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  • J Joao Vaz

    I was laid off , and I would be unemployed in December , but one of my 27+ cvs that I sent , hit one company that interviewed me for a java programmer job(i have 2,5 years of c++ background), btw I don't have any real work experience and almost zero domestic experience with it, all I have was a 50 hours introductory course on java that I toke 3 years ago. Now if you think this is weird, the weirdest part is that I got the job ... I was literally bombarded with programming technical questions , but I passed with distintion :-) , and because of that I grabbed the job against programmers with much more java experience than me :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: Now I can pay my debts to my family ... and I can hold on against the bashing and the plagues that you will place on me ;P I know, I known , what people do for money :rolleyes: Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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    Your C++ background should help you become an excellent Java programmer. Now you'll have one more skill in your arsenal and it should make you even more marketable in the future. Good Luck! Tim

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      *Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....not Java!*;P


      You will now find yourself in a wonderous, magical place, filled with talking gnomes, mythical squirrels, and, almost as an afterthought, your bookmarks -Shog9 teaching Mel Feik how to bookmark I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder

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      Rene De La Garza
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      if you were in mexico, you wouldn`t say that i guess, here is really hard to find a job, and when the company is looking for a programmer, they want a Vb Programmer or a Fox programmer nad even cobol sometimes, im working on a project with vb and i want to finish it to move on, if someone offer me a job using vb i have no other choice but to use it, because something has to pay the bills. :( "Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......" Christian Graus At The Soapbox [^]

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        Does anyone know a good Exorcist? ;) Seriously, been in your spot (May be in it again soon) and ya take whatever job ya can get these days. Congrats! Mark

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        Joao Vaz
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        Mark Conger wrote: Seriously, been in your spot (May be in it again soon) and ya take whatever job ya can get these days. Yeah, unfortunately it must be, but the people and the director seems very nice and honest people :-D Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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          *Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....not Java!*;P


          You will now find yourself in a wonderous, magical place, filled with talking gnomes, mythical squirrels, and, almost as an afterthought, your bookmarks -Shog9 teaching Mel Feik how to bookmark I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder

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          Joao Vaz
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          David Stone wrote: *Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....not Java!* LOL , yeah that was my reaction at first :laugh: Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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          • J Joao Vaz

            Mark Conger wrote: Seriously, been in your spot (May be in it again soon) and ya take whatever job ya can get these days. Yeah, unfortunately it must be, but the people and the director seems very nice and honest people :-D Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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            Always a cool thing :) Yeah, I got laid off last February, was out of work till August where I swallowed my pride and went back to contracting and consulting. :) Mark

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            • J Joao Vaz

              I was laid off , and I would be unemployed in December , but one of my 27+ cvs that I sent , hit one company that interviewed me for a java programmer job(i have 2,5 years of c++ background), btw I don't have any real work experience and almost zero domestic experience with it, all I have was a 50 hours introductory course on java that I toke 3 years ago. Now if you think this is weird, the weirdest part is that I got the job ... I was literally bombarded with programming technical questions , but I passed with distintion :-) , and because of that I grabbed the job against programmers with much more java experience than me :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: Now I can pay my debts to my family ... and I can hold on against the bashing and the plagues that you will place on me ;P I know, I known , what people do for money :rolleyes: Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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              Congrats! Whatever pays the bills, right?! I'm going to stop learning C++ shortly (projects almost done :( ), and start working Assembly X| BW "I'm coming with you! I got you fired, it's the least I can do. Well, the least I could do is absolutely nothing, but I'll go you one better and come along!" - Homer J. Simpson

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                WHORE!!! :) Convert them all to C++. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.

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                Joao Vaz
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                Tim Smith wrote: WHORE!!! No,no , Mr broken and braindamaged Multithreading java programmer for you ;) Tim Smith wrote: Convert them all to C++. Let's see what I can do :) Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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                  if you were in mexico, you wouldn`t say that i guess, here is really hard to find a job, and when the company is looking for a programmer, they want a Vb Programmer or a Fox programmer nad even cobol sometimes, im working on a project with vb and i want to finish it to move on, if someone offer me a job using vb i have no other choice but to use it, because something has to pay the bills. :( "Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......" Christian Graus At The Soapbox [^]

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                  Rene De La Garza wrote: if you were in mexico, you wouldn`t say that i guess True. I've become quite spoiled by living in the US.


                  You will now find yourself in a wonderous, magical place, filled with talking gnomes, mythical squirrels, and, almost as an afterthought, your bookmarks -Shog9 teaching Mel Feik how to bookmark I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder

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                    Joao Vaz wrote: I know, I known , what people do for money We say here that "an empty stomach has no ear" :) Congratulations anyway !


                    A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)

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                    KaЯl wrote: We say here that "an empty stomach has no ear" Very true , very true :~ Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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                    • T Tim Ranker

                      Your C++ background should help you become an excellent Java programmer. Now you'll have one more skill in your arsenal and it should make you even more marketable in the future. Good Luck! Tim

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                      Tim Ranker wrote: Your C++ background should help you Yep, it should help a lot, since C++ is a much more complex language than java :-) Tim Ranker wrote: Now you'll have one more skill in your arsenal and it should make you even more marketable in the future. Yep, counting on this :-) Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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                        Congrats! Whatever pays the bills, right?! I'm going to stop learning C++ shortly (projects almost done :( ), and start working Assembly X| BW "I'm coming with you! I got you fired, it's the least I can do. Well, the least I could do is absolutely nothing, but I'll go you one better and come along!" - Homer J. Simpson

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                        Joao Vaz
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                        brianwelsch wrote: I'm going to stop learning C++ shortly I have been programming in TCL for more than a year, and this didn't stopped my c++ learning process :-D brianwelsch wrote: and start working Assembly Actually, I wanted to have time to buid my robot with a collection of 60 numbers that I bought to learn a bit of electronics and robotics and to program the PIC microprocessor :( Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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                          Always a cool thing :) Yeah, I got laid off last February, was out of work till August where I swallowed my pride and went back to contracting and consulting. :) Mark

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                          Mark Conger wrote: where I swallowed my pride and went back to contracting and consulting. Sometimes is necessary to do this kind of things :-( The best of the luck with your current job. Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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                            I was laid off , and I would be unemployed in December , but one of my 27+ cvs that I sent , hit one company that interviewed me for a java programmer job(i have 2,5 years of c++ background), btw I don't have any real work experience and almost zero domestic experience with it, all I have was a 50 hours introductory course on java that I toke 3 years ago. Now if you think this is weird, the weirdest part is that I got the job ... I was literally bombarded with programming technical questions , but I passed with distintion :-) , and because of that I grabbed the job against programmers with much more java experience than me :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: Now I can pay my debts to my family ... and I can hold on against the bashing and the plagues that you will place on me ;P I know, I known , what people do for money :rolleyes: Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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                            Someone should probably make up a T-shirt for those of us bashing out code in languages they'd rather not discuss in gentile company. Clearly I'd have to wear the VBScript version. Here's something funny: I just checked up to see if a certain URL that came to mind was taken and look what I found[^]. cheers, Chris Maunder

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                              Someone should probably make up a T-shirt for those of us bashing out code in languages they'd rather not discuss in gentile company. Clearly I'd have to wear the VBScript version. Here's something funny: I just checked up to see if a certain URL that came to mind was taken and look what I found[^]. cheers, Chris Maunder

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                              Chris Maunder wrote: Here's something funny: I just checked up to see if a certain URL that came to mind was taken and look what I found[^]. I'm giving up on the fact of being suprised on the net, but this was too funny :-D Mac OS X :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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                                Tim Ranker wrote: Your C++ background should help you Yep, it should help a lot, since C++ is a much more complex language than java :-) Tim Ranker wrote: Now you'll have one more skill in your arsenal and it should make you even more marketable in the future. Yep, counting on this :-) Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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                                Also because of the similarities of the languages.

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                                  Also because of the similarities of the languages.

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                                  Tim Ranker wrote: Also because of the similarities of the languages. I already helped java programmers on understanding the inheritance chain with public inheritance and virtual methods on their own programs and explaining the difference between heap and stack :eek: Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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                                    I was laid off , and I would be unemployed in December , but one of my 27+ cvs that I sent , hit one company that interviewed me for a java programmer job(i have 2,5 years of c++ background), btw I don't have any real work experience and almost zero domestic experience with it, all I have was a 50 hours introductory course on java that I toke 3 years ago. Now if you think this is weird, the weirdest part is that I got the job ... I was literally bombarded with programming technical questions , but I passed with distintion :-) , and because of that I grabbed the job against programmers with much more java experience than me :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: Now I can pay my debts to my family ... and I can hold on against the bashing and the plagues that you will place on me ;P I know, I known , what people do for money :rolleyes: Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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                                    Been there, done that. Times are bad right now, take what you can get. Congratulations on your new job. Who knows, maybe you will start liking Java ;P Pankaj Without struggle, there is no progress

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                                      Been there, done that. Times are bad right now, take what you can get. Congratulations on your new job. Who knows, maybe you will start liking Java ;P Pankaj Without struggle, there is no progress

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                                      pankajdaga wrote: Been there, done that. Times are bad right now, take what you can get. Congratulations on your new job. Thanks man :-) pankajdaga wrote: maybe you will start liking Java Who knowns , who knowns :~ Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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                                        I was laid off , and I would be unemployed in December , but one of my 27+ cvs that I sent , hit one company that interviewed me for a java programmer job(i have 2,5 years of c++ background), btw I don't have any real work experience and almost zero domestic experience with it, all I have was a 50 hours introductory course on java that I toke 3 years ago. Now if you think this is weird, the weirdest part is that I got the job ... I was literally bombarded with programming technical questions , but I passed with distintion :-) , and because of that I grabbed the job against programmers with much more java experience than me :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: Now I can pay my debts to my family ... and I can hold on against the bashing and the plagues that you will place on me ;P I know, I known , what people do for money :rolleyes: Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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                                        Congrats Joao! Keep in mind, it *could* have been VB... :~ Shog9 ------

                                        Rather hammer futiley at the locked door than just sit and ignore it. Obviously finding a way to get through the locked door would be even better though. - Paul Watson, My Ignorance

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                                          Congrats Joao! Keep in mind, it *could* have been VB... :~ Shog9 ------

                                          Rather hammer futiley at the locked door than just sit and ignore it. Obviously finding a way to get through the locked door would be even better though. - Paul Watson, My Ignorance

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                                          Shog9 wrote: Congrats Joao! Keep in mind, it *could* have been VB... Thanks , it coud had been indeed this basic thing :~ Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

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