chrisc wrote:What would be something that's in demand now?

1. Showing up everyday on time

2. Literacy

3. Not being a moron

If you've got two of those down, that's good enough. They'll probably train you for the third on the job.

vockins wrote:

chrisc wrote:What would be something that's in demand now?

1. Showing up everyday on time

2. Literacy

3. Not being a woman

If you've got two of those down, that's good enough. They'll probably train you for the third on the job.

FYP

lemur68 wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:You should also at least be aware of and be able to converse intelligently during an interview about a few of the hot current/emerging technologies.

One word: plastics.

Yeah, no shit.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that a knack for bullshitting is crucial for getting a job in this industry, but if you're fluent in the geek-speak and you know a few things, it usually doesn't hurt to show that off a little.

As far as object-oriented programming (OOP) goes, the basic concepts are not at all difficult to grasp. I always found the most challenging aspect to be the memorization of the object model of a given language.

BTW Kayte, there are a lot of women in the software development industry. It's not as much of a "boy's club" as you'd expect.. I'd say 1/3 to 3/5 of my coworkers are female, as are several of the principals and project managers. Many of the DBA's and SIT people are also women.

Kayte R. wrote:

vockins wrote:

chrisc wrote:What would be something that's in demand now?

1. Showing up everyday on time

2. Literacy

3. Not being a woman

If you've got two of those down, that's good enough. They'll probably train you for the third on the job.

FYP

Just less than half of my 125 person department is female, including my immediate supervisor. About 75% of management is female.

Everyone's still working on the first two conditions.

Although I'm interested in the methodology of being trained on that third condition you corrected.

You're a naughty pervo hacker, aren't you?

I've always wanted to do the following to fucks who leave their Linux/Unix accounts logged in after they leave my office:

change their login profile to repeatedly echo, "You should have logged out dumb shit" when they log back in, i.e. while (1). Then remap ctrl-c to echo to the screen, "fuck you." Maybe that ctrl-c should also run some sort of recursive shell script that wants verification to run sudo rm -rf.

Nah, I ain't that evil.

lemur68 wrote:Though maybe I shouldn't go just by what I see on monster.com.

With some previous experience as an IT recruiter, albeit quite a while back, I can tell you that what an employer puts in their ads on monster.com is what they WANT.

Not what they NEED, will GET or will MAKE DO WITH after delaying the recruitment process long enough that they have to swallow their pride and call some coked-up, mouthy, Essex-boy twat to try and finish off the job for them.

If you can do the job, apply for it. Even if you don't get the job advertised you might get the next one that isn't. And, as CP has already said, in these days of emailed CVs and text searches, the buzzwords are vital.

busbus wrote:change their login profile to repeatedly echo, "You should have logged out dumb shit" when they log back in, i.e. while (1). Then remap ctrl-c to echo to the screen, "fuck you." Maybe that ctrl-c should also run some sort of recursive shell script that wants verification to run sudo rm -rf.

Nah, I ain't that evil.

Well I don't think you want to be destructive, just annoying, right?

Use xmodmap to switch the keys around so that a commonly-typed command will spell out a naughty word or something.

Like you can change "s" to "f", "d" to "c" and "o" to "k" so that when he tries to run a command as root the screen displays the word "fuck"

Type xmodmap –pk in xterm to show all the default key mappings. Then you open his .bashrc file with gedit and add the commands to change the key mappings you want (add them at the very end of the file).

I used to work in a computer lab in college and when people forgot to log out, we'd change their browser homepage to gay porn or else take a screenshot of their desktop, set that as the desktop wallpaper, and then move all their desktop icons to their documents folder. It was sooo funny to watch them try and click icons on the desktop or move them around and get no response,

Colonel Panic wrote:As far as computing goes, I think there are few skills more awesome than being able to open up a text editor, bang out a quick shell script, save and run it, then sit back watch your computer carry out a complex series of tasks in multiple applications automatically.

But then, I'm a fucking nerd so go figure.

Secretly setting up a massive parallel computing cluster based off of bootable CDs in your school library would be pretty awesome.

I want to try that someday, it would be like 1.2Thz of processing power.and 800GB of ram.

I thought about using a couple of clusters I set up at work and reprogramming them to crack WEP keys of all the wireless networks within a mile of my house. I don't think my professors would like that though. Still, with 60Ghz of processing power I should be able to get quite a bit done.

Right now we're using the clusters to simulate "unthinned" 10^20 GeV cosmic ray events. Generating one should take about a week and 600GB. If we could use the computers in the library, would could generate one in the five hours between 2am and 7am that the computers are not used. Cluster computing is freakin sweet.

Eclipse for Java: Who's usin'?

Is it popular? Doesn't seem like it.