Degrees are overrated. No seriously. I don't have a degree, yet I've had no problem finding employment with a competitive salary. Even companies that claim to require a degree actually don't. Most companies I've worked with look for someone that has the ability to solve problems. You don't have to know everything about a language even, you just need to be able to use your brain to find the answers (as well as resources such as the internet, etc.)
This is false. My wife can eat 1200 calories on a given day and still gain weight. I can eat 3500 calories in a day and still lose weight. The issue is the level that your body is able to break down certain foods. Example: Eat a 2000 calorie meal. Just because the meal is 2000 calories doesn't mean that 2000 calories go into your body. Certain fats, proteins, etc. don't break down in each person the same way. One person might get 1800 calories from that meal, another person 1300. Also, insulin levels and the like prevent you from burning fat.
Call me crazy, but i think we spend too much time on complex OOP based code. No I'm not making this up, I might know more languages than you, but I've also had the unfortunate opportunity of working on more shit code than most people. We need to go back to basics. When a company can hire a 3rd party team to write a 3rd party CRM cheaper than it is to modify an internal CRM there is a problem. Pay attention to this next part: When a class library becomes so complex it takes more time to maintain the library than to write new functionality, you have a problem. It should be easy to understand a code-base without spending days learning an API. code needs to be more adaptable to chancing situations. When a pharma company can spend $600,000 per year to maintain a 3rd party CRM because a first party CRM costs millions to mod, there is a problem. Just my observation though. *glares at top 20 pharma companies* thx for the awesome paycheck.
They did say this though...maybe not as much as other mags, but they gave some games a bad review. For a Nintendo sponsored mag they did a damn good job. Nintendo Power was AMAZING for me as a kid. I'll never forget the ultimate free-bee...Dragon Warrior for the NES in exchange for a $15/year subscription...
Not to advocate a particular site, but http://www.wirecare.com/ has PLENTY of solutions for cable management. They tend to carry a lot of Techflex stuff, such as braided sleeving, etc. that really help out with cable management.
I'm afraid to say, you guys are doing it wrong. Currently building an eCommerce platform that scales across any server, even if said servers are across multiple providers. Oh and it'll only cost us about a hundred bucks a month. The cloud isn't about throwaway computing, the cloud is about scalable applications. If you use EC2 for static hosting you are doing it wrong.
I agree. Most of the stuff that presidential candidates say never comes to pass when they are elected. The solution to our debt problem really is simple. Close all of the tax loopholes. Make sure that capital gains are taxed accordingly. Tax ALL assets, foreign or domestic. If you do business in the US 100% of your profit should be taxable. The problem is that most of the politicians that get elected are millionaires and could care less about the rest of us.
I don't think the law is ridiculous. Misplaced maybe, but seeing the number of overweight people in our society makes me think that these types of laws are needed. I wish that weren't the case.
Not likely, eventually everyone will have judgements against everyone, and then everyone will cross license. Net effect: Lawyers win, everyone else loses.
This is false. Right off hand I can name at least 10 different smartphone manufacturers. Motorola, LG, HTC, Samsung, Nokia, RIM, Apple, Sony, Dell, and Kyocera Eliminating 1 of 10 would be 10%, not 33%
There is always another lemming who believes that apple offers a 'user experience'. PCs are popular because people feel they have a choice. If they want to buy software from staples they can. Amazon? sure. With apple, there is only one place you can get your software, and only a very limited selection of dealers to get your hardware from. Only 1 vendor makes iPhones. My Galaxy S III rocks apple's world. I own an iPod Touch, and i have friends with iPhones. They constantly drool over the awesome camera and the fact that I can build/deploy my own apps without worshiping Apple. I'm not saying that apple doesn't make semi decent stuff, but anyone who claims that a closed platform delivers more than an open platform is just trying to troll.
I can't wait. Hopefully this will help put the final nail in the coffin for non compliant browsers and we can all move on with our lives. Do you know how much time and effort it takes to get a site working on IE6-8? The answer is: too much.
As many others have stated. Show previous work. If you don't have previous work, get a job that will give you experience. I have no college degree. I barely graduated high school due to lack of interest, etc. 10 years later I'm in my prime, making decent pay at a company that is totally awesome to work for.
This is simply not true for code written by a professional and competent Java developer (note: part of my consulting gig means I code Java on a professional basis).
If you write only to the public APIs then Java truly is Write-Once-Run-Anywhere (although some bad Java developers use internal functionality that can change between Java versions - I'm guessing that perhaps these folks are used to coding to the Undocumented APIs of Win32 that you used to have to use to get things done). In Java you shouldn't do this. IIRC, Sun created around ten thousand unit tests to ensure Java worked correctly on each platform (wonderful, they did all the porting and port testing effort so Java developers don't have to).
Aside from my professional coding (where Java written on a Mac works flawlessly when deployed to Linux and Windows servers) in my spare time I'm working on modern jet air combat simulator in Java. The same Java+JoGL code works flawlessly on Mac, Linux and Windows. Any differences are in capabilities/performance of individual graphics cards (AMD/ATI vs NVidia).
This article about being able to write Java for the GPU is very interesting, since writing shaders via OpenGL is a little bit of a PITA (there is an impedance mismatch between the conventions of Java, OpenGL and GLSL - it would be fabulous to just write in Java [akin to how I can do this on the Web using Google Web Toolkit]).
So I don't think your statement is really true - except for buggy software written by developers who have bad simple-platform habits.
I would tend to disagree. Why? Because companies like cisco, ibm, etc. all only certify certain versions of java for use in their applications. The cisco apps are cross platform but do NOT play well with different versions of java. I'm not a java expert (I'm a C#/RoR guy) but if fortune 500 companies can't get it right, can you really say that java is cross version compatible?
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Degrees are overrated. No seriously. I don't have a degree, yet I've had no problem finding employment with a competitive salary. Even companies that claim to require a degree actually don't. Most companies I've worked with look for someone that has the ability to solve problems. You don't have to know everything about a language even, you just need to be able to use your brain to find the answers (as well as resources such as the internet, etc.)
This is false. My wife can eat 1200 calories on a given day and still gain weight. I can eat 3500 calories in a day and still lose weight. The issue is the level that your body is able to break down certain foods. Example: Eat a 2000 calorie meal. Just because the meal is 2000 calories doesn't mean that 2000 calories go into your body. Certain fats, proteins, etc. don't break down in each person the same way. One person might get 1800 calories from that meal, another person 1300. Also, insulin levels and the like prevent you from burning fat.
Sorry for the crap spelling folks...1am here...good night all.
Call me crazy, but i think we spend too much time on complex OOP based code. No I'm not making this up, I might know more languages than you, but I've also had the unfortunate opportunity of working on more shit code than most people. We need to go back to basics. When a company can hire a 3rd party team to write a 3rd party CRM cheaper than it is to modify an internal CRM there is a problem. Pay attention to this next part: When a class library becomes so complex it takes more time to maintain the library than to write new functionality, you have a problem. It should be easy to understand a code-base without spending days learning an API. code needs to be more adaptable to chancing situations. When a pharma company can spend $600,000 per year to maintain a 3rd party CRM because a first party CRM costs millions to mod, there is a problem. Just my observation though. *glares at top 20 pharma companies* thx for the awesome paycheck.
I gave up and moved to gmail. Gmail will let you pull in mail from most pop/imap servers.
They did say this though...maybe not as much as other mags, but they gave some games a bad review. For a Nintendo sponsored mag they did a damn good job. Nintendo Power was AMAZING for me as a kid. I'll never forget the ultimate free-bee...Dragon Warrior for the NES in exchange for a $15/year subscription...
Not to advocate a particular site, but http://www.wirecare.com/ has PLENTY of solutions for cable management. They tend to carry a lot of Techflex stuff, such as braided sleeving, etc. that really help out with cable management.
Pics or it didn't happen.
I'm afraid to say, you guys are doing it wrong. Currently building an eCommerce platform that scales across any server, even if said servers are across multiple providers. Oh and it'll only cost us about a hundred bucks a month. The cloud isn't about throwaway computing, the cloud is about scalable applications. If you use EC2 for static hosting you are doing it wrong.
My afternoon did totally suck, but only because we use AWS.
I agree. Most of the stuff that presidential candidates say never comes to pass when they are elected. The solution to our debt problem really is simple. Close all of the tax loopholes. Make sure that capital gains are taxed accordingly. Tax ALL assets, foreign or domestic. If you do business in the US 100% of your profit should be taxable. The problem is that most of the politicians that get elected are millionaires and could care less about the rest of us.
I don't think the law is ridiculous. Misplaced maybe, but seeing the number of overweight people in our society makes me think that these types of laws are needed. I wish that weren't the case.
I had always assumed that there was an approval process that looked for this type of stuff. I guess i was wrong?
www.stardock.com -- grab start8 and never look at metro again.
Clearly he hasn't heard of Mars One
Not likely, eventually everyone will have judgements against everyone, and then everyone will cross license. Net effect: Lawyers win, everyone else loses.
This is false. Right off hand I can name at least 10 different smartphone manufacturers. Motorola, LG, HTC, Samsung, Nokia, RIM, Apple, Sony, Dell, and Kyocera Eliminating 1 of 10 would be 10%, not 33%
There is always another lemming who believes that apple offers a 'user experience'. PCs are popular because people feel they have a choice. If they want to buy software from staples they can. Amazon? sure. With apple, there is only one place you can get your software, and only a very limited selection of dealers to get your hardware from. Only 1 vendor makes iPhones. My Galaxy S III rocks apple's world. I own an iPod Touch, and i have friends with iPhones. They constantly drool over the awesome camera and the fact that I can build/deploy my own apps without worshiping Apple. I'm not saying that apple doesn't make semi decent stuff, but anyone who claims that a closed platform delivers more than an open platform is just trying to troll.
Funny you mention fox...fire. Everyone i know calls it that...why?
I can't wait. Hopefully this will help put the final nail in the coffin for non compliant browsers and we can all move on with our lives. Do you know how much time and effort it takes to get a site working on IE6-8? The answer is: too much.
As many others have stated. Show previous work. If you don't have previous work, get a job that will give you experience. I have no college degree. I barely graduated high school due to lack of interest, etc. 10 years later I'm in my prime, making decent pay at a company that is totally awesome to work for.
rather, the url is http://richard.blogdns.com/posts/bring-back-the-start-menu-in-windows-8#.UEAyHxIj4us
Especially now that Start8 emulates the classic start menu.
IIRC Amazon has successfully sued (and won) over the one click patent in the past. I could be wrong though.
This is simply not true for code written by a professional and competent Java developer (note: part of my consulting gig means I code Java on a professional basis).
If you write only to the public APIs then Java truly is Write-Once-Run-Anywhere (although some bad Java developers use internal functionality that can change between Java versions - I'm guessing that perhaps these folks are used to coding to the Undocumented APIs of Win32 that you used to have to use to get things done). In Java you shouldn't do this. IIRC, Sun created around ten thousand unit tests to ensure Java worked correctly on each platform (wonderful, they did all the porting and port testing effort so Java developers don't have to).
Aside from my professional coding (where Java written on a Mac works flawlessly when deployed to Linux and Windows servers) in my spare time I'm working on modern jet air combat simulator in Java. The same Java+JoGL code works flawlessly on Mac, Linux and Windows. Any differences are in capabilities/performance of individual graphics cards (AMD/ATI vs NVidia).
This article about being able to write Java for the GPU is very interesting, since writing shaders via OpenGL is a little bit of a PITA (there is an impedance mismatch between the conventions of Java, OpenGL and GLSL - it would be fabulous to just write in Java [akin to how I can do this on the Web using Google Web Toolkit]).
So I don't think your statement is really true - except for buggy software written by developers who have bad simple-platform habits.
I would tend to disagree. Why? Because companies like cisco, ibm, etc. all only certify certain versions of java for use in their applications. The cisco apps are cross platform but do NOT play well with different versions of java. I'm not a java expert (I'm a C#/RoR guy) but if fortune 500 companies can't get it right, can you really say that java is cross version compatible?