Subj : Re: CV, work-history, 91C, CompSci?, Applet? (was: Software Job Ma...) To : comp.programming,comp.software-eng From : rem642b Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 01:38 pm > From: Chris Hills > There is a LOT more to programing than writing source code in an > ascii editor. You use Word for CV's and documentation. Only if you're programming on a MicroSoft Windows system. If you're programming on Unix/Linux it might be preferable to write all documentation in HTML, especially if you're programming in Java using JavaDoc. As for CVs, we've already been through that discussion. CVs are, in the USA, used only for applying for tenured faculty positions, not for commercial software jobs. And in any case, writing CVs is very unlikely to be a work task of somebody hired to write software, even in Europe. But why are you talking about MicroSoft Word here in comp.programming and comp.software-eng? Do you consider such topics appropriate for these newsgroups? > Doing documentation in plain ascii went out over a decade ago. Please explain that remark to Sun MicroSystems: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/ Do you see any MicroSoft Word there?? > In any event you are not qualified to instruct. And yet I've been doing it, successfully. > Also you don't seem to have the tools required to turn out any > support material. Ie the documentation. I have both McSink and GNU Emacs, either of which is quite sufficient for directly editing HTML source files, or for editing Java source files which contain JavaDoc comments which then get compiled into JavaDoc WebPages. How exactly, in your opinion, is a single MS-Word document better than WebPages with cross-links and a search engine? > drawing package or a case tool? This is really getting off-topic for these newsgroups, don't you think? If you want to ask me specific questions such as that, why don't you join my Yahoo! Group and ask there? > >> why has no one hired you in that decade? > >I'm not privy to the mental processes within the brains of each person > >who decided not to hire me, so I don't have the information necessary > >to answer your question. > This is obtuse and wilful stupidity on you part. You know the reasons > they gave and you should have been able to pick up a lot from the > interviews. No, I don't know the reasons, although I can guess, but what good are guesses? The person at RSA Data Security who interviewed me seemed impressed at the fact I had already done work in that area (after reading the article in Martin Gardner's column), and I was surprised when I didn't get hired. No explanation was ever given to me. I didn't get any clue from the interviewer that there was any reason not to hire me. > >> What work did you go for and (if known) why didn't you get it? > >I have several megabytes of such information. Please arrange to drop by > >some time and browse it. > Idiot. Well if you're not willing to look at the megabytes of data that answer the question you asked, there's no way I can help you get an answer. One of the programs I wrote on my Macintosh Plus was a utility to scan all my megabytes of job contacts and extract just the key information at the top of each section, and concatenate them all into one master table-of-contents file. That file is only 121k bytes. Perhaps you'd be willing to browse at that file to see all the companies and agencies I contacted, and pick a few that arouse your curiosity, and then for each such, jump directly to the particular file (among the megabytes) that has the complete record of my contacts with that one company or agency, and look just at that instead of the whole collection? But I'd guess from your attitude you aren't willing to look at *any* of the information about my contacts with companies and agencies in search for employment, because you just like to ask questions to waste my time. > >I do not have access to any text format other than ASCII (plain or > >HTML), and I don't have money to purchase such facilities, so your > >attempt to harass me in this regard is a waste of your typing effort. > Then use a public library The public library doesn't provide such facilties except for a charge I can't afford. Most of the rest of your comments are so grossly off-topic that I'm not even going to cite them here. Take up your questions in another forum. > I see you are not really interested in getting work. If you work you > would find these tools. The tools cost money which I don't have and won't have until after I have a job. You have the logic backwards: - Correct: Get job, to get money, to buy stuff. - Your idea: Fabricate equipment by magic out of thin air, then get job. I'm in search of a paying job. If you aren't going to help me find such, then butt out of these discussions. I have 22+ years experience writing computer software. If this horrible recession ever ends, maybe somebody can help me find a paying job. .