VampirePidgeon - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Stop being such pussies. (Score 0) 464

by VampirePidgeon on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @12:48AM (#28766003) Attached to: US Agency Blocked Cellphone / Driving Safety Study

this is America, if we can have guns and beer why cant we talk on cell phones when we are driving? guns kill more people than cell phones and the only difference is they determine your aptitude with a gun. Why not just have people take a couple aptitude tests to see if they can talk and drive at the same time rather than restricting yet another right of ours?

Getting Hired As an Entry-Level Programmer? 540

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @12:14AM from the foot-in-door dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I received a state university degree in Computer Science. After graduation, I immediately took jobs in QA to pay the bills while waiting for other opportunities, which of course turned out to be as naive as it sounds. I've been working QA for several years now and my resume does not show the right kind of work experience for programming. On the whole I'm probably no better as a a candidate than a CS graduate fresh out of college. But all of the job postings out in the real world are looking for people with 2-5 years of programming work experience. How do you build up those first 2 years of experience? What kinds of companies hire programmers with no prior experience?"

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