For those of us (me) that do not have alternatives, take care to note that the petition makes use of a check box to signal that you support the cause, yet have no service alternatives. It would be helpful for those on the fence and feeling hopeless to read how this will be implemented in the final draft. Do we become targets for Comcast or other such companies (monopolies) with no viable competitors... scrutinized and watched if the petition fails, labeled as a "un"-valuable customers from here on forward?
If you're like me and more of an optimist, I'm hoping that it will be used in such a way that reflects positively on us the consumers.
Seems simple to me: the major issue with this resume is the amount of noise. If you're submitting this via email or through online application forms you should stick to one page. If this is to be displayed on your website then I would just reduce the number of images(possibly all of them), and do a spelling check. Objective statements should be short and to the point. Same with descriptions... I really don't see the need for the long paragraphs and the bloated number of tags you're using. Whether it's a site or as a printout on paper, the hiring manager is limited on time.
Take a look at some of these examples, a lot of them are ideal in terms of efficiency and noise. Best of luck.
Thanks, this will be really helpful. I've looked at hresume microformat and as I mentioned in the original post, I was actually going to implement it that way.
The reason for including a lot of other non-professional things was that I would like to be hired by somebody who understands a lot of them; be it a one man startup. I have often found that 'jelling' is more important than technical competencies.
I had Lasik approximately three years ago in the month of November, using wave/topography (expensive) technology. After waiting whatever the usual time period for enhancements after healing, I went back in for a second surgery around January/February, to my right eye because the Dr (or the machine) didn't get the numbers right. I was 20/15 in my left eye, and about 20/25 in my right eye after the surgery and this was a difference I could literally see, sorry for the pun, so it did cause me on a certain level, problems.
Had that corrected and haven't had to go back since, with both eyes at an astounding (to me) 20/15. I was a -6.0 in my left and -6.5 in my right before the surgery.
I do see halos at night from other vehicle lights, but I was prepared to accept this because my glasses prescription already gave me halos. I do not find them after the surgery to be a huge pain.
To this day, I occasionally use eye drops - but that's not even a complaint. I'll take using eye drops any day of the week versus the coke bottle glasses I had to use 24/7.
I program and stare at computer screens just as much as the next programmer, but it hasn't damaged my vision. If anything, it's as someone else said with the issues of staring at screens with minimal air flow through the office: dry.
Like others, this operation made me question why I didn't get it sooner. It truly is life changing, as it was for me. I don't consider what happened to me as a "complication" but as something less. I could've walked out of there blind forever, but I didn't. So, indeed, you have to understand the risks before going in.
Agreed. For high traffic communication as this link implies, email is obviously not very efficient, unless you favor that much work. In person meet-ups, IMs or IRC chat for your company, are all better ideas if your time is more valuable in other work environment aspects.
He got your email because he has your laptop - same for the backup software. Depending on how valuable your information is consider a sizable monetary amount to get the name of the person he bought it from or just offer more than the laptop's value to get it back and end it. Consider reporting to the police what you're doing... if a physical/in-person exchange of the information occurs and he didn't take you up on your offer, the police might be able to legally influence the buyer into giving up the details of the seller/thief since the buyer committed a crime too.
To expand; System Preferences > Time Machine will tell you time of last backup, date of oldest backup, etc. You email address will be in the Account settings of Mail (Preferences > Accounts)
Also available are - your home address and phone number (in Address Book, he'll already know your name from Mail), saved passwords in FireFox (stored as plain text), iTunes account if you've set it to save your password, and websites where you've set 'Remember Me' (GMail and the like) etc
Luckily for you this person seems to have some degree of respect for your data, and hopefully your privacy. If you're not happy with their access to this, it seems they have more leverage over you than you do over them.
Protip: In OSX you can set it to require login password after a certain timeout, eg 1 hour. It's under System Preferences > Security > General
I know this isn't the typical hacker-preferred content (possibly), but after reading this article, and having watched Hopkins and currently Boston Med, this article made me think of doctors (surgeons, nurses, interns, etc..) as being a different kind of hacker. Wrong makes notes of the fact (paraphrasing) that you can do the same show again, with the same staff, same location, but undoubtedly the outcome would be very different. Something struck a chord with me in the hacker-realm...
"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
I'm not an Israeli, but I would have to assume that maybe the poster thought Israeli hackers might find this intellectually curious. Also, there are and were plenty of topics on health care legislation in the US, so this doesn't appear to be outside the scope of HN rules, but I could be wrong.
Flagging, in my opinion, is what killed the HN post - not a policy or moderator decision. Correct me if I'm wrong.
"Interesting" is not the same as "gratifying one's intellectual curiosity." More specifically, and again quoting the guidelines about on-topic:
Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
That includes more than hacking and startups. If
you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might
be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual
curiosity.
The audience is clearly intended to be hackers. It could be argued - and I believe and use as my guidance - that this particular paragraph is referring to things that satisfy the intellectual curiosity of hackers more than it would of non-hackers. In other words, the articles should not only be interesting, but they should be such that non-hackers would not find them as interesting.
On the margins there will always be articles that don't get killed which perhaps should, and articles which should probably survive, but don't. There will be random fluctuations akin to turbulence around the edges.
The Economist article about prisoners ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1541942 ) might be regarded as something biased in interest towards hackers because people can argue about how to change the laws, or the meting out of punishments - hacking justice. The NY Times article about Jewish conversion is perhaps less biased to hackers because there's nothing for hackers specifically to argue. It's of broad interest to intelligent and politically aware people, and not specifically biased towards hackers.
Personally I'd wish for more clarity on exactly what happens, because then there'd be fewer people speculating and asking the same questions over and over. Also personally, I'd wish for more deeply technical submissions.
But here is a certainty: navel gazing, questions about policy, complaints about submissions being killed, and general moaning about karma, flags and moderators are getting killed faster than I've seen since I arrived. Not everyone shares your exact interests, and if your submission gets killed, move on.
You asked about beauty and history, with an idea on how to discover... personally, I started with "The Math Explorer: A Journey Through the Beauty of Mathematics": (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591021375). That book got me hooked and from there I went on to pre-cal studies at university, eventually completing sequences in discrete structures, probability, up to and including calculus III, a level I never imagined I'd get to. That book was literally my starting point since I never took high school math seriously nor was I any good at that level. I think it'll serve you well considering the level at which you're at, as it did me. I've reread that book four times to date and still enjoy it.
I saw the headline for this submittal, saw it was unixwiz.net, recognized Freidl and thought hmm... didn't I just post that? But ironically when I arrived at the page it appeared very different to me. The article I posted a year ago seemed shorter in comparison and to me it would seem Freidl has updated it a lot... but I could be wrong, as is often the case.
I second the lower case, being a Linux user type. I was also expecting more analysis in this post than just whether the zeros were slashed or not. adg below posted a link to a former and similar article that I think has that analysis I was looking for.
If you're like me and more of an optimist, I'm hoping that it will be used in such a way that reflects positively on us the consumers.