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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!
« on: July 26, 2012, 08:40:36 pm »
America, FUCK YEAH!
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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!
« on: July 25, 2012, 07:08:12 am »
I'm definitely having to learn time optimization skills with this puppy... I can't do anything for more than an hour at a time except go to work and *sometimes* sleep.
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General Discussion / Re: Hi guys
« on: July 17, 2012, 08:27:25 am »
Don't get me wrong, a CS degree is definitely worth it's value because it easily open more doors. You're going to be at a disadvantage on paper compared to a new college graduate with a CS degree because certain assumptions won't be able to be made when recruiters and hiring managers look at your resume, and you may not get a second glance due to them using it as a weeding out factor... this is because on paper many employers equate X years of relevant experience to a 4 year bachelors in CS (where X > 4).
With that said, short-term contract and freelance programming gigs are a dime a dozen, you may still find at first getting an interview difficult. I can't really say for sure though, as I've never been in your position. But since you've stated that you're not exclusively looking for a salaried w/ benefits type gig, and open to doing work with less stability and more risk, I imagine you're going to find that you're most likely not going to be in competition with the bulk of the new college grads with a CS degree, especially not the best of them since they will already have jobs or grad skool plans.
You could try using rent a coder type services, but IMO you shouldn't waste your time and would be better off finding a shitty non-programming day job to help pay to the bills and instead focus on a portfolio.
I'm not sure where you get your that .NET development isn't free. The free Express Editions of VS are great. These editions lack certain features that the paid editions have, but the missing features are by far "extras" and non-essential to development. The only cost to development is the operating system, and complaining about that is petty because I'm sure if you PM'd me we could figure something out. If you're doing web development and design, I think you're going to make your life easier having multiple platforms to test on anyways. Sure the days of having to support IE6 are increasingly fading. I was just as adverse to Microsoft as you 4+ years ago, however in my opinion their treatment and the tools and ease of development they provide developers is most definitely worthy of praise when I compare it to the likes of Apple. Also, Mono has taken great strides compared to 4-5 years ago, at least in terms of developing multi-platform applications, although I can't speak towards its support for ASP.NET development.
But anyways, I'd say go with Ruby/RoR just because I think you may find it easier to find someone willing to take a chance on you.
With that said, short-term contract and freelance programming gigs are a dime a dozen, you may still find at first getting an interview difficult. I can't really say for sure though, as I've never been in your position. But since you've stated that you're not exclusively looking for a salaried w/ benefits type gig, and open to doing work with less stability and more risk, I imagine you're going to find that you're most likely not going to be in competition with the bulk of the new college grads with a CS degree, especially not the best of them since they will already have jobs or grad skool plans.
You could try using rent a coder type services, but IMO you shouldn't waste your time and would be better off finding a shitty non-programming day job to help pay to the bills and instead focus on a portfolio.
I'm not sure where you get your that .NET development isn't free. The free Express Editions of VS are great. These editions lack certain features that the paid editions have, but the missing features are by far "extras" and non-essential to development. The only cost to development is the operating system, and complaining about that is petty because I'm sure if you PM'd me we could figure something out. If you're doing web development and design, I think you're going to make your life easier having multiple platforms to test on anyways. Sure the days of having to support IE6 are increasingly fading. I was just as adverse to Microsoft as you 4+ years ago, however in my opinion their treatment and the tools and ease of development they provide developers is most definitely worthy of praise when I compare it to the likes of Apple. Also, Mono has taken great strides compared to 4-5 years ago, at least in terms of developing multi-platform applications, although I can't speak towards its support for ASP.NET development.
But anyways, I'd say go with Ruby/RoR just because I think you may find it easier to find someone willing to take a chance on you.
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General Discussion / Re: Hi guys
« on: July 16, 2012, 07:16:13 pm »How important is a comp sci degree in getting programming jobs?
I have a certain contempt for salaried jobs
I'd say that these kind of jobs, a CS degree will be of more importance than the freelance/ temp type gigs.
It really all depends though, while job postings may say the minimum requirements is a BS in CS or w/e, many will be flexible towards applicants if you have relevant past work experience and/ or a portfolio of work. I think you're best bet is to find employment where an employer is willing to take a chance on you so that you can gain some experience that can be put on paper.
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General Discussion / Re: x86 Reunion in San Francisco
« on: June 28, 2012, 08:31:58 am »We need to add as many nodes as possible to Sidoh's graph, until it becomes completely useless. Muahaha!
You mean edges?
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General Discussion / VPS Hosting
« on: June 10, 2012, 09:50:19 am »
Well, after I failed to secure a job offer from any of my top 4... I'll be attempting to stop sucking and become awesome instead over the next six months or so. One of the many goals I have set for myself is to setup a blog and start posting to it regularly, as well as play around with different web technologies (i.e. Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP, etc.).
Back when I was in college I had shared web hosting but now I want more control administering the server my blog will be running on (administration of blog's database and what not). I'm pretty cheap so I don't want to pay a lot of money for a VPS, and I don't imagine I'll be getting a lot of traffic to my blog, so I don't think I should need to pay $20+/mo for a VPS. Anyone have recommendations on quality, reliable inexpensive VPS hosting services?
I'm thinking OpenVZ should be fine for what I need it for, but I'm open to considering Xen based solutions... anyone have a preference?
In terms of OS, I'm leaning towards CentOS 5/6 (other options seem to be Debian 6 and Ubuntu 10.04/10.10/11.10)... but really it doesn't matter that much to me. I'm familiar with both RPM and Debian based distributions for the most part.
What I'm not sure about is how much RAM I will need or possibly need. I'm not sure if 128MB will suffice or if I need to pay for 256 or even 512.
I've done some research on VPS hosting, but I know that some people here like Sidoh have a lot more experience with such, so any advice or tips would be appreciated.
Back when I was in college I had shared web hosting but now I want more control administering the server my blog will be running on (administration of blog's database and what not). I'm pretty cheap so I don't want to pay a lot of money for a VPS, and I don't imagine I'll be getting a lot of traffic to my blog, so I don't think I should need to pay $20+/mo for a VPS. Anyone have recommendations on quality, reliable inexpensive VPS hosting services?
I'm thinking OpenVZ should be fine for what I need it for, but I'm open to considering Xen based solutions... anyone have a preference?
In terms of OS, I'm leaning towards CentOS 5/6 (other options seem to be Debian 6 and Ubuntu 10.04/10.10/11.10)... but really it doesn't matter that much to me. I'm familiar with both RPM and Debian based distributions for the most part.
What I'm not sure about is how much RAM I will need or possibly need. I'm not sure if 128MB will suffice or if I need to pay for 256 or even 512.
I've done some research on VPS hosting, but I know that some people here like Sidoh have a lot more experience with such, so any advice or tips would be appreciated.
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General Discussion / Re: Share your favorite photo(s) at the moment
« on: May 24, 2012, 11:47:25 am »
The colors look too vibrant- like it was just freshly spray painted.
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General Discussion / Re: Share your favorite photo(s) at the moment
« on: May 19, 2012, 12:21:17 pm »
I have mixed feelings, I agree it looks better... but it's the same reason I have mixed feelings about women with boob jobs.
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General Discussion / Re: Share your favorite photo(s) at the moment
« on: May 16, 2012, 06:04:28 am »
iago, maybe because it's been scaled down in size from such a high resolution... but the photo's colors and just overall look almost looks like it's fake, like it's a computer generated/ animated scene from a video game... probably has to do with the way the lighting from the weather. I concur, it's a really cool, surreal looking photo.
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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!
« on: May 15, 2012, 06:36:24 am »
Different recruiter is taking care of second part of interview process it seems, so it's a good thing I didn't email the first one inquiring about the status. Sidoh, what would I do without you? /rhetorical
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General Discussion / Re: Share your favorite photo(s) of the moment
« on: May 15, 2012, 06:32:39 am »
Are people allowed to swim in that pool? Or is it only for show?
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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!
« on: May 14, 2012, 08:01:31 pm »
Sigh... I'm going crazy waiting for the recruiter to contact me to let me know whether or I'm still in consideration after Friday's phone interview. If I didn't noob up the interview and I'm still in consideration, I understand that it may take some time if there's still more applicants in the pool awaiting evaluation... but it'd be nice to at least know how long I can expect to wait. I was told that they were looking to fill the positions ASAP- whatever that means. I guess I'll give it two business days and then e-mail with an inquiry into the status.
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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!
« on: May 14, 2012, 07:34:55 am »Unless Newby is a lefty, I doubt it was from wanking.
I'm pretty sure newby experienced...
danger from the stranger
lulz
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General Discussion / Re: A Quantum Mind - The Penrose-Hameroff model
« on: May 14, 2012, 07:33:51 am »This is pretty pedantic,And shallow.
I agree, shallow and pedantic.