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Member 10883470 wrote: What should I be practicing to quickly find part-time work?
Practice saying "would you like fries with that?  ".
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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He better hurry too because McD's is going to be installing kiosks that take your order soon, which will of course allow many thousands more people time to pursue their dreams.
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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C++ and C# will always be dominant in the market and give you the best chance of getting a job.
It doesn't matter if you have a degree though, do a programming course, and go for interviews, and SHOW KEENESS!
That's the MOST important thing, An intelligent guy, with a programming qualification, who is enthusiastic and looks like an easy guy to work with is going to get hired.
And take ANY salary for your first job, you are in your CV and experience building mode of your career, not in the big bucks earing mode, that will come later.
Build your experience up, work hard, and never give up on solving a problem. Switch jobs every 1.5 to 2 years, don't stay longer, and ramp up your salary.
When you get to about 6 to 10 years experience, you can go contracting, but you need to be really motivated, a real self starter, a real solution deliverer who takes the initiative when you contract. You don't wait for things to happen, you make them happen. That's how you deliver and get your contract picked up again.
And the cardinal rule. NEVER CHECK ON CODE AS COMPLETE WHEN YOU KNOW IT HAS BUGS. Take responsibility for your code.
Do that and you will have a good and rewarding career, its worked out freeing amazing for me! 
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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I'm trying to get hold of people who are working, or have worked, at TradeStation in Fort Lauderdale for their views on the company. Feel free to reply privately.
I'm also curious if anyone has done contract work through TekPartners?
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I have noticed Glassdoor[^] to be very useful. Might worth taking a look.
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I have looked there. The most recent comment is very negative. I was hoping for more feedback.
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QBH's has thrown up a few oddities.
Maggie Smith gets a CH, well deserved.
Stephen Sutton gets an MBE, his fight against the arse-suck of cancer has been well reported.
But John Barrowman getting an MBE was more an appeasement to the Scots rather than his work on Doctor Who.
However Angelina Jolie getting the Damehood for the work against abuse of women was nice.
Being a colonial she cannot use it of course, but it is still a nice thing to have.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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These titles reveal something profoundly British, and begs the question, why? Sure, a lot of people deserve recognition for their work, but I have the feeling that it is pointless, they don't really care, or should not.
BTW, Saddam Hussein[^] got the key to Detroit. So whats it really worth?
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Agreed, I like the idea that some people still practice altruism.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who separate humankind in two distinct categories, and those who don't.
"I have two hobbies: breasts." DSK
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Quote: altruism
I really don't think that this word could be defined properly. Lets take an example were A needs help and B is the only one in the position who can help.
1) He helps him because he thinks that he would be in the same position himself (done in self interest)
2) He helps him because he feels that it is his duty or he just want to help him (altruism)
3) He helps because he thinks God will see him (done in self interes. This is something like the reverse of Pascals wager)
In your brain I don't really think that you are aware of all you intentions, meaning that you cant see the intent of your actions in the moments in your primitive brain. Not all parts of the brain is self aware, and you cant really be sure what the causal relationship of event is.
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Yes, of course to a certain extent everything reverse back to survival (1, 3) or peace-of-mind (2).
Absolute altruism can't exist, it always brings everything (conciously or not) to the one practicing it.
And defining it with 'the fact of doing something more for others than for him/herself' does not sound right (how do you quantify the 'more' part?).
But yet, some beings take more concern of the world surrounding them (from short to wide range) than others; despite they can't claim that their reasons are purely altruist, they can claim that they tried to do something where needed, either.
What if their motivations were far less important than the results they produce?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who separate humankind in two distinct categories, and those who don't.
"I have two hobbies: breasts." DSK
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I think the peace of mind bit has something deep in your brain that is linked (either by intention or a 'bug'  ).
Quote: What if their motivations were far less important than the results they produce?
Yes, but here I think people that know the causal relationship will act in self interest while 'dumb' people thinks its stupid.
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: self interest
I would rather go for shared-interest.
I know, I'm a hopeless utopist ^^
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who separate humankind in two distinct categories, and those who don't.
"I have two hobbies: breasts." DSK
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Quote: shared-interest
That is stock marked talk
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You are a hopeless mercantilist 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who separate humankind in two distinct categories, and those who don't.
"I have two hobbies: breasts." DSK
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Quote: mercantilist
Don't think people could be that stupid, hoarding for hoardings sake is hardly a good policy.
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Detroit's worth?
Not much, I'm afraid.
Good thing they didn't give Saddam Hussein the key to Washington, DC. He would have been printing money at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Oops, we seem to be doing that on our own with no need for help from Saddam Hussein or anyone else for that matter!
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: These titles reveal something profoundly British
That we are still the greatest country on earth.
Kenneth Haugland wrote: I have the feeling that it is pointless
Not at all, it's a public recognition of what someone has contributed to society or the world at large, in their life or work.
Kenneth Haugland wrote: they don't really care, or should not.
Of course they care, that's why the get dressed up and go to the palace to receive their awards.
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Quote: That we are still the greatest country on earth.
There isn't really any imperial power that thought otherwise  And you should remember that the ideology of Holism was created because Britain was the greatest country, and brits were the greatest people in the world, so the natural way of things is that the British should rule people, because that was the only natural way of things...
Quote: Of course they care, that's why the get dressed up and go to the palace to receive their awards.
Thats why we gave Barack Obama the Peace Prize
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I'm curious, being from across the pond, but how does one 'use' a damehood? I thought they were only a title (which shows how little I probably know about the system). Wikipedia isn't much help either. I believe that in some circumstances knights received land, but that was before our times. Did 'dames' also back then?
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You are allowed to slay dragons
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... in a lace bodice!
(Masculine feminists ignore this post!)
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Ah, so she got it for playing Mrs. Smith?
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Pictures! 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Angelina could kill a dragon by heating him just by going topless 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who separate humankind in two distinct categories, and those who don't.
"I have two hobbies: breasts." DSK
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