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Comment Having / Getting a Ph.D. (Score 1) 173

I don't quite understand this - When I was a youngun', not that long ago, I swear, Getting a Ph.D. was a terminal degree in a subject that you had spent enough time learning about and researching that you had purely mastered the subject of said Ph.D. Now a days, I guess it just says "HEY, I CAN HAZ DR!!!11". The purpose of getting that deep into a subject is because you want to be a master of that field and a thought leader when it comes to the subject matter, not so you can get a job working on PCs!~ Jeezus H. Christ on a popcycle stick! Why would anyone work that damn hard and then _NOT_ work in the field?

Comment I use them ALL. (Score 1) 1880

For personal stuff I have an HP Vision APU based laptop, it is running Fedora - It took two full days to get it there due to issues with the video driver support. I know, it is a newer system so I have to wait for enough reverse engineering or open source drivers for it to work well...yep. For work, I use Windows XP still - Only because I have to! For my second job I use Mac OS X (early 2011 macbook pro). I have had plenty of problems with it, battery problems after upgrading to Lion, running Virtual Machines on it makes it so hot that I nearly need a set of tongs to handle it. I run Ubuntu and Windows 7 on it in virtualized... I really would like to move to either Fedora or Ubuntu on all my systems, but I can't due to some tools and systems I access. SSL VPN won't work with OS X because the TUN adapter needs root to install, unstable video on Linux (at least on my new laptop) and incompatibilities between Libre Office and MS Office. I will just keep using them all for the tasks that they work for until something happens to make things more even across the board.

Comment Interviews (Score 1) 516

What I did to sharpen my interviewing skills was to go find a job I knew I could blow out of the water, tweak my resume' so it looked like a good fit, then went and interviewed for it. I would come out of the interview feeling like I aced it, then once they were salivating over me for the job, go on another one, but this time a bit more difficult one. It worked for me, YMMV.

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