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Shit Job Tales: Not Quite Binary Code
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Cause you gotta start somewhere. Not Quite Binary Code. One of my classes is called Introduction to Computer Architecture. Don’t ask me to tell you what it’s about, because I haven’t learned that part yet. I’m told we’re getting there. To compare, English is a high-level language. It’s way too subtle for computers to understand. Machine code, the lowest level language, is much too simple for humans to understand. So all the levels in between are intended to find a compromise. It was a failure, in my case...
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Shit Job Tales: First Grown Up Job?
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Cause you gotta start somewhere. First Grown Up Job? Go to school to study what you love. After a semester or so, decide to send out hundreds of resumes. Actually send out about 8. Get a reply from one. Go to the interview, in borrowed clothes, in a vintage Japanese muscle car, prepared to ace all their tough questions. They reply, yes, maybe. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). First Grown Up Job? I'm in space, looking for ideas.everything has to exist somewhere. View my complete profile.
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Shit Job Tales: Java Programming, as taught by an Army drill sergeant.
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Cause you gotta start somewhere. Java Programming, as taught by an Army drill sergeant. A bit harsh, but on the other hand, many teachers allow students to derail them with inane questions, which slows the class down considerably. This class is very fast paced, and you have no choice but to keep up. It's very tough but you learn very fast. A man who is this sure of himself had better be right all the time. So far, he is. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Not Quite Binary Code. View my complete profile.
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Shit Job Tales: Falied Attempts, 3
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Cause you gotta start somewhere. Falied Attempts, 3. Step 1: Decide to go on an adventure. Step 2: Pick a location. Argentina. Like the sound of the word. Okay. Get your passport. Look at a map. What’s in Argentina? Buenos Aires, ah that’s nice. You could go WWOOFing. Get the WWOOF book. Contact a farm. Decide to go to Peru instead. What’s in Peru? Cuzco, Macchu Picchu. Start saving your money. 4000, 5000. How much is a plane ticket? Step 3: Start riding. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Shit Job Tales: December 2010
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Cause you gotta start somewhere. Washing Cars, 1. The current job: Washing cars. So right now, my day consists of driving these fabulously expensive cars into the wash bay, scraping the dirt out and off of them, and driving them back out, about 30 times. At this moment, I am about as depressed as I could possibly be, for this reason and others. Fuck everything about today, fuck Christmas as well, and see you next year. Links to this post. I think it's time to write again. Now, I want to be friends with t...
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Shit Job Tales: January 2012
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Cause you gotta start somewhere. Not Quite Binary Code. One of my classes is called Introduction to Computer Architecture. Don’t ask me to tell you what it’s about, because I haven’t learned that part yet. I’m told we’re getting there. To compare, English is a high-level language. It’s way too subtle for computers to understand. Machine code, the lowest level language, is much too simple for humans to understand. So all the levels in between are intended to find a compromise. It was a failure, in my case...
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Shit Job Tales: March 2009
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Cause you gotta start somewhere. The Promised Long Post. Yea, so. I had a few thoughts after reading this. Blog post by Hugh MacLeod, a very cool, if somewhat self-congratulatory, artist. I've been trying to sort out my thoughts on God, religion, Christianity, etc, and how it fits with all my new, and unavoidable, education. What I came up with is more or less this:. I may revise this later, reinforce my reasoning a bit, y'know. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Promised Long Post.
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Shit Job Tales: Kill Hollywood
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Cause you gotta start somewhere. YCombinator wants to kill Hollywood. I'm on board, let's do this. My idea is a new video game format. Instead of sucking you into 40 hour quests, you get episodes that take half an hour or an hour, so that the game doesn't eat your life. You can play for half an hour and move on. It may be a dumb idea, but I'm looking for others, and I'll post them up. Even if I don't have the motivation to do it at the moment, ideas are free, and someone else can. Not Quite Binary Code.
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Shit Job Tales: School
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Cause you gotta start somewhere. School is a job, they say. You should give it your full attention. But what I've found is that if you just do what they tell you to do, you won't do very well. There are plenty of people in my course who tried hard and studied last semester, and squeaked through the assignments and passed the tests, but they didn't like it. They felt overwhelmed and realized, correctly, that they weren't learning very much. Some of them dropped out. By the way, what am I talking about?
