And ever since I got to about 4 or 5 CPAN modules released, I haven't needed a resume at all since.
{sigh} I wish it was like that all the time. I figure my work speaks for itself, right? I am a web designer, and I thought the quality, quantity, dates, and clientbase should successfully demonstrate my skills, so my resume gives a list and explaination of my knowledgebase, along with a list of website links and notable description for each.
Invariably, I am asked for my previous employers. Eh? Look at the websites, my previous employers are right there.
You know that. I know that. The candidates know that. Unfortunately the droid at the employment agency doesn't. They are given a list of buzzwords to match and a pile of CV's. Any CV's that match the buzzwords get their addresses tippexed out and are faxed through to you. Daft, innit?
Yes, very true. Due to this, I usually modify my resume for each job. I first evaluate the company, and try to surmise who will be reading my resume, and then modify it to fit.
If I'm being hired/interviewed by someone who has barely a grasp on what I'd be doing, I dumb it down a lot, and focus more on end accomplishments and buzzwords. If I'm being hired/interviewed by someone who could do my job if they had the time, then I gear it as if I'm talking to a peer, and focus more on process and techniques.
I found it interesting that this comment was insightful as well. It is true that often times things that are insightful are also depressing to realize.
It's at the point where you can't do anything without getting a 2 year contract. I bought my phone because I didn't want a huge contract, but then I was stuck at the low monthly minutes. In order to get more minutes, I had to agree to a 2 year contract. Then, in order to add another phone line on my plan, I had to agree to yet another two year contract.
I don't see how we can "vote with our dollars" when we can't switch services for 2 years without paying $500.
Doing your first site in 100% css is HARD. There is just no other way around it. You are going to spend days trying to figure even the most simple things out, and there are going to be temptations to revert back to the easy (not better) table layout. Some will succumb, and some will soldier on and succeed.
Ohhh yeah. It took me two months to figure out my first 100% CSS website (it's kinda wonky in anything other than IE... bare with me, it's one of my first). I had so many restrictions: must fit vertically and horizontally on the page, must look the same in the AOL browser on 640x480 and in IE on 1600x900, and most importantly no scrolling.
But after I did that, I knew CSS pretty well, and today I know it backwards and forwards. In fact, I can design the vast majority of my sites without any browser hacks (although... I do get lazy sometimes and throw in a hack), so I don't know what those nay sayers are talking about with needing hacks all the time.
Anyone who is serious about anything will invest the time that is nessisary to learn the new techniques that inevitably come along. If you don't have time to do it on the job, then take some time to do it on your own time. Take an hour a day to challenge yourself to reproduce a CSS layout - after struggling through that, you'll learn more and be able to apply it to your job.
Why are you trying to argue with people who do web design as a living to tout that you don't care how it's done, as long as you can quickly knock out a website that obviously has no need for professional development?
These are people who do web development day in and day out of their lives, and you're trying to argue with them to support your simple and limited version of web design? Thats like saying "Why should I learn how to use Photoshop when I can just knock out an image in MS Paint in a fraction of the time it would take me to learn how to use Photoshop? You don't need a damn book to learn MS Paint, but there are plenty of books out there for Photoshop!"
There's no point in addressing your argument because it shows you don't care about web design - you only care about getting information onto the world wide web, not it's presentation. So, please, leave ths CSS vs. tables argument to the people who actually care about creating the best presentation for their website, those who obviously care more than to just "knock a page together."
I would suspect that these are the motivations for downloading movies before DVDs come out for sale:
- Rising prices that has started to price people out of watching "questionable" movies. $10 is too much if you don't know if it's going to be good. And *forget it* being affordable if you want to bring your children. $40 for a family of four with two little kids not understanding why popcorn and soda is too expensive.
- New releases are notoriously unrentable as there is too low a supply.
- People want to watch a good movie again. They paid their $10 to see it in the theater, and then want to watch it another 3 times (which I expect is very true for X-men 3)
Possibly, but they're not comparable as evolution designs for survival in particular enviornments, where humans would design for various tasts (window washing for example). You can claim that you're window washing robot is more intelligently designed than what evolution has churned out, but the claim lacks any credebility because there's no evolution-designed window washer to compare it to.
Personally, I've expiriened problems with my wrists, and it increases the more time I am working at the computer. While I was in college, I would easily spend 20hrs/day working on 3D models, and I ended up with problems.
When out of college and I started creeping into my sleep time working so much, I ended up yet again with wrist problems. I bought the carpal tunnel wrist braces and wore them for a couple months. They did wonders to reduce my pain.
I think wrist problems are a combination of the amount of work and your work space. Just adding gel pads for the keyboard and mouse help tremendously. Sitting in a correct position, and being at the correct height to your desk. Perhaps I'm simply more prone to problems because I'm so small and my arms end up in awkward angles.
I now watch out for the employees in my office. I try to make sure they aren't working at awkward angles and they have gel pads for their keyboard and mouse. I've already helped one person who says the aches in her arms have gone away.
I assume that people blocking ads aren't very likely to purchase from them in the first place. So if people who already are blocking ads now download and throw away, there will no change in the number of clicks, just more bandwith wasted.
Interestingly, I find that this is not true. There are enough people who, although say they hate ads, also keep falling for them. It is one of the reasons why they hate them, because they know they're weak.
Way back in the day before cable got to our area, my boss accessed the internet through AOL. He asked me how to remove the ads that AOL shows him every time he logs in.
It turned out that AOL would show one or two ads as someone logged in and track their usage. If someone didn't ever click on them, they were no longer showed the ads. If someone clicked on them - or worse, bought something - then they would continue showing the ads.
I questioned my boss, and it turned out he had not only bought several things, but regularly clicked on most of the ads and thoroughly read them.
He wanted the ads stopped because they distracted him.
These are precisely the people marketers are targetting. These are also precisely the people who would use ad blockers if they were knowledgable enough to get their hands on it.
Ads on the internet would not nearly be as profitable as they are if an abundance of these people didn't exist.
The meta idea is much better than a TLD idea. Then you could meta tag a single page within your entire website.
My concern over a porn TLD was how it would effect websites of varied content. For example, I was using a freebie website for a blog and linked to another blogger who I thought was funny. He posted a raunchy photograph (month's before, so it was hidden in his archives), and my website got pulled for linking to his website.
So... here's the question - where does the restriction begin and end? Should that blogger's website be completely restricted because of one raunchy photograph?
I could see a.xxx TLD becoming filled with not just porn websites, but websites who just want the freedom to post varied content.
What about photographers? I have had people tell me they cannot go to my website because it has nude photographs. Would my website be included in.xxx, too? Would it also be included under content="adult" ?
What about using meta tags, but be more specific of the type of adult content:
That way my entire site wouldn't get flagged as restricted content, and could just tag my photo of a nude ghost as "artisticnude" while another photographer could tag his photo glorifying the female body as "nude" or "sexualsuggestion"
Liberal parents then could say that "artisticnude" is OK. While conservative parents could even restrict medical pages that contain "nudity."
I never understood why LiveJournal didn't become more popular.
It seems as though the only place where MySpace beats LiveJournal is the ability for people to find you who know your name. That and the wide variety of networking - schools, location and employment - make it very easy to catch up with people who you had even forgotten.
People seem to put up with the cludginess that is MySpace just because it's easier to catch up with people you know. LiveJournal, even though being a lot more userfriendly and customizable, lacks that networking.
How much you pay all depends upon how often you need that website to be up. If it's visited only 5 times a week, chances are, you aren't noticing that it's down much much much more than the 99% downtime they claim!
I work A LOT on my server, and if I didn't notice when it went down, then a client did. I jumped from company to company to company trying to find someone who could actually give me reliable service. But it always came down to the same story - another website on the shared server did something against TOS and broke service for everyone on the server.
I finally decided to quit the shared hosting game and get a virtual private server so some other customer can't steal my resources. So far, so good!
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There's only options for MWF and TTH, every day, or every weekday.
This is also a problem for me, because I work MTH at one place, and TWF at another.
Why didn't they have the typical "check box of the days of the week" option? Or did they just not want to be typical?
I had an Epson 1mp camera bought in the summer of 2000. Besides the fact that it only had 1mp resolution, it took fantastically sharp, clear, crisp, color correct images!
These days, I see all the photographs of people's children being handed around the office with their super expensive 5-8mp cameras, and the images look like crap! Everything is fuzzy, and you can litterally see that the images are assembled with colored hexagons.
I'd still be using that old Epson if: it wasn't huge and clunky, and if it had a zoom lens.
I've now skipped all the consumer cameras, and jumped up to the prosumer Nikon D70. Although it's still clunky (As any SLR is...), at least I can trust the image quality and put my own lens in front of that image sensor.
On the contrary. One of my users thinks they are more legit because there are so many. He seems to get so bogged down and confused by the sheer quantity, that he starts to blindly reply to them all.
Which of course causes our account to keep getting compromised...
I've finally blocked all @ebay.com e-mails from his account, and forward only the legit ones back to him! Hopefully it'll work!
Wow, I find that so strange. The very first reason why I switched to FireFox was because it was faster. I just tested it out to see what it was all about... and quickly realized all of my pages were rendering faster. I did a comparison test, and found it to be true.
I got a couple of other people to switch when I told them, too.
From my understanding, a cop can have the role as either as a normal person (a witness) or as a police officer.
So, he can go into a store to buy wares just as any normal person would.... but he cannot go into a store to PRETEND to be a customer without a warrent.
But, the RIAA don't have police officers going through people's computers, they do it themselves and are, I am assuming, posing as witnesses that the individual had illegal content to offer.
I didn't go to RISD, but I was involved with many students at RISD.
They require all students to purchase the same computer. They had no choice. I didn't think this was a good idea because they couldn't get a better computer if they so wanted.
They handled software packages and upgrading by making all students submit their laptops for a period of time, and they wiped the HD and reimaged it with the upgraded software. Many students lost files this way, most likely through a loss of communication, or having the inability to backup such a large amount of data.
The school had to provide a team of people to service these laptops.
IMO, there has to be a better way. A way to allow students to spend their $2k on a computer they want, or $3k on a better one. I'd say remote desktop would be the best way to handle the software issue. You can upgrade as desired, on a whim, and not have to collect everyone's computers or risk data loss. That way, the computer is 100% theirs... and the school would have less responcibility to service the laptops.
Yeah... the other day I was in shorts and a t-shirt, standing outside chit chatting in the rain and wind, and the temperature was comfortable. As soon as I realized it was mid January, I knew there was a problem with the weather.
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Microsoft is only ending support for IE Mac... not making it magically delete off everyone's machines.
If it is working for your wife now, it can continue to work for her needs. She'll only need to switch to a newer version of IE (and thusly, the windows box) if her work place's webmaster stops supporting IE Mac and makes and incompatable upgrade.
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I don't see what the issue is. It's an income. Should it not be covered under an income tax?
{sigh} I wish it was like that all the time. I figure my work speaks for itself, right? I am a web designer, and I thought the quality, quantity, dates, and clientbase should successfully demonstrate my skills, so my resume gives a list and explaination of my knowledgebase, along with a list of website links and notable description for each.
Invariably, I am asked for my previous employers. Eh? Look at the websites, my previous employers are right there.
Yes, very true. Due to this, I usually modify my resume for each job. I first evaluate the company, and try to surmise who will be reading my resume, and then modify it to fit.
If I'm being hired/interviewed by someone who has barely a grasp on what I'd be doing, I dumb it down a lot, and focus more on end accomplishments and buzzwords. If I'm being hired/interviewed by someone who could do my job if they had the time, then I gear it as if I'm talking to a peer, and focus more on process and techniques.
I found it interesting that this comment was insightful as well. It is true that often times things that are insightful are also depressing to realize.
Oh. well... Bush just doesn't want Islamic Facism. Christian Facism is just fine.
It's at the point where you can't do anything without getting a 2 year contract. I bought my phone because I didn't want a huge contract, but then I was stuck at the low monthly minutes. In order to get more minutes, I had to agree to a 2 year contract. Then, in order to add another phone line on my plan, I had to agree to yet another two year contract. I don't see how we can "vote with our dollars" when we can't switch services for 2 years without paying $500.
Ohhh yeah. It took me two months to figure out my first 100% CSS website (it's kinda wonky in anything other than IE... bare with me, it's one of my first). I had so many restrictions: must fit vertically and horizontally on the page, must look the same in the AOL browser on 640x480 and in IE on 1600x900, and most importantly no scrolling.
But after I did that, I knew CSS pretty well, and today I know it backwards and forwards. In fact, I can design the vast majority of my sites without any browser hacks (although... I do get lazy sometimes and throw in a hack), so I don't know what those nay sayers are talking about with needing hacks all the time.
Anyone who is serious about anything will invest the time that is nessisary to learn the new techniques that inevitably come along. If you don't have time to do it on the job, then take some time to do it on your own time. Take an hour a day to challenge yourself to reproduce a CSS layout - after struggling through that, you'll learn more and be able to apply it to your job.
Why are you trying to argue with people who do web design as a living to tout that you don't care how it's done, as long as you can quickly knock out a website that obviously has no need for professional development?
These are people who do web development day in and day out of their lives, and you're trying to argue with them to support your simple and limited version of web design? Thats like saying "Why should I learn how to use Photoshop when I can just knock out an image in MS Paint in a fraction of the time it would take me to learn how to use Photoshop? You don't need a damn book to learn MS Paint, but there are plenty of books out there for Photoshop!"
There's no point in addressing your argument because it shows you don't care about web design - you only care about getting information onto the world wide web, not it's presentation. So, please, leave ths CSS vs. tables argument to the people who actually care about creating the best presentation for their website, those who obviously care more than to just "knock a page together."
I would suspect that these are the motivations for downloading movies before DVDs come out for sale:
- Rising prices that has started to price people out of watching "questionable" movies. $10 is too much if you don't know if it's going to be good. And *forget it* being affordable if you want to bring your children. $40 for a family of four with two little kids not understanding why popcorn and soda is too expensive.
- New releases are notoriously unrentable as there is too low a supply.
- People want to watch a good movie again. They paid their $10 to see it in the theater, and then want to watch it another 3 times (which I expect is very true for X-men 3)
Possibly, but they're not comparable as evolution designs for survival in particular enviornments, where humans would design for various tasts (window washing for example). You can claim that you're window washing robot is more intelligently designed than what evolution has churned out, but the claim lacks any credebility because there's no evolution-designed window washer to compare it to.
Personally, I've expiriened problems with my wrists, and it increases the more time I am working at the computer. While I was in college, I would easily spend 20hrs/day working on 3D models, and I ended up with problems.
When out of college and I started creeping into my sleep time working so much, I ended up yet again with wrist problems. I bought the carpal tunnel wrist braces and wore them for a couple months. They did wonders to reduce my pain.
I think wrist problems are a combination of the amount of work and your work space. Just adding gel pads for the keyboard and mouse help tremendously. Sitting in a correct position, and being at the correct height to your desk. Perhaps I'm simply more prone to problems because I'm so small and my arms end up in awkward angles.
I now watch out for the employees in my office. I try to make sure they aren't working at awkward angles and they have gel pads for their keyboard and mouse. I've already helped one person who says the aches in her arms have gone away.
Interestingly, I find that this is not true. There are enough people who, although say they hate ads, also keep falling for them. It is one of the reasons why they hate them, because they know they're weak.
Way back in the day before cable got to our area, my boss accessed the internet through AOL. He asked me how to remove the ads that AOL shows him every time he logs in.
It turned out that AOL would show one or two ads as someone logged in and track their usage. If someone didn't ever click on them, they were no longer showed the ads. If someone clicked on them - or worse, bought something - then they would continue showing the ads.
I questioned my boss, and it turned out he had not only bought several things, but regularly clicked on most of the ads and thoroughly read them.
He wanted the ads stopped because they distracted him.
These are precisely the people marketers are targetting. These are also precisely the people who would use ad blockers if they were knowledgable enough to get their hands on it.
Ads on the internet would not nearly be as profitable as they are if an abundance of these people didn't exist.
The meta idea is much better than a TLD idea. Then you could meta tag a single page within your entire website.
.xxx TLD becoming filled with not just porn websites, but websites who just want the freedom to post varied content.
.xxx, too? Would it also be included under content="adult" ?
My concern over a porn TLD was how it would effect websites of varied content. For example, I was using a freebie website for a blog and linked to another blogger who I thought was funny. He posted a raunchy photograph (month's before, so it was hidden in his archives), and my website got pulled for linking to his website.
So... here's the question - where does the restriction begin and end? Should that blogger's website be completely restricted because of one raunchy photograph?
I could see a
What about photographers? I have had people tell me they cannot go to my website because it has nude photographs. Would my website be included in
What about using meta tags, but be more specific of the type of adult content:
content="artisticnude"
content="nudity"
content="sexualsuggestion"
content="pornography"
That way my entire site wouldn't get flagged as restricted content, and could just tag my photo of a nude ghost as "artisticnude" while another photographer could tag his photo glorifying the female body as "nude" or "sexualsuggestion"
Liberal parents then could say that "artisticnude" is OK. While conservative parents could even restrict medical pages that contain "nudity."
It seems as though .com stands more for the general internet "com"munity than anything else
I believe they started deleting any geocities accounts that don't get any hits within a certain time span.
I never understood why LiveJournal didn't become more popular.
It seems as though the only place where MySpace beats LiveJournal is the ability for people to find you who know your name. That and the wide variety of networking - schools, location and employment - make it very easy to catch up with people who you had even forgotten.
People seem to put up with the cludginess that is MySpace just because it's easier to catch up with people you know. LiveJournal, even though being a lot more userfriendly and customizable, lacks that networking.
How much you pay all depends upon how often you need that website to be up. If it's visited only 5 times a week, chances are, you aren't noticing that it's down much much much more than the 99% downtime they claim!
I work A LOT on my server, and if I didn't notice when it went down, then a client did. I jumped from company to company to company trying to find someone who could actually give me reliable service. But it always came down to the same story - another website on the shared server did something against TOS and broke service for everyone on the server.
I finally decided to quit the shared hosting game and get a virtual private server so some other customer can't steal my resources. So far, so good!
There's only options for MWF and TTH, every day, or every weekday.
This is also a problem for me, because I work MTH at one place, and TWF at another.
Why didn't they have the typical "check box of the days of the week" option? Or did they just not want to be typical?
I had an Epson 1mp camera bought in the summer of 2000. Besides the fact that it only had 1mp resolution, it took fantastically sharp, clear, crisp, color correct images!
These days, I see all the photographs of people's children being handed around the office with their super expensive 5-8mp cameras, and the images look like crap! Everything is fuzzy, and you can litterally see that the images are assembled with colored hexagons.
I'd still be using that old Epson if: it wasn't huge and clunky, and if it had a zoom lens.
I've now skipped all the consumer cameras, and jumped up to the prosumer Nikon D70. Although it's still clunky (As any SLR is...), at least I can trust the image quality and put my own lens in front of that image sensor.
On the contrary. One of my users thinks they are more legit because there are so many. He seems to get so bogged down and confused by the sheer quantity, that he starts to blindly reply to them all.
Which of course causes our account to keep getting compromised...
I've finally blocked all @ebay.com e-mails from his account, and forward only the legit ones back to him! Hopefully it'll work!
Wow, I find that so strange. The very first reason why I switched to FireFox was because it was faster. I just tested it out to see what it was all about... and quickly realized all of my pages were rendering faster. I did a comparison test, and found it to be true.
I got a couple of other people to switch when I told them, too.
From my understanding, a cop can have the role as either as a normal person (a witness) or as a police officer.
So, he can go into a store to buy wares just as any normal person would.... but he cannot go into a store to PRETEND to be a customer without a warrent.
But, the RIAA don't have police officers going through people's computers, they do it themselves and are, I am assuming, posing as witnesses that the individual had illegal content to offer.
I didn't go to RISD, but I was involved with many students at RISD.
They require all students to purchase the same computer. They had no choice. I didn't think this was a good idea because they couldn't get a better computer if they so wanted.
They handled software packages and upgrading by making all students submit their laptops for a period of time, and they wiped the HD and reimaged it with the upgraded software. Many students lost files this way, most likely through a loss of communication, or having the inability to backup such a large amount of data.
The school had to provide a team of people to service these laptops.
IMO, there has to be a better way. A way to allow students to spend their $2k on a computer they want, or $3k on a better one. I'd say remote desktop would be the best way to handle the software issue. You can upgrade as desired, on a whim, and not have to collect everyone's computers or risk data loss. That way, the computer is 100% theirs... and the school would have less responcibility to service the laptops.
Yeah... the other day I was in shorts and a t-shirt, standing outside chit chatting in the rain and wind, and the temperature was comfortable. As soon as I realized it was mid January, I knew there was a problem with the weather.
Microsoft is only ending support for IE Mac... not making it magically delete off everyone's machines.
If it is working for your wife now, it can continue to work for her needs. She'll only need to switch to a newer version of IE (and thusly, the windows box) if her work place's webmaster stops supporting IE Mac and makes and incompatable upgrade.