You don't. You really can't. That kind of explanation is good in a cover letter. Cover letters seem to be a lost art. It shows two things, how good you are at communication and the content shows what kind of person you are/can be.
Is there some secret password...
I would say yes there is: Put a link to your portfolio. If you are a coder, you probably have some programs written, even if it was for an assignment. If you are QA or business analyst type of person, get some examples of your documents and analyses online. Put it up on a website and put that link in your resume... put it in your cover letter (better place for it, I think). If you've been involved in any open source software dev, put a link to it and show that your name pops up in their archives as having written this stuff.
YMMV obviously. If you apply to a closed source type business, they may not look kindly on your community effort (the pricks). For the most part, though, the tech managers will appreciate it. Small to medium size businesses will very much appreciate it (as the hiring manager and tech manager will likely be the same person).
Also, your market may be better suited for going the contractor route (contract to hire type stuff). I know it is in my town. If so, you will generally have a face-to-face with the person who is motivated to get you placed. They have contacts with the tech people who are hiring. If you say "look at my website and see my code", they'll tell their contacts "we've got a live one here, you want him/her!"
I still consider myself a beginner developer and not that great. But what I've seen on thedailywtf.com and from my fellow students (when I was in school) was pretty sad, I could do run-arounds (plus I'm a dedicated and hard worker). I was definitely top 10% in my class when it came to the coding classes. (Now the math classes were different... and we had a lot of math.) I'm being fairly successful right now as a software QA type person with really good general knowledge in all things computers (from software dev to systems knowledge).
I disagree. Use Tcl/Tk, Perl/Tk, or any other cross OS scripting language that contain a graphical toolkit. Using Tcl/Tk at my last job, I was able to create some nifty little utilities with a GUI, and I didn't have to worry about compiling. I also didn't have to install Tcl/Tk on each computer that was going to use it, as I used a wrapper to put it together for release.
I still used the command shell fairly extensively when it was needed and I used C# when it was called for. Right tool for right job and all that.
Windows Vista or later have a SUA (Subsystem for Unix Applications) and Powershell. While I have only just started looking into Powershell, it looks like a very good shell for Windows systems that finally (almost) brings it up to Linux/Unix standards of a shell.
Perhaps the Gulf of Mexico weather and current patterns have already been developed and modeled for the computer system. If so, they'll borrow/buy that work and enter their numbers and data.
Simplistic, I know, but it could happen. Still, it took 30+ days for the oil to reach New Orleans. They've got a little bit of time to model this stuff out and give disaster areas a bit of warning. (About as effective as a tornado warning can be.)
Not having read the paper, I would assume they took this into account by first learning how the lasers affected the particles (perhaps by suspending the dust thin glass in a vacuum). Once the knowns are known, they can subtract that out of the final results and observe the actual result.
I have to agree with this sentiment in my area. I feel very lucky that the local cable monopoly does have knowledgeable support (for the most part, esp on the Cable Internet side of things). Prices are still too expensive... enough so that I am thinking of dropping the catv option and only going with their Internet service. Since the wife needs TV, my choice will be Dish or something like it.
eVGA is great. If they weren't before, they are now. They were the first to offer a double-lifetime warranty, which makes no sense until you find out it means that you have a life-time warranty until you sell the card, then the person who bought it from you now has the lifetime warranty. Now if that person sells the card, the third person does not get the lifetime warranty.
I have to echo this sentiment. My first great card was a BFG. And it served me well for a long time. My second card was an eVGA. The thing about the eVGA is that they gave me no hassle on my warranty when I had to use it. Both great cards and great companies.
The BFG is a bit overpriced, they sell through the B&Ms (best buy, etc), but a totally worthwhile card.
In my own opinion (and I've seen others state it, too), Windows 7 is just Windows Vista SP3. Microsoft had to break from the Vista brand because everyone (including the lay user) "knew" that Vista was a broken pile of junk. If they had heard Vista was bad and got a new computer with Vista on it, their mindset was to find all the little nuances that didn't seem just right and complain about it. Granted, there were many legitimate gripes, but even if Microsoft had fixed those, a user would still have the preconceived notion.
Alternatively, there's this new and improved Windows 7! It's great, it's flashy! It fixes everything Windows Vista was. And so the general user does not have any preconceived ideas and walks in feeling good about their purchase and looks for the good in the OS.
Microsoft probably streamlined a lot of code, background services, and process flow so that the user experience would be improved. Plus, they could fix their underestimated minimum requirement (I think), sell a brand new OS (instead of giving the fixes for free), and improve their brand name.
For myself, I still haven't migrated. Something about DRM running in the background, not wanting to support companies that treat their customers like the criminal, etc./me dons tinfoil hat.
I think the problem with looking at html code from many webpages today is that it is all auto-generated by a back-end server. And, IMO, auto-generated code is almost never pretty, producing a jumble of hard to read code.
Hey ol' coot:) When we're young and it's our first "professional" job, it can be a nervous thing. We're stepping into an unknown, fairly certain we have the skills, but not quite positive on the environment. After a few years of doing the work, confidence sets in and we know we can step into most situations. After many years, we step into almost all situations and really don't have to think, just do.
Always work to improve yourself and those around you
As an example, the greatest basketball players made their teammates better, which made the team better, which won championships. Same thing extends to the work environment. If you are all that and a bag of peanuts, don't strut, just do the work and let it stand for you. Assist others to improve, but don't do it condescendingly..
I would add a bit to the "engaging in gossip" part and recall the line in the OP "so they share increasingly damning information". Just nip the negativity in the bud and don't engage in any of it. Hopefully, you will make your own judgments about a person's worth by your own interactions with that person. Remember, there are always two sides (or more) to a story. The gossip you may hear is likely not the whole truth.
Avoid office politics as much as possible. Do your work well. Then do the extra work just as well. What is that extra work? As a programmer, you will find it. In my case, as a Software QA guy with some coding experience, I wrote the tools to assist the QA team in performing their tests better. I also wrote tools to help increase production. These items were not in my "job description" but added to overall satisfaction of others work. Interestingly, my last day at that job was Friday (co-workers were great and I feel really bad for my manager and I'll miss the work, upper management... not so much). My new job is Monday.
I thought that was White Castle.
Anyway, you don't have to hang out with the group all the time. But do make an effort to be friendly with them. I don't care to know my co-workers outside of work, but I do care that they are happy so I will oblige at some personal talk (during lunch) on occasion.
Better than that, put their bookmarks in the Bookmark Toolbar and show them how easy it is to access them. Find their favorite news site (or whatever) and create a live bookmark for them using the site's RSS feed..
This is exactly what I do. I install Firefox with AdBlock and ForecastFox. I then give a demonstration. "Look here is ForecastFox. No, WeatherBug is as bad as a virus, use ForecastFox."
Then I give a demonstration of AdBlock: "See, here's your favorite page in IE, see all the ads? Here's you favorite page in FF, no ads, no shifted text in articles, etc."
If they have a site that doesn't work with anything but IE, depending on the situation I either tell them to use IE for that site or I put IE Tab or Coral IE Tab in Firefox.
Slashdot Mirror
Multiply that negligible amount by several 10's of thousands in our landfills. Now it's not too small to worry about.
...Just pay in cash...
How do I put that kind of thing on my resume?
You don't. You really can't. That kind of explanation is good in a cover letter. Cover letters seem to be a lost art. It shows two things, how good you are at communication and the content shows what kind of person you are/can be.
Is there some secret password ...
I would say yes there is: Put a link to your portfolio. If you are a coder, you probably have some programs written, even if it was for an assignment. If you are QA or business analyst type of person, get some examples of your documents and analyses online. Put it up on a website and put that link in your resume... put it in your cover letter (better place for it, I think). If you've been involved in any open source software dev, put a link to it and show that your name pops up in their archives as having written this stuff.
YMMV obviously. If you apply to a closed source type business, they may not look kindly on your community effort (the pricks). For the most part, though, the tech managers will appreciate it. Small to medium size businesses will very much appreciate it (as the hiring manager and tech manager will likely be the same person).
Also, your market may be better suited for going the contractor route (contract to hire type stuff). I know it is in my town. If so, you will generally have a face-to-face with the person who is motivated to get you placed. They have contacts with the tech people who are hiring. If you say "look at my website and see my code", they'll tell their contacts "we've got a live one here, you want him/her!"
I still consider myself a beginner developer and not that great. But what I've seen on thedailywtf.com and from my fellow students (when I was in school) was pretty sad, I could do run-arounds (plus I'm a dedicated and hard worker). I was definitely top 10% in my class when it came to the coding classes. (Now the math classes were different... and we had a lot of math.) I'm being fairly successful right now as a software QA type person with really good general knowledge in all things computers (from software dev to systems knowledge).
I disagree. Use Tcl/Tk, Perl/Tk, or any other cross OS scripting language that contain a graphical toolkit. Using Tcl/Tk at my last job, I was able to create some nifty little utilities with a GUI, and I didn't have to worry about compiling. I also didn't have to install Tcl/Tk on each computer that was going to use it, as I used a wrapper to put it together for release.
I still used the command shell fairly extensively when it was needed and I used C# when it was called for. Right tool for right job and all that.
Windows Vista or later have a SUA (Subsystem for Unix Applications) and Powershell. While I have only just started looking into Powershell, it looks like a very good shell for Windows systems that finally (almost) brings it up to Linux/Unix standards of a shell.
Perhaps the Gulf of Mexico weather and current patterns have already been developed and modeled for the computer system. If so, they'll borrow/buy that work and enter their numbers and data.
Simplistic, I know, but it could happen. Still, it took 30+ days for the oil to reach New Orleans. They've got a little bit of time to model this stuff out and give disaster areas a bit of warning. (About as effective as a tornado warning can be.)
Not having read the paper, I would assume they took this into account by first learning how the lasers affected the particles (perhaps by suspending the dust thin glass in a vacuum). Once the knowns are known, they can subtract that out of the final results and observe the actual result.
Unless their father was a terrible water polo player and ended up sucking too much water.
I have to agree with this sentiment in my area. I feel very lucky that the local cable monopoly does have knowledgeable support (for the most part, esp on the Cable Internet side of things). Prices are still too expensive... enough so that I am thinking of dropping the catv option and only going with their Internet service. Since the wife needs TV, my choice will be Dish or something like it.
heck, I've had a usb flash drive and some desktop memory that went bad days after the warranty expired... "no support for you!" is the response I got.
eVGA is great. If they weren't before, they are now. They were the first to offer a double-lifetime warranty, which makes no sense until you find out it means that you have a life-time warranty until you sell the card, then the person who bought it from you now has the lifetime warranty. Now if that person sells the card, the third person does not get the lifetime warranty.
I have to echo this sentiment. My first great card was a BFG. And it served me well for a long time. My second card was an eVGA. The thing about the eVGA is that they gave me no hassle on my warranty when I had to use it. Both great cards and great companies.
The BFG is a bit overpriced, they sell through the B&Ms (best buy, etc), but a totally worthwhile card.
Yeah, but they'll never get Portal working in ASCII !
Oh, wait...
Yeah... tell that to the guy who just got fired because he just loaded up google when The Owner walked by.
I hope I'm only kidding.
I'm sure you can do the same with similar results between Windows XP and any of its service pack releases. Especially what is loaded in the kernel.
In my own opinion (and I've seen others state it, too), Windows 7 is just Windows Vista SP3. Microsoft had to break from the Vista brand because everyone (including the lay user) "knew" that Vista was a broken pile of junk. If they had heard Vista was bad and got a new computer with Vista on it, their mindset was to find all the little nuances that didn't seem just right and complain about it. Granted, there were many legitimate gripes, but even if Microsoft had fixed those, a user would still have the preconceived notion.
/me dons tinfoil hat.
Alternatively, there's this new and improved Windows 7! It's great, it's flashy! It fixes everything Windows Vista was. And so the general user does not have any preconceived ideas and walks in feeling good about their purchase and looks for the good in the OS.
Microsoft probably streamlined a lot of code, background services, and process flow so that the user experience would be improved. Plus, they could fix their underestimated minimum requirement (I think), sell a brand new OS (instead of giving the fixes for free), and improve their brand name.
For myself, I still haven't migrated. Something about DRM running in the background, not wanting to support companies that treat their customers like the criminal, etc.
I think the problem with looking at html code from many webpages today is that it is all auto-generated by a back-end server. And, IMO, auto-generated code is almost never pretty, producing a jumble of hard to read code.
just snag notepad++. Context highlighting for many languages and a ton of other features.
Hey ol' coot :) When we're young and it's our first "professional" job, it can be a nervous thing. We're stepping into an unknown, fairly certain we have the skills, but not quite positive on the environment. After a few years of doing the work, confidence sets in and we know we can step into most situations. After many years, we step into almost all situations and really don't have to think, just do.
Always work to improve yourself and those around you
As an example, the greatest basketball players made their teammates better, which made the team better, which won championships. Same thing extends to the work environment. If you are all that and a bag of peanuts, don't strut, just do the work and let it stand for you. Assist others to improve, but don't do it condescendingly..
I would add a bit to the "engaging in gossip" part and recall the line in the OP "so they share increasingly damning information". Just nip the negativity in the bud and don't engage in any of it. Hopefully, you will make your own judgments about a person's worth by your own interactions with that person. Remember, there are always two sides (or more) to a story. The gossip you may hear is likely not the whole truth.
Avoid office politics as much as possible. Do your work well. Then do the extra work just as well. What is that extra work? As a programmer, you will find it. In my case, as a Software QA guy with some coding experience, I wrote the tools to assist the QA team in performing their tests better. I also wrote tools to help increase production. These items were not in my "job description" but added to overall satisfaction of others work. Interestingly, my last day at that job was Friday (co-workers were great and I feel really bad for my manager and I'll miss the work, upper management... not so much). My new job is Monday.
I thought that was White Castle. Anyway, you don't have to hang out with the group all the time. But do make an effort to be friendly with them. I don't care to know my co-workers outside of work, but I do care that they are happy so I will oblige at some personal talk (during lunch) on occasion.
Comodo Internet Security is also free for business use. That is also why I recommend it!
Better than that, put their bookmarks in the Bookmark Toolbar and show them how easy it is to access them. Find their favorite news site (or whatever) and create a live bookmark for them using the site's RSS feed..
This is exactly what I do. I install Firefox with AdBlock and ForecastFox. I then give a demonstration. "Look here is ForecastFox. No, WeatherBug is as bad as a virus, use ForecastFox."
Then I give a demonstration of AdBlock: "See, here's your favorite page in IE, see all the ads? Here's you favorite page in FF, no ads, no shifted text in articles, etc."
If they have a site that doesn't work with anything but IE, depending on the situation I either tell them to use IE for that site or I put IE Tab or Coral IE Tab in Firefox.
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