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I put together a simple resume website experimenting with ways to add context to skills on resumes. I list a number of projects, and when you hover over each project then the corresponding skills in a word cloud change color and enlarge. In my mind it does a much better job than a paper resume as clarifying which skills are actually in active use and which are paper skills.

My example is at http://willarson.com/ , but its simple to make your own ( http://lethain.com/entry/2008/oct/18/r-i-p-your-resume-site-... ).
My advice is to put a keywords section at the bottom of the résumé so that it will getthrough the keywords searches but only brag about your highly competent skills in the body and/or skills summary.

Either that or here's a really novel idea: Attend and present at local networking events. Find your next cofounder or job there.
Totally, but relative to Dan Brown or Robert Ludlum the guy was James Joyce. He was as close to a great author as any good commercial author I've read.
If I have 100K in income as a business, and I have to pay my employees an extra 20K in salary just to make up for extra taxes, that comes out of my bottom line

According to nonpartisan TPC estimates, a single earner, no kids, making $200K would receive a $2900 tax break under Obama's plan.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/numbers/displayatab.cfm?Docid...
I like it a lot, but maybe you could have a dedicated area for the job descriptions on the right side, just above the keywords? Right now, it is very difficult to scroll through the list of technologies used because the location of each job title moves back and forth while moving the mouse down.
Read _Ready, Fire, Aim_, one of THE best business books ever.

http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Fire-Aim-Million-Agora/dp/047018...

YOU are the only one properly motivated to sell. You have to do it, until (at least) you have it down to a science. Then you can teach that science to others.

It's hard hard hard hard work. I hate marketing and sales. But you have to do it.
"If your development HQ wasn't in India"

Pft...lame excuse... :^)
True, but only at the beginning. I think if you were a great programmer, you would likely build something that made money and you would no longer be poor. This does seem like a chicken-or-the-egg dilemma, though, by not being able to develop something without easy access to docs. Apple Developer Connection is free, however.
If this continues to be voted down...will it turn the same gray as the background?
Sure if you have some freebie app its not a big deal. But the second you ask your users to pull out a credit card your location becomes a big deal to most people.
I used to list every single thing I ever used on my list of skills when I first started looking for a job since I didn't really know what I wanted to do so I thought I'd be safe and list everything. Since then however I've gotten a very clear picture of what kind of jobs I want and started to remove things that would likely lead to a flood of calls from recruiters about jobs that I'm not at all interested in.

But I still see the raw list of skills as nothing more than SEO optimization for keyword searches on job sites. I'd expect any competent hiring manager to skip right past that and focus on the specific details that I mention for each of my past positions.
Oddly enough, I was at this speech. I left with a lot more respect for Crichton as a scientific thinker, and I almost read the book he was publicizing at the time, Prey.
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They could also be trying to avoid tons of poorly built apps that overwhelm the market. I seem to feel that this is somewhat the case with iPhone apps.
If you do some shady stuff in Adwords/Adsense, they can take away your account.

I'm not implicating the OP in any of this, but that is the most logical explanation.
I agree, I just read "for Web Developers" as "for professional web developers"
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Most of his books appear as if they were written to be made into movies. Most of them were thoroughly enjoyable too - Jurassic Park, Congo, Timeline, Prey etc., though his recent works weren't as good as his older ones.

RIP
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Quit pigeonholing programmers...

No, I am not an expert in all the things I have put into my skills section. However, I have enough experience with them to know that I can deal with them like an expert in no time (< 1 week).

In fact, I don't think there are "experts" for programming skills. These days, the job mostly requires digesting lots of documentation fast, for new libraries, new languages, new tools, whatever. It is unlikely even for an expert to be confronted with exactly the same problems as in the last job, even with the same underlying technolgies. So focussing too much on the skills section is counterproductive for employers.
He makes some good points, but I think he exaggerates his evidence. In particular, while the Drake equation and TTAPS equation both have unknown terms, at least some of the TTAPS equation terms can be estimated through observation and experimentation -- a far cry from "none of the variables can be determined. None at all." Insisting that a line of inquiry be abandoned simply because it is difficult to measure exact values seems contrary to the investigative spirit of science. Of course, Crichton is correct that we should not be drawing firm conclusions from fuzzy numbers.

Likewise, just because many scientists share a consensus about something doesn't mean they are necessarily wrong; scientists share a consensus on the ineffectiveness of Laetrile, the relative harmlessness of aspartame, and the unlikelihood of cell phones causing cancer. These things are hard to prove absolutely, and may even be incorrect in specific circumstances, but in absence of better evidence, a consensus is the best we can have.

I found this juxtaposition funny:

There is no shortage of other examples. In the 1920s in America, tens of thousands of people, mostly poor, were dying of a disease called pellagra. [...evidence of pellagra as dietary problem...] They continued to deny it until the 1920s.

Also this one:

When he said it wasn't enough, he put the critics' essays on his web page and answered them in detail. Scientific American threatened copyright infringement and made him take the pages down. [...] Speeches contained on this site are the property of Michael Crichton and may not be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without express permission.
I don't think it is a good idea to lose respect of somebody just because of allegations against him by a third party. But to each their own.
You eat elephants one bite at a time. Startups usually have to pick an area to start with, whether it's a demographic, a feature set, or a geographic area. Don't take it personally.
Yeah man, it was great to be here! I, like, went to bed and stuff. Totally wild.
You should get that looked at. Humor deficiency can be fatal.
I'm a "superuser" over on Google Groups to support different Google products (free schwag...)

This kind of thing happens all of the time. Sometimes it gets resolved, sometimes it does not. Everytime, it takes longer to fix than it should.

Google does not support any of these services you have mentioned (other than adwords). Think long and hard about this. If you rely on any of these services, this same situation could happen to you. Be prepared: Have backups and a backup plan ready just in case.
Amen.

When you're asking for all that crap, you're going to get applicants that want to prove they understand all that crap.
Not really. More specifically, I'd say a "non-practicing Muslim, practicing as a Christian." Or rather, now he is apparently practicing as a Christian, and was thus previously for 20 years via Pastor Wright whilst also being a Muslim Apostate.

I take my viewpoint whereby just as Jews are said to receive there religious status through the mother (whether they like it or not) Muslims are said to receive it through the father. As an analogy: Michael Jackson may look white .... but he started off black. He may or may not be in denial about this fact, just as his fans may or may not acknowledge it too.

Some here on this forum may have been misled or duped (either willingly or via manipulation) on the notions now discussed.

"In sum, Muslims puzzle over Obama's present religious status. They resist his self-identification as a Christian while they assume a baby born to a Muslim father and named "Hussein" began life a Muslim. Should Obama become president, differences in Muslim and American views of religious affiliation will create problems."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0808/pipes082508.php3
What makes a great author?

Recently a guy in the radio was saying that someone was great author if he/she was hard to understand. If you were able to understand him then he was not. I do not agree with such definition but still I cannot tell what makes someone a great author. I think it is more related to weather the author engages you and once you start reading is hard to stop.
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Sympathies to the OP, but my general rule for all data: if it doesn't exist in two places, it doesn't exist.
(A lesson I also learned the hard way.)
I was living in Chicago when Obama first ran for Senator. The first time I saw "OBAMA" on a billboard, I thought there was no way in the world he would get elected in our post-9/11 world.
They can if they're motivated enough. Intrade is much easier than Betfair.
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Explicitly a Reverend Wright 'God Damn America' type Christianity, who Obama has since distanced himself, and if so, does that mean Obama is still a Christian, or did that go when he distanced himself from Wright?
Sad but true. I wish there was a way to have laptops be part of a positive teaching experience. Maybe if you had live chat rooms during the lecture it could make the class richer rather than more distracted.
It's the same with conferences. Have you ever given a talk to a group of people and more than half are looking at their laptops? It really makes you ponder all of the time you put into preparing your presentation.
Can I ask what you're selling?
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I can give feedback (have been in sales for 5 years, have done quite well and am thinking about starting up a software startup with some friends on campus), but will need more info. Shoot me an email adammichaelc@gmail.com and send your number. We can set up a time to chat next week. I'm going out of town for the weekend.
Why are you worried about carbon sequestration?

If you are using plant matter to feed the fungus then the carbon source for the fuel is atmospheric carbon dioxide - "pre-sequestered" carbon, if you will.

As I understand it, the issue with fossil fuel carbon emissions is we are releasing ancient carbon dioxide.
The comments are even more fun than the deliciously snarky main post.
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(dear lazyweb)

this guy wrote this amazing description of week by week what he did for three months _before_ starting to program or make the product.

example
week 1. call 10 potential customers a day, ask questions, listen!

week 2. call 10 investors, ask about market, potential downfalls behind ideas.

i can't remember any googlable details from his story, who he was, or what site it was published.

thanks
Social Tyranny is different to spiritual disposition, which is an issue that is being raised in this thread (even though my original comment was about the appropriateness of paying homage to someone not 100% black as though he were - not that skin color or even religion should be such an issue) but rather one's spiritual disposition, which cannot just be ignored in a person: it shapes their thinking and overall vibe.
That didn't seem to bother Bush.
Google's profit model relies on a high volume of customers, all of whom they make a very small amount off of. Thus it's understandable that their customer support is non-existent. If they had someone to answer the amount of queries they'd receive from their billion users, they'd be financially unsustainable.

That's one of the many reasons we just pay $8 a month for Exchange hosting.
With respect, maybe your audience is telling you to build a better presentation.
What's more interesting is that the man started writing (finished and published) several full-length novels while he was still in med school to "make a quick buck."

He also was suppose to declare English during his undergrad, but decided against it after he submitted an not-well-known essay written by George Orwell for a class assignment, and the professor gave it a B-. According to him, it was not an act of plagiarism, but a test to verify Harvard English Department's arbitrariness in critiquing literature. Afterwards, I think he dropped English in favor of anthropology (inspiration for Congo), which led him to med school (inspiration for E.R) and then later to a postdoc fellowship in infectious disease (inspiration for Andromeda Strain).

Oh, did I also mention the Crichton was also a star basketball player in high school? The man is quite the renaissance man.
That's unfortunate. I think it'll get resolved soon, but still, what a pain!

I pay for the premium google apps service. I like to think the turnaround will be pretty quick if I run into any issues like this. I think it's worth it for imo the best email client and storage around with the least hassle.

I used to use oddpost (paid for that as well), but then they were swallowed by Yahoo. I can't stand Yahoo's mail. Way too cluttered for my taste.

Email is such an important application for me, day to day, that I have absolutely no problem paying google a modest yearly fee for their service. Sure there are plenty of free options out there, but I bet their support is equally dismal. Good customer support is expensive because there are a lot of whiny user's out there that also need to be supported. Pay the premium.
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Nope, people have their laptops out at even the best speakers' talks. It's an addiction.
Timeline was the last book of Crichton's I read. It really turned me off. I had been a fan from a young age, but that was it. He ignored or twisted science, reason, and logic just for "cool" plot points, far more so than in any previous book.
Honestly, I have a hard time concentrating on a presenter when I have a laptop with me. That's a large part of why I'm much more likely to be seen with an old-fashioned pen and notepad when something is actually important to understand.
Yes, I'm starting (yet another) SaaS one man startup. I need a US LLC for:

* credibility - people (especially US citizens) trust you more. Why? My personal theory - they know they have someone to sue in the US if things go wrong.

* billing - most payment processors (authorize.net comes to mind) only work with US corporations. Bummer.
good advice (well, I think so) but then, I've been doing this for some time. I use xmlresume and use the skilllevel=tag. (which reminds me, I should probably update my resume.) http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/
Michael Crichton was nothing short of a legend. RIP. Thoughts and prayers go out to his family.
FWIW, I rarely found classes valuable when I was in school; they mostly consisted of the professor (or TA, usually) reading us the textbook. I only went to class so that I wouldn't miss surprise exams. A laptop was nice to have so I could do something useful during the class periods that weren't exams.

That said, I did have a few interesting classes, and I never needed a laptop in those. I imagine that the author of the article teaches interesting classes, and I think it's a shame that people want to sit in front of him and buy shoes instead of listen.

Also, from the article:

The University of Chicago – as committed as it is to personal freedom and choice — has decided to block internet access in all its classrooms.

Is this true? That wasn't the case when I was there.

(Edit: aha, only the law school: http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1329. I hope nobody tells them that 3G access for laptops is nearly free these days -- technical solutions to social problems never work.)
Voting for Obama because he is black essentially defeats the purpose of the civil rights movement. The whole point of the movement was the color of your skin doesn't matter. I voted based on my principles and issues.

It's sad to see so many dissenting opinions downmodded just because the majority disagree. Yes some of them were deserving of it, but others made legitimate points.
What open source project should I join?
My main interests are:
Machine learning
Computer vision
Datamining
Search

I am interested in everything tech though and I'm just basically looking for anything interesting in the open source world.

I have looked a little bit at Linux-development.

* Portage is written in Python.
* Kernel-hacking is for invites only?
* Any other important Linux-project?

Mozilla

* I have only skimmed over it but I didn't find out how to actually contribute to the browser-development. Only found documentation and higher-level/sude-stuff.

I know Python, C, Haskell, Lisp, Java and a little of all the other popular languages too.
I basically would just like to get experience working with in a big project and be able to hack on it a little bit whenever I feel like.

Edit: I'm lookin for suggestions of things I don't know of. Should be easy to contribute to and get into.
Eh, I think listing some sort of 'skill level' (for example, my resume lists lisp under programming languages, but notes that I'm a novice.) The best of both worlds, I think, because it gets you noticed by the keyword seekers, and sets reasonable expectations for the technical person who actually interviews you.
Hear hear. I picked up PHP again this past weekend after laying dormant on it for the last year or so. Yeah, I was rusty for the first hour or so, but within a few hours I was as strong as I had ever been and cranking out code like mad.

I have TONS of languages and skills that have been put to the side and unused for some time simply due to the lack of need, but that doesn't mean I can't restore my former competency within hours of jumping feet-first back into that pool. I haven't written C++ for months now, but give me a few hours in front of a terminal with an interesting problem and it'll all come back.

And you know what, if I'm applying for a job with VB.NET, and having not worked with it for a while, you can bet your ass that I would have taken the time to refresh my skills before I step into that interview. The author is complaining about a non-issue.
I have a hard time writing legibly with pen and paper due to tremors and there are people with all sorts of disabilities like dysgraphia. I can only hope these professors can allow for exceptions to the rule.
If people are banned from taking notes on laptops, then they should be banned from taking notes on pen and paper also.
If you are teaching an important class for a major then I can understand it. But when you are teaching a class that everyone has to take to satisfy one little requirement, banning laptops is annoying.
He's a pretty tall guy at 6' 9" or 206cm.
Eh. Flimsy logical reasoning. "X would nearly mimic Y" in paragraph 1 becomes "X is the same as Y" in paragraph 2.

You want a very broad basket of stocks. The broader, the better to minimize risk. The SPX already is a subset replacement for "the market" in general (500 vs 9000 stocks.)

Sure, you can approximate with a smaller set, because everything is inter-correlated. Except when it's not (earnings data in an individual stock, etc.) The other issues here are: market cap (some stocks are MUCH bigger than others); trading impact (just because a stock trades some way doesn't mean you won't move it by investing in it, etc) and so on. And at the end of the day, you're just mimicing the SPX. You can get SPX performance for a lot less effort. Even SPDRs are only 18 bps of management fee.

Finally, the point of the fancy finance that he rails against is that people aren't looking to duplicate the SPX, they are looking to beat it. It can be done.
From my position, I see two root causes why this is the problem and they could be fixed (its what my venture is working on doing). The problem with laptops most notably is the fact that they have this screen. The screen more or less creates a barrier between the person and speaker. This is not a good thing, especially not in a classroom and its also disrepsectful to the speaker. The second is laptops that are not being used for education but rather, as the article writer suggested, for Instant Messaging or other various purposes. If, theoretically, the laptop was one that was specifically designed and built for use in the classroom by students on a day-to-day basis, the problems addressed in this article would not be an issue. However, because they aren't, many times students don't have adequate tools on their laptops, the tools that are there are time consuming and hard to switch between for doing multiple things at one time, and they aren't focused on anything educationally enriching.

[promo]That's exactly what my venture, EDunuity, is working to address.[/promo]
I agree... In my case, I'll most likely not spend any more money on adwords after this, which is a shame.

How do you grow to that many users and provide decent support. Tough question really.
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The movie absolutely sucked, but I loved the book.

Edit: was talking about the 90's Sphere movie.
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In my particular case, I doubt I really lost any points on HR screening because the skills I took off my resume were not skills that were even being asked for in the job postings I was looking at. But, you are right that I don't really know what is the impact of the change. That's probably what I've found most frustrating about job hunting and interviewing, its very hard to tell what is and isn't working.
Many of these reasons are why I didn't take notes in most of my classes (for some it was obviously necessary).

PG used to get perturbed at me when I wouldn't write anything down when I had meetings with him. But really, it was because I wanted 100% of my attention focused on listening.
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I teach English 101 at the University of Arizona and ban laptops for similar reasons. I'd prefer the students be engaged with the class and not suffer from the chronically divided attention they probably do elsewhere.