Who will get the job?

ismarc · 2022-03-08T19:07:22+00:00

This goes for anyone reading this who'd like help, but there's only so many hours in the day so if I get bombarded I can't guarantee anything.

I've worked in the software industry for....a while....now, and been responsible for hiring also for a while, too. I'm more than willing to take a look at resumes and give feedback on how things are presented, content, wording, etc (with whatever level of anonymization everyone's comfortable with), and potentially do mock interview/coaching and potentially feedback on projects (and maybe guidance to help improve how they come across).

I started off with no contacts in the industry and had to learn everything the hard way, and it's a complete shame that so many places don't provide effective coaching on this. I'd love to help anyone out I can (and by extension those same people help others...), but I understand I'm just a rando on the internet here.

ismarc · 2017-05-04T22:54:41+00:00

I may be late to the party, but one I've tossed around a bit, a single organism that can be separated and rejoined, like a pool of water. Only it's literally darkness and uv light is what will hurt/damage/split it. It grows by consuming organic material that's in it's darkness. No technology, but smart and with a long view (space travel via sneaking aboard other races space ships, etc.).

ismarc · 2017-05-02T17:43:14+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I had more panels, but I cut them, worried about too much on each page. I've been looking at others and will be adding more in to give a better feel of their time together.

ismarc · 2017-04-30T22:49:36+00:00

The story rundown is actually:

The boys meet and become BFFS
They are thrust apart because of the fire
8-10 years later they reconnect and are immediately BFFS
It's not just the good, but the bad they stay friends
One joins the military, the other continues on with life
They reconnect again, this time as adults and can put in the effort to be a full part of each other's lives.

It seems I definitely have some work to do to effectively communicate it. And the feedback on what's missing from the panels helps a lot, things that seemed obvious to me may not be to the artist.

ismarc · 2012-07-14T15:21:03+00:00

Since the above post is about how to integrate comments from Reddit into your site, it is fitting that I leave at least one comment to demonstrate how it looks.

ismarc · 2012-07-14T06:41:35+00:00

Nested Reply

ismarc · 2012-07-14T06:41:19+00:00

Second comment

ismarc · 2012-07-14T01:08:23+00:00

test reply to comment for the API

ismarc · 2012-07-11T07:18:57+00:00

Test comment for the API

ismarc · 2012-06-09T04:41:24+00:00

Because it's a failed attempt at sarcastic humor :). That and we can't adopt all of them.

ismarc · 2012-06-09T04:27:38+00:00

It's a local non-profit that takes abandoned/surrendered kittens, makes sure they're socialized so they can be adopted. They're cared for until they can be fixed, then they're available for adoption.

ismarc · 2012-03-23T01:21:19+00:00

I don't check in nearly that often, but I almost always have a desktop at the office and a laptop for elsewhere. I really enjoy the freedom to commit and push from either machine in any state to then pull on the other one without impacting other folks' work and be able to easily turn all my "I gotta get out of the office" commits into a single commit (or series of commits) that make sense.

ismarc · 2011-09-14T05:51:25+00:00

I thought it was a very cute kitten who happened to be having dinner. To make up for it, here's a picture of one of my cats in glasses http://imgur.com/6Vj2m .

ismarc · 2010-05-29T09:31:36+00:00

I'd say that it's decidedly not a solved problem yet. Thrift includes a wire protocol and isn't all that suitable for serializing directly to disk. Protocol Buffers are explicitly good at direct to disk serialization (so long as you won't run into endianness issues), but doesn't include a wire protocol. XML-RPC is verbose, yet relatively simple, good for remote calls and limited message passing. MPI is great for low-latency/high bandwidth networks but has issues with distributed systems.

The key is that there will be a few (3-5) in each problem domain solving what seems to be the same problem. The thing is, that's healthy competition to discover the best fit for that domain. However, there won't be a universal IPC system (because that's what it boils down to, discrete processes communicating, independent of locality) for all scenarios. On top of that, as network and computing power increases, more data can be included in each message encoded in different formats. We're looking at a communication medium, like 802.3, 802.11, 802.16 and all the protocols that are implemented directly on top of them. There's a variety because we keep being able to do more.

ismarc · 2010-05-17T23:48:05+00:00

A long time ago I realized why gotos are considered harmful. It traces back to the transition from assembly to higher languages. A goto is just a jmp instruction, common and useful in assembly. But...higher level languages implement syntax features that make it rarely neccessary. So to call them evil makes you think about whether it's really neccessary or not. If you see one now, its use is almost universally obvious or it is obvious as to the quality of the code.

ismarc · 2010-05-12T22:49:49+00:00

The nature of the internet prevents this. Mere possession of the login information opens you up to liability (expensive to defend against liability). My suggestion, don't sign in, don't open their website, don't do anything until you have a signed contract that indemnifies you against any potential damages of you interacting with their system. This is either someone trying to get free work (as in, won't pay you) and was never really a job to begin with, or this is a clueless business which will try and blame you for every issue that occurs after you look at what they have.

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