Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths To : comp.programming,comp.software-eng From : Chris Hills Date : Mon Aug 15 2005 08:13 pm In article , Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t writes >> From: CTips >> Send me a resume. > >My resume is already posted online, so I'm not sure whether you want me >to collect all the pages of it into a ZIP file and then uuencode it and >e-mail it to you, so you can uudecode and unZIP it onto our local disk >and browse locally, or simply e-mail you the URL where it's located and >you can browse it remotely? Not a clever way to get work. The OP asked for a copy of your CV. Just send it in PDF. If you make mountains out of mole hills you are unlikely to be a good team worker from your apparent lack of communications skills... You will have to be amazingly good to make up for that deficit. >> anyone who has experience in writing system software (optimizing >> compilers > >I'm curious why you list that specific requirement. It seems to me that >all the existing CPUs already have fine compilers for them, Possibly because the skills required to writing optimising compilers are similar to the skills needed? This could be all sorts of parssing tools for all sorts of languages including C++ Latin, Forth, or Arabic >> operating-systems, > >Again, why this requirement, you designed a new operating system but it >isn't written yet, and you need somebody to write it, because Unix and >Linux and Windows and MacOS aren't good enough for you or NIH? Or you >don't need that task performed but you don't think anybody would have >what you really need so you listed this instead? Those shows a real lack of knowledge. There are a great many operating systems on the world other than those three. Many systems have RTOS or no OS and some form of scheduling system. MANY companies write their own control systems out side the desktop world. >> data-base kernels, > >Again, the existing RDBMS aren't what you need so you need to re-invent >the wheel, or you listed this in lieu of what you really need? So who makes the RDBMS for MIPS, ARM, Coldfire? Or for games programs? Many games engines use their own system(s) >> believes they are highly productive > >I'm highly productive, and available for tele-work immediately. I am also God. I think that is why a CV was asked for with verifiable data on it. I put down the Pope as a reference :-) >> try to estimate how long you would take to do the simple >> spreadsheet program described on page 32 in the paper at: >> http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/aronsson95comparison.html > >All I see there is an abstract of something about a new programming >language "Erlang" which is supposed to make it easier to develop >software. Easier then with Lisp I must ask? Anyway, I see no procedure >for seeing page 32 of the actual paper, or for that matter any of the >paper except the abstract. Please tell me where to find the paper or >just page 32 of it. I think the fact that you can't find page 32 may mean you have failed the interview :-) -- \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\ Chris Hills Staffs England /\/\/\/\/ /\/\/ chris@phaedsys.org www.phaedsys.org \/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ .