Subj : Re: Resume questions, how convey? To : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp From : Ulrich Hobelmann Date : Sun Aug 28 2005 03:46 pm Oh well, it's Sunday... Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote: >> Were you the sole author of these papers > > Good suggestion. Here's the info: > NMR - contributing author > Robot - primary author > DiffAlg abstract - sole author > Others - unknown if any paper or not The DiffAlg was only an abstract?? And you seriously have no idea what papers were published with you as an author, or where they appeared? You didn't ask anybody? This is sooo ridiculous :D >> Its the only explination I can think of why you wold not know where >> your paper was published. > > What if my supervisor did all the publishing arrangement? > Can you think of that? And he didn't answer your question at all?? > Having CGI that allows arbitrary Unix runnables > (both native binaries and scripts that use native binaries) is > different from Perl-only WebServers such as Tripod, and > no-CGI-whatsoever WebServers such as Geocities. Here I actually agree. But most providers these days should provide CGI. >> they shallow level of description you have made me think you had next >> to no database experience at all. > > And what kind of description would fit on one or two lines of a > one-page resume that would convince you I had enough experience to do a > job you wanted me to do? After reading this whole thread, and all your excuses for everything? Hmm... > Or just forget the 1-2 line restriction. Let's say half my page is > stuff about relational databases. What could I reveal in half a page > to convince a skeptic that I really know how to write JDBC software? You could create or participate in an open-source project and mention that. >> MS Access is barely a database in the terms of what employers think >> of when talking about a database. > > MS ACCESS is the only DB available via JDBC at De Anza college. > Oracle was available, but only manually via keyboard/SQL interface, > with no way to make tables or find out what tables were already in the > database it connected to, hence no way to play with it either manually > or via JDBC. Or you could again cancel your $20 shell account, get a used computer for $50, get a free shipping of Ubuntu Linux, install that, install PostgreSQL or MySQL or something else. For webspace and dialup service there are cheaper alternatives than $20, too (at least in Europe). >> Get yourself an instance of postgres to learn with ... > > If you require me to do that, you'll have to provide the money to buy > it for my Macintosh with only 17 megabytes unused disk space, or for my > laptop with no working modem or diskette drive or CD-Rom drive, hence > no way to install it without first fixing the modem. Or you could come up with some really innovative excuses... > If you won't provide the money to do what you want me to do, then don't > order me what to do. Who the hell orders you to do anything?? Remember? You came here asking for help with your work life (if we want to call it with those two words). >> stop referring to ove 20 years experience. You don't have over 20 >> years experience > > That's a fucking lie! I do too have 22+ years experience at writing > computer software. Then mention some practical key examples that are appropriate to the job you're applying to. >> the only experience that counts is paid employment experiences. > > Fuck you! Most of my best work was unpaid. Now you are ordering him to do things he might not want to do... If your unpaid work resulted in anything useful (that interests the $COMPANY), just mention it. >> your skills don't match those of someone who has been doing it full >> time for 20 years. > > You don't even know what my skills are! The total time I've spent > writing computer software is at least equivalent to 22 years fulltime. We know what you said they are. But we don't see lots of cool applications that could have been written in that time. > Do you want more examples of my software solving real-world problems > (college payroll, college class assignments, for example), or have I > made my point with those first two? Don't know about him, but I don't give a rat's ass (well, I don't even have one). Some potential employer might, though, if it involves some for him interesting technologies. -- My ideal for the future is to develop a filesystem remote interface (a la Plan 9) and then have it implemented across the Internet as the standard rather than HTML. That would be ultimate cool. Ken Thompson .