Ah, but then you're tied to working in that place. I don't think there's a single spot where I spend more than 20% of my time working.

speaking of multiple monitors, now that I know there are at least 2 Cinnamon users in this thread:

I'm in Cinnamon, and I have an application open on one workspace. I go to menu/terminal and run that application. Do I get jumped to that workspace or does it open a new window?

It was really nice to have dual monitors at the .net job. I still had some issues figuring out what window I was working in at times. I don't have very good eye-sight so a 3 lumen difference between active and inactive isn't very helpful for me. Yeah, yeah, change it to classic mode or whatever.

One of the really nice things about Windows 7 is win-arrow hot keys. Makes it simple to place windows next to each other.

Yeah, they finally told me to go in and fill out the W9 and paycheck. They're only a week and a half late and they're apparently unhappy that I bounced on them. They did ask for specifics and I laid out all the reasons. I don't think there is much they can dispute.

I use those half-sized mice. The normal-sized mice are too hard on my wrists. Not sure why it works out that way, since my hands are larger than average.

Who uses mice? Let me guess, you aren't a stack-overflow copy/paster?

ACPI table issues I'm almost certain. Even though it's a Mac. It's probably possible to fix the tables with a little research.

I can barely fit two default-size PuTTY windows side by side on my laptop ... let alone multiple web browsers.

The browser I am typing into now takes up ~80% of the screen. I can't fit it side by side with a default size PuTTY window. I can't even imagine how an IDE user could fit their IDE and a web browser in one screen.

I watch sc2 tournies on teamliquid from time to time and recently noticed a link on the side saying that EG was hiring. I clicked it and this was the post:

What do you guys think about their requirements? High/low/standard?
Do you think their list is 'standard' for companies who are looking to hire for similar positions?
I'm wondering b/c I'm in the stage where I'm just learning different things and languages and wouldn't mind keeping the web-dev&etc. door open but don't want to spend time learning about obsolete/rarely-asked-for skills.
Also, maybe some of you guys would be interested in the job =P

The web dev stuff seems fairly standard. Do you like gaming?

Somehow I doubt my Chun Li and Madden '92 experience and NHL '93 Blackhawks mastery would impress them too much. Yeah please tell us some more Pong stories old man.

I take it you never browsed Monster or Craigslist to uh... get a pulse on what people are looking for.

Usually, they want you to be experienced on the top-ten web and non-web programming languages you'd find on any Google search, usually, RoR, Java, .Net, C++, PHP, Node, etc. You should also be well-versed on 4 different JS frameworks, have learned some new-fangled language like Scala and / or Clojure (preferably "and"). You should also be comfortable hand-coding HTML 3, 4, 5 / CSS 2, 3 at an advanced level and have certificates to prove it. You should be versed in jQuery & Vanilla.js (saw this one, no lie), and you should be comfortable setting up a dev env in Windows XP, 2000, Vista, 8, Mac, and Ubuntu, and at least one other OS. You also need to be proficient with Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator.

You also need at least 3 years of experience and a degree from a Top 50 school. No slackers or non-serious coders / applicants will be considered.

Absolute worst of the worst example of taking a perfectly decent site on tablets, and screwing it all up: http://www.royalsreview.com/2013/6/1...central-titans

But as a bonus, let's pick a site that's more conducive to viewing on a tablet than any other – one primarily used for game day threads. Last year it was fine on tablets. The year it's frozen 90% of the time. During that 10% you can scroll a page or so, then it freezes again. Awesome.

Then you walk in with about 1/3 of those, don't drool on yourself, and get the job.

"You do know we require you to be knowledgeable and experienced in Drupal, WordPress, Zend, and CommerceOS as well?"

"Uh, well... yeah, I have some..."

"Where's your certificates to prove it? These 4 Drupal sites you built don't impress me."

"And you know MySQL, Riak, NoSQL and MongoDB, right?"

"I uh... know Postgres?"

Is android programming a good field to get in? I have been coding my "pet app" in my spare time and really enjoy it so far.

You may also recommend some good books/blogs on Android programming. I have read "Hello, Android", which was a good introduction, but I think I want something else.

I have a MSc in Stats so I have had a decent amount of CS subjects. I think I want to shift my career towards something, that involves a bit more coding/scripting and less staring at the data. At work I currently tend to enjoy things like writing scripts to scrape data/automate something/build a stat model. I don't enjoy things like writing a report or tasks like "just stare at the data and see what useful can you get out of it". /Enf of rant.

Ya I'm no where near that I was just kind of wondering. One thought I have though after learning a few programming languages is that I don't think it makes sense for someone to ask that a person be "an expert" in the language in question. From my personal anecdotal evidence it seems like "OOP skills and generally 'good' programming" is an entity separate from any language, and the language is simply semantics (syntax). I mean I feel that once you learn the basic syntax you are not very far behind someone who has been coding in that language for years and years (thanks mostly to stack overflow and the like). What do you think dave?

How the hell would I know?

Experience. I ask mostly b/c you said something along the lines of "very well-versed in..." or "expert in..." (iirc).

Historians would note that this was DaveT's shortest. Post. Eva.

I disagree. I think once you learn the basic syntax and if you have a good general understanding of programming concepts you'll be productive in a language but I think you're still far behind someone that really intimately understands the language.

I've been programming in Java for a little over 10 years now and Python for only a couple of years and I still don't feel nearly as comfortable in Python and I still have to look up Python-ic ways of doing things or sometimes get hit by bugs caused by my not understanding the language really well [ def foo(some_list=[]) ] for example...

I like it when job descriptions ask for more years of experience in a technology than that technology has been in existence. 5 years of angular.js? Sure no problem.

There's a level of competence where this starts to come into play, but very few people are that good. If, after learning how to use a given language feature, you can make a reasonable and largely correct guess as to how it is implemented (and can implement it, if necessary), you're probably good enough to become almost as sufficient as most experts in the language upon learning it first time. Even then, there are difficult languages like C++, Scala, Java and C# that have no shortage of things that can trip you up, not to mention idiomatic usage that has more to do with the culture surrounding the language.

The same is true of frameworks or libraries - a core Play! framework developer can probably be more productive in Rails than most Rails developers without much experience, but the same is not true of most Play! developers.

The kicker is that a lot of "experts" also don't know how their language or framework works and their experience has taught them not much beyond Pavlovian reflex to steer clear of features where their vague understanding isn't sufficient to avoid trouble. True experience isn't measured in number of years, but number of hours spent on pushing various boundaries. So yes, it's true that you can be as good as some of the pretenders without much experience. But if they are getting ahead in their careers, it's for reasons other than pure technical competence. Being as good technically as people whose technical competence isn't their selling point doesn't mean much.

I can write C in most languages, and have been for years

You're lucky, I've been writing COBOL in most languages...

Well played.

I had a trollolloll opening here. That post was completely sarcastic, btw.

I'm spitting nails. I go to the office and of course all of this late payment is 100% my fault. I'm apparently a really good employee but paying me is such an awful inconvenience for them.

Can't believe this guy I never spoke with up and talks to me like I'm meat and then says come back at 5. The sinister side of me hopes beyond hope that they aren't ready yet.