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  1. Some Advice on Resumes for New Grads? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For an entry level position just out of school you really need to keep your resume to one page. It sounds like you don't have a great deal of work experience, so you should probably put your academic experience first. If you took any particularly challenging classes you may want to break them out much like you would with challenging projects from a job.

    In todays market you can probably expect to send out about a hundred resumes per interview. Work any friends and family that you have- even if they're just acquaintances. Start sending your resume to large corporations- they're always hiring, even if they haven't posted anything, and you may catch someone in the right mood.

    Skills sections will show up on hits when recruiters do searches, but they tend to be ignored when your resume is actually sitting in front of a real person. Try to work any skills you have into the context in which you used them. If you implemented some stuff for fun definitely put in a section of personal projects. When I'm looking at fresh from college resumes that's a definite plus, as I know the person actually enjoys development.

  2. Re:About time... on Velocity 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Tapestry

  3. Re:Mach10?! on X-43A Hits Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    Probably because the NASA scientists launching these rockets are smart enough to not attempt Mach 10 at sea level.

  4. Re:Impromptu "Ask SlashMath" on Everything and More · · Score: 1

    The greeks did not have the mathematical concept of 0. They thought of infinity, but didn't like it and excluded it from their mathematics.

  5. Re:How about still using C on Coding The Future Linux Desktop [updated] · · Score: 2, Informative

    Both of which are written in C++.

  6. Re:Different bugs. on Swarm of Cicadas Takes Aim at U.S. · · Score: 1

    All cicadas are not on the same cycle. Having the dormancy period as a prime number limits the overlap of seperate broods, similar to the way that you hash tables work better when their size is a prime number.

  7. Re:Dude, Chill on Eminem Sues Apple for Sampling his Samples · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. There's just no law guaranteeing the rights for broadcast/live performance the same way there is for mechanical production.

  8. Re:does anyone care to explain... on Qwest To Offer 'Naked DSL' · · Score: 2, Informative

    I pay $17 a month for my landline in NYC. No long distance, no voicemail, caller id or call waiting. Obviously it's just for dsl and ordering delivery... and the occasional 911 call :)

  9. Re:Dude, Chill on Eminem Sues Apple for Sampling his Samples · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's only true for a mechanical reproduction. Broadcast rights have to be negotiated.

  10. Re:Hope they have Bash, OpenSSL on Previewing the Next Solaris OS · · Score: 4, Informative

    Solaris 9 has ssh by default, so I can only assume that 10 will as well.

  11. Re:null routing Certificate Revocation List Server on Verisign Certificate Expiration Causes Multiple Problems · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except for the fact that Verisign owns Thawte.

  12. Re:turbotax via the web. on Tax Preparation Software for 2003? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I used phoenix last year without any problems...

  13. Re:Hmm... on Intel To Produce Cheap LCoS Chips · · Score: 1

    I'll be happy if they can give you a decent picture without the room light control you need with a projector.

  14. Re:a Better headline would be on Expose Metacity With Expocity · · Score: 1

    Solaris has had a O(1) scheduler for a looong time.

  15. Re:Am I Stating the Obvious here? on Living Life in Fast-Forward · · Score: 1

    They're not easier, but typically lectures on those subjects are less dense than the average physics lecture.

  16. Re:Looks too much like XP on Aethera 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Actually, perl's syntax caused such a large rift in space time that various pieces of it were sucked through a wormhole and appeared in shell, c, awk, sed and uncountable other programming languages.

  17. Re:Well lets hope. on Corel Goes Private · · Score: 1

    Just to nitpick a little, it doesn't appear that vector capital is a really a vc company, but rather more of a privaty equity fund. Venture capitalists are nice people compared to anyone I've ever met in the private equity market.

  18. Re:Open source? on When Good Spammers Go Bad · · Score: 1

    hdparm -d is your friend.

  19. Re:So how is this less expensive? on Analysis of SuSE Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    Per incident phone support from microsoft is $250 a pop. It's included in the support package suse is selling.

  20. Re:Once "The Vault" works... on Mono & SourceGear Move Forward · · Score: 1

    Since the vault runs about $400 a client license, I don't think so.

  21. Re:"Intellectual Property" on Lessig And RIAA Answer NewsHour Questions · · Score: 2, Informative

    Say Lye Ow who is currently serving 24 months for a felony charge of trade secret violation would tend to disagree with you that trade secrets aren't protected by law. Look up the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. Here are the current cases.

  22. Re:Spend Your Money You Will, Yes. on Star Wars Episode III: Behind the Scenes Webcam · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Shouldn't that be "Path to the dark side, greed is"

  23. Re:Name calling? on DeCSS Arguments in CA Supreme Court Case · · Score: 1

    The U.S. Economic Espionage Act of 1996 makes misappropriation of trade secrets a federal crime. 250,000 fine and/or 10 years in jail for each office.

  24. Re:For readers of Pynchon. . . on Nullsoft's Waste: Encrypted, Distributed, Mesh Net · · Score: 1

    The people I interacted with back in the day even had a name for the gentleman's agreement: Programmer's Privilege.

  25. Re:Jake Gyllenhaal would do a better job on The Hiring, Firing and Re-Hiring of Spider-Man · · Score: 1

    The good girl. One of the most distasteful movies that I've ever seen, but he was excellent in it.