Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract?
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : Ulrich Hobelmann
Date : Mon Aug 15 2005 11:07 am

Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote:
> Please tell me what you consider "high-quality HTML".
> If I can't view it with lynx, then I can't do it unless and until you
> bring your laptop over here so that I can see the results as I edit the
> HTML source. HTML is not anything that is easy to do blind!!

You keep turning in circles.  You run Redhat, as you mentioned, so your 
computer *can* do PPP.  Your computer can run a graphical browser.  Fix 
the f***ing problem instead of complaining. (or go to another newsgroup 
for that)

Five years ago I ran a laptop with 32MB memory and it ran Mozilla on 
Linux just fine (slow, but it looked good), so I know it works.

>> http://flea.sourceforge.net/resume.html
>>    See resume.doc
> 
> I can't read that online. Please provide a plain-text version.

That's weird.  It looks like ok HTML.  Read the source if you have to.

>    I support high quality and responsive process.
> 
> That's not grammatically correct English. If "process" is plural, it
> needs to be spelled "processes", but if it's singular, then you need
> the word "a" before the word "high".

Great!  Nitpick about others' SPELLING, but ignore the crap in your own 
yard.  Making me laugh right now :D

>    I keep you in the driver's seat
> 
> Bullshit, unless your profession is driving instructor where your
> student is literally in the driver's seat while you sit on the
> passenger side with your foot ready to hit the emergency brake if
> needed. I would toss this in the trash can at this point if I were
> screening resumes. So far you've beat around the bush with metaphor but
> you haven't given me the slightest idea what kinds of projects you have
> done (landscaping/gardening, driving instructor, DMV person who
> administers driving tests, astronaut trainer, etc.).

Raaaant.

>    and give you a system that you can steer accurately
>    towards business goals.
> 
> More stupid metaphor. Maintenance had a laugh when they were emptying
> the trash can and your resume happened to blow out of the catcher so
> they had to retrieve it and they happened to glance at it.

Who gives a ...?

>    I have worked in many industries and solved
>    every kind of technical problem imaginable
> 
> Fucking liar. It's unlikely you solved more than one percent of all the
> technical problems imaginable.

Well, I don't think he's stupid, his resume looks 
well-formatted/structured, even if it uses tables, and he doesn't keep 
bitching about the whole, bad, world all the time.

>    Programming
>    ( click any item:)
> 
> You've mixed together in a single menu, as if they were somehow
> brothers in concept, all of: programming languages, text formatting
> languages, Web browsers, operating systems, serverside frameworks,
> software application suites, data communication protocols, admin tools,
> software development frameworks, software development methodologies,
> and qualatitive aspects of work. Furthermore you've run them down one
> very tall and skinny vertical column, wasting an awful lot of paper if
> anyone were to print this as offline familiarization and then handy
> reference when online to browse the links more fully.

Maybe he formatted it badly (but I like it).  Or your browser does.  You 
know you can just read the raw HTML instead?  If you want, there's tools 
that strip the HTML tags as well.

-- 
I believe in Karma.  That means I can do bad things to people
all day long and I assume they deserve it.
	Dogbert

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