I have the same issue with my the quote at the bottom of my email sig. Quite a while back, I got tired of the same quote over and over again, so I wrote a small ruby script to change it every time the computer restarted (it's a laptop, so that tends to be daily).
By this point, there are about 20 pages of quotes, and somehow the one which gets selected at pseudo-random almost always fits the events of the day.
Friday's was a real gem. I was dealing with a recruiter who just started demanding information out of the blue without offering any himself. (His email literally just said "please send me a copy of your resume in word format" when I had never dealt with him before) When I pointed out that this is not a good way to get what you want, he got huffy and started saying how nobody had ever complained in his ten years of working.
The quote in my sig? "A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need all the advice." - Bill Cosby
Actually, having a common ancestor would suggest that they could interbreed much like different kinds of cat can (kind of like my psychotic fuzzball who is part bobcat).
So where's the other 134 Billion going? The bribes necessary to actually accomplish things?
As for the "Can a "40 year old" nagivation program be all that hard?" wisecrack, yes it can. You're not talking about something that, if it crashes, you just restart the program or reboot the system. If that program fails, people die up there and possibly down here (due to falling debris). Add to that the possibility that, in addition to the loss of life, the craft could take out orbiting satelites which cost a great deal of money and could lead to problems with communications worldwide.
I'd call that something that I'd want to be damned careful with.
That was my take on the ones at my university as well. My alma mater always had the line of "please tell us what we can do to improve job fairs". My response was standard - Get companies that are actually interested in hiring people. It's also been my experience that most offices they have to help students with resumes are a joke as well.
I have yet to meet many people (from my university or others) that have disagreed with me about that.
The one I loved (apart from the "you need more experience in this technology than is possible" ads that I've seen in the past) was posted in my area about 6 months ago. They wanted someone with about 5-6 years of experience as a DBA, Software Developer, and Network Administrator for less than most of the manufacturing positions in this area pay.
Note that this was not a posting for three seperate positions. They wanted this all in one person. I nearly choked on my tea.
I still remember with great bitterness the time that some stranger appeared at my door, WITH A PC IN HAND, and *told* me that my parental unit had sent him over.
Tell them simply and directly that the free tech support only extends to your parental units. My mother tried doing that with the store she worked at once. The first problem was a simple one, so I just fixed it since I was there (she had been the one that called me and asked me to come over to the store without telling me what she wanted - I figured she had car trouble or something similar), and then I told both her and her boss that if they called me again, I would charge them my normal rate.
Aria of Sorrow (GBA) actually had something of a storyline.
You are, however, correct that most of the castlevania games didn't. Though it might be a good idea to keep in mind the fact that there was a book based off of castlevania 2.
Someone needs to tell Joel that. He seems to be of the opinion that the only ones who should be working are the superstars, period. I just shake my head at most of his essays - especially the "if you have any doubts whatsoever about a candidate, don't hire them" one (this is where he really starts to espouse his "only the best should work" mentality)
The question is if it'd take another Bell sized rollout to the whole Midwest just to wire it so that there's no reason to not think domestic first.
Being in one of the flyover states (Ohio), I can say that, here at least, the infrastructire isn't bad in the cities and even most of the smaller towns (I believe that, the last I heard, you could get T or OC lines in my old hometown of about 5000 people if you really wanted them). The problems that arise are tech infrastructure outside of the smaller towns, the fact that there's not a lot around for the target age range (20-30somethings) to do, and the fact that, culturally, this place tends to be pretty conservative.
In the last 6 months or so, I've started getting a lot of calls. Mostly, I have the feeling, because I've been published (I was exec editor for a startup tech magazine. It sounded like fun at the time).
Unfortunately, a lot of those calls have been from the kinds of places that I mentioned earlier. The client list thing has been asked enough times that it's in my faq. I've had a couple of really solid sets of interviews (one with a large online retailer), but we just didn't click. Hopefully something positive happens soon.
has rewards like a startup's available, and has a startup's environment
Also remember that part of the environment of a startup tends to be excessive hours and a lot of stress (which, from what I have heard, is also often the case at google).
I did the startup thing once. All I can say is no thanks. I want a decent life, and that means more than just money that I'll never be able to do anything with because I'm always at work.
I'm one of the "left behind" young talent. I graduated in 2004 when the market really sucked and did some consulting to get by. I want to work for a "normal" company (there is no such thing as a normal company. They're all crazy in one way or another) and get on with my life.
This is especially true in the current market where companies have this crazy idea that they should hire somebody who's past experience is an exact match to their current task. The young talent is getting left behind...
I don't know what started companies down this path, but the ones who follow it should be shot. I've gotten calls from HR people who see my resume online, contact me, and then decide I'm not a match because I haven't made a program that interfaces with a particular database or because I don't use the same IDE that they do at the company. Come on, people, an IDE is not something that's really that difficult to get the hang of.
And don't even get me started on the "headhunters" who contact me and then demand the list of clients that I've contracted for under the guise of "wanting references" (when you offer them a list of references and they still demand your client list, it's not you that they're interested in).
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I too have fond memories of the 3do. A friend of mine got one shortly after it came out, and we spent way too much time playing.
As for the games, do you happen to have an email address where I could contact you?
I have the same issue with my the quote at the bottom of my email sig. Quite a while back, I got tired of the same quote over and over again, so I wrote a small ruby script to change it every time the computer restarted (it's a laptop, so that tends to be daily).
By this point, there are about 20 pages of quotes, and somehow the one which gets selected at pseudo-random almost always fits the events of the day.
Friday's was a real gem. I was dealing with a recruiter who just started demanding information out of the blue without offering any himself. (His email literally just said "please send me a copy of your resume in word format" when I had never dealt with him before) When I pointed out that this is not a good way to get what you want, he got huffy and started saying how nobody had ever complained in his ten years of working.
The quote in my sig?
"A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need all the advice."
- Bill Cosby
Actually, having a common ancestor would suggest that they could interbreed much like different kinds of cat can (kind of like my psychotic fuzzball who is part bobcat).
So where's the other 134 Billion going?
The bribes necessary to actually accomplish things?
As for the "Can a "40 year old" nagivation program be all that hard?" wisecrack, yes it can. You're not talking about something that, if it crashes, you just restart the program or reboot the system. If that program fails, people die up there and possibly down here (due to falling debris). Add to that the possibility that, in addition to the loss of life, the craft could take out orbiting satelites which cost a great deal of money and could lead to problems with communications worldwide.
I'd call that something that I'd want to be damned careful with.
Surely you don't make your professional wage 24hrs per day
I may not make my professional wage 24 hours a day, but my free time isn't free. It's worth a great deal to me.
Let's face it - time is the one thing you can never get back.
(our "job fair" days were jokes)
That was my take on the ones at my university as well. My alma mater always had the line of "please tell us what we can do to improve job fairs". My response was standard - Get companies that are actually interested in hiring people. It's also been my experience that most offices they have to help students with resumes are a joke as well.
I have yet to meet many people (from my university or others) that have disagreed with me about that.
Sawbuck even.
It's really been one of those days
Actually, a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawbuck>sawbuck is a $10 because the roman numeral X resembols what are basically quicks and dirty sawhorses
The one I loved (apart from the "you need more experience in this technology than is possible" ads that I've seen in the past) was posted in my area about 6 months ago. They wanted someone with about 5-6 years of experience as a DBA, Software Developer, and Network Administrator for less than most of the manufacturing positions in this area pay.
Note that this was not a posting for three seperate positions. They wanted this all in one person. I nearly choked on my tea.
He also says that Starbucks is one of his two favorite companies and that he hasn't had a girlfriend in almost two years (big surprise there)
I'm sorry, but I don't think that school transcripts should be posted on anyone's online portfolio.
Data about you that you have to sign for in order to obtain should not be posted for everyone to look at. It gives up way too many details about you.
Well, he does say that he hasn't had a girlfriend in about two years. That could explain quite a lot of this...
I still remember with great bitterness the time that some stranger appeared at my door, WITH A PC IN HAND, and *told* me that my parental unit had sent him over.
Tell them simply and directly that the free tech support only extends to your parental units. My mother tried doing that with the store she worked at once. The first problem was a simple one, so I just fixed it since I was there (she had been the one that called me and asked me to come over to the store without telling me what she wanted - I figured she had car trouble or something similar), and then I told both her and her boss that if they called me again, I would charge them my normal rate.
I have to agree on the cow level.
Fireballing cows was great. It amused the heck out of me.
Break out the sorceress. We're gonna have a barbeque!
Aria of Sorrow (GBA) actually had something of a storyline.
You are, however, correct that most of the castlevania games didn't. Though it might be a good idea to keep in mind the fact that there was a book based off of castlevania 2.
Someone needs to tell Joel that. He seems to be of the opinion that the only ones who should be working are the superstars, period. I just shake my head at most of his essays - especially the "if you have any doubts whatsoever about a candidate, don't hire them" one (this is where he really starts to espouse his "only the best should work" mentality)
The question is if it'd take another Bell sized rollout to the whole Midwest just to wire it so that there's no reason to not think domestic first.
Being in one of the flyover states (Ohio), I can say that, here at least, the infrastructire isn't bad in the cities and even most of the smaller towns (I believe that, the last I heard, you could get T or OC lines in my old hometown of about 5000 people if you really wanted them). The problems that arise are tech infrastructure outside of the smaller towns, the fact that there's not a lot around for the target age range (20-30somethings) to do, and the fact that, culturally, this place tends to be pretty conservative.
In the last 6 months or so, I've started getting a lot of calls. Mostly, I have the feeling, because I've been published (I was exec editor for a startup tech magazine. It sounded like fun at the time).
Unfortunately, a lot of those calls have been from the kinds of places that I mentioned earlier. The client list thing has been asked enough times that it's in my faq. I've had a couple of really solid sets of interviews (one with a large online retailer), but we just didn't click. Hopefully something positive happens soon.
has rewards like a startup's available, and has a startup's environment
Also remember that part of the environment of a startup tends to be excessive hours and a lot of stress (which, from what I have heard, is also often the case at google).
I did the startup thing once. All I can say is no thanks. I want a decent life, and that means more than just money that I'll never be able to do anything with because I'm always at work.
Funny how that works, isn't it?
I'm one of the "left behind" young talent. I graduated in 2004 when the market really sucked and did some consulting to get by. I want to work for a "normal" company (there is no such thing as a normal company. They're all crazy in one way or another) and get on with my life.
It's driving me nuts.
here's a decent look at it
This is especially true in the current market where companies have this crazy idea that they should hire somebody who's past experience is an exact match to their current task. The young talent is getting left behind...
I don't know what started companies down this path, but the ones who follow it should be shot. I've gotten calls from HR people who see my resume online, contact me, and then decide I'm not a match because I haven't made a program that interfaces with a particular database or because I don't use the same IDE that they do at the company. Come on, people, an IDE is not something that's really that difficult to get the hang of.
And don't even get me started on the "headhunters" who contact me and then demand the list of clients that I've contracted for under the guise of "wanting references" (when you offer them a list of references and they still demand your client list, it's not you that they're interested in).
According to your posting history, it's been about one year since the last post.
Sunday November 27 2005
Why not? They have before.
It was called the Civil War
You say that now, but wait until the next day when you wake up, not knowing who you are and there are zombies everywhere.