Who on Earth is powerful enough to try to dictate to God that God got it wrong?
Which makes you wonder how religious people justify circumcision. Pretty much says that God made a mistake by giving you a foreskin to begin with (yes I know it's awfully off-topic, sorry).
Wow, the irony being that I moved to Dublin in the first place because there were no job where I'm from (the north west end of France). Well thanks for the insight!
Exactly, because of the type of system we find is quite particular (i.e. gas giant near its star, the bigger the star the closer and bigger the planet) this conclusion may apply only to a few categories of planetary systems. By the way, isn't the consensus on the formation of the solar system that our gas giants moved away from the Sun?
Hehe yeah I already had an idea like your "sound-o-grams" thing, it well be a spectrogram with a = sign at its beginning and end. You could acquire a picture with a cellphone's camera, then detect the two = signs so you'd know that there's a sound there, when it starts, when it ends, and the vertical and horizontal of each = sign would give you the synthesis parameters, so you could automatically synthesise a sound photographed from say something on a wall or a poster and hear it as it was intended to be heard.
Well, what about the examples page? Doesn't that one make up for the lack of images throughout the rest of the rest of the site? Not like I know anything about web design (I guess you can tell);-)
By the way, I just edited the entire site and made sure it always sounds like the project is the she's neat and that I always sound like a flawless visionary genius. Also I think I'll make my next version be 1.0 instead of 0.3. How does that sound, am I getting closer to Lindsay Lohan than Debbie Downer now?;-)
How are potential employers supposed to know that your project is of any value at all? Your version number indicates you don't consider it anywhere close to a first release. Your website says it is painfully slow and lacks precision. It also says that you've never really used it for anything because you're too busy developing it.
Wow, you're right, I didn't realise until now how poor a marketer I was. By being too honest from an insider point of view I make it all sound quite bad. I guess I should put more positivity in my statements. And maybe a zest of sensationalism?
By the way, isn't the list of things it can do at the beginning of the front page enough?
As for that whole first release thing, I was pretty much planning to never reach that famous "first release" thing, as in, do like a bunch of FOSS projects do and go on with the 0.x versioning because I don't know when would be a good time to announce a version 1.0. I mean, what sort of new feature would justify a jump from version 0.2.3 to 1.0? The same kind that I considered using to jump to 0.3?
Well thank you for your insight, I appreciate. I'm glad to know that there are people out there in charge of recruiting me who would dismiss my work based on the fact that its version number starts with a 0, like it's more important than what it actually does?
No offense but I think I'll keep it like this, sounds like a good way to weed out people who need a clue;-)
Thank you, that's some interesting input. However, and I think I can blame that on my relative inexperience, how can I make these hobbyist skills translate into promises of increased productivity? Also, what sort of services can I propose exactly?
Interesting. I chose Dublin a bit cluelessly I admit, mainly because I heard a few years ago that Dublin was the European IT El Dorado, with the European headquarters of the big IT guys like IBM, Sun, Google, etc.. Which places/areas (in Europe/North America) would you say would be best suited for me?
Sometimes (and by sometimes I mean often) people think about their immediate personal interest rather than anything else. That surely isn't the ideal attitude, but that's the reason why lots of people pirate.
I'm a lazy git who couldn't be bothered to pay if he had the money and wasn't a skinflint. Also, there's lots of games/movies/music out there that I want, I don't have the disposable income to pay for them all, and because I don't want to bother with deciding what's more worthy of my money I just don't pay for anything.
Besides, why should I pay for something I can get for free? Not trolling, I and masses of people think that way. The only way I'd consider buying a game is if it couldn't be pirated, and had a playable demo that made me want to have the real thing really badly. Hasn't happened in at least a decade, so good luck with that!
I have actually unfortunately I only realised this was an option in June and it was a bit late for college registrations for this year so even if I do it next year I still need a job in the meantime. By the way, what kind of research jobs? Don't these require you to have a PhD or something similar? (I have no degree at all by the way).
So you have been working for 3 years on the project, but hasn't managed to get it into a first version yet? No wonder you can't get a job if you can't show ability to get stuff out the door.
What the hell are you drivelling about? That's like saying that the eMule project "hasn't managed to get it into a first version yet". Just because the version number starts with a 0. Ridiculous. As for the project name, when you try to think of an acronym for it you can only come up with A's and S's. And anything that wasn't an acronym sucked.
Interesting. Well that's why I refused to go anywhere with Java,.Net, C#, MySQL or any other language of the hour because I'm not interested in most of what's done with these languages, and I'm not complaining that I have to work in system administration, I'd be very happy to have a job in system administration, or anything vaguely IT related. It's hard being out there without any experience, and my hobby projects haven't helped much so far. I really hope they will in the future though.
I've been working on my open source project for three years and that doesn't help me a bit when looking for a job in Dublin (Ireland, not Ohio). Basically there's a very few jobs out there in which you can program in C or anything vaguely signal processing-related and they all want you to have at least three years of commercial experience, don't care if you've got the snazziest open source project out there.
And I've been looking for a job for over 5 months now, and mainly in tech support and system administration because really, no one wants to hire me for a coding job.
So you don't understand what pride is for. Your point? That's like saying that gay people don't need marriage because you don't think marriage is a good thing for anyone. But it's all about equality.
So what, Run DMC didn't sing about being proud of their western African heritage, they sung about being proud to be black. Claiming that you can safely be proud of being Irish or Italian doesn't fix it, if other people can be proud of their race, why couldn't whites, using the word "white"? The word "white" wasn't invented by the KKK, it just springs to mind to anyone darker than us who sees us. Where's the equality when you can say "I'm proud to be black" but sound racist if ever you say "I'm proud to be white"? Does it mean being white is something to be ashamed of? Sounds a lot like it.
It's flat, but in a curved and warped space dimension. Said like this it makes perfect sense, although it's merely a construct made to look at things differently in an arguably more convenient way.
Very pertinent thought! I don't think there's any way to tell, her profile is empty, there are people called Jessica in Russian-speaking countries, and her language is consistent with her being either very poorly educated, her being a child or her being from the actual country of Georgia. Truly a mystery.
By using the word "ridden" are you implying that being proud of your race is a bad trait?
Anyone should be proud of who they are, no matter what they are. Except if they're white. Then that's racism. If you're white then you should feel guilty about it, and feel sorry about ruling the most of the world for 5 centuries. I'm joking, but you know you'd have your silent internal "racist! racist!" alarm going off if you heard someone say they're proud to be white. And people these days who have a choice (partially white people, white latinos or Mediterraneans) are so quick to dissociate themselves from the white race, it's like no one wants to be white anymore.
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Who on Earth is powerful enough to try to dictate to God that God got it wrong?
Which makes you wonder how religious people justify circumcision. Pretty much says that God made a mistake by giving you a foreskin to begin with (yes I know it's awfully off-topic, sorry).
Wow, the irony being that I moved to Dublin in the first place because there were no job where I'm from (the north west end of France). Well thanks for the insight!
Exactly, because of the type of system we find is quite particular (i.e. gas giant near its star, the bigger the star the closer and bigger the planet) this conclusion may apply only to a few categories of planetary systems. By the way, isn't the consensus on the formation of the solar system that our gas giants moved away from the Sun?
Hehe yeah I already had an idea like your "sound-o-grams" thing, it well be a spectrogram with a = sign at its beginning and end. You could acquire a picture with a cellphone's camera, then detect the two = signs so you'd know that there's a sound there, when it starts, when it ends, and the vertical and horizontal of each = sign would give you the synthesis parameters, so you could automatically synthesise a sound photographed from say something on a wall or a poster and hear it as it was intended to be heard.
What would steganosonography be though?
Well, what about the examples page? Doesn't that one make up for the lack of images throughout the rest of the rest of the site? Not like I know anything about web design (I guess you can tell) ;-)
By the way, I just edited the entire site and made sure it always sounds like the project is the she's neat and that I always sound like a flawless visionary genius. Also I think I'll make my next version be 1.0 instead of 0.3. How does that sound, am I getting closer to Lindsay Lohan than Debbie Downer now? ;-)
How are potential employers supposed to know that your project is of any value at all? Your version number indicates you don't consider it anywhere close to a first release. Your website says it is painfully slow and lacks precision. It also says that you've never really used it for anything because you're too busy developing it.
Wow, you're right, I didn't realise until now how poor a marketer I was. By being too honest from an insider point of view I make it all sound quite bad. I guess I should put more positivity in my statements. And maybe a zest of sensationalism?
By the way, isn't the list of things it can do at the beginning of the front page enough?
As for that whole first release thing, I was pretty much planning to never reach that famous "first release" thing, as in, do like a bunch of FOSS projects do and go on with the 0.x versioning because I don't know when would be a good time to announce a version 1.0. I mean, what sort of new feature would justify a jump from version 0.2.3 to 1.0? The same kind that I considered using to jump to 0.3?
Well thank you for your insight, I appreciate. I'm glad to know that there are people out there in charge of recruiting me who would dismiss my work based on the fact that its version number starts with a 0, like it's more important than what it actually does?
No offense but I think I'll keep it like this, sounds like a good way to weed out people who need a clue ;-)
Thank you, that's some interesting input. However, and I think I can blame that on my relative inexperience, how can I make these hobbyist skills translate into promises of increased productivity? Also, what sort of services can I propose exactly?
Interesting. I chose Dublin a bit cluelessly I admit, mainly because I heard a few years ago that Dublin was the European IT El Dorado, with the European headquarters of the big IT guys like IBM, Sun, Google, etc.. Which places/areas (in Europe/North America) would you say would be best suited for me?
Hill suspects that local authorities might have been spooked by the fact that he called his device a warballoon.
A slight name change sounds necessary then.. How does waterballoon sound?
Sometimes (and by sometimes I mean often) people think about their immediate personal interest rather than anything else. That surely isn't the ideal attitude, but that's the reason why lots of people pirate.
I'm a lazy git who couldn't be bothered to pay if he had the money and wasn't a skinflint. Also, there's lots of games/movies/music out there that I want, I don't have the disposable income to pay for them all, and because I don't want to bother with deciding what's more worthy of my money I just don't pay for anything.
Besides, why should I pay for something I can get for free? Not trolling, I and masses of people think that way. The only way I'd consider buying a game is if it couldn't be pirated, and had a playable demo that made me want to have the real thing really badly. Hasn't happened in at least a decade, so good luck with that!
I have actually unfortunately I only realised this was an option in June and it was a bit late for college registrations for this year so even if I do it next year I still need a job in the meantime. By the way, what kind of research jobs? Don't these require you to have a PhD or something similar? (I have no degree at all by the way).
So you have been working for 3 years on the project, but hasn't managed to get it into a first version yet? No wonder you can't get a job if you can't show ability to get stuff out the door.
What the hell are you drivelling about? That's like saying that the eMule project "hasn't managed to get it into a first version yet". Just because the version number starts with a 0. Ridiculous. As for the project name, when you try to think of an acronym for it you can only come up with A's and S's. And anything that wasn't an acronym sucked.
Interesting. Well that's why I refused to go anywhere with Java, .Net, C#, MySQL or any other language of the hour because I'm not interested in most of what's done with these languages, and I'm not complaining that I have to work in system administration, I'd be very happy to have a job in system administration, or anything vaguely IT related. It's hard being out there without any experience, and my hobby projects haven't helped much so far. I really hope they will in the future though.
Maybe you should get off your ARSS and try working for a different open source project?
*pa-da-pshhh!* ;-)
I've been working on my open source project for three years and that doesn't help me a bit when looking for a job in Dublin (Ireland, not Ohio). Basically there's a very few jobs out there in which you can program in C or anything vaguely signal processing-related and they all want you to have at least three years of commercial experience, don't care if you've got the snazziest open source project out there.
And I've been looking for a job for over 5 months now, and mainly in tech support and system administration because really, no one wants to hire me for a coding job.
So you don't understand what pride is for. Your point? That's like saying that gay people don't need marriage because you don't think marriage is a good thing for anyone. But it's all about equality.
So what, Run DMC didn't sing about being proud of their western African heritage, they sung about being proud to be black. Claiming that you can safely be proud of being Irish or Italian doesn't fix it, if other people can be proud of their race, why couldn't whites, using the word "white"? The word "white" wasn't invented by the KKK, it just springs to mind to anyone darker than us who sees us. Where's the equality when you can say "I'm proud to be black" but sound racist if ever you say "I'm proud to be white"? Does it mean being white is something to be ashamed of? Sounds a lot like it.
It's flat, but in a curved and warped space dimension. Said like this it makes perfect sense, although it's merely a construct made to look at things differently in an arguably more convenient way.
Who's the idiot.
Very pertinent thought! I don't think there's any way to tell, her profile is empty, there are people called Jessica in Russian-speaking countries, and her language is consistent with her being either very poorly educated, her being a child or her being from the actual country of Georgia. Truly a mystery.
By using the word "ridden" are you implying that being proud of your race is a bad trait?
Anyone should be proud of who they are, no matter what they are. Except if they're white. Then that's racism. If you're white then you should feel guilty about it, and feel sorry about ruling the most of the world for 5 centuries. I'm joking, but you know you'd have your silent internal "racist! racist!" alarm going off if you heard someone say they're proud to be white. And people these days who have a choice (partially white people, white latinos or Mediterraneans) are so quick to dissociate themselves from the white race, it's like no one wants to be white anymore.