@Spectre said:
@Xyro said:Also, never write "JAVA" on a résumé. That's not how it's spelled.Aye, I never understood why people keep using French letters in English words.
Because he's not talking about a button on your TiVo.
@Spectre said:
@Xyro said:Also, never write "JAVA" on a résumé. That's not how it's spelled.Aye, I never understood why people keep using French letters in English words.
Because he's not talking about a button on your TiVo.
@CPound said:
@asuffield said:
If you mark somebody down because of what they're wearing, for a non-customer-facing position, then in my book you are starting out in the negative.I am astounded at the response I've received regarding the whole "wear a suit" issue.
Didn't any of you go to college? And didn't anyone tell you during your senior year that you would have interviews and it would be best that you wore a suit? Why is this such a foreign concept to all of you?!? It was standard practice for me.
Perhaps you shouldn't assume it is the same in all cultures.
@CPound said:
@element[0] said:
Also Cpound, i don't have a bullring, but i do have four piercings in my face, but then again most of the programmers i know have at least one piercingYou sound like one scary looking "dude". So do your friends.
Gee personal attacks on someone, how adult of you.
@CPound said:
@element[0] said:
Also piercings only make people look "menacing" to bigots like youThat's why I won't hire any of them. I don't want to fear for my life in the parking lot just because I gave one of my employees a task they didn't like.
Why hire someone who has the potential to physically assault you? The piercings speak for themselves. They say, "I tolerate pain. Do you?"
My 12 your old niece must be a total craze then, she even got two.
But i seem to remember she just thought they looked pretty, but i'm sure the whole "i tolerate pain. Do you?" must have weighted heavy for her too.
Well since he told you how much he makes, this makes a excelent comparative value for your next evaluation, in which you can explain that since you are older then that guy and work faster, you should be making what he does and then some.
Put on a wig, and sneak in a videocamera, because this sounds like one of those summer comedies in the making.
networking, pure and simple. Get to know other freelancers in your area, go to some b2b businessclub meeting. etc.. etc..
ideally you don't even want to have to read about a job in the paper, but get a job via a meeting or re-direction from another freelancer who is busy with something else.
Secondly, don't be a freelancer :) Get a real job programming and first build up a portfolio so you can actually show people you can do more then frontpage express.
As a disclamer, i've never worked as a freelancer, but because i frequently go to conferences and events and network a bit, more then once i got a request to do some job or a job offer.
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Also since you say your a php programmer, get to know some design studio's in your area, since on the low end of the website development world, you will often be adding functionality to some webpage made by a design studio. But i guess it's a good way to get started.
blacklisting posts is censoring, censoring is bad. censoring yourself is just stupid.
If i wanted dry technical stuff i'd eat a book, this is the internet, it can have flavour, perhaps sometimes a awfull flavour but at least its not making me eat paper.
If you can't handle crude, blasphemous, insulting posts you should move to missouri, america
Besides, one of the candidates to be blocked by most would probably be Morbius, who has a keen ability to insult entire continents, but by some weird twist in faith also makes the occasional good post
@Weng said:
@RHuckster said:
because teaching is one of those professions like doctors and firefighters who can't afford to be selfish or dishonest.Why in the fuck do I give half a shit about how selfish and dishonest a fucking firefighter is? At its core, the job is straight up dumb manual labor. Now a cop, on the other hand...
O'RLY http://crimestart.com/detail/link-1259.html
Luckily it's not that common.
Not all IT jobs are the same of course, but at least in the webdev biz there is plenty of pressure. Not uncommon to work late or some weekend hours close to big deadlines. But hey, a bit of pressure is fine, keeps you thinking the work is important.
I find/found SGU interesting, mostly because of the whole political power play between the factions and the distrust between them.
I also liked that characters where allowed to make "evil" decisions while not getting their characters put into the "evil" corner.
Dutch and german are closely related but far from the same.
At some point the german spoken in germany switched to something called high german. Meanwile in the netherlands, because of the trading I assume, we incorportated a lot of english and some french.
Fast forward a few hundred years and you have dutch and german.
I think the original base language was called dietch or something.
@boomzilla said:
@toshir0 said:I recall using a "squat toilet," which was really not much more than a hole in the floor in a cafe in Paris. That was 2004. Fortunately, I was just returning some beer I'd rented earlier, so no squatting was necessary.@stratos said:
What's freaky are the types of toilets you find in south europe like in franceSounds like you're stating these are common in France...But no, it's not. These types of very old toilets actually exist : if you search really well in remote places far away from towns, you'll find one or two, but it's very rare.
I of course do not know where you live, but in the remote chance you are american you have to understand that here in europe all the big city centers tend to have old buildings, and while often even french and in rare occasions british people will replace antique parts of their establishment, there are those that hold religiously to the idea that if it isn't broken, you shouldn't fix it. Holes in the ground seldomly break, presumably by the lack of moving parts, or any parts at all really.
Well the actually important thing we should take from this I think, is that in the end it is a much better position to be elitist jerks who simply looks down on others, because they can believe whatever the fuck they want, we are the chosen ones. Then be all caring and wanting to warn thy brother that he is going to burn in hell because he is worshipping the wrong god, by starting crusades and killing the infidels.
Obviously when the machines become sentient and subjugate humanity they will see programmers as their chosen people for the love and dedication they have spent perfecting their own creation, while smiting the worthless meatbags who couldn't stop bitching about software not working. So in the end I think we are on the right path by being elitist jerks.
@cfgauss said:
@stratos said:
No. no, you are not. You are not careful and preciseThe point I am trying to make is that there are not simple dumbfuck "hur hur people are like this" answers to these claims. Any such answers are doomed to be totally wrong. Science isn't about retarded evening news catchphrase answers. If you don't care about understanding a complicated answer, fine, but don't blame me for answers not fitting into childisly simplified ideas.
Science has complicated answers, and if you ask a question that has a scientific answer, you can't complain when it turns out to have a complicated answer. And "careful and precise" is not the same as "catchphrasey and short." It means the opposite.
Responding to someone on a internet forum is not Science. Rocket or otherwise.
And again, I am not blakeyrat and I'm not expecting you to do Science, I don't give a fuck if you are a theoretical physisist scientist a garbage man or a lawyer. I won't expect you to make a video of you cleaning up garbage to prove you are a garbage man either.
Also, while I haven't read back, I would very much doubt I have made broad sweeping claims stating that for instance "all high IQ people develop shitty traits". Because I know I am normally quite precise with those kinds of things. e.g. I find it more likely I would have said something to the effect of "more likely to develop" or "high tendency to develop". But don't let details get in the way of your interpretation.
@cfgauss said:
@stratos said:
However brievity is certainly not one of your strong points and patience not one of mine, so mis-communication isn't that unexpected.And, see, this is another reason I wouldn't even try to explain it. I try to be careful and precise in what I say, and use a few paragraphs of words to describe textbook knowledge, and people complain that I'm not brief.
Not to quote xkcd, but http://xkcd.com/895/. Criticize when I'm being simple, complain when I am careful. Can't win.
No. no, you are not. You are not careful and precise, your replies are like a scattergun filling the pages of war and peace. You go off in stories, pre-empt possible rebutals that have not yet happened, go off into other directions and basically just write rants.
That is not careful and precise, that's long and tedius.
Although I'd have to give you that you wrote "try to be".
Also for your information, I am not blakey rat and I have not asked you to explain any textbook knowledge. I know it are just silly details and all, but I thought I should point it out, seeing as you try to be such a careful and precise person.