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Re: Desperate For A Job

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Some friendly advice from someone who's been in your situation: The post is overly dramatic for my taste. By adding drama and name calling your ex employers you only harm your own image. There's lack of qualified programmers pretty much everywhere you look, so writing a normal resumé, listing your expertise and experience should be more than enough. Send it to as many job boards as you can find, and try to find a few…

I shall do stuff, in fact I already do stuff, an idiotic open source project. And thanks for the advice and luck, all so very much needed.

Re: Desperate For A Job

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post #11

Some friendly advice from someone who's been in your situation: The post is overly dramatic for my taste. By adding drama and name calling your ex employers you only harm your own image. There's lack of qualified programmers pretty much everywhere you look, so writing a normal resumé, listing your expertise and experience should be more than enough. Send it to as many job boards as you can find, and try to find a few…

I shall do stuff, in fact I already do stuff, an idiotic open source project. And thanks for the advice and luck, all so very much needed.

Haha, there is no such a thing as an 'idiotic' open source project. Remember, most open source has always started as someone scratching his own itches, be it something as awesome as Linus developing a whole new OS just to run Prince of Persia, or one of my many lame contribution to other projects (e.g: fixing some weird behavior on new tabs in Gedit. How 'revolutionary' is that?).

If your itch is displaying all colors in the RGB palette with all their possible alphas, well then... just do it. If nothing else, it'll definitely help you think about how long it takes to iterate over the millions of values that you can represent in 32 bits. It's good programmer food for thought :)

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