Gee, that sounded so exciting. All this talk about images. If the editors had bothered to click the github link, they'd have seen this on the first page:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides select datasets of information on more than 420,000 artworks in its Collection for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use....
Images not included
Images are not included and are not part of the dataset. Companion artworks listed in the dataset covered by the policy are identified in the Collection section of the Museum’s website with the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) icon.
It's metadata. No pictures. Hence the wikipedia links in the lame and misleading article.
Interesting. Well, that's all the more reason we can't afford to let Chrome become the only browser left standing. Monopolies kill innovation and progress.
Personally, I just don't see why anyone would prefer Chrome over Firefox for everyday browsing. I'm not saying it's bad. It works great in my experience. Each browser has its pluses for developers and/or power users. But I'd say that neither browser is markedly better for the average user.
If not for the fact that Google keeps trying to shove it down everyone's throats, Microsoft-style, I doubt it'd have taken over the market. Sure helps to have a company with deep pockets behind you, doesn't it?
I don't use Firefox on my mobile devices, though, because it just plain works poorly for me.
I also use FF (almost) exclusively for browsing on the desktop, but unlike you I do use Firefox on my Android phone. For me it definitely looks and works better than Chrome. But I never use FF for UI development anymore. The dev tools suck, and even just using them slows the whole browser down to the point it's unusable, unless you only have one or two tabs open.
Chrome definitely wins the contest for the best developer's browser. But all the better... I use superfast Chrome for development, and when it crashes or something goes wrong with my code, I can kill the browser without having to kill the browser I actually use for browsing. And of course, unlike some devs I know, I eventually test all my code with Firefox, my browser of choice.
I do mourn Firefox's ever-increasing irrelevance, but I don't mourn the passing of this dumb "Firefox everywhere" initiative. But we've been headed this direction before... remember Mozilla? Not the company, but the bloatware that Firefox replaced? Firefox still hasn't gotten anywhere near that bad (and in fact, it continues to get better, even as it continues to lose market share... thanks in no small part, I'm sure, to Mozilla's lack of focus on its core products). So maybe there's hope that something awesome will get pulled out of what's left of Mozilla before Chrome's growing dominance turns it into the next IE.
Speaking of Mozilla (the company), I also use Thunderbird exclusively as an email client. Though it's not very actively developed, it doesn't need to be. It's a solid email client, and email isn't exactly a moving target like the web.
Linux biggest problem is that they (Distro makers) were never willing to raise some serious money and actually try.
Yeah, it's a little hard to "sell" something for free and compete with the $$ marketing campaigns of major closed-source companies. Want to tell us about how easy it is for you to raise some "serious money"? I mean, whenever you decide you're willing to raise it.
Flat, high contrast UI is what's "in," get with it.
I'll stop here as I could list about 10 serious issues such as these.
Um, yeah. If you think adopting the latest gee-whiz, touch screen-obsessed, desktop-crippling, dumbed-down UI on a desktop OS is a "serious" issue, I'm pretty sure I don't care to hear about your other 8 "serious" issues.
Once in a rare while I install and open some old app that's no longer in development and is stuck with some old turn-of-the-century GTK/GTK2 UI. So ugly! Yes, things were crappy in 2000. You couldn't even install a popular Linux distro and expect it to "just work". Hard to imagine that today!
The only trouble I have with Linux (I currently use Ubuntu) is a recent regression on my MacBook Pro--used to work perfectly, and still does on the Mac Mini I'm using this very moment. But even with some ACPI issues on the laptop I'm happy I don't have to use OSX on it. But sorry, I digress. I was talking about actual functional issues, nothing as "serious" as the latest high-contrast, flat UI fashion.
As for the UI... yes, things sure have improved a lot in the UI/UX world in the past 17 years, except in the MS world which seems seems to have been devolving for a few years at least, and I commend Linux distros not keeping up with touch-obsessed disgraces like the Aero/Metro UI that looks like a card game or something.
Wrong. Linux Mint beats Ubuntu''s UI in every way. No fucking 'tiles' cluttering the screen and you can open as many instances as you like. Ubuntu copied all the UI errors of ms.
"Tiles"? In Ubuntu? What on earth are you talking about?
There are almost 300 million people in the US over the age of 14. And to steal a line from George Carlin, consider how dumb the average person is, and then realize that half the population is dumber than that.
I've always thought that was a good joke, except that Carlin was conflating the ideas of "mean" (aka average) and "median".
Though I did see in an old magazine (Mother earth news?) where someone rigged up a stove in their car to generate CO to burn in the engine. Don't know how true the article it was, or how well the car ran...
Oh yes, "wood gas" engines are a real thing.
The process of using oxygen starved combustion to turn organic material into a combustible gas has been known for 175 years. Gustav Bischof built the first wood gasifier in 1839. By the turn of the 20th century, before the use of natural gas started proliferating in the 1930s, in many municipalities syngas produced from coal was centrally produced and distributed via pipelines to homes and businesses to use for heating and cooking. In 1901, Thomas Parker made the first vehicle powered by wood gas.
Yesterday I ridiculed someone for complaining about an [un]related article link, because one line at the bottom of a summary seemed like such a stupid thing to complain about. It's still think it's a stupid thing to complain about. Why would this drive anyone away? I'm sure most of the people who would be driven away by stupid things said on slashdot would have left after their first visit.
But I have to concede that this was the stupidest, completely un-related "related" link I've seen yet. I almost felt inspired to complain, myself.
Perhaps the "HD" in "BeauHD" is meant to imply that Beau is the Definition of "High"?
P.S. OzPeter, To answer your second question, milk is mostly water, and water is mostly (by atomic proportion) hydrogen.:D P.P.S. Yes, I'm Slashdot too. Nice to meet ya.
Damn, some of you people are really fucking uptight! I mean really, how many decimal places to you need to quantify the percentage of your day that was wasted by reading that one "in other vaguely-related news..." sentence? Most of the time, the related-news tie in seems pretty relevant (like today, one Amazon story mentions another Amazon story). Other times, like this, not so much. So what? Are you going to ask for a refund?
Next time try complaining about something that actually matters. Or better yet, do something to make the world a better place.
Subsonic fulfils all my needs (mostly audio), and has a fine Android app (also iOS but I've never seen that one), a nice-looking, built-in web app, and is supported by other third-party music players (I use Clementine).
I know you asked for a "device", but if you have a net-enabled device that can run Java, this is a pretty solid option. It was easy to set up (unlike Ampache, which I tried which was pretty useless). YMMV
You have real buttons, adjacent to your late-model Apple touchpad? Fancy! Are they above the touchpad, or below? I prefer to have them below, myself.
On this MacBook, Apple continues with their misguided idea (started with the almost universally-loathed Abominable Puck mouse on the original iMac) that one button should be enough for everyone. Except they decided that this crappy, somewhat tilty touchpad should pretend that the whole thing is a button--better yet, it should pretend to be *multiple* buttons, depending on where your finger is when you click... yet with no haptic indication whatsoever of where to actually place that finger for a left/middle/right click (and woe betide the hapless user who accidentally lets another finger touch the pad while attempting a middle- or right-click).
As one deeply learned and wise person once said on the internets, you "just gotta know where they are".
If that's what you have, and you like it, fine. I have no argument with your subjective opinion. I said, objectively, that this touchpad has no real buttons.
The Magic/Mighty Mouse is almost as bad, but at least I find it usable most of the time... even though it, likewise, has no real buttons.
I forget. Why are we arguing about this? Oh right, you're trying to tell me that I'm ignorant. But unless you're the idiot who designed this thing, I really have no issue with you. I'm happy for you that you like it. Rock on!
MacBook's not Wintel, but it's still Intel, so there's no reason you need to have OS X on it. I slapped Ubuntu 16.04 on the recent-model MacBook Pro supplied by my employer, and now it works great and is easy to use.
Well, other than the stupid fucking buttonless touchpad...
And you get lots of positive reviews by doing positive things, like serving great food and having great service, not by hiring a bunch of people who have never been to your restaurant to write good reviews.
...or, you could just go the easier/more effective route: Give in to Yelp's blackmail, and pay them to ensure the bad reviews are suppressed.
Since Yelp is already working to negatively "manage" your reputation unless you pay up, paying them doesn't make you a bad person (any more than it does to pay a ransom to preserve something/someone else dear to you). It's just effectively working to manage your reputation, under unfortunate circumstances.
Sun was no saintly operation, to be sure. I worked there briefly and hated every moment of the mega-corporate lifestyle (not to mention lack of a sense of direction), and went back to working for small companies. I was never a fan of Scott McNealy, but of course it was (and is) difficult to despise anyone more than Larry Ellison.
There were a lot of good people working at Sun, and they accomplished some great stuff, but I have to admit the only reason I wax nostalgic for the company is because I do lot of work with Java (though I thankfully there is OpenJDK) and I feel a sense of shame to be even *that* loosely associated with Oracle.
Yes, I totally agree--it was a hasty reply. I was talking specifically about the horrors of combining 'view' concerns (content--i.e, HTML) with logic (JS/PHP/ASP/JSP/JSF/UGH/WTF). Modern good practices dictate that you don't even combine CSS with HTML anymore.
Whether you do MVC or some other variant, views should never contain more than the most minimal amount of code (e.g. some templating/looping logic). It makes internationalization a nightmare (though if you never expect your project to succeed, that's probably not a concern), and the people you have writing and laying out the content shouldn't be expected to understand (and not break) all the embedded hackery.
That is what makes PHP and other hybrids of its ilk so awful, before we even get into debating the merits of the languages themselves.
And as for the PHP language... well, once you require me to place a non-alphanumeric character at the start of every identifier, you've already turned me off. 100s of other languages prove that syntax parsing isn't actually that hard. I'll keep the dollars in my bank account, and out of my code. But if PHP didn't this $silly obsession with dollar signs, there would be (well, there are) plenty of other valid criticisms.
PHP was pretty cool in the 90s. Some people obviously still find it useful, others are stuck with it (largely thanks to that whole 'rapid prototyping' angle).
At the moment, my current favorite application architecture is Dropwizard + Backbone. Solid, scalable and EASY.
A big part of the appeal of PHP was how it could be mixed in to HTML documents to make a mess of server side and client side code.
Very appropriate choice of words. I hope I'm never asked to make such a mess (i.e., write code in PHP or JSP), ever again. Separation of concerns is key to maintainability, and this style of development is obsolete.
I don't know about the "jobdiva" site mentioned at the "norecruitingspam" site, but I can certainly relate to getting too many unsolicited requests for my latest resume for "amazing opportunities" somewhere across the country. Obviously you didn't read my resume, asshole--it links to my web site, which always features... my latest resume!
Once I get more than one such email from the same domain, I just add 'em to my Postfix blacklist (surely I can't be the only engineer who still runs his own mail server?).
Sometimes I'll even add them after the first email (if there's any legit recruiter named "Satish Kumar", I'm sorry about the unfortunate coincidence).
Here's what my blacklist looks like at the moment:
panzersolutions.com 550 Your mail server has been blocked due to abuse. intellisofttech.com 550 Your mail server has been blocked due to abuse. Satish Kumar. intellisoft.com 550 Your mail server has been blocked due to abuse. Satish Kumar. adaequare.com 550 Your mail server has been blocked due to abuse. Satish Kumar. talentedit.com 550 Your mail server has been blocked due to abuse. Satish Kumar. bzm.mobi 550 Your mail server has been blocked due to abuse zoniac1.nmsrv.com 550 Your mail server has been blocked due to abuse epro-consulting.com 550 Your mail server has been blocked due to abuse (sending the same message twice to the same user on one day). Arunkumar.D
Also, anyone who clearly hasn't read my resume (I know nothing whatsoever about Informatica... I just worked at a place with "Informatica" in the name) gets blacklisted. If you don't read my resume, you're lazy, and you're spamming. If you do read my resume, you'll also see the bit (in the first paragraph) about having little interest in working outside my city limits, and absolutely no interest in relocating. That alone has greatly reduced the far-away recruiter solicitations.
I used to work with big outfits like Tek Systems, but I've asked them to leave me alone (unlike the spammers, they will actually listen). Nothing wrong with them; I just decided I'd rather support local businesses. I've found two local recruiters, working for local companies (or self-employed) based here in my city. Both of them have gotten me great jobs. Any persistent out-of-state recruiters (who aren't named Satish Kumar) get a polite response explaining that I'm not looking for new recruiters. Any half-way decent company will respect that. I really don't get that many unsolicited offers anymore, and the ones I do get tend to be more interesting.
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Gee, that sounded so exciting. All this talk about images. If the editors had bothered to click the github link, they'd have seen this on the first page:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides select datasets of information on more than 420,000 artworks in its Collection for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use. ...
Images not included
Images are not included and are not part of the dataset. Companion artworks listed in the dataset covered by the policy are identified in the Collection section of the Museum’s website with the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) icon.
It's metadata. No pictures. Hence the wikipedia links in the lame and misleading article.
Interesting. Well, that's all the more reason we can't afford to let Chrome become the only browser left standing. Monopolies kill innovation and progress.
Personally, I just don't see why anyone would prefer Chrome over Firefox for everyday browsing. I'm not saying it's bad. It works great in my experience. Each browser has its pluses for developers and/or power users. But I'd say that neither browser is markedly better for the average user.
If not for the fact that Google keeps trying to shove it down everyone's throats, Microsoft-style, I doubt it'd have taken over the market. Sure helps to have a company with deep pockets behind you, doesn't it?
I don't use Firefox on my mobile devices, though, because it just plain works poorly for me.
I also use FF (almost) exclusively for browsing on the desktop, but unlike you I do use Firefox on my Android phone. For me it definitely looks and works better than Chrome. But I never use FF for UI development anymore. The dev tools suck, and even just using them slows the whole browser down to the point it's unusable, unless you only have one or two tabs open.
Chrome definitely wins the contest for the best developer's browser. But all the better... I use superfast Chrome for development, and when it crashes or something goes wrong with my code, I can kill the browser without having to kill the browser I actually use for browsing. And of course, unlike some devs I know, I eventually test all my code with Firefox, my browser of choice.
I do mourn Firefox's ever-increasing irrelevance, but I don't mourn the passing of this dumb "Firefox everywhere" initiative. But we've been headed this direction before... remember Mozilla? Not the company, but the bloatware that Firefox replaced? Firefox still hasn't gotten anywhere near that bad (and in fact, it continues to get better, even as it continues to lose market share... thanks in no small part, I'm sure, to Mozilla's lack of focus on its core products). So maybe there's hope that something awesome will get pulled out of what's left of Mozilla before Chrome's growing dominance turns it into the next IE.
Speaking of Mozilla (the company), I also use Thunderbird exclusively as an email client. Though it's not very actively developed, it doesn't need to be. It's a solid email client, and email isn't exactly a moving target like the web.
Linux biggest problem is that they (Distro makers) were never willing to raise some serious money and actually try.
Yeah, it's a little hard to "sell" something for free and compete with the $$ marketing campaigns of major closed-source companies. Want to tell us about how easy it is for you to raise some "serious money"? I mean, whenever you decide you're willing to raise it.
Flat, high contrast UI is what's "in," get with it.
I'll stop here as I could list about 10 serious issues such as these.
Um, yeah. If you think adopting the latest gee-whiz, touch screen-obsessed, desktop-crippling, dumbed-down UI on a desktop OS is a "serious" issue, I'm pretty sure I don't care to hear about your other 8 "serious" issues.
Once in a rare while I install and open some old app that's no longer in development and is stuck with some old turn-of-the-century GTK/GTK2 UI. So ugly! Yes, things were crappy in 2000. You couldn't even install a popular Linux distro and expect it to "just work". Hard to imagine that today!
The only trouble I have with Linux (I currently use Ubuntu) is a recent regression on my MacBook Pro--used to work perfectly, and still does on the Mac Mini I'm using this very moment. But even with some ACPI issues on the laptop I'm happy I don't have to use OSX on it. But sorry, I digress. I was talking about actual functional issues, nothing as "serious" as the latest high-contrast, flat UI fashion.
As for the UI... yes, things sure have improved a lot in the UI/UX world in the past 17 years, except in the MS world which seems seems to have been devolving for a few years at least, and I commend Linux distros not keeping up with touch-obsessed disgraces like the Aero/Metro UI that looks like a card game or something.
Wrong. Linux Mint beats Ubuntu''s UI in every way. No fucking 'tiles' cluttering the screen and you can open as many instances as you like. Ubuntu copied all the UI errors of ms.
"Tiles"? In Ubuntu? What on earth are you talking about?
Interesting. Thanks for clarifying that. Sigh--the world might be a much better place, if only the US were a multi-party democracy.
And yes, I know that net neutrality's death warrant was signed when Sanders lost the democratic primary (and is likely never coming back).
But the "digital divide" talk sounded surprisingly progressive for anyone coming from Big Telecom.
Right. Especially since he was originally an Obama appointee--which you'd expect would have gotten him fired, not promoted.
Madoff went to prison, and will be there for the rest of his life. He was no "pleb".
The exception proves the rule, as they say.
I've always thought that was a good joke, except that Carlin was conflating the ideas of "mean" (aka average) and "median".
Here is the link: https://www.justice.gov/usao-n...
Say what? 2000 called, and they want you stop trying to install their linuxes.
What a ridiculous rant, from someone who obviously has little to no experience with Ubuntu or any of the other more popular, modern distros.
Though I did see in an old magazine (Mother earth news?) where someone rigged up a stove in their car to generate CO to burn in the engine. Don't know how true the article it was, or how well the car ran...
Oh yes, "wood gas" engines are a real thing.
Source: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.c...
Yesterday I ridiculed someone for complaining about an [un]related article link, because one line at the bottom of a summary seemed like such a stupid thing to complain about. It's still think it's a stupid thing to complain about. Why would this drive anyone away? I'm sure most of the people who would be driven away by stupid things said on slashdot would have left after their first visit.
But I have to concede that this was the stupidest, completely un-related "related" link I've seen yet. I almost felt inspired to complain, myself.
Perhaps the "HD" in "BeauHD" is meant to imply that Beau is the Definition of "High"?
P.S. OzPeter, To answer your second question, milk is mostly water, and water is mostly (by atomic proportion) hydrogen. :D
P.P.S. Yes, I'm Slashdot too. Nice to meet ya.
Damn, some of you people are really fucking uptight! I mean really, how many decimal places to you need to quantify the percentage of your day that was wasted by reading that one "in other vaguely-related news..." sentence? Most of the time, the related-news tie in seems pretty relevant (like today, one Amazon story mentions another Amazon story). Other times, like this, not so much. So what? Are you going to ask for a refund?
Next time try complaining about something that actually matters. Or better yet, do something to make the world a better place.
Subsonic fulfils all my needs (mostly audio), and has a fine Android app (also iOS but I've never seen that one), a nice-looking, built-in web app, and is supported by other third-party music players (I use Clementine).
http://www.subsonic.org/
I know you asked for a "device", but if you have a net-enabled device that can run Java, this is a pretty solid option. It was easy to set up (unlike Ampache, which I tried which was pretty useless). YMMV
You have real buttons, adjacent to your late-model Apple touchpad? Fancy! Are they above the touchpad, or below? I prefer to have them below, myself.
On this MacBook, Apple continues with their misguided idea (started with the almost universally-loathed Abominable Puck mouse on the original iMac) that one button should be enough for everyone. Except they decided that this crappy, somewhat tilty touchpad should pretend that the whole thing is a button--better yet, it should pretend to be *multiple* buttons, depending on where your finger is when you click... yet with no haptic indication whatsoever of where to actually place that finger for a left/middle/right click (and woe betide the hapless user who accidentally lets another finger touch the pad while attempting a middle- or right-click).
As one deeply learned and wise person once said on the internets, you "just gotta know where they are".
If that's what you have, and you like it, fine. I have no argument with your subjective opinion. I said, objectively, that this touchpad has no real buttons.
The Magic/Mighty Mouse is almost as bad, but at least I find it usable most of the time... even though it, likewise, has no real buttons.
I forget. Why are we arguing about this? Oh right, you're trying to tell me that I'm ignorant. But unless you're the idiot who designed this thing, I really have no issue with you. I'm happy for you that you like it. Rock on!
https://www.google.com/#q=defi...
I made no complaint about Ubuntu's support for the touchpad, dipshit AC. Multi-touch scrolling etc. works fine.
It's just a fucking crappy touchpad, full stop. It has no real buttons--like I said the first time.
MacBook's not Wintel, but it's still Intel, so there's no reason you need to have OS X on it. I slapped Ubuntu 16.04 on the recent-model MacBook Pro supplied by my employer, and now it works great and is easy to use.
Well, other than the stupid fucking buttonless touchpad...
And you get lots of positive reviews by doing positive things, like serving great food and having great service, not by hiring a bunch of people who have never been to your restaurant to write good reviews.
...or, you could just go the easier/more effective route: Give in to Yelp's blackmail, and pay them to ensure the bad reviews are suppressed.
Since Yelp is already working to negatively "manage" your reputation unless you pay up, paying them doesn't make you a bad person (any more than it does to pay a ransom to preserve something/someone else dear to you). It's just effectively working to manage your reputation, under unfortunate circumstances.
Sun was no saintly operation, to be sure. I worked there briefly and hated every moment of the mega-corporate lifestyle (not to mention lack of a sense of direction), and went back to working for small companies. I was never a fan of Scott McNealy, but of course it was (and is) difficult to despise anyone more than Larry Ellison.
There were a lot of good people working at Sun, and they accomplished some great stuff, but I have to admit the only reason I wax nostalgic for the company is because I do lot of work with Java (though I thankfully there is OpenJDK) and I feel a sense of shame to be even *that* loosely associated with Oracle.
At first, I read that as "Oracle Has 'Destroyed' the Market For Java"... which, of course, seemed quite plausible.
RIP SUN
Yes, I totally agree--it was a hasty reply. I was talking specifically about the horrors of combining 'view' concerns (content--i.e, HTML) with logic (JS/PHP/ASP/JSP/JSF/UGH/WTF). Modern good practices dictate that you don't even combine CSS with HTML anymore.
Whether you do MVC or some other variant, views should never contain more than the most minimal amount of code (e.g. some templating/looping logic). It makes internationalization a nightmare (though if you never expect your project to succeed, that's probably not a concern), and the people you have writing and laying out the content shouldn't be expected to understand (and not break) all the embedded hackery.
That is what makes PHP and other hybrids of its ilk so awful, before we even get into debating the merits of the languages themselves.
And as for the PHP language... well, once you require me to place a non-alphanumeric character at the start of every identifier, you've already turned me off. 100s of other languages prove that syntax parsing isn't actually that hard. I'll keep the dollars in my bank account, and out of my code. But if PHP didn't this $silly obsession with dollar signs, there would be (well, there are) plenty of other valid criticisms.
PHP was pretty cool in the 90s. Some people obviously still find it useful, others are stuck with it (largely thanks to that whole 'rapid prototyping' angle).
At the moment, my current favorite application architecture is Dropwizard + Backbone. Solid, scalable and EASY.
A big part of the appeal of PHP was how it could be mixed in to HTML documents to make a mess of server side and client side code.
Very appropriate choice of words. I hope I'm never asked to make such a mess (i.e., write code in PHP or JSP), ever again. Separation of concerns is key to maintainability, and this style of development is obsolete.
The best way to crack down on this is to use the "Report inappropriate content" on every page that Sourceforge has that provides contaminated content.
Which will help ensure that... the folks at Sourceforge know that they're a bunch of despicable assholes?
I don't know about the "jobdiva" site mentioned at the "norecruitingspam" site, but I can certainly relate to getting too many unsolicited requests for my latest resume for "amazing opportunities" somewhere across the country. Obviously you didn't read my resume, asshole--it links to my web site, which always features... my latest resume!
Once I get more than one such email from the same domain, I just add 'em to my Postfix blacklist (surely I can't be the only engineer who still runs his own mail server?).
Sometimes I'll even add them after the first email (if there's any legit recruiter named "Satish Kumar", I'm sorry about the unfortunate coincidence).
Here's what my blacklist looks like at the moment:
Also, anyone who clearly hasn't read my resume (I know nothing whatsoever about Informatica... I just worked at a place with "Informatica" in the name) gets blacklisted. If you don't read my resume, you're lazy, and you're spamming. If you do read my resume, you'll also see the bit (in the first paragraph) about having little interest in working outside my city limits, and absolutely no interest in relocating. That alone has greatly reduced the far-away recruiter solicitations.
I used to work with big outfits like Tek Systems, but I've asked them to leave me alone (unlike the spammers, they will actually listen). Nothing wrong with them; I just decided I'd rather support local businesses. I've found two local recruiters, working for local companies (or self-employed) based here in my city. Both of them have gotten me great jobs. Any persistent out-of-state recruiters (who aren't named Satish Kumar) get a polite response explaining that I'm not looking for new recruiters. Any half-way decent company will respect that. I really don't get that many unsolicited offers anymore, and the ones I do get tend to be more interesting.