many things that make a coder good. Insightful and elegant design are one. But being able to quickly bang out a solution for a self-contained problem quick and dirty style is just as sure a sign of skill, to me at least.
Vote for the lesser of the two evils, so whichever republicrat is less evil, usually not a hard call to make. But give your support otherwise to a legitimate organization. (Libertarian for me). Maybe eventually it'll make sense to vote for one of them.
I don't know about the rest of you, but being stuck with a one button mouse seems like a little too much simplicity these days.
Also, xvid is BUGGY. It works great when it does work, but I've heard millions of friends complain about "green box" problems or "slow sound/video" etcetc. I know for a fact that it doesn't play well with the ac3 audio codec, with which it's used frequently for some reason. It might be more advanced, but at least the old divx "just works".
I only post in support of "Bill and his buddies" because I work in an almost all-MS environment. I don't like this unfortunate fact and I have a lot of respect and love for 'nix and the associated technologies, but I'm also exposed to enough MS stuff to know that it's not as cartoonishly buggy/insecure/evil as Slashdotters make it out to be. Thus, I feel some need to play devil's advocate. The fact that .NET is not cross platform dissappoints me incredibly as it does you, but it does have it's merits. As for my above comment, it was just irritation at a bad joke.
Jeez, as a technical community can't slashdotters resist making dumb jokes that have been made millions of times before and actually pay attention to the content of something that could be relevant to many of us? I want to see a first post that's not an easy and bad joke for once.
no... damn geezers
I honestly don't think I've ever seen this many paranoid, uninformed, and irrational responses to one slashdot story. And I am aware of how many of those there usually are.
People almost sound as if ms were trying to make these black holes.
Here's one I've thought about: Mass marketed technology has quietly but surely made the media's influence on our lives more and more intrusive. From the printing press to radios to tv to satellite tv to computers, to video games and god knows what's next, the media has gotten more and more of a foothold into the life of the average american. The problems that this produces are subtle but will eventully become damaging: tv/video game addiction, the degradation of independent thought, the control of popular opinion in the hands of a few, media becoming a source of escapism, and what will happen when virtual reality becomes feasible? When you control a person's senses, you come very close to controlling the person. As technology lets media become more and more immersive, it will be harder and harder to resist. I guess what I'm saying is, can multimedia technology grow to a point that it threatens individualism?
You write a lot of interesting things, and I'm not going to dispute them as I'm sure at least some of them are true. Other than politics though, why do you want .net to fail? Do you code? If so, don't you care about the technical merits of .net? You don't list a single technical reason for why you want .net to fail, and as a technical product, isn't that the main standard on which .net should be judged? An analogy: you may hate the american government and have every right to do so, but is it fair to hate a potentially beneficial government action just because you hate the government?
I'm a sophmore cs student from nyc and a few summers ago stumbled onto an awesome and untapped source of jobs. A lot of my friends in cs do this too. Many research centers (often run by large universities) that don't have much to do with students have a huge need for non professional programmers. However, I'm not sure there are too many of these places outside large cities.
These places do not have the money to pay an adult programmer, but can afford to pay undergrads quite decently. For some reason, they also do not actively look for programmers. However, when I started targeting these places, almost all of them were initially interested and I actually ended up with a few offers. Research centers often require a miriad of small but often highly specified programs, and many researchers are desperate to be untied from the large and hugely expensive software suites they are forced to use when they only need one or two functions of these programs. (like Igor). Also, these are rare places where you get to work with very cool and not commonly seen equipment, meet tons of smart people, and are given the freedom to do your work however you see fit. (It is not likely your boss will understand c++) It is also very cool to have something like "developed a program to do real time memory testing via auditory and visual cues" on your resume before you even hit the mainstream job market.
Believe it or not, there exists a breed of technically proficient users out there who fully know of linux but are windows users regardless. Like myself, I know many such people on my college campus. I have mandrake installed, and use it every once in a while. I have been using it much less since my semi-successful attempt at upgrading kde. Primarily however, I am in win2k. Contrary to popular slashdotter opinion, with some careful set up, win2k can be quite stable and secure. I am a cs major with an emphasis on AI, and I just want to be able to code. I don't have the time to learn the ins and outs of an operating system when a much more hands free one is available. As long as my OS lets me code with minimum headaches, that's what I'll use. I realize the value of linux and actively hope that it will eventually become hassle free enough to support my video card and let me install or uprgrade a program without competing standards that will work on any desktop, but that is not where it currently is. Meanwhile, win2k is out of my hair, my compiler works, and any hardware I add will also work. I can upgrade or downgrade any of my programs in a few minutes. If linux standardization fulfills its promise, the addition of my kind of user to the linux family will be invaluable.
I didn't mean the word "will" as in the legal document.
I'm sure the brief lives of these pigs will be a lot more pleasant than the animals we raise to be eaten.
My grandma is at that stage of her life where she should have normally been dead. Not to sound coarse, as I love her, but she is being kept alive by drugs which reduce her life to confusion and pain, and I suspect against her will. A lot of medical science these days seems to have forgotten that quality of life matters as much as life itself.
The government goes after our own folks making essentially a helpful effort, but what about small undisclosed countries probing government computers in the same way, where's the stink about that one? Perhaps said unidentified little countries happen to possess oil.