Be willing. One advantage that you have over older, experienced competition is that you're young, healthy, idealistic, unmarried, and have no children. Your ability and willingness to put in long hours can offset some of your lack of experience. Convey your enthusiasm with your during phone screens and live interviews.
Advertise any personal projects or interests. I always take note of an entry-level candidate that has put effort into a project that they take pride in, whether it's a personal project, a school project, or blog postings. It doesn't necessarily have to be technical. It's a great differentiator and a glimpse beyond the resume into what motivates you.
Send a reasonably professional email. Send your job-seeking email to yourself and examine it in your inbox. Preferably, your name appears in the format "John Doe", not "deeznutz23235@aol.com", "john", JohnnyBoy", or "JOHN DOE" . The subject line, if not predetermined by the reply mechanism, should be the title of the position for which you're applying. It should not be "Hi" or "Interested".
Include testimonials. If you have a good GPA (>3.5) or recommendations from professors or your landscaping boss, include them.
Avoid rambling answers. Part of what you're being evaluated on is the ability to articulate concepts clearly.
Bullshitting is lethal. Once you start bullshitting, you're wandering a minefield with a blindfold on and every step can blow apart your credibility. Stick to the map. If you say "I have hands-on experience with X" and when I start probing about X, that turns into "I have some passing exposure to X" you will have committed lethal bullshitting.
Be prepared for the unprepared interviewer. Have a two-minute summary of yourself prepared. Have a handful of genuine questions ready, i.e. not the vague, generic questions like "What do you like best about working here?" but things that you're genuinely curious about, like maybe "What IDE does everyone use here? What database technology in production?"
Discovering stuff that's on the network is only part of the story for me. What techniques and tools are people using for tracking hardware that isn't on the wire (i.e. in a storeroom or still in a carton)? Does it involve barcoding or RFID?
The only way for the closed time loop which created Skynet to be broken is if the Terminator is completely destroyed such that no trace of its existance can be found. This happened in the last scene of Terminator 2, which is why the story ended there and no effort was made to make a second sequel, TV series, or anything else like that.
This is inaccurate. In T2, the T-1000 jams the T-800's arm into a gear to immobilize him. The T-800 uses a makeshift crowbar to sever the trapped arm and free himself. This severed arm was never destroyed.
Back in the day, I was amused by a criticism of Gamecube's relative lack of appeal versus the other consoles that said (paraphrase): "You can't win with games that your average high school boy would be embarrassed to be caught liking." In much the same way: MySpace can't win with an image that 30-somethings would be embarrassed to be associated with.
Maybe it's just the crowd I run with, but if you're 30+, there's a stigma attached to having a MySpace page, somewhat akin to wearing a letterman's jacket or greek letters around long after that life chapter has passed. Unless you're promoting your band.
Even if I conceded that consumer brand awareness was a notable force for programming frameworks (which is a pretty damn big leap), why should Sun throw good money after bad? What I mean is: Microsoft threw its massive marketing machine at sexing up.NET. The whole nation saw the fancy commercials and then said "Huh?" If we already have that datapoint, why would Sun go down that same road with their junior varsity marketing team?
I agree with the poster that said that Sun should focus on developer retention. Sun's agenda would be served best by having a lot of Java developers writing a lot of great Java software. Perhaps my perception is skewed by living in Seattle, firmly within Microsoft's "co-prosperity sphere", but Java developers are jumping to.NET in droves.
It's not that developers are saying "Screw Java", but there are tons of companies that have a lot of VB6/COM software that need to be upgraded. Their upgrade route is invariably to.NET, and often, the closest thing to a.NET developer is a Java developer.
Insightful? I object to the rating more than this ignorant troll!
1)Thrown out your Big Iron and spent an equivilent amount on a Windows cluster
Or maybe your company is one of the thousands that have battalions of MCSEs and volume licensing agreements with MS, so a Windows platform decision happens to make more sense.
I like the auto shop mentality though.
2) Hired a bunch of people without checking if they knew the language your system is built on
Huh?
3) Got paid off by Microsoft (ie: Uni. of Waterloo)
No, Lone Gunman-boy, it's usually the other way around; it'll cost you a couple grand to lay down your first line of.NET code. The MS camp isn't the one with free IDEs, open source OS and app servers, and free databases.
4) something "easy" instead of something "stable"
Any examples or metrics, or are you just pulling that out of your ass? I have many issues with the.NET Framework, but stability is not among them.
C# is the language of people who don't know how to fucking program. They like it because it works like VB for the GUI
You're really shooting your argument in the foot here. C# is such a direct ripoff of Java that one can change a few package and class names in Java source and compile it in.NET. Given this, you cannot throw shit at the C# language without getting a lot of it on Java.
alows them to do the stupid OO stuff they learned
Wow, you're totally showing your ass here. You're a Java/J2EE fanboy, but OO is "stupid" introductory stuff? Anybody see the Chappelle's Show sketch about Clayton Bigsby, the blind white supremacist who, unbeknownst to himself, is black?
They are the ones who use a 3 meg C# app to do the work of a 30 line perl script.
Ah, you're a perl man. I understand now why you eschew OO. Whenever perl guys throw down the "how many lines" thing, I think of that scene in the movie "Amadeus" when Emperor Joseph II tells Mozart that "There are too many notes." Shit, if I was half the developer you are, I would give my PM my estimates in number of lines, not number of hours. Why stop there? Code readability/maintainability and object-oriented archtecture have no place in enterprise software solutions, which explains why perl is sweeping the nation as the #1 language of choice for large enterprise apps.
You make an interesting point about "deification of Japanese culture". I've certainly observed the same thing, but I wouldn't go so far as to characterize it as self-loathing; Certain nations produce the best of a particular genre/image, be it German cars, Italian clothes, French cuisine, or Japanese cybercool. I'm sure we all know fanboys of one of those genres.
If you walk around a Japanese city, though, you cannot deny that the balance of cultural influence is tilted toward America, meaning that American "cool" pervades Japanese culture far more deeply and pervasively than the reverse. It's more than just America's superpower position in the world; America has been in Japan's national and cultural DNA since 1868. A little bit of anime-worship doesn't hold a candle to that!
There will always be much lost in translation, but as one fluent in both English and Japanese, I see plenty of preventable butchery, which I categorize thusly:
Incorrect translation. The scene in Ghost in the Shell where Kusanagi is "possessed" by the Puppetmaster and goes into a long lecture about the nature of life to Batou is a prime example. Listening to the English dub, it comes out sounding like nonsense. The subtitles are slightly better, but there seems to be no effort made to capture nuance...and Japanese is a very nuanced language.
Caricature voices and speaking. The marketroids that control English-language distribution must still feel that anime == cartoon. The childish voices (Rick Hunter in Robotech comes to mind) and conversely, the exaggerated adult voices, (ie. The Colonel in Akira) serve to trivialize the characters and stories.
Censorship. Kusanagi "is having her period." Tetsuo is "better off riding a chick" than Kaneda's bike. When shit happens, people say "shit" not "darn". English translations are like watching a network-TV version of the movie. Also, Japanese has a structured honorific-coarse spectrum of verbal expression which obviates swear words - one can be quite profane in Japanese by simply changing verb forms. The nuances of this may be approximated by injecting profanity into the English translation, which does not happen.
I'm disappointed that MS is not continuing to develop my primary pr0n client.
I know OE is not the "best" NNTP client, but I have not found a "better" one. There are some (like Agent) with nice features, but none of them conform to the expectations I have of a modern professional Windows application. Lets face it, Agent looks like a Windows 3.1 app, and I'm not going to touch any of those other homegrown "pr0n buddy" NNTP clients out there. OE sorta sucks, but it is intuitive, has standard Windows metaphors, menus, and keyboard shortcuts, and generally behaves like a good little Windows app. But perhaps the most compelling part of OE is that it is just _there_ with every installation.
Someone show me a good Win32 NNTP client, now that my hopes have been dashed by MS.
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Are you a programmer or developer?
programmer : developer:: carpenter : general contractor
If you want to be a programmer, accept the unrelenting siege of people who will stay up all hours coding for half your salary. The younger you are, the more likey it is that you will do this.
However, I have never seen young kids or low-cost overseas coder doing things that are required of developers. For example: driving a requirements-gathering process, insisting on design reviews, or battling a project manager for time and resources to QA their software.
In the realm of well-paid developers, we see the other side of the "ageism in IT."
As far as shops that subscribe to the ageist sweatshop philosophy described by the original poster: prepare for an expensive and punishing lesson.
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Discovering stuff that's on the network is only part of the story for me. What techniques and tools are people using for tracking hardware that isn't on the wire (i.e. in a storeroom or still in a carton)? Does it involve barcoding or RFID?
Mr Gadget points out that Gizmodo's report on these new screenshots are actually screenshots from months ago of iPhone 3.0 OS running on an ordinary iPhone 3G. http://www.mrgadget.com.au/gadget/2009/gizmodo-gets-it-wrong-just-iphone-30-os-screen-grabs/
This is inaccurate. In T2, the T-1000 jams the T-800's arm into a gear to immobilize him. The T-800 uses a makeshift crowbar to sever the trapped arm and free himself. This severed arm was never destroyed.
Back in the day, I was amused by a criticism of Gamecube's relative lack of appeal versus the other consoles that said (paraphrase): "You can't win with games that your average high school boy would be embarrassed to be caught liking." In much the same way: MySpace can't win with an image that 30-somethings would be embarrassed to be associated with. Maybe it's just the crowd I run with, but if you're 30+, there's a stigma attached to having a MySpace page, somewhat akin to wearing a letterman's jacket or greek letters around long after that life chapter has passed. Unless you're promoting your band.
Even if I conceded that consumer brand awareness was a notable force for programming frameworks (which is a pretty damn big leap), why should Sun throw good money after bad? What I mean is: Microsoft threw its massive marketing machine at sexing up .NET. The whole nation saw the fancy commercials and then said "Huh?" If we already have that datapoint, why would Sun go down that same road with their junior varsity marketing team?
.NET in droves.
.NET, and often, the closest thing to a .NET developer is a Java developer.
I agree with the poster that said that Sun should focus on developer retention. Sun's agenda would be served best by having a lot of Java developers writing a lot of great Java software. Perhaps my perception is skewed by living in Seattle, firmly within Microsoft's "co-prosperity sphere", but Java developers are jumping to
It's not that developers are saying "Screw Java", but there are tons of companies that have a lot of VB6/COM software that need to be upgraded. Their upgrade route is invariably to
Insightful? I object to the rating more than this ignorant troll!
.NET code. The MS camp isn't the one with free IDEs, open source OS and app servers, and free databases.
.NET Framework, but stability is not among them.
.NET. Given this, you cannot throw shit at the C# language without getting a lot of it on Java.
1)Thrown out your Big Iron and spent an equivilent amount on a Windows cluster
Or maybe your company is one of the thousands that have battalions of MCSEs and volume licensing agreements with MS, so a Windows platform decision happens to make more sense.
I like the auto shop mentality though.
2) Hired a bunch of people without checking if they knew the language your system is built on
Huh?
3) Got paid off by Microsoft (ie: Uni. of Waterloo)
No, Lone Gunman-boy, it's usually the other way around; it'll cost you a couple grand to lay down your first line of
4) something "easy" instead of something "stable"
Any examples or metrics, or are you just pulling that out of your ass? I have many issues with the
C# is the language of people who don't know how to fucking program. They like it because it works like VB for the GUI
You're really shooting your argument in the foot here. C# is such a direct ripoff of Java that one can change a few package and class names in Java source and compile it in
alows them to do the stupid OO stuff they learned
Wow, you're totally showing your ass here. You're a Java/J2EE fanboy, but OO is "stupid" introductory stuff? Anybody see the Chappelle's Show sketch about Clayton Bigsby, the blind white supremacist who, unbeknownst to himself, is black?
They are the ones who use a 3 meg C# app to do the work of a 30 line perl script.
Ah, you're a perl man. I understand now why you eschew OO. Whenever perl guys throw down the "how many lines" thing, I think of that scene in the movie "Amadeus" when Emperor Joseph II tells Mozart that "There are too many notes." Shit, if I was half the developer you are, I would give my PM my estimates in number of lines, not number of hours. Why stop there? Code readability/maintainability and object-oriented archtecture have no place in enterprise software solutions, which explains why perl is sweeping the nation as the #1 language of choice for large enterprise apps.
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If you walk around a Japanese city, though, you cannot deny that the balance of cultural influence is tilted toward America, meaning that American "cool" pervades Japanese culture far more deeply and pervasively than the reverse. It's more than just America's superpower position in the world; America has been in Japan's national and cultural DNA since 1868. A little bit of anime-worship doesn't hold a candle to that!
Ken Suzuki
Incorrect translation. The scene in Ghost in the Shell where Kusanagi is "possessed" by the Puppetmaster and goes into a long lecture about the nature of life to Batou is a prime example. Listening to the English dub, it comes out sounding like nonsense. The subtitles are slightly better, but there seems to be no effort made to capture nuance...and Japanese is a very nuanced language.
Caricature voices and speaking. The marketroids that control English-language distribution must still feel that anime == cartoon. The childish voices (Rick Hunter in Robotech comes to mind) and conversely, the exaggerated adult voices, (ie. The Colonel in Akira) serve to trivialize the characters and stories.
Censorship. Kusanagi "is having her period." Tetsuo is "better off riding a chick" than Kaneda's bike. When shit happens, people say "shit" not "darn". English translations are like watching a network-TV version of the movie.
Also, Japanese has a structured honorific-coarse spectrum of verbal expression which obviates swear words - one can be quite profane in Japanese by simply changing verb forms. The nuances of this may be approximated by injecting profanity into the English translation, which does not happen.
I'm disappointed that MS is not continuing to develop my primary pr0n client. I know OE is not the "best" NNTP client, but I have not found a "better" one. There are some (like Agent) with nice features, but none of them conform to the expectations I have of a modern professional Windows application. Lets face it, Agent looks like a Windows 3.1 app, and I'm not going to touch any of those other homegrown "pr0n buddy" NNTP clients out there. OE sorta sucks, but it is intuitive, has standard Windows metaphors, menus, and keyboard shortcuts, and generally behaves like a good little Windows app. But perhaps the most compelling part of OE is that it is just _there_ with every installation. Someone show me a good Win32 NNTP client, now that my hopes have been dashed by MS.
Are you a programmer or developer?
:: carpenter : general contractor
programmer : developer
If you want to be a programmer, accept the unrelenting siege of people who will stay up all hours coding for half your salary. The younger you are, the more likey it is that you will do this.
However, I have never seen young kids or low-cost overseas coder doing things that are required of developers. For example: driving a requirements-gathering process, insisting on design reviews, or battling a project manager for time and resources to QA their software.
In the realm of well-paid developers, we see the other side of the "ageism in IT."
As far as shops that subscribe to the ageist sweatshop philosophy described by the original poster: prepare for an expensive and punishing lesson.