Introduction to my Business Card
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Re: Introduction to my Business Card
#2He should mass produce these. I'd buy a stack for myself and I bet a lot of other people would too.
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#3He should mass produce these. I'd buy a stack for myself and I bet a lot of other people would too.
It's neat, but I'm kinda leery about plugging random USB devices in. Lots of room to compromise security there.
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#4He should mass produce these. I'd buy a stack for myself and I bet a lot of other people would too.
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#5He should mass produce these. I'd buy a stack for myself and I bet a lot of other people would too.
It's neat, but I'm kinda leery about plugging random USB devices in. Lots of room to compromise security there.
My first thought was, "Oh neat... oh wait.. Autorun... people won't like that"...
I really love the idea and would love to own some of them myself but I suspect most employers would say, "Oh it's clever... can you email us a CV also" and never plug in the card.
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#6Phenomenal! I would suggest adding mac support :)
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#7I like this because he is demonstrating his technical ingenuity by designing and building the thing - from scratch - by himself. A great lead into getting an interview or being called in to quote for some work.
But does this show commercial ingenuity ? Perhaps less so. People will be terrified of plugging a random USB device into their machine. And anyway it's pretty easy to buy things just like this - you see them quite a lot at trade shows these days. (eg: http://www.flashbay.com/wafer_usb_card.html)
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's neat, but I'm kinda leery about plugging random USB devices in. Lots of room to compromise security there.
My first thought was, "Oh neat... oh wait.. Autorun... people won't like that"... I really love the idea and would love to own some of them myself but I suspect most employers would say, "Oh it's clever... can you email us a CV also" and never plug in the card.
Yeah; he needs to give some care to who he hands them out to. At smaller firms where the person doing the hiring has some sort of technical background, it would probably work. But at a big company where everything is going through HR people who couldn't tell a microcontroller from a hole in the ground? Probably a waste of solder. At best someone might think it's kind of neat looking, but the real cleverness will be lost.
It'd be a neat thing to have around to hand to other engineers, maybe encourage them to pull some strings from the inside for you. At some companies an internal recommendation can count for a lot.
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#9If this is going to HR-types, how do they know to tear off the corners? Is that in the cover letter?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's neat, but I'm kinda leery about plugging random USB devices in. Lots of room to compromise security there.
My first thought was, "Oh neat... oh wait.. Autorun... people won't like that"... I really love the idea and would love to own some of them myself but I suspect most employers would say, "Oh it's clever... can you email us a CV also" and never plug in the card.
Wouldn't people who don't like autorun already have it turned off?