pyrotech

Before I got my current job, I was an independent contractor, though sometimes would get a short-term gig through a headhunter / recruiter. In the tech field, it is very popular to get contracts this way. However, with your experience, I wouldn't go that route. You'll run into a lot of recruiters that aren't very knowledgeable in the tech field and are not able to sell your skills the way you would be able to. You will more than likely not find a gig that will pay your wages, and will have to make sacrifices that you (at your experience level) would not want to afford. LinkedIn is a great social networking site that will make you come up relatively easy in a google search and will show a quick run-through of your resume. If you haven't already mentioned your patents on a LinkedIn profile, you'll want to do that. I've been contacted based on my LinkedIn profile a couple of times, but it was usually by headhunters that know nothing about software development, see a keyword on my resume, and instantly jump at the chance to tell me they have a PERFECT opportunity waiting for me, when I have little experience or desire for the skill they are looking for. My favorite site to look for work or contracts on is Indeed.com. They have tons of tech jobs, many of which are looking for full-time / salaried positions. It pulls from several other job search sites and compiles them into a list based on keywords and location. I've gotten a few jobs from here. However, to get my current job, and other jobs that have paid well with interesting people, it took networking. I met this guy at a bar who was a systems administrator for a company I wanted to work for as a software engineer. We talked about my skill set and my requirements in a job, and decided to hold off until a higher technical position opened for what they had. A few weeks later, a few of his friends at another company mentioned they were looking for a software developer. He gave them my name and resume, and now I sit comfortably in their building looking out at a beautiful scenic view, writing this reply. I think with your experience level, you should start letting friends and colleagues know you may be looking for something as another position. Who knows? There may be something internal that you can move up into with more benefits than what you're currently getting.

That I have no idea about, and will have to let another developer answer. I would think that if your phone is set up as a testing environment, then with a little instruction, you would be able to launch applications from their binaries on it. I'm not sure what security Apple has set up on their devices / dev environments to be able to answer this one though. Sorry.

If sfzombie is a registered / paid developer, maybe you two could work out something where theonlyski develops the app and sends the binaries to sfzombie, who can make it available for the iphone for a smaller fee?

Not an iOS developer myself (develop for android from time to time), but I have several friends that are, and we have a division at work that builds apps for iphone. From what I understand, all you have to do is register (for free) with Apple as a developer, download the SDK and their IDE, and you're good to go as far as developing. When you get the program written and tested on the simulator that comes with the IDE, that's when you'll have to pay the $100 to put it on your phone. There's no getting around that. That's why I got a droid.

Reheated and bitter? Ground up and in the freezer. sweet & creamy. Purchased from plantations in South America? instant & cheap? Thin and weak? $1.95 at the corner store? in the kitchen? wet and full of liquor?

Bummer; I have an Amazon Prime account too. I'll just stick to wearing jeans and t-shirts to (insert destination) and offend the thin-skinned.

Reheated and bitter? Ground up and in the freezer. sweet & creamy. Purchased from plantations in South America? instant & cheap? Thin and weak? $1.95 at the corner store?

Reheated and bitter? Ground up and in the freezer. sweet & creamy. Purchased from plantations in South America?

Oh yeah... a thing that aggravates me... When it takes longer than about 30 minutes to find out personal information of someone online. If I want to find out where someone lives, I shouldn't have to use (EDIT: computer voodoo) to get access to the database of another state's records. They should just offer it up. If someone wants the info, they're going to get it anyway.

You can find out a lot of personal information about a person by looking up their license plate numbers if you know what to look for. Looking out at a random license plate in the parking lot from my desk, I found the owner's name and DL number. A bit of a deeper search with that info led me to their address, phone number, name of their wife and how much they bought their house for and on what date and real estate company they bought it from. I'm sure if I kept going I could come up with a social security number. Welcome to the information age!

It has been a long time since you've been to the goodwill, salvation army stores. These days $5 for a used shirt is standard. YMMV depending on location. Those of us without a salvation army or goodwill within about a 2-hour drive would need to pay for the clothes along with the $60 round-trip (gas is a little over $4/gal here) to get the clothes in the first place. I guess if it's federal jury duty, I may break out my flannels without holes in them. You know, to gussy up a bit.

Would you prefer an equation for your answer or are we allowed to make assumptions of either his top speed or time it took to get to 175 ft? Can't have both. Your professor was correct (though I got a little less than 47mph, and an average of 22.8mph... I think I missed a step somewhere in calculating max speed), because he said to 'assume.' If you're wanting a definite answer to a variable environment, you have to make assumptions. The man could have reached 80mph at one point and slowed down if the assumption was not made. There were times when I was writing out a proof to a theorem and thought "why would we assume that? This is more probable," but have to realize that in math, when variables change, we have to assume. EDIT: If we assume the max speed of the runner was 50mph, the runner would reack 175ft in 7.555 seconds

Don't forget, chairs were also placed next to each other, and people were speaking poorly. This is OBVIOUSLY far too low-class to tolerate.

Today it was creating web services to determine if a user was allowed to post certain data to a server based on items in their shopping cart, and writing a few ajax calls (thank cod for jquery) to either post the items to a database or throw an exception due to lack of meeting criteria in an online point-of-sale system I'm building for a client. A few months ago, it was more fun. Setting up a media server on an old laptop (Fedora for the OS, running MythTV for the server), setting up a LAMP stack on the laptop to use as a home development environment, and networking my playstation3 and xbox360 with the media server so I can just use the controllers as remotes for everything. When I finally get a new laptop, I'll be removing the LCD from the old laptop (the server that I'm typing this on now) and using my TV as the primary monitor. The hinges on this laptop are broken, so I can't open / close the screen. I still haven't decided what I'll do with the LCD yet. It works perfectly. EDIT: My server setup is not pretty. At all. I've got a couple external 1TB hdd's under a table, with everything else on top of the table. I just threw a funky tapestry on it as a tablecloth to hide all the wires underneath. I hate it when my dog goes under it, because she comes out with a giant bundle of wires with her.

There once was a boobie forum,

Was it Pyrotech? Wasn't me, but I'd do him. He'd have to wear a ball-gag though...

If a woman doesn't take the man's name... it means SHE'S CHEATING ON HIM!

Most places that I've known have had sort of a minimal dress code: casual clothes are fine, within reason; but shorts, t-shirts or rubber flip-flops will get you sent home with orders to change and get back there pronto. It never ceases to amaze me how many adults show up in court dressed like slobs unless they're told in advance to do otherwise. I was summoned to jury duty once, and read the requested dress code. I showed up in shorts and a t-shirt, and was sent home, with a request to return. I told the lady that if I went home, I was just going back into work, because I didn't own nice clothes. They sent me home, and I didn't return. Didn't hear anything about it after that. My duty as a citizen is to appear for a jury duty summons. I do not see it as my duty to adhere to a dress code. I'm glad they seemed to see it the same way, being as I never heard another word from them. I've seen judges come very close to locking jurors up for contempt for pulling exactly that stunt. A court must be treated with a modicum of respect. Plus, if you are picked for a jury, you ARE part of the court. You want to be sworn in, sit in a jury box and hold yourself out to the public as someone administering justice while dressed like you're wasting away in Margaritaville? You going to tell me you didn't have a single clean pair of pants and button-down shirt? Bullshit. And for your flagrant refusal to come back, you should have had a bench warrant issued for you, as far as I'm concerned. Look up the term "contempt of court" in the encyclopedia. It might have your picture next to it. With the crave for a power trip like that, I'm glad you're not in the position to hold me accountable for what I wear. I wear shorts and t-shirt to work. I wear it out to dinner, to visit with family, and when I go out to bars. The only time I dress up is to go to a wedding or a funeral, and I rent clothes for those occasions. I was 18 when I was summoned to jury. I did not own a single shirt that buttoned down the front, nor a pair of slacks. I now own 2 pairs of slacks, 2 shirts that button, 2 bow ties and 2 regular ties, and 1 black belt and pair of black shoes. I only wear them to job interviews, and they have been in storage for about 6 months now. I don't see how showing up for jury duty, where chances are I won't get picked to sit on a jury anyway, only to be told (I assume) to show up at a later date for a trial, would require me to dig out clothes that some stranger may find more appropriate or attractive than what I would wear any other day. Should I also shave my mohawk, take out my piercings, and cover my tattoos, just in case someone may find them disrespectful? If you feel that should require some sort of legal action to use tax-payers' dollars to contain me for x amount of time, then where's Brutus when we need him? Look up ""fascist" in the encyclopedia. It very well may have your picture next to it.

Most places that I've known have had sort of a minimal dress code: casual clothes are fine, within reason; but shorts, t-shirts or rubber flip-flops will get you sent home with orders to change and get back there pronto. It never ceases to amaze me how many adults show up in court dressed like slobs unless they're told in advance to do otherwise. I was summoned to jury duty once, and read the requested dress code. I showed up in shorts and a t-shirt, and was sent home, with a request to return. I told the lady that if I went home, I was just going back into work, because I didn't own nice clothes. They sent me home, and I didn't return. Didn't hear anything about it after that. My duty as a citizen is to appear for a jury duty summons. I do not see it as my duty to adhere to a dress code. I'm glad they seemed to see it the same way, being as I never heard another word from them.

Are we talking the first Resident Evil zombies, or Left 4 Dead zombies? Resident Evil zombies: Machete would be my weapon of choice. They move slow, their bites don't do a lot of damage, and you don't turn into a zombie when they bite you. Guns don't seem to work well, unless you've got a shotgun and are shooting at short range. Shotguns take too long to load. Decapitate instead. Left 4 Dead zombies: Suicide. Death before dishonor.

Me! Oh, wait, wrong thread...

I didn't understand pyro's post, but if he has facial hair then no, there is no penguin in his future *scratches beard* Wait, you're a Linux user that DOESN'T have a beard?! I call BS... BWAHAHAHAHAHAH I can use linux, and I don't have a beard... Guess that means I don't know it well enough. How long have you been using it? It's a downward spiral. The longer you use it, facial hair grows longer, you sell your pets to get a little extra cash for that kernel configuration bible, then comes moving into your parents' basement due to losing your job (directly relating to lack of sleep from staying up all night writing drivers for that random piece of hardware from 1986 in objective C), and eventually some company hires you as a network security admin to keep those pesky script-kiddie hackers out of your systems and back in 4chan where they belong. BTW, anyone want to buy a puppy?

Lakewood / Denver police seem to have many instances where excessive force is used. In this case though, when you've got a little brat that yields weapons, threatens people's lives, and laughs and says "tee hee, I've got anger issues," I'd say kudos to the cops for spraying this little shit.

I didn't understand pyro's post, but if he has facial hair then no, there is no penguin in his future *scratches beard* Wait, you're a Linux user that DOESN'T have a beard?! I call BS...

Welp, there goes me. /30 and can't grow a beard //always getting told I am too young to possibly be able to do my job ///oh well! I don't think you'll be that disappointed. I'm a dude. (I doubt I'm the only gay in the village, but if I am... SCORE!!!)