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by xabotage 10y ago
Many companies don't understand that hiring on their end is almost as competitive as getting a job on our end. While I was going to school I applied for an internship to Epic Systems and another company. Epic wanted to put me through a
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by xabotage 10y ago
I can understand wanting to download an editable version of the document, but in my experience no company has ever specifically asked me for a word document, I've always sent PDFs. Microsoft was the only company that communicated via w
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by xabotage 10y ago
My Note 4 came with kitkat installed two years ago. Shortly thereafter I was able to upgrade to lollipop. For the past several months now I've been ignoring the available upgrade to marshmallow because honestly neither my cell provider
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by xabotage 10y ago
5 I get the feeling that every job requires me to exaggerate how passionate I am about what I'm doing and how strongly I believe in the company's "mission" (I missed several job opportunities before I learned how this ga
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by xabotage 10y ago
In my case at least, I absolutely believe the ability to "get over" bad social experiences can turn someone into an introvert or extrovert over their lifetimes. For example, no amount of conscious effort allows me to let go of bad
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by xabotage 10y ago
>On the negative side, though, I did feel that New Yorkers (and by this point in my life, Americans in general) could be hard to get close to - easy to approach, but hard to connect with. I have found this to be true, especially after li
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by xabotage 10y ago
My experience with WSL has been excellent so far, I see it making Cygwin obsolete almost entirely. Cygwin was always a pain to set up and occasionally very buggy.
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by xabotage 10y ago
Going from one job using a "startup-y" Gmail company account to another job using a "corporate-y" Outlook solution was a tough transition. Outlook has loads of features, but the UI simplicity (relatively speaking) of Gma
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by xabotage 10y ago
Maya is not open source, though there is a free (read: castrated) version. Use Blender. I learned everything I needed to launch my career from a bottom-rung 2gb Intel Celeron P.o.S. laptop running Linux, Blender, Gimp, and all kinds of oth
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by xabotage 10y ago
My uncle was showing off his new car to me - it had all the fancy bells and whistles of "modern" cars, including a sensor for everything. The same day, one of the sensors told him a tire was low on air. He filled it up at a gas st
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by xabotage 10y ago
I distinctly remember sitting in yet another dull sprint retrospective and thinking, "Boy, I wish I were a firefighter." Granted, that line of work comes with its own drawbacks and I would certainly get bored of it the same way I
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by xabotage 10y ago
>Show complexity – whilst showing the impacts – and yes, appeal – of activities that may be dangerous or illegal, don’t celebrate the activity. But don’t condemn the characters either. No-one likes a wagging finger. I appreciate this &qu