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Comment Re:Feedback... (Score 1) 223

I sent this from ym work email (tech company, title, and last name cut off for this post)...

From: Ryan Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 4:57 PM To: 'feedback@slashdot.org' Subject: Dice.com influence over slashdot needs to stop right now This is a vain attempt to save a website I’ve been reading and contributing too since 1998. Dice.com, you need to stop. Just stop. Like right now. Another post full of buzzwords from a PC magazine hack about what employers want will make me not visit /. ever again. Forever ever. RYAN

Comment I setup a dice.com account once... (Score 5, Insightful) 223

All I got was spam from the site and spam from recruiters asking if I want to move to texas for a 3 month contract to write code to test Ruby on rails deployments for 60 hours a week at $15 an hour. Now that dice.com owns slashdot and all I see is spam for me to work 60 hours a week to test whatever company has the most openings on their website. Synopsis: Dice is an evil spam monster of a company and has infected an old favorite of mine. Conclusion: I'm not going to use this website anymore.

Comment Just get a bachelors degree... (Score 1) 347

It really doesn't matter what it is in. A CS degree will help a lot when you are first starting out but once you have 2-3 years experience it doesn't make much difference. This is coming from a software engineer with a history degree... I was an intern at a company that built computers, changed degrees to history after I started working there, later graduated and was hired on fulltime as an associate engineer. After 3 years I left. Now, after 5 more years in tech, it doesn't even come up in interviews. The guy in the cube next to me has a degree in business, on the other side is a former marine with no degree. Once you get your foot in the door, prove yourself as competent, and do a little networking, you are pretty set in this industry.

Comment Re:Turn it off, or leave (Score 1) 251

I saw The Hobbit at an AMC theater a couple weeks ago with my girl. A young couple came in about 5 minutes after the movie started, sat in front of us, then proceeded to start taking flash photos of themselves with both of their phones. Other than people in the audience, who were blinded by the flash, nobody from the theater said anything to them. They also talked continuously until they walked out, about 45 minutes later.

This last weekend I saw Django Unchained with my girl. The theater was almost full so we ended up sitting in the handicap row, which is allowed for non-handicappers once the movie starts. About 10 minutes after it started an obese guy with a cane showed up and stood over us, staring like we killed his dog (we were sitting in the center handicap seats). He then hurumphed and sat off to the side. 5 minutes later he was asleep, snoring loudly enough for people three rows in front of him to turn around. I made a game of tossing raisonettes into his open mouth.After the third "score" he gave up sleeping and left, this was about an hour into the film.

While the raisonette game was fun, but these people are why I don't go to the theaters very often.

Comment The reliavility factor and chalk boards (Score 3, Interesting) 150

I had several professors who had classes moved to get older rooms with chalk boards 10 years ago. The main complaints I heard were that dry erase boards were hard to clean, the markers were more expensive/dried out/missing/bigger, and that the dry erase boards had to be replaced every 2-3 years if they were used a lot. These professors (some of the best I had, including an amazing CS prof) put up with all short comings of chalk (like breathing in all that nasty dust) because chalk had never left them stranded MULTIPLE TIMES in front of there classes the way dry erase boards had.

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