What matters most in an interview room is your own personal ability to sell your own salad (your own skills). Confidence matters a lot.
Either if it's personal Open Source commitment or commercial experience, employers wants to get people who CAN get the job done. That's it.
So you want commercial experience? Make your OWN experience!! Get to know local businesses around you (they are ALWAYS more easy to approach).
You will need to be creative. It could be as simple as coding macros to help a secretary do a repetitive task faster... anything really.
Present yourself as someone who can accelerate their productivity - on whatever they can dream of. After all, that's all of what coding is about, no?;-)
Coding utilities for local businesses, installing and deploying the stuff in their work environment, give them a full month free of charge to use the tool(s) - when they realized how it improved their work-flow/productivity - you will be in a very comfortable position to talk business with them (as-in getting paid for what you've done).
Make yourself business cards, promote your services everywhere (to EVERY local businesses around you). Keep your head up, and NEVER STOP BELIEVING IN YOURSELF, no matter what.
Don't get me wrong, your open source project (ARSS 0.2.3) looks impressive!! Indeed you are a talented programmer and people like you should never give up.
The more you promote your production acceleration services to any businesses around you the more you will get known.
I'm thankful that at least in Canada they concider that downloading mp3s is a common thing for everyone and it has been already proven that downloading mp3s stimulates sales.. people get to know new artists they never heard before and they get noticed out of the way.. For example: Astral Projection
I can agree that downloading movies can kill sales... cuz when u see a movie once, rarely you will want to watch it again.. so ok i can understand the point of view from movie makers where they agree they are loosing sales when their newest movie is released online..
But still: it non sence to put charges over people who likes music.
Here in Canada, we understand that this revolution of music sharing is far from killing the music industry, but rather redefining the ways that music gets packaged and sold.
PS: all of you students, move to Canada!!:D U'll be able to download and not having to worry about people who's pissed at what you're enjoying with your ears.;)
Is there any geeks who could explain to me what are the advantages of having the NASA spending that much cash on a robot sitting somewhere else in space? Is this really helping humanity?? I am not against the progress of science, AI, robotics or space-exploration. Could someone slap me back with something convincing me that it's worth for the USA to spend that much cash on such projects??
I'm simply looking at the fact that these millions of dollars could be invested over problems that already needs attention over THIS planet.
Ok the screenshots looks awwsome but over what I can see, but this game does not handle as many players online as World Of Warcraft. 400 users per servers compared to what.. 20000 users per WoW servers? Where does their idea of *massive online multiplayer* stand at?
I think this game will be worth checking out after all..
They know too much the art of the meaning of the *in between* these two things: what people want out of computer to do - and how you're willing to offer it to them (them == consumers && developers).
They used the way they disposed Windows to be to take advantage off many other companys:(. Google is my witness. Instead of giving the developers of the 90s a fair for EVERYONE to build and earn $$$ out of your buisness *as being a software developer* IF you'd be coding within their platform, they would bump you back if you were getting big (like Corel and Caldera). I am not against the fact that they released Word to compete about WordPerfect - but the way they decided to attack the behavior of competitive software to their own sub-products of Windows (Word,Excel).
They bumped back WordPerfect's stability to make Word looking as a better product. They prevented Calera Dr-Dos from getting in their way by making their platform not usable if you want to have them both on the same partition.. As a developer, I would never have the heart to attack back some other peice of code someone else did just because they did it great and they make a whole load of money with it.
They did what they would never wanted to happen to them.. I don't think they would enjoy better being sucessfully attacked economicly by some hardcode pseudo-code genius. Do they really have the guts to really understood what it feels for someone to be electronicly dispose to loose sales because they are writing app(s) that works against an other peice of software (not created by them)? At least GPLv2 protects everyone from making things like that.
But of course, their new campaign are more about telling to everyone they are trying to change and starting to approch what's the Open Source stuff.. And comparing them to the Open Source alot more, and explaining to the people the good (real) things they build for people. Do they make it to look cool by talking about Open Source? Do they really have the guts to be open to the world - and fair for everyone - as the Open Source REALLY is (simply because the source publicly avaiable, lol.)
The Open Source is not bug free ok.., but it is the beauty of the *free flow* (throught all it's possible meanings) of knowledge and giving back knowledge freely to everyone. IF people (anyone) CAN make LOTS of MONEY $$$ with THIS then IT is GOOD throught ALL of IT'S form. And everyone knows every years it's getting bigger, stronger, and more secure with the time.. (OpenBSD rocks for security.. and the Linux hardened kernels are simply awsome bigtime cuz all the stuff it can do for you).
Open Source will never hurt anyone. Open Source will try never monopolize the control of the future of the computer industry's itself with the latest version of their OSes. Or maybe I should say it this way: it will never attempt to apply pressure of any kind to control the future of the computer industry. GPLv2 gives the chance to protect the future: what people is making a living of.. GPLv2 is giving the proff that we can create better things *all_together on a worldwide scale* (and complementing to eveyone's code), than the other who does not like to share their publications (a patented program IS intrepreted as written publication).. Security is the beauty of and the sexy_ass features of Open Source Linux/Unix. People who's into closed source likes to fight in court with patents. If someone can think hard enought to reprogram the same class object I've used for an application, then I'd be more than happy to know that someone it putting it to good use: even it it would be from my code it would be tooked
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what IF everyone would be using GPLv2 it would protect us all right (as software developers)? I cannot pronounce myself onto other people trying to sue you for patented stuff (cuz I'm not a lawyer). I think it is important that the whole world gets to acknowledge that the more we reunite together as programmers, we can make
Microsoft products are ment to compete against their previous products.
As we all saw it happen,
Win9x against Win ME == No sound support for dos apps anymore, and the bootup to dos was disabled.
Win2k vs XP == multimedia features. any many other things as I don't know them all..
Even in XP, 16 bit applications can make your whole system to not respond at all when they are stuck in a loop that requires alot of time to process. Of course they will not fix this..
I remember that one day I read that Microsoft is aware (alot) that backward compatibility is an important thing in the computer industry. I believe so.. I think that Microsoft is aware that if they give all the improvements they are working on to their current OS their will be no reasons for people to buy their newer OSes.
Thank God there is Linux: every improvements given to the Open Source community will always COMPLIMENT to everyone's current Linux boxes.. Example: lets say you have an old old copy of Redhat 6 (lol) and you'd want to update the kernel and Apache.. You can!!! But lets say you have NT4 + Terminal Services and you'd want to get the latest IIS Services: you will be forced to trash out NT4 and replace it with a newer version of their OS.:(
My first computer was an Atari 600XL too!! That was back in 1991. I had a broken tape drive with it. But it was just good enought to play music on the speaker of the tv:). I did tryed to boot up the computer with 2600 game cartridge, and it never worked:(. I had no software with it. So I was forced to learn programming in order to use it.
I founded out by accident one day that when you press a combination of two or three keys located at the right hand side of the keyboard while booting, you could get into a diag test.
Then two years later, my uncle gave me a Comodore Vic-20:). This time I had software + a working tape drive. Over the years, the +5v inside the Vic-20 for the tape drive decided to fail one day.. So what I did was soldering one wire from the +5v at the power supply jack, right to the the +5v of the tape drive. So it was back working!! But the tape drive was alaywa spinning if you were using or not. So I have to unplug the tape drive when I am not using it. At least it's patched!!! lol!!
That idea was a better patch than my first attempt to fix it. I used to run the tape drive on double AA batteries when loading programs. lol. I didn't wanted to use that tape drive opened too much since it was my only tape drive working.
So I used these two systems for a good 4 years before getting my first 8088.
aaaaa... good times.
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>> "However, and I think I can blame that on my relative inexperience,"
Never (!!!!!!!NEVER!!!!!!!) say you are inexperienced. That's not true. You know c0ding and u know that. It's a question of attitude :).
Proposed services? ANYTHING!!!! ANYTHING!!!! Use your imagination!!!
Basicly, ANY contraptions you can assemble for dudes/dudettes that you know it will make a positive difference in their workplace.
What matters most in an interview room is your own personal ability to sell your own salad (your own skills). Confidence matters a lot.
Either if it's personal Open Source commitment or commercial experience, employers wants to get people who CAN get the job done. That's it.
So you want commercial experience? Make your OWN experience!! Get to know local businesses around you (they are ALWAYS more easy to approach).
You will need to be creative. It could be as simple as coding macros to help a secretary do a repetitive task faster... anything really.
Present yourself as someone who can accelerate their productivity - on whatever they can dream of. After all, that's all of what coding is about, no? ;-)
Coding utilities for local businesses, installing and deploying the stuff in their work environment, give them a full month free of charge to use the tool(s) - when they realized how it improved their work-flow/productivity - you will be in a very comfortable position to talk business with them (as-in getting paid for what you've done).
Make yourself business cards, promote your services everywhere (to EVERY local businesses around you). Keep your head up, and NEVER STOP BELIEVING IN YOURSELF, no matter what.
Don't get me wrong, your open source project (ARSS 0.2.3) looks impressive!! Indeed you are a talented programmer and people like you should never give up.
The more you promote your production acceleration services to any businesses around you the more you will get known.
I'm thankful that at least in Canada they concider that downloading mp3s is a common thing for everyone and it has been already proven that downloading mp3s stimulates sales.. people get to know new artists they never heard before and they get noticed out of the way.. For example: Astral Projection
I can agree that downloading movies can kill sales... cuz when u see a movie once, rarely you will want to watch it again.. so ok i can understand the point of view from movie makers where they agree they are loosing sales when their newest movie is released online..
But still: it non sence to put charges over people who likes music.
Here in Canada, we understand that this revolution of music sharing is far from killing the music industry, but rather redefining the ways that music gets packaged and sold.
PS: all of you students, move to Canada!! :D U'll be able to download and not having to worry about people who's pissed at what you're enjoying with your ears. ;)
Is there any geeks who could explain to me what are the advantages of having the NASA spending that much cash on a robot sitting somewhere else in space? Is this really helping humanity?? I am not against the progress of science, AI, robotics or space-exploration. Could someone slap me back with something convincing me that it's worth for the USA to spend that much cash on such projects??
I'm simply looking at the fact that these millions of dollars could be invested over problems that already needs attention over THIS planet.
Anyone willing to debate this with me??? ;)
Ok the screenshots looks awwsome but over what I can see, but this game does not handle as many players online as World Of Warcraft. 400 users per servers compared to what.. 20000 users per WoW servers? Where does their idea of *massive online multiplayer* stand at? I think this game will be worth checking out after all..
They know too much the art of the meaning of the *in between* these two things: what people want out of computer to do - and how you're willing to offer it to them (them == consumers && developers).
They used the way they disposed Windows to be to take advantage off many other companys :(. Google is my witness. Instead of giving the developers of the 90s a fair for EVERYONE to build and earn $$$ out of your buisness *as being a software developer* IF you'd be coding within their platform, they would bump you back if you were getting big (like Corel and Caldera). I am not against the fact that they released Word to compete about WordPerfect - but the way they decided to attack the behavior of competitive software to their own sub-products of Windows (Word,Excel).
They bumped back WordPerfect's stability to make Word looking as a better product. They prevented Calera Dr-Dos from getting in their way by making their platform not usable if you want to have them both on the same partition.. As a developer, I would never have the heart to attack back some other peice of code someone else did just because they did it great and they make a whole load of money with it.
They did what they would never wanted to happen to them.. I don't think they would enjoy better being sucessfully attacked economicly by some hardcode pseudo-code genius. Do they really have the guts to really understood what it feels for someone to be electronicly dispose to loose sales because they are writing app(s) that works against an other peice of software (not created by them)? At least GPLv2 protects everyone from making things like that.
But of course, their new campaign are more about telling to everyone they are trying to change and starting to approch what's the Open Source stuff.. And comparing them to the Open Source alot more, and explaining to the people the good (real) things they build for people. Do they make it to look cool by talking about Open Source? Do they really have the guts to be open to the world - and fair for everyone - as the Open Source REALLY is (simply because the source publicly avaiable, lol.)
The Open Source is not bug free ok.., but it is the beauty of the *free flow* (throught all it's possible meanings) of knowledge and giving back knowledge freely to everyone. IF people (anyone) CAN make LOTS of MONEY $$$ with THIS then IT is GOOD throught ALL of IT'S form. And everyone knows every years it's getting bigger, stronger, and more secure with the time.. (OpenBSD rocks for security.. and the Linux hardened kernels are simply awsome bigtime cuz all the stuff it can do for you).
Open Source will never hurt anyone. Open Source will try never monopolize the control of the future of the computer industry's itself with the latest version of their OSes. Or maybe I should say it this way: it will never attempt to apply pressure of any kind to control the future of the computer industry. GPLv2 gives the chance to protect the future: what people is making a living of.. GPLv2 is giving the proff that we can create better things *all_together on a worldwide scale* (and complementing to eveyone's code), than the other who does not like to share their publications (a patented program IS intrepreted as written publication).. Security is the beauty of and the sexy_ass features of Open Source Linux/Unix. People who's into closed source likes to fight in court with patents. If someone can think hard enought to reprogram the same class object I've used for an application, then I'd be more than happy to know that someone it putting it to good use: even it it would be from my code it would be tooked
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what IF everyone would be using GPLv2 it would protect us all right (as software developers)? I cannot pronounce myself onto other people trying to sue you for patented stuff (cuz I'm not a lawyer). I think it is important that the whole world gets to acknowledge that the more we reunite together as programmers, we can make
Microsoft products are ment to compete against their previous products. As we all saw it happen, Win9x against Win ME == No sound support for dos apps anymore, and the bootup to dos was disabled. Win2k vs XP == multimedia features. any many other things as I don't know them all.. Even in XP, 16 bit applications can make your whole system to not respond at all when they are stuck in a loop that requires alot of time to process. Of course they will not fix this.. I remember that one day I read that Microsoft is aware (alot) that backward compatibility is an important thing in the computer industry. I believe so.. I think that Microsoft is aware that if they give all the improvements they are working on to their current OS their will be no reasons for people to buy their newer OSes. Thank God there is Linux: every improvements given to the Open Source community will always COMPLIMENT to everyone's current Linux boxes.. Example: lets say you have an old old copy of Redhat 6 (lol) and you'd want to update the kernel and Apache.. You can!!! But lets say you have NT4 + Terminal Services and you'd want to get the latest IIS Services: you will be forced to trash out NT4 and replace it with a newer version of their OS. :(
My first computer was an Atari 600XL too!! That was back in 1991. I had a broken tape drive with it. But it was just good enought to play music on the speaker of the tv :). I did tryed to boot up the computer with 2600 game cartridge, and it never worked :(. I had no software with it. So I was forced to learn programming in order to use it.
I founded out by accident one day that when you press a combination of two or three keys located at the right hand side of the keyboard while booting, you could get into a diag test.
Then two years later, my uncle gave me a Comodore Vic-20 :). This time I had software + a working tape drive. Over the years, the +5v inside the Vic-20 for the tape drive decided to fail one day.. So what I did was soldering one wire from the +5v at the power supply jack, right to the the +5v of the tape drive. So it was back working!! But the tape drive was alaywa spinning if you were using or not. So I have to unplug the tape drive when I am not using it. At least it's patched!!! lol!!
That idea was a better patch than my first attempt to fix it. I used to run the tape drive on double AA batteries when loading programs. lol. I didn't wanted to use that tape drive opened too much since it was my only tape drive working.
So I used these two systems for a good 4 years before getting my first 8088.
aaaaa... good times.