ing for either Clackamas Paper Products
or Clackmas Paper Products [sic] in the area.
Perhaps this is just a bad spammer wanting some help. Can we
call for a verification of this listing before good email boxes
get hurt?
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>>>>> "José" == José Alves de Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
José> A quick question: what's the standard size for resumes in your countries?
Mine's about a paragraph long, but it's in the back of thousands of Perl
books in the world, so I d
;Terrence> of consulting, so I figured there was no reason for that to happen
now
"Terrence> to me.
I've never been asked to work 3 weeks on a trial basis. I'd consider
that a huge red flag. :)
"Terrence> Remember, you yourself once said to me: "princepawn
the other hand, although you can't sign away fundamental rights, you *can*
give up some basic reasonable things when you're desperate. Sounds like you
were a bit desperate.
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;Larson> choice.
Eh? What do you think the "P" stands for in LAMP?
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there's actually no difference between those phrases. Dunno. But it
triggered me enough to respond to it. Maybe I'm not typical. In that case,
take my message with that disclaimer.
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ees like a bunch of kindergartners.
Do you realize you probably just said more about you than about your employer?
Good luck getting a job from anyone who reads/googles this list now.
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Per
address and a web address? You'd think
that at a tech-savvy company like TiVo, they'd already have done the right
handholding.
{sigh}
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Perl/Unix/security
Good: using http://jobs.perl.org/ to post your Perl job to help build a
website (http://jobs.perl.org/job/3923).
Bad: Providing the URL of the yet-to-be-built website as the "URL for more
information" in your post!
Doh!
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"Larson> use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the
"Larson> intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and
"Larson> destroy all copies of the original message.
I
"senior" Perl CGI/DB programmers do they expect to get?
{sigh}
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s make me sad.
"Let's throw away 75% of what makes a Perl programmer productive."
Sad.
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>>>>> "Perl" == Perl Jobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Perl> Internal ID: pbPEARLjpo
Doesn't this strike anyone else as a bit odd? :-)
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>>>>> "Marty" == Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Marty> The subject is from a jobs posting I just saw. Am I the only one that
Marty> doesn't get what a
Marty> Junior Perl/Mod_Perl/Java *Typist* is?
It's the guy who puts the &q
>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Ettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Anthony> Unreal. The future doesn't look good if this kind of
Anthony> stuff continues.
What? Job postings? Discussions about job postings?
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Got Pearl?
:-)
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an't give me an easy
answer to a question you surely know the answer for, I'm not really
sure how you'll do on the tougher questions.
Not everything is numbers. People skills are important. This has been
pointed out to me nearly every time I forget it. :)
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ake change?
I suspect that overall, the number of flashing 12:00s on VCRs in new
york is not much different from that of Iowa. :) And on that, I rest
my case.
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abstract
reasoning and problem solving that is definitely available only to a
small portion of the adult population in my experience.
Maybe some of you live sheltered lives, hanging out only with nerds.
You gotta get out more often. :)
Think of how many VCRs are out there that are *flashing 12:00*.
g. I needed a good
laugh. Thanks!
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overall. Witness the fiasco of the MCSE... it's merely a
money-treadmill for testing services (and Microsoft), and guarantees
nothing more than a willingness to part with some of your cash, not
any kind of actual skill. "Teaching to the test" has become far too
common.
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>>>>> "John" == John Von Essen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> The problem today is one parent's income can't earn enough to support
John> the other stay-at-home parent + 2 cars + home + expenses from 2
John> kids and so on.
Ahh, the amer
ars. :)
By the way, because party plans had to be made six months in advance,
I hope you'll understand the need for a slightly-smaller-than-normal
Stonehenge OSCON party. :-) Next year, bigger blowout.
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u send this to me personally?".
And when I saw it it comp.lang.perl.misc, I said "why did you post this
to misc", and ditto for the other group.
Not a clueful person, by any means.
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400 Ext 1009
This luser spammed me personally, and comp.lang.perl.{misc,modules,tk}
before I told him to come to jobs.perl.org.
Did he hit any of the rest of you?
How can recruiters have so few clues?
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*getting rid* of Matt's code, replacing it
with the much more modern and secure code from nms-cgi.sourceforge.net.
Even Matt himself points at the new location for updating code.
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a
that doesn't require extra precaution in the IT field. So maybe a law
based on category of data would still have the effect of bringing all
IT jobs back home. The things that'd be left would be like those
thousands of people who retype phone directories (public info),
probably not v
ack quarter after three
reds. And half of this is from cold calls... people calling us
instead of us re-connecting with our existing clients. Not enough to
be hiring people yet, but enough to keep the doors open.
Good news indeed.
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Robert> flexible if implemented in Java.
This is precisely the kind of stories we need for Perl advocacy.
I hear about this stuff *all the time*. But maybe it's because I'm
listening in the Perl groups, where we only talk about the projects
that worked. :)
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ho do the first
cut at the math ("wow, $140K!"), and then later go "geez, this just
isn't working out". I suppose it's like insurance... sometimes you
get lucky and get to keep 75% instead of 50%, but 50% is all you can
count on.
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self in business.
I don't know whether this was a contract at $35/hr or a salary at
$35/hr, but we need to specify context before we can compare.
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Per
o you end up testing test-preparedness, not
actual knowledge.
So, based on that, there will never be meaningful "certifications" in
the Perl world, because there'll never be a blessing of any particular
certification system by Larry Wall, and that's the only one that would
matt
ench certified programmers".
What a crock. Brainbench is a sham.
I told them that my stand on any certifying body that wasn't blessed
by Larry Wall was that it was completely bogus, and that my record on
the subject is public.
Let's hope they have sufficient clues to not be so mis
http://www.w3.org/XML/ XML turned 5 on 10 Feb.
Maybe you get to add up each of the individual experiences. :)
Let's see - 12 years of Perl... OK, already got that beat. :)
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aid-off".
I'm afraid I wouldn't have a "casual dress" though. I've never
tried, but I suspect I don't look good in a dress.
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>>>>> "Perl" == Perl Jobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Perl> Job title:
Perl> NEED A PERL SCRIPTING CONSULTANT WITH SOLARIS 2.8 UNIX KNOWLEDGE.
AND ABILITY TO HIT THE CAPS LOCK KEY.
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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael R Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> *nix culture is stong, too. Living so close to two of the Un-namable
>> Evils, it is no wonder there is a surplus of unix geeks.
Michael> Sorry. Newby. MS and who?
Stonehenge? :)
>>>>> "Paris" == Paris Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paris> Maybe it is because of our Sasquatch ancestry.
But Sasquatch is a hoax! [1]
[1] http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~rfthomas/papers/wallace.html [2]
[2] I met Ray Wallace many years ago.
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And that's not a valid URL. At least, not in any sense that would be
useful. I might have a host named "http", I guess.
Perl> Contact information: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe Laura should be told how embarassing she is to her company?
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or a talented & experienced PERL programmer to make
Perl> modifications to existing PERL modules & scripts to add more functionality.
For a *talented* Perl programmer?
Who are these guys kidding?
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ening elsewhere. The competent
flexible people with good marketing skills are *getting* work.
Missing any of competence, flexibility or marketing, and you're dying
right now.
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or some widely used
David> certification.
Well, about 30 seconds with Google led me to:
http://www.waldentesting.com/tests/revnetm-p.htm
Notice both "Perl 3 Developer Fundamentals"
and "Perl 5 Developer Fundamentals". The first of those sounds scary. :)
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t achieve the
goal they have established, if I've already agreed to the goal. If I
don't agree with the goal, it's unethical for me to even have accepted
the gig. So I cannot, ethically "shy away". Sorry. But you're
paying me for expertise that you don't have. Why
anslation:
must use the wrong ugly way of parsing HTML in the most
difficult manner possible
:-)
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hat we'd not have to cut-n-paste, and simply hitting
"reply" would "do the right thing". Don't make people work at what
computers do best. I hear there's this great little text wrangling
language that might work just fine to do that. :)
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g hourly rates. I take their budget,
divide it by the hourly rate I want, and then bid "that many weeks".
Much better solution. Of course, I have to deliver it in that, but
I'm pretty fast. :)
And *that's* all a manager really wants. They've got a budget, and
they w
s; generally
leave a wholly blank line between. Do not quote the header or the
signature, unless it is relevant to do so.
\___
That's a great URL to remember to throw at the Microsoftians...
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>>>>> "Perl" == Perl Jobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Perl> Description:
Perl> Design and implement new features based on requirements from Product
Perl> Marketing.
Shades of Dilbert.
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