To perhaps ease your pain some, check out my stash project. It was designed with stubborn sysadmins in mind.... It eases the process of installing stuff into your home directory.
Any "good" programmer can pick up a new language in no more than a month. A great programmer can do it even faster. All those "tricks" you refer to are what employers need. Those "tricks" save thousands of dollars of development time and/or down time. By hiring someone with 5-10 years experience, the employers are banking on getting access to those "tricks" to save them money in the long run.
Furthermore, I can't disagree more strongly that when you hire someone with 5 years experience you get 1 year of experience repeated 5 times.... rubbish! Experience counts! People learn over time. Their problem solving skills continue to improve. Their exposure to different environments expands.
I've been where you are... Not having the experience to get the job I wanted. I just had to keep looking until I found/fooled someone;) Now I have that experience and looking back, I wasn't as good with 1 year of experience as I am now with 7 years... though at the time I had the same attitude you do now.
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If you are looking for the '.' command to repeat the last edit in Emacs... then check out dot-mode.el. It gives you Ctrl-. that does the same thing.
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http://www.wyrick.org/source/elisp/dot-mode/index
Be a parent. Don't rely on technology to monitor your kids. That's YOUR job.
To perhaps ease your pain some, check out my stash project. It was designed with stubborn sysadmins in mind.... It eases the process of installing stuff into your home directory.
The first link is about an object named "2004 DW". The second link is about Sedna (previous known as 2003 VB12).
The newly found moon is orbiting Sedna, NOT 2004 DW.
The links in the slashdot article are misleading.
Any "good" programmer can pick up a new language in no more than a month. A great programmer can do it even faster. All those "tricks" you refer to are what employers need. Those "tricks" save thousands of dollars of development time and/or down time. By hiring someone with 5-10 years experience, the employers are banking on getting access to those "tricks" to save them money in the long run.
;) Now I have that experience and looking back, I wasn't as good with 1 year of experience as I am now with 7 years... though at the time I had the same attitude you do now.
Furthermore, I can't disagree more strongly that when you hire someone with 5 years experience you get 1 year of experience repeated 5 times.... rubbish! Experience counts! People learn over time. Their problem solving skills continue to improve. Their exposure to different environments expands.
I've been where you are... Not having the experience to get the job I wanted. I just had to keep looking until I found/fooled someone