Comment Re:[Don't] Profit! (Score 1) 501
Thanks, that looks like fun!
Going to see about giving it a shot this weekend.
Comment Re:Slashdot achievements (Score 1) 1582
Yup.
Comment Re:Rational (Score 1) 807
Comment Re:Unemployed, but... (Score 1) 354
> what music theory teaches is how to combine basic elements and make something more grand from them
I've also noticed a parallel between cooking and coding.
You start following recipes/tutorials as close as you can, then work on modifying what you've got, then begin creating your own code/food from scratch, based on what you've learned.
Comment Re:Prosecute criminals (Score 1) 1656
The reason neither party wants to do this is that when the other party is in charge, it'll happen to them.
Granted, they could just, you know, not do anything illegal, but what's the benefit of that?
Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 509
When I first got Orange box, I dug up a noob friendly TF2 server and started there. I played a lot of games as an engineer until I became more comfortable with the game.
Either that or find a college server that references alcohol in the server name and start there - just claim you're drunk if you're not doing that well.
Submission + - Texas Bill for Open Documents
Ditesh Kumar writes: "Sam Hiser reports that 'The Secretary of State of the Texas Legislature received a Bill (SB 446) yesterday (5 Feb 2007) stating the goal of requiring Texas State agencies (including the executive branch, the legislature, the courts and the schools) to conduct their work in an open document format.'"
Submission + - Is There Room for Recruiterless IT Hiring?
chinenual writes: "Editor: James rejected my first submission for this, but sent a note that implied that it was because I had linked my username to my blog extolling the new site's virtues. Here's a clean version that links my username to my email instead:
Technical hiring is a mess — the popular job boards are swamped by anonymous, generic recruiter postings. You can't tell what company is actually hiring and all the posts have more or less the same skill requirements. How can the searcher have any idea if the post represents somewhere he/she wants to work? How can the company attract anything other than another generic cog in the wheel? Both employer and job seeker need a way to find each other without the recruiter middle-man. So we have launched a free, moderated, principals-only job board — www.recruiterless.com. Can this help return balance to IT hiring?"
Technical hiring is a mess — the popular job boards are swamped by anonymous, generic recruiter postings. You can't tell what company is actually hiring and all the posts have more or less the same skill requirements. How can the searcher have any idea if the post represents somewhere he/she wants to work? How can the company attract anything other than another generic cog in the wheel? Both employer and job seeker need a way to find each other without the recruiter middle-man. So we have launched a free, moderated, principals-only job board — www.recruiterless.com. Can this help return balance to IT hiring?"
