I can see the reports made by people who don't know the meaning of the war driving marks. Urban "crop circles" sited - neighborhood concerned over possible alien invasion.
In the case of the local band, they only have a few different albums (if they even have more than one). This means that they don't have to hedge their bets on which albums are going to sell and which aren't. Add to this the fact that the band can be reasonably sure that the people buying the discs at their shows were there to hear that band play in the first place.
What I love have been the companies that have interviewed me and have either been jerking me around (many of them) or, in one case, quite literally downright verbally abusive.
That is something that I do not care to put up with and, in the case of the abusive one, I didn't put up with it. The bad part was that interview was three hours away, so I not only wasted the time, but the travel costs.
Actually, here in the United States, a bachelors degree generally takes 4 years (not 2-3) to complete and then usually about another 2 years for a masters.
Frighteningly enough, the following query in google gives the fax number in the first two results (#2 is from the university of oregon and both the numbers are the same): aol cancellation fax number
It was a lot easier to find than I thought it would be
I know that now (and have for several years. In fact, a friend who was a lawyer pointed that out when he asked how I'd been a few days later). However, at 19, I hadn't learned that lesson until then.
Ever have the fun of trying to cancel an Earthlink account?
I did sometime around 1999. I've never been on hold that long in my life with the exception of getting the "technician" at Verizon to diagnose a problem on their end when my DSL stopped working one day.
I have to say that, as a general rule, I really do agree with you. However, I have unfortunately, had experience with "customer service" people that made even me want to strangle them (and that takes a lot).
I call with an issue (generally something like "I'm moving and need to cancel my service") and try in a nice, civil manner to get a solution. I know what it's like on the other end of the phone. I worked my way through college as a network analyst and admin and had to field a lot of calls from people who thought that their issue was the only one in the world.
However, what starts out as a civil call on my part ends up as him taking an opportunity to "upsell" me on some service that I'm canceling because I won't be living there anymore or, in the case of my old dialup account many years ago, because I moved to dsl (Earthlink tried to bill me for a couple of months afterward if memory serves). This sort of thing really ticks me off. I realize that not all customer service people do it, and most of my calls actually go really well, but to say that bad callers are the sole reason customer support sucks is just a wee bit of oversimplification.
You can blame Melinda Gates for Bob. She was the one in charge of that project. In fact, it was, I believe, the only thing she was ever in charge of there.
The entire time I was at college, I think I only saw something on the order of 5 or 6 girls in the program who stuck around longer than year 1. The funny thing is that most of them looked at you like you had suggested they do something unplesant if you said hello. I think there was one real exception to that and she was just really cool period.
The just seemed to be hostile half of the time, and not horribly interested in what they were doing the other half. My hat is off to you. You seem to be one of the rare ones.
Out of all of the female engineering students that I met there, the nicest (and most together in terms of knowing what they wanted) tended to be the CivE's.
I do not. Now take that back before I create a special hell for you right next to the one reserved for child molesters and people who talk at the theater =]
I've found that java tends to be a lot easier to debug than c. By the same token, C was easier to debug than ASM in the class I had to use that for and one hell of a lot easier to track down bugs in than Flex and Bison when I took the language creation class my senior year (good grief that was a nightmare).
I have long, curly brown hair with natural red and blonde highlights. I have to keep it tied back - otherwise it becomes the Great Scottish Hair of Doom. No beard or mustache and no sideburns at all. In fact, the sides of my head are shaved well above the tops of my ears and tapering down in the back (sort of my way of paying homage to my old teacher).
On me, it just looks right. The really funny thing is how often I get told that I look like a fed or a merc.
I agree with the points of dressing and acting the part which you play when you reperesent someone/something. However, one thing has to be said:
It is completely possible to look professional with a ponytail. I have one and I still have a professional image. The key here is that my hair is kept neat and tied back without looking wild. In fact, I had short hair for a while and people told me that I actually looked wrong that way because it really doesn't suit me (and a couple of those were people that I knew in political offices).
Meeting with someone for something important? Wear a nice suit (including good, non-gaudy tie), good shoes, facial hair (if you have any) should be neatly trimmed, hair should be well cared for (and not look disruptive) whether it is long or short, cleaned and trimmed nails, etc.
I have an interesting situation when people look for my name on google. The first few results are my website and blog (which is linked to on my website, so there's nothing to hide there). Past that, about the only presence I have on the net are the articles I've written for the magazine (which are also referenced on my website) and my/. posts.
However, amongst the other results in google for people having my name are another software developer and an apparently former VP at Sun Microsystems. I say former because one day I decided to email the other James and the message bounced.
I try to eliminate this confusion by stating at the bottom of my resume that my website exists and it is where up to date copies of my resume live. It seems to work so far because I've had comments from interviewers about my website and/or blog and no comments about anything I didn't do online.
Yes, but my desire to earth a tesla coil to the gas tank of my former boss' car was frowned upon by the most of the directors. One or two of them thought it was a good idea though *smirk*
I agree. It's just one of those little quirks though - X works, Y doesn't.
I think my only complaint about writing prepared statements is that I have to double check to make sure I have the right number of question marks in the statement. This is no problem at all, but it does occasionally mess with you if you're tired =]
Thankfully, the odbc control pannel isn't so bad anymore. You do, however, have to configure the odbc stuff for either: 1) Every User on the machine that's going to use it if the database lives in their account or 2) The machine that the database runs on if you want it to run on the machine and not in the user's account (say a server or an app on a box that several users may use)
Oh, and if your program is in java and you want to connect to an Access database with the JDBC-ODBC bridge, there's another quirk. If you want to change data in the database, you have to use a PreparedStatement instead of just a Statement or it won't work. Nobody really knows why. You just do.
He sounds like a high tech only geek. I know quite a few people who would love to have a good suit of mail. Many of them are SCA people, but some of them are more like me (I trained martially since I was about 6. Primarily kung fu with cross training in Japanese and European sword arts).
Doing some of those things makes armor come in really handy on occasion. I'm not a big fan of chain, though. It tends to bind at the shoulders if it's not done well. I perfered a chinese style breastplate and bracers when I wore heavy weapons armor.
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I can see the reports made by people who don't know the meaning of the war driving marks. Urban "crop circles" sited - neighborhood concerned over possible alien invasion.
If I had to guess?
First. Post. Ever.
In the case of the local band, they only have a few different albums (if they even have more than one). This means that they don't have to hedge their bets on which albums are going to sell and which aren't. Add to this the fact that the band can be reasonably sure that the people buying the discs at their shows were there to hear that band play in the first place.
It really doesn't compare.
My reactions were much the same. I expect professional behavior. If you don't have it, you don't have me.
What I love have been the companies that have interviewed me and have either been jerking me around (many of them) or, in one case, quite literally downright verbally abusive.
That is something that I do not care to put up with and, in the case of the abusive one, I didn't put up with it. The bad part was that interview was three hours away, so I not only wasted the time, but the travel costs.
Actually, here in the United States, a bachelors degree generally takes 4 years (not 2-3) to complete and then usually about another 2 years for a masters.
Frighteningly enough, the following query in google gives the fax number in the first two results (#2 is from the university of oregon and both the numbers are the same):
aol cancellation fax number
It was a lot easier to find than I thought it would be
I know that now (and have for several years. In fact, a friend who was a lawyer pointed that out when he asked how I'd been a few days later). However, at 19, I hadn't learned that lesson until then.
Ever have the fun of trying to cancel an Earthlink account?
I did sometime around 1999. I've never been on hold that long in my life with the exception of getting the "technician" at Verizon to diagnose a problem on their end when my DSL stopped working one day.
I have to say that, as a general rule, I really do agree with you. However, I have unfortunately, had experience with "customer service" people that made even me want to strangle them (and that takes a lot).
I call with an issue (generally something like "I'm moving and need to cancel my service") and try in a nice, civil manner to get a solution. I know what it's like on the other end of the phone. I worked my way through college as a network analyst and admin and had to field a lot of calls from people who thought that their issue was the only one in the world.
However, what starts out as a civil call on my part ends up as him taking an opportunity to "upsell" me on some service that I'm canceling because I won't be living there anymore or, in the case of my old dialup account many years ago, because I moved to dsl (Earthlink tried to bill me for a couple of months afterward if memory serves). This sort of thing really ticks me off. I realize that not all customer service people do it, and most of my calls actually go really well, but to say that bad callers are the sole reason customer support sucks is just a wee bit of oversimplification.
I enjoy programming and I like learning new things, but I do not want to spend every waking moment focusing on new trends in software development.
There are those of us who really do like what we do, but still consider it a job and want to do other things besides on our free time.
I didn't even notice his username until you mentioned it. I nearly sprayed tea across my monitor.
I can see it now - him standing on his desk, 25lb IBM keyboard in hand yelling "Code! COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE!!!!!!!!!"
You can blame Melinda Gates for Bob. She was the one in charge of that project. In fact, it was, I believe, the only thing she was ever in charge of there.
The entire time I was at college, I think I only saw something on the order of 5 or 6 girls in the program who stuck around longer than year 1. The funny thing is that most of them looked at you like you had suggested they do something unplesant if you said hello. I think there was one real exception to that and she was just really cool period.
The just seemed to be hostile half of the time, and not horribly interested in what they were doing the other half. My hat is off to you. You seem to be one of the rare ones.
Out of all of the female engineering students that I met there, the nicest (and most together in terms of knowing what they wanted) tended to be the CivE's.
I do not. Now take that back before I create a special hell for you right next to the one reserved for child molesters and people who talk at the theater =]
I kind of wondered at the debugging comment too.
I've found that java tends to be a lot easier to debug than c. By the same token, C was easier to debug than ASM in the class I had to use that for and one hell of a lot easier to track down bugs in than Flex and Bison when I took the language creation class my senior year (good grief that was a nightmare).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16820159006
I would have also looked on geeks.com, but it's down for scheduled maintinance at the moment.
I have long, curly brown hair with natural red and blonde highlights. I have to keep it tied back - otherwise it becomes the Great Scottish Hair of Doom. No beard or mustache and no sideburns at all. In fact, the sides of my head are shaved well above the tops of my ears and tapering down in the back (sort of my way of paying homage to my old teacher).
On me, it just looks right. The really funny thing is how often I get told that I look like a fed or a merc.
I agree with the points of dressing and acting the part which you play when you reperesent someone/something. However, one thing has to be said:
It is completely possible to look professional with a ponytail. I have one and I still have a professional image. The key here is that my hair is kept neat and tied back without looking wild. In fact, I had short hair for a while and people told me that I actually looked wrong that way because it really doesn't suit me (and a couple of those were people that I knew in political offices).
Meeting with someone for something important? Wear a nice suit (including good, non-gaudy tie), good shoes, facial hair (if you have any) should be neatly trimmed, hair should be well cared for (and not look disruptive) whether it is long or short, cleaned and trimmed nails, etc.
I have an interesting situation when people look for my name on google. The first few results are my website and blog (which is linked to on my website, so there's nothing to hide there). Past that, about the only presence I have on the net are the articles I've written for the magazine (which are also referenced on my website) and my /. posts.
However, amongst the other results in google for people having my name are another software developer and an apparently former VP at Sun Microsystems. I say former because one day I decided to email the other James and the message bounced.
I try to eliminate this confusion by stating at the bottom of my resume that my website exists and it is where up to date copies of my resume live. It seems to work so far because I've had comments from interviewers about my website and/or blog and no comments about anything I didn't do online.
Yes, but my desire to earth a tesla coil to the gas tank of my former boss' car was frowned upon by the most of the directors. One or two of them thought it was a good idea though *smirk*
I agree. It's just one of those little quirks though - X works, Y doesn't.
I think my only complaint about writing prepared statements is that I have to double check to make sure I have the right number of question marks in the statement. This is no problem at all, but it does occasionally mess with you if you're tired =]
Thankfully, the odbc control pannel isn't so bad anymore. You do, however, have to configure the odbc stuff for either:
1) Every User on the machine that's going to use it if the database lives in their account
or
2) The machine that the database runs on if you want it to run on the machine and not in the user's account (say a server or an app on a box that several users may use)
Oh, and if your program is in java and you want to connect to an Access database with the JDBC-ODBC bridge, there's another quirk. If you want to change data in the database, you have to use a PreparedStatement instead of just a Statement or it won't work. Nobody really knows why. You just do.
Floppies? no.
Magnetic tape backups? That's another story.
He sounds like a high tech only geek. I know quite a few people who would love to have a good suit of mail. Many of them are SCA people, but some of them are more like me (I trained martially since I was about 6. Primarily kung fu with cross training in Japanese and European sword arts).
Doing some of those things makes armor come in really handy on occasion. I'm not a big fan of chain, though. It tends to bind at the shoulders if it's not done well. I perfered a chinese style breastplate and bracers when I wore heavy weapons armor.