Just a couple suggestions... most people in IT aren't very religious... I don't mind (lean deist myself), but some might... you may want to do some work on your personal website, assuming your name matches the site... It doesn't need to be perfect.. just a little nicer (there are templates to work with like bootstrap, even platforms like wordpress)... If you have personal projects to show off, etc.. throw them up on github (assuming you have the rights).
On your personal site, have an html copy of your resume, as well as a link to the MS-Word version. Name off every technology you've touched, and then in your work history, re-state what you've touched. If you aren't touching hardware, or interested in game dev, I would suggest picking up a more dynamic environment to program in. Flash is all but dead, though AS3 and JS correlate really well, and NodeJS, MongoDB, Web-UI dev is growing a lot, JS skills can get you placed....Net, or Java will net higher pay, but the time to build experience may well not be worth it.
I am not sure where you are located, but in the US, if you have more than 5 years of experience, and are any good, you should be able to find work for more than $30/hr, and if you are really good, you shouldn't be making less than $50/hr (More in some locations). The dot-com bust was a long time ago.. I was down and out for a year.. took a couple jobs at less than half what I made before, kept options open, and was willing to change jobs for opportunity and more money. Note: I'm in Phoenix, AZ... I know of lots of places hiring just the same. If you're in the sticks move to one of the top 20 largest cities (US), and you will find better paying, decent work.
When you're dealing with moving hardware, any software development really needs t be approached as a engineering discipline. Most software development needs to be approached as more of a craft, however. I wish more people simply understood the difference. Instead manager types tend to expect you to PFM* a solution.
True enough... no degree here.. self taught going on 17 years of professional dev... It is amazing how much a CS grad does not know... though the same goes for MS* certs. I think a lot of people just don't know how to work through real problems. For that matter.. dealing with supporting bad code... I spend about 1/3 of my time dealing with code I would just assume rip out, and replace.. sometimes I can refactor a little, sometimes more.. and sometimes you hold your nose and get the enhancement duck taped in place. Knowing how and when to do what.. that's what experience gives you.
Living in Arizona without DST it's more of a pain. The rest of the country should fall in line.. for that matter, Wouldn't mind seeing everyone go to URC/GMT and just accepting the sun comes up at different times, and offsetting business hours from high noon local.
I consider a drone strike to be along the lines of a missile strike, and Obama made more of these in his first term, that the four Presidents preceding him combined... I feel that this is unconscionable and can only indicate a disrespect for life, the risk to innocent civilians, and the population at large. There is a big difference between shooting a person with a bullet, and lobbing a shrapnel grenade, dropping a bomb, or firing a missile at a target. It's not just *deadly force* it's the risk to nearby civilians... Or should we just blow up a sky scraper in NYC the next time suspected terrorists are in there?
The fact is these kind of strikes in the "war" we are in, are pretty deplorable. I'm all for armored vehicles and sharp shooters taking out enemy combatants, but missile strikes should be reserved for those that are firing missiles back. It's overreach... just like dropping some nukes would be.
Hell, dropping a few nukes on Afghanistan would be pretty effective in removing any terrorist threats, and we wouldn't need to keep so many troops there. Why don't we just do that?
I think that the thought is that with the addition of NaCl apps, WebGL, and WebRTC on a fast enough machine, that you can have most of those apps in a sandboxed environment. And there is merit to that... considering how many people now use their tablet as their primary device.. I agree the price point is way off.. given the touch display, they could have a reduced CPU, and it might be enticing in the $800 price range.. but at $1300, I'd rather have a Macbook.
Yeah, I have a customizer-104, and one of the trackpoint models... I remember an old IBM thinkpad I had and how much I liked the trackpoint over the (at the time) heavy use of trackballs... I also thought it would be useful for when a mouse dies, etc... and it has been, just the same, I find it gets in the way of my typing far more than I actually use the thing. In generally it's mostly just in the way. I do love them both far more than the 10 years or so of crappy keyboards every 6-12 months I was buying another keyboard.. I've had these two for about 3 years now.
It's changed slightly.. the casing is a bit cheaper, and the backplane seems to be lighter... just the same, it's way better than the typical keyboards you see.
One bit of warning about the Unicomp keyboards (I run two), I would suspect the same for USB adapters... is they take a bit of power, so if your USB port isn't offering enough juice (500ma), you may want to pickup a USB adapter that has an additional power source (I've had to do this for use with my KVM at home). I have to say I love the things... I went through almost a decade of a new keyboard every 6-8 months, until I got a Unicomp 104-key... swear by them.
Simple: Using x264 doesn't protect, limit you from patent litigation. If you now deliver VP8 content over the internet, or support it in your browser, you aren't going to get sued into the ground by MPEG-LA. Google licensed it for royalty-free use by others.
Yeah... having spent over an hour to get a remote VNC session setup with my dad, I'll take Team Viewer... that said, something like LogMeIn personal/free works pretty well. I think once WebRTC supports some method of screen sharing, it may be the best option of all.
I will often go back and re-answer questions... There's nothing stopping you (or anyone else) from doing so. It's called a community... If you have a problem, participate.
Okay... not that I trust cross platform MS.. they did have some basic cross platform runtime and compiler bits close to launch... it was mainly a learning exercise, as there were alternatives (Mono, etc) around the same time... Portions of the Common Language Runtime center around specifying endian points for compatibility... of course favoring x86, but they were there... also, the interoperability for.Net (access to C libraries without a ton of boilerplate compiling per platform was a lot better).
I think the biggest hindrance to more ARM as a general computing device is that x86 came with BIOS descendant from IBM's... which is what offered compatibility... few ARM devices have a compatible loader, or device discovery. Once someone actually has more of that for ARM, we'll be much farther along. I do find that today's fastest ARM systems are probably enough (given enough memory and fast drive space)... my N7 is surprisingly good.
The funny thing is they've had bad experiences with other cars as well... I didn't find the review all that bad... if I wanted a roadster for around town (daily driving), and had that kind of money, the Tesla would be on my list. That said, there are some valid points... taking my "vacation to nowhere in particular" at the end of the month... 9 days of driving "wherever" (4 out, day 5 start back)... I don't think I could reasonably take such an unplanned trip with an EV.
I personally wasn't turned off at all from the Top Gear review.. I'd expect given all-out use, that most cars get less than half of their typical mileage on the track.
Agreed.. I think it's time that Acrobat simply open in read/view only mode.. no scripts, no forms active, unless you click the warning.. similar to what MS did with Word a decade ago... I use Sumatra on windows...
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It's wire fraud. Nobody needs to recognize the currency to prosecute for that.
Just a couple suggestions... most people in IT aren't very religious... I don't mind (lean deist myself), but some might... you may want to do some work on your personal website, assuming your name matches the site... It doesn't need to be perfect.. just a little nicer (there are templates to work with like bootstrap, even platforms like wordpress)... If you have personal projects to show off, etc.. throw them up on github (assuming you have the rights).
.Net, or Java will net higher pay, but the time to build experience may well not be worth it.
On your personal site, have an html copy of your resume, as well as a link to the MS-Word version. Name off every technology you've touched, and then in your work history, re-state what you've touched. If you aren't touching hardware, or interested in game dev, I would suggest picking up a more dynamic environment to program in. Flash is all but dead, though AS3 and JS correlate really well, and NodeJS, MongoDB, Web-UI dev is growing a lot, JS skills can get you placed...
I am not sure where you are located, but in the US, if you have more than 5 years of experience, and are any good, you should be able to find work for more than $30/hr, and if you are really good, you shouldn't be making less than $50/hr (More in some locations). The dot-com bust was a long time ago.. I was down and out for a year.. took a couple jobs at less than half what I made before, kept options open, and was willing to change jobs for opportunity and more money. Note: I'm in Phoenix, AZ... I know of lots of places hiring just the same. If you're in the sticks move to one of the top 20 largest cities (US), and you will find better paying, decent work.
When you're dealing with moving hardware, any software development really needs t be approached as a engineering discipline. Most software development needs to be approached as more of a craft, however. I wish more people simply understood the difference. Instead manager types tend to expect you to PFM* a solution.
* Pure F*cking Magic
True enough... no degree here.. self taught going on 17 years of professional dev... It is amazing how much a CS grad does not know... though the same goes for MS* certs. I think a lot of people just don't know how to work through real problems. For that matter.. dealing with supporting bad code... I spend about 1/3 of my time dealing with code I would just assume rip out, and replace.. sometimes I can refactor a little, sometimes more.. and sometimes you hold your nose and get the enhancement duck taped in place. Knowing how and when to do what.. that's what experience gives you.
Living in Arizona without DST it's more of a pain. The rest of the country should fall in line.. for that matter, Wouldn't mind seeing everyone go to URC/GMT and just accepting the sun comes up at different times, and offsetting business hours from high noon local.
Well, you're coming into our country.. that is pretty suspicious..
Not with a missile.
I consider a drone strike to be along the lines of a missile strike, and Obama made more of these in his first term, that the four Presidents preceding him combined... I feel that this is unconscionable and can only indicate a disrespect for life, the risk to innocent civilians, and the population at large. There is a big difference between shooting a person with a bullet, and lobbing a shrapnel grenade, dropping a bomb, or firing a missile at a target. It's not just *deadly force* it's the risk to nearby civilians... Or should we just blow up a sky scraper in NYC the next time suspected terrorists are in there?
The fact is these kind of strikes in the "war" we are in, are pretty deplorable. I'm all for armored vehicles and sharp shooters taking out enemy combatants, but missile strikes should be reserved for those that are firing missiles back. It's overreach... just like dropping some nukes would be.
Hell, dropping a few nukes on Afghanistan would be pretty effective in removing any terrorist threats, and we wouldn't need to keep so many troops there. Why don't we just do that?
I think that the thought is that with the addition of NaCl apps, WebGL, and WebRTC on a fast enough machine, that you can have most of those apps in a sandboxed environment. And there is merit to that... considering how many people now use their tablet as their primary device.. I agree the price point is way off.. given the touch display, they could have a reduced CPU, and it might be enticing in the $800 price range.. but at $1300, I'd rather have a Macbook.
Since "Unix Time" is based on a CE date/time, does that make it equally idiotic?
Well.. Driving around in a newer Dodge Challenger is pretty close... I like the Model M, and the old muscle/pony cars.
Yeah, I have a customizer-104, and one of the trackpoint models... I remember an old IBM thinkpad I had and how much I liked the trackpoint over the (at the time) heavy use of trackballs... I also thought it would be useful for when a mouse dies, etc... and it has been, just the same, I find it gets in the way of my typing far more than I actually use the thing. In generally it's mostly just in the way. I do love them both far more than the 10 years or so of crappy keyboards every 6-12 months I was buying another keyboard.. I've had these two for about 3 years now.
It's changed slightly.. the casing is a bit cheaper, and the backplane seems to be lighter... just the same, it's way better than the typical keyboards you see.
One bit of warning about the Unicomp keyboards (I run two), I would suspect the same for USB adapters... is they take a bit of power, so if your USB port isn't offering enough juice (500ma), you may want to pickup a USB adapter that has an additional power source (I've had to do this for use with my KVM at home). I have to say I love the things... I went through almost a decade of a new keyboard every 6-8 months, until I got a Unicomp 104-key... swear by them.
Simple: Using x264 doesn't protect, limit you from patent litigation. If you now deliver VP8 content over the internet, or support it in your browser, you aren't going to get sued into the ground by MPEG-LA. Google licensed it for royalty-free use by others.
Yeah... having spent over an hour to get a remote VNC session setup with my dad, I'll take Team Viewer... that said, something like LogMeIn personal/free works pretty well. I think once WebRTC supports some method of screen sharing, it may be the best option of all.
I will often go back and re-answer questions... There's nothing stopping you (or anyone else) from doing so. It's called a community... If you have a problem, participate.
Okay... not that I trust cross platform MS.. they did have some basic cross platform runtime and compiler bits close to launch... it was mainly a learning exercise, as there were alternatives (Mono, etc) around the same time... Portions of the Common Language Runtime center around specifying endian points for compatibility... of course favoring x86, but they were there... also, the interoperability for .Net (access to C libraries without a ton of boilerplate compiling per platform was a lot better).
I think the biggest hindrance to more ARM as a general computing device is that x86 came with BIOS descendant from IBM's... which is what offered compatibility... few ARM devices have a compatible loader, or device discovery. Once someone actually has more of that for ARM, we'll be much farther along. I do find that today's fastest ARM systems are probably enough (given enough memory and fast drive space)... my N7 is surprisingly good.
Troll on /.
The funny thing is they've had bad experiences with other cars as well... I didn't find the review all that bad... if I wanted a roadster for around town (daily driving), and had that kind of money, the Tesla would be on my list. That said, there are some valid points... taking my "vacation to nowhere in particular" at the end of the month... 9 days of driving "wherever" (4 out, day 5 start back)... I don't think I could reasonably take such an unplanned trip with an EV.
I personally wasn't turned off at all from the Top Gear review.. I'd expect given all-out use, that most cars get less than half of their typical mileage on the track.
And all those 1u/2u etc servers from Dell are apparently very externally inconsistent.. new rack standards all the time it seems.
Or for their own HTML/CSS/JS served millions of times a day (gmail, etc)
Agreed.. I think it's time that Acrobat simply open in read/view only mode.. no scripts, no forms active, unless you click the warning.. similar to what MS did with Word a decade ago... I use Sumatra on windows...