Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract? To : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp From : Phlip Date : Mon Aug 15 2005 04:00 pm Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote: >> if you treat potential hirers the way you treat this newsgroup, > > Vague derogatory innuendo is of no value in tracking down a bug and > fixing it. You need to state the precise bug-behaviour you observe so > that it can be tracked down and diagnosed and possibly even fixed. .... >> > http://www.rawbw.com/~rem/WAP/WhyInactive.html >> ... completely lacking the tags to save us from the >> Windows default ... > > Is it impossible on Windows to set your own local default to override > the factory setting? If so, yet another reason to put MicroSoft out of > business so that other companies are no longer destroyed by Bill's > preditory tactics, so that better companies can have a chance to > produce much better software than what MicroSoft produces. > > Oh, you want *me* to make up for your cruddy MicroSoft-ware by > providing *your* favorite color as background in every one of *my* > WebPages? Fine. Please make an appointment to come over here with your > laptop MS-Windows computer and local (from Sunnyvale) PPP-access ports... I stand corrected. > So please stop bashing me with derogatory generalities. If there's a > specific WebPage that I wrote which you don't like, cite the exact URL > and state your exact problem with it. (I see you did this just below, > thank you, but your derogatory remark above is not of that quality.) All of them. Other web pages don't make me change my own browser settings. Why should yours? This exchange leads me to imagine conversations like this: Headhunter: Thank you for the resume, but can we change the colors before it goes out? Everyone has different default settings, so you should configure your resume to look the same across all of them. You: [Long screed against Microsoft, who did not invent web pages or their default color system...] Headhunter: I'm going to add you to my "special" list, okay? > Specialty resumes, sent only regarding particular kinds of jobs: > http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.921-LISP.txt > http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.92Mac.txt > http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.921-CAI.txt > http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.92Util.txt > http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.93Games.txt > http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.947-ISR.txt > General resumes, sent when none of the specialty resumes is appropriate: > http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.91C.txt > http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.928.txt > http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.942.txt > http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.98B.txt > http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Robert_Elton_Maas.doc > Reference notes for filling out appliations, never sent to a potential > employer: > http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/RESUME.REM.txt Which one is the best? And is there a _clear_ link from your tinyurl to the _best_ one? I picked Resume.93Games.txt, because games have different entry requirements than normal gigs. The top doesn't contain an objective or an acronym list. Then it leaps into a bunch of computer science stuff. Real game shops need to read, "I worked on a videogame where, as you dismember your opponent, you get to see the blood spurt out of their head and the stumps of their limbs in slow motion, forming permanent, alpha-blended splotches all over the ground and nearby props." > Please tell me in what way (other than HTML formatting) each of these > resumes is, in your opinion, not complete. _"Each"_? You have a gift for setting each of your conversations up for failure. > Mission > Objected-oriented design, advanced user interfaces, art, > and "Agile" development. > > OOD is a methodology, not a goal, so it doesn't belong here in your > mission. That's specious. I put in the acronym list all my acronyms. An HR guy has been told to look for NBQ, and they find it in my list, in the Ns. The HR guy is not required to know if NBQ is a database, or a chip, or whatever. Similarily, my "mission" is to improve OO designs. If it's here, it's a goal. This is an example of a literary art, to provide tension and drama. (The good kinds.) > The rest here is appropriate. By the way, virtually all my > software from as far back as I can remember was "Agile" development. > Should I mention that in my resume, or is that just fluff? > (Yeah, I have you in a double bind here.) Ah, so you wrote lots of unit tests, and passed them after every few edits, way back when? -- Phlip http://www.greencheese.org/ZeekLand <-- NOT a blog!!! .