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Comment: In Open Source, the job finds you! (Score 5, Informative) 506

by ccguy (#38983995) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open Source Jobs?
Bad joke in the subject, but it's true. I've found that submitting patches to a established open source project is the easiest way to find a job, in fact without moving a finger.

Starting a decent open source program is even better. My pet project ccextractor is a very niche things yet I get offers for customizations / deployment / etc very often (to me often here is something like twice a month).

Comment: Re:Eric Schmidt, master of non-answers (Score 1) 431

by ccguy (#38678064) Attached to: Eric Schmidt Doesn't Think Android Is Fragmented

Voice navigation more specifically.

Do they allow to have a different language for voice and text already? I know Android supports it, but navigation apparently not. I don't want to use my phone in Spanish just because I am in Spain and need navigation help. But I do need the street names to be understandable which they aren't with the English voice.

Comment: Re:It's not only programmers vs bosses (Score 5, Insightful) 469

by ccguy (#38661906) Attached to: The Bosses Do Everything Better (or So They Think)

It's also the same marketoids that get bonuses for sales that wouldn't have been possible if the coders hadn't put in huge amounts of unpaid overtime modifying production code to include ( non existent) features that the marketoids promised the customer without consulting the production team first.

Well, try to see it another way:
1) It's possible that the marketing team promised those features because it was the only way to sell the product. Your attitude seems to be going to the marketing/sales team and saying "This is what we made, go sell it, even if it's not what you could sell".
2) How is it their fault that you do unpaid overtime? Don't do it or ask for it to be paid.

PS. I'm a developer but I've been around. I've been in a couple of places where the software team wasn't listening about what the potential customers wanted (we were too full of ourselves to listening to sales I guess) and the places went down of course. By the way a potential customer is someone how has the money to buy the product and is able to make a purchasing decision. It's not another developer who think some feature would be cool to have for some reason.

Comment: Re:Well, they're a good indicator of intelligence (Score 1) 672

by ccguy (#38610774) Attached to: Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria?

Some companies would not want me giving out the code I've written for them.

The fact that you refuse to share code you written for others to a potential employer says something about you.
The fact that you don't have any code that you haven't written for anyone but yourself also says something about you.

Anyway when I personally interview someone I prefer to show them some code instead and ask for their opinion. There's many possible answers, and they tell a lot about the person: Some of them will say "Oh, this won't compile because...", others "this seems like a function that draws a circle", others will say "this is going to eat a lot of memory", or "this indentation makes me want to shoot someone", etc.

Comment: Re:A: "Don't push it, putas", or? (Score 2) 508

by ccguy (#38597708) Attached to: US Threatens Spain For Not Implementing SOPA-Like Law

I expect the Spanish to show cojones over this.

We didn't. But I see lots of comments here about the US being a bully. The problem (here) is not that the US is a bully, which isn't new, but that the Spanish government caved.
Also, to add some relevant info, this law was written with the previous government (changed last month) but passed by the new one. And this is a two party country (for being in power purposes I mean, there's lots of parties but doesn't matter much here). So you can see that we are fucked here.
Anyway - we do have a tendency to pass laws that eventually aren't enforced, so this can be just one of them. For example, and this is my car analogy, you can see what we do with traffic signs.

Comment: Business opportunity (Score 4, Insightful) 233

by ccguy (#38528444) Attached to: No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012
Well, anyone looking to make some big bucks in the next 1-3 year should start learning IPv6. Nothing major needed, just setup a IPv6 network at home, if you can rent an external server with IPv6 in any of the many data centers that already offer it, and play with it.

It's not a lot of effort and there will be many highly paid job offers soon.

Comment: Re:Get ready for a new wave of poorly coded softwa (Score 2) 133

by ccguy (#38293154) Attached to: Intel and Micron Unveil 128Gb NAND Chip

Already I've already seem some development companies demo financial software on striped SSD's as if that's what everyone runs these days.

I think it's a fair assumption if you are selling financial software to a financial company that they will buy a SSD if that's a requirement. Just because developers aren't optimizing for a small footprint these days it doesn't mean there's no optimization being done. It just means that they optimize for something else (development cost, feature set, or whatever their business plan says is most important).

By the way when you see a computer game demo these days, do you think "These guys are on crack if they think everyone's got one of those cards?", or "With these recommended specs what is this written in, VisualBasic?" ?

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