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Invisible wrote:
> Have *you* ever met a bridge designer??
My uncle designed all the bridges in Philadelphia. ;-) At least the steel ones.
But really, ask yourself this: "What problem requires knowing about
cryptography to solve?" "What problem requires knowing about numerical
integration to solve?" Then you'll know what jobs you're qualified for.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Is God willing to prevent naglams, but unable?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing, to prevent naglams?
Then he is malevolent.
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>> Now, who *the hell* is going to care about any of these things?
>
> Google. University research labs. Amazon.com. Lots and lots of places
> need those sorts of skills.
And exactly how many people, in the entire world, work for Google or Amazon?
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> And exactly how many people, in the entire world, work for Google or
> Amazon?
I'm just naming the ones you probably heard of. It's like asking "how many
people need to know how to PCR DNA? or "run a centrifuge". Lots, in
hospitals and medical labs, but you don't see them working in front of you.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Is God willing to prevent naglams, but unable?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing, to prevent naglams?
Then he is malevolent.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Now, who *the hell* is going to care about any of these things?
>>
>> Google. University research labs. Amazon.com. Lots and lots of places
>> need those sorts of skills.
>
> And exactly how many people, in the entire world, work for Google or
> Amazon?
Hmm probably thousands, in several countries?
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Stefan Viljoen
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Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> Hmm probably thousands, in several countries?
Seriously? Amazon hires thousands of people just for the christmas season,
let alone all year. You really don't fill 43 orders per second with
"thousands" of people. :-) It also doesn't count Mehcanical Turk. ;-)
Oh, there we go:
http://askville.amazon.com/employees-amazon/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=5927635
That's from 2006, and hard to say if amazon.co.uk is the same "company" as
amazon.com.
Google has 20,000 employees, but with about a 10%-30% turnover each year.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Is God willing to prevent naglams, but unable?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing, to prevent naglams?
Then he is malevolent.
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:52:13 +0000, Invisible wrote:
>>> I mean stuff like knowing which departments deal with which problems,
>>> what order a customer request has to go from place to place to get
>>> stuff done, things like that. Stuff that's perculiar to the particular
>>> department structure that BT has chosen to implement.
>>
>> That's very useful information to know if you're on the outside and
>> need help. There are probably companies that would love to get their
>> hands on an employee who has that kind of inside knowledge.
>
> Well, perhaps. Good luck finding 'em though.
It starts by looking at companies that might have that need - like ISPs.
Jim
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:24:58 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> Actually, I've been thinking about this one. Maybe I'm setting my sights
> too high. Maybe I just need to accept that nobody is ever going to pay
> me to write computer programs, and start looking for boring sysadmin
> jobs instead... Those surely have drastically greater availability, and
> at least I can claim to have real, relevant commercial experience.
You maybe just need to broaden your search a bit. Like looking outside
of Milton Keynes for a start.
Jim
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>> Actually, I've been thinking about this one. Maybe I'm setting my sights
>> too high. Maybe I just need to accept that nobody is ever going to pay
>> me to write computer programs, and start looking for boring sysadmin
>> jobs instead... Those surely have drastically greater availability, and
>> at least I can claim to have real, relevant commercial experience.
>
> You maybe just need to broaden your search a bit. Like looking outside
> of Milton Keynes for a start.
For the twenty-eight time, I have *already* tried looking outside of
just MK. There are several other potential places within range (notably
Oxford). I'm just not finding much worth applying for in terms of
programming. Hence my suggestion that perhaps I need to look for a
different career.
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Darren New wrote:
> Stefan Viljoen wrote:
>> Hmm probably thousands, in several countries?
>
> Seriously? Amazon hires thousands of people just for the christmas
> season, let alone all year. You really don't fill 43 orders per second
> with
> "thousands" of people. :-) It also doesn't count Mehcanical Turk. ;-)
Yikes! Ok, I stand corrected.
> Google has 20,000 employees, but with about a 10%-30% turnover each year.
Yikes squared. Its scary - commercial companies that have more employees
than there are people in many of the countries around here's entire
government services.
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Stefan Viljoen
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Invisible wrote:
> different career.
Or a different city. Move to San Francisco.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Is God willing to prevent naglams, but unable?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing, to prevent naglams?
Then he is malevolent.
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