Well, consider this: I, as many others, use different identities for different purposes. So most likely, if you search for me, you will NOT find a major part of my forum posts if I only give you my name, educational and professional history.

If sb isn't communicating, it tells me exactly that. If the internet and business networking is an important part of his/her potential job, it would make a negative impression if the person doesn't even have a linkedin/xing/etc. profile. Don't try to link things that are obviously unconnected, like experience and online presence.

well,

1. afaik there's no direct contact info that's public on linkedin, so "day and night" seems a bit exaggerated
2. did you try putting "I am not looking for a job currently, so please do not contact me for this purpose" on your linkedin page?

that is exactly the kind of attitude that makes people employ those shiny half-wits that are good enough at impressing you on the interview, and do not have an online presence to speak of. And that are being let go after a while because they just don't get the job done.

while i do not have those drunk pics online, i believe that whatever somebody does in his free time is his own business. and that anybody who does not have fun during his studies misses the whole point of it ^o^

Even in a programming "language" as ugly as VBA, it is still possible to do proper coding instead of just scripting. I quote my boss at that time: "Why are you using more than one module? Why not put everything in one function?"

You may laugh at it, but for all those little tasks, even in a big corporation, MS Access is a good tool. It costs little, can be quickly developed and deployed, and you don't need an SAP developer for a few hundred bucks per hour. Of course, one needs to know the limitations and concerns: MS Access is only for smaller databases (up to 1M records in my experience), is NOT secure, and also not especially reliable. But for internal purposes, it can do a few tricks.

Btw, most of the code I had inherited from my predecessor made my eyes bleed. Needless to say, mostly I preferred to start from a "clean slate". That said, developing Access appz is not something I'd look forward to doing again :p

When will this happen. There were two features mentioned in TFA that make me think they are at least moving in the right direction:

Good thing that there are finally macros in .odb files - and shocks me that before, there hadn't been?! Well, last time I played with Base was some time ago, and I was appalled at the features (or lack thereof), being a former Access developer. TFA makes me want to play with the new version, see if it is at least possible to create simple applications with it.

Or the other way round, of course ;) From TFA:

So it could be inhabitable, it might have an ocean, and maybe there are aliens that look like E.T. living there. Maybe. But does it have a Stargate?

I, for one, welcome our new fridge overlords!

This dawning time of the ruling fridges gives the term Ice Age a whole new meaning...

It seems there is a hidden comment... cannot see it... Anyways, SuSE is not for slashdotters who deserve to be here ... use debian instead, or, if you're a little bit less adventurous, ubuntu! (actually, you should be compiling everything from source, but I think I've become too soft...)

Better even:

Well, if you ask the people, that's what you get ;)

typedef? what are we now? sissy programmers who don't know what a pre-processor is? :D

Should be sth more like that (though then it'll end up being FORTRAN77:

#define INTEGER int
#define REAL double
...
#define FUNCTION double
#define FORTRAN void
#define code main

etc. :)

Just saw this one AFTER posting above... *sigh*
I second that! Scheme is a very good first programming language to teach concepts of programming. Even though it is probably a bad language to do real-world coding in. Also, it is good for sieving out those who should not study CS in the first place *laughs diabolically*
For *some deity*'s sake, DO NOT teach a scripting language like Python as a first programming language! It's nice to program in, no doubt, but only /after/ one has mastered OO or proper functional programming.

That will need a lot of #define s :)

I have to concur - both. Both paradigms are useful and widely used, and need to be understood by Computer Scientists.
At my university, first semester was learning Scheme (a LISP dialect), the idea being that it is something that nobody already knows, and also that it is a "purer" functional language, with no pointers to confuse (but lots of brackets instead). Anybody's opinion on that?
Second semester they started teaching C++, which was a good idea, except for the fact that the guy who was teaching it was an ADA expert and didn't know much about C++.
That was later changed to teach two semesters of Java, which I think was a bad idea.

I second that. Been using NOD32 for a few years, never regretted it. While Symantec slows down my work pc for a whole morning (i.e. 2-3 hours) once a week trying to scan the hard drive, NOD32 usually does that in about 20 minutes for my home laptop (whose hard drive, needless to say, is bigger and packed with more stuff), and I can still continue to use it. No, I am not responsible for the software installations at work ;)

Which is why many banks (or at least the respectable ones ^-^) don't rely solely on username/pw combination. As pointed out above, German banks generally use OTPs (One-Time Pin), which they send you by mail in a non-see-through sealed envelope. That means one needs to use a new OTP for every transaction (even messages sent to the bank by this system). I've also seen card readers used for those users that want the extra convenience and security.
I also have a bank account in Singapore now, and the bank I am using also went the extra mile: the login is Java-based (so the browser will have very limited, if any, access to information entered), and the PIN is not typed but entered using an onscreen keypad where the position of the numbers change every time. Additionally, I can only make a transaction, or see account details, after I correctly enter a 6-digit number sent to my mobile phone.
On the other hand, for a lot of pages I couldn't care less if sb knew my password, e.g. some online radio which stores my music preferences. Which is why I use an unsafe and easy-to-remember pw for those. Or those websites that give you an account for the sake of giving you one - I remember specifically one site which allowed me to send 3 free sms per day to any operator...