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  1. Resume spam on Getting Hired As an Entry-Level Programmer? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People in this business move around so much there's always a ridiculous amount of recruiting and interviewing. Until you have a real resume with real experience, just play the numbers. Send out 6-10 resumes a week. You'll find someone desperate enough to give you a chance.

    These days I'll let my network know, cherry pick a couple of openings to apply to and if I get desperate, put my resume on Monster. I got my first programming job by working for free and only stayed in the game by resume spamming when times were bad.

    Try recruiters. I get contacted by recruiters every few months asking if I know any junior candidates. It's always a possibility.

  2. Re:I have seen a number of proposals before... on Removing CO2 From the Air Efficiently · · Score: 1

    Agreed! I saw a review of this technology on the discovery channel and it was the biggest piece of junk science I've seen. No estimate for carbon efficiency can be made until you've incorporated enough feed processes to consider it a closed system.

    He's using NaOH to sequester the carbon dioxide. Where does sodium hydroxide come from? Much of it is obtained as a byproduct of the manufacture of chlorine. Great, right? Nope. We already use this NaOH. Most of the additional sodium hydroxide used today comes from NaC03 which comes from either mined trona or the solvay process after which the carbon dioxide is driven off with heat and then the Na2O is added to water.

    Basically, to put this into production we'd have to generate more NaOH. To do so, as much CO2 would have to be put into the atmosphere (not even including additional operating/heating requirements) as could be sequestered from the air.