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fpga_toys@yahoo.com wrote: > >>At the same time, I am who I am, and having a perfectly written resume >>doesn't necessarly reflect on who I am, does it? >> >>If someone is going to be anal about it, best get it over right away >>... and there are some people that really are. > > I should also note that in nearly 40 years of interviews, I've never > interviewed in a suit. That was casual dress western for 20 years, and > jeans and a tee for the last 15. Both for W-2 work, and as a > consultant. I've closed nearly every job I've interviewed for in > person. Those that I haven't, have nearly always been interviewing for > a less skilled/experienced manager that was late 20's to early 30's and > worried about his job. > I wouldn't be turned off by that but myself I have to wear a suit. Or at least a shirt and tie. Main reason is that often client's investors or other advisors have to check me out and since they are all in suits I might make them uncomfy. No big deal even though I don't like it much to be in a suit. Afterwards I find out what the dress code during "normal work" is and then dress accordingly. > I have ran into a few interviewing managers that was a turnoff for ... > and we had a brief talk and parted. One hired me anyway, and was > stressed that I would only dress to visit external customers when they > needed engineering backup for Marketing/Sales. > > I tend to respect that sense of someone knowing who they are, and what > they are good at when I inteview canidates as well. Those that are > presenting a "fluffed up image" don't make it far with me. > Has limits though: A neighbor told me that a guy showed up for an interview with a T-shirt that read "People Suck". The interview ended after about one second. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.comArticle: 107851
Hello John, > > Pint 4: 'If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue..' > Pint 4? Wow, John, take it easy :-) -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.comArticle: 107852
John Woodgate wrote: > Indeed. For a certain transportation project, around GBP5 billion, I > believe, questions are asked about my fixed-price fee for 'two days' > work. I've actually put in about four days so far, and it isn't over > yet. So ... was "two days" bid as 16 hrs, or 48 hrs?Article: 107853
In message <hn%Jg.4654$tU.648@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>, dated Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> writes > uncomfy UGH!!! Cubed. May you be forgiven. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UKArticle: 107854
fpga_toys@yahoo.com wrote: > >>Well, ok then, we just have different opinions here and that's fine. I >>consider a resume an "external document" because it does go external ;-) > > > Agreed. The agreement to disagree is pretty rare in this forum of late. > True. I really dislike it when some folks fly off the handle about a minor disagreement. > I suspect this is partly cultural too. My "style" has worked well in > the western US. I'm aware that there are many places where it would be > less than acceptable. It's been only reciently, that a dress code for > professionals (including engineers) has been relaxed in some part of > the US industry. Discussions with engineers in some other parts of the > world, suggest that dress for success is still a critical asset in some > work places. > Hmm, I have lived and worked in Europe, and now in the Western US. Northern Caleefohneeya. Suits are much more common among technical people here than they used to be in Europe. I actually met EEs in Europe who didn't even own a suit except the one from their wedding that didn't fit anymore. But that was over a decade ago so things might have changed over there. > Have fun! > Same to you! -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.comArticle: 107855
In message <hn%Jg.4654$tU.648@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>, dated Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> writes >Has limits though: A neighbor told me that a guy showed up for an >interview with a T-shirt that read "People Suck". The interview ended >after about one second. Not sensible. You can get T-shirts with Schroedinger's Equation on them. They don't make you a physicist. You explore the 'inappropriate behaviour' only after you find that the guy knows what a Gilbert cell is and is used for. If s/he doesn't, you don't need to explore it. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UKArticle: 107856
Hello John, >> Most failures that I see where caused by a team trying to avoid the >> expense for a consultant and going it alone. Once that had cost a >> company its very existence because the financial backers had lost >> faith in it after they couldn't make the product work. > > Indeed. For a certain transportation project, around GBP5 billion, I > believe, questions are asked about my fixed-price fee for 'two days' > work. I've actually put in about four days so far, and it isn't over yet. I rarely work fixed-bid, especially not on cutting edge projects. But often I do tell clients what the rough estimate would be. With the understanding that it'll be a different story if marketing comes in and wants this, that and the other thing in addition. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.comArticle: 107857
Hi all, I want to do the read out from GPIO (like DIP SWITCHES or Buttons) in Microblaze using the xgpio_DiscreteRead procedure but it seems to not work. I wanted to read from Button to a int variable, and then display it via printf procedure, but I get only "0" as an output. please help me.Article: 107858
Is it actually possible to download WebPACK? I tried using my existing xilinx.com account to download it, and I get into an endless loop where I'm shown a button that says "click here to register" then another button that says "click here to download if you're already registered". The second button just takes me to the same page again, over and over. I tried creating a new account on xilinx.com and with this account I can't even log into the abovementioned infinite-loop page; it doesn't accept the new username/password. Has anyone ever worked out the magic combination of browser versions and whatever other magic the PITAs at xilinx require?Article: 107859
Joerg wrote: > Has limits though: A neighbor told me that a guy showed up for an > interview with a T-shirt that read "People Suck". The interview ended > after about one second. ROTFL .... I can relate to that as a hiring manager, been there ;) My sensibilities are based in the US midwest ... sometimes a bit redneck as they say here, and generally conservative in most ways. The work environment in Santa Cruz and Berkeley is even more relaxed than I, where strong counter-culture is the accepted "norm". I worked in Santa Cruz for several years as a consultant. They gave me an office with a window that had a great view of an enclosed court yard with a large hot tub across from me. The hot tub was clothing optional and frequently stuffed with young 20-30 somethings of both sexes, frequently under the influence of multiple mind altering things. I quickly changed my schedule and started working midnight to 2PM to avoid the afternoon/evening parties. Doing interviews for that, and another client, greatly challenged my ability to adopt a sense of cultural relativity.Article: 107860
Spehro Pefhany wrote: > You had him executed by the Spanish Inquisition, didn't you, Mr. WOOD > of GATE? As Mister, he is not of the court. The title would be Lord Wood, of Gate if he had that power.Article: 107861
jerzy.zielinski schrieb: > Hi all, > > I want to do the read out from GPIO (like DIP SWITCHES or Buttons) in > Microblaze using the xgpio_DiscreteRead procedure but it seems to not > work. I wanted to read from Button to a int variable, and then display > it via printf procedure, but I get only "0" as an output. > > please help me. Jerzy please do everything correctly and then everything will just work. seriously, there are no issues regarding reading the GPIO if everything is ok. and if it is not ok, then you have to fix it obviously - as the others are no magicians and can not see what you have done wrong. saying it doesnt work is not sufficient information to make it work for you. maybe you selected bidir, but connected to GPIO_in? or maybe you made something else wrong. find it, fix it. AnttiArticle: 107862
zwsdotcom@gmail.com schrieb: > Is it actually possible to download WebPACK? > > I tried using my existing xilinx.com account to download it, and I get > into an endless loop where I'm shown a button that says "click here to > register" then another button that says "click here to download if > you're already registered". The second button just takes me to the same > page again, over and over. > > I tried creating a new account on xilinx.com and with this account I > can't even log into the abovementioned infinite-loop page; it doesn't > accept the new username/password. > > Has anyone ever worked out the magic combination of browser versions > and whatever other magic the PITAs at xilinx require? send email to Xilinx VIP's with an humble plea to recall their webmaster from his vaccation. AnttiArticle: 107863
In message <hsogf2tfqmq5dvchfq7qnlj6m6kcmuvs3m@4ax.com>, dated Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> writes >You had him executed by the Spanish Inquisition, didn't you, Mr. WOOD >of GATE? Not me, it was one of the six other 'John Woodgate's in UK. In any case, the result was unexpected. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UKArticle: 107864
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:03:13 +0100, the renowned John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In message <XQXJg.7281$q63.7073@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>, dated Fri, >1 Sep 2006, Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> writes >>>> That's a common misconception even among professional translators. >>>>They think that you don't need to be an engineer to translate >>>>technical stuff. >>> REALLY professional translators ask for help on the translators' >>>newsgroup. Most of its traffic is about queries on technical terms. >> >> >>Interesting. Which NG is that? Might have to point some folks there ;-) > >sci.lang.translation > >For time to time, it can get as surreal as this NG, but there is much >less traffic. And no abuse now. > >About five years ago, we had a real nutter; Spanish and good at >translation (and, incidentally, an expert at retrieving stuff from the >Internet), but he went as far as making threatening phone calls, and >someone with contacts in the Spanish police arranged for him to be shown >the error of his ways. You had him executed by the Spanish Inquisition, didn't you, Mr. WOOD of GATE? Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.comArticle: 107865
In message <1157138487.522552.281170@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, dated Fri, 1 Sep 2006, fpga_toys@yahoo.com writes >I quickly changed my schedule and started working midnight to 2PM to >avoid the afternoon/evening parties. I remember sitting in a British Standards meeting while pairs of pigeons were busy mating on the window sill of the committee room. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UKArticle: 107866
In message <1157137194.570397.181850@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>, dated Fri, 1 Sep 2006, fpga_toys@yahoo.com writes >So ... was "two days" bid as 16 hrs, or 48 hrs? 12 hours. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UKArticle: 107867
In message <AB%Jg.4657$tU.632@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>, dated Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> writes >I rarely work fixed-bid, Same here, but this is a new client, about 64th in the pecking order of the contract. So I agreed a fixed price, instead of an open estimate and an introductory discount. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UKArticle: 107868
In message <Fp%Jg.4655$tU.2922@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>, dated Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> writes >Hello John, > >> Pint 4: 'If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue..' >> > >Pint 4? Wow, John, take it easy :-) > I KNEW that would happen! It's a rather nice (and inexpensive) red, not beer, so no pints. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UKArticle: 107869
Antti wrote:
> > Is it actually possible to download WebPACK?
>
> send email to Xilinx VIP's with an humble plea to recall their
> webmaster from his vaccation.
:)))
I remember the good old days when the vendors would have BBS services.
You would log in and get what you needed immediately and totally free -
OK, it was an international call for me (I was in Australia) but at
least it was instant.
Then everybody upgraded to offering ftp sites. Internet access was
still charged by the hour in my country, so it wasn't strictly free to
me, but again at least the access was immediate and unrestricted. You
log in, you browse to what you want, you download it.
Now every vendor must hide behind a gigabyte of Javascript, popup
windows, Flash animations, server-side includes to query a database so
it can tell me my own name every time I load the page ("$NAME, Welcome
to the download site!"). And everything is in a constant state of
"almost working"ness. Everyone goes to the utmost possible lengths to
hide a simple one-click URL to download a file; they want you to go
through eleven million pages of portals and advertisements and "let's
see what the referrer was so we can judge our advertising
effectiveness".
Damn, I am old. That is why my websites don't even use frames.
Article: 107870Hello John, > >> Has limits though: A neighbor told me that a guy showed up for an >> interview with a T-shirt that read "People Suck". The interview ended >> after about one second. > > Not sensible. You can get T-shirts with Schroedinger's Equation on them. > They don't make you a physicist. > But you don't wear them to an interview ;-) > You explore the 'inappropriate behaviour' only after you find that the > guy knows what a Gilbert cell is and is used for. If s/he doesn't, you > don't need to explore it. And if he or she uses one in an RF mixer I get "uncomfy" :-) -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.comArticle: 107871
fpga_toys@yahoo.com wrote: > John Woodgate wrote: > >>Indeed. For a certain transportation project, around GBP5 billion, I >>believe, questions are asked about my fixed-price fee for 'two days' >>work. I've actually put in about four days so far, and it isn't over >>yet. > > So ... was "two days" bid as 16 hrs, or 48 hrs? > Our drill sergeant used to say that the day has 24 hours and when that ain't sufficient then there is still the night. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.comArticle: 107872
John Woodgate wrote: > Sep 2006, Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> writes > > >I rarely work fixed-bid, > > Same here, but this is a new client, about 64th in the pecking order of > the contract. So I agreed a fixed price, instead of an open estimate and > an introductory discount. Funny, I actually prefer fixed bid. Generally causes clients to think about what they want, rather than giving me a short list of what they want, asking for an "estimate" of how long that will take, and then being disappointed when the schedule slips because they keep adding additional requirements/refinements to the project.Article: 107873
Hello John, >> >>> Pint 4: 'If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue..' >> >> Pint 4? Wow, John, take it easy :-) > > I KNEW that would happen! It's a rather nice (and inexpensive) red, not > beer, so no pints. If you come to the Western US try Killian's Red. Pretty good but I prefer stouts and IPA. However, tonight it'll be margaritas. We also have a local brewpub where they can refill your growlers with some of these: > http://www.placervillebrewing.com/our_beer.asp -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.comArticle: 107874
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 20:36:17 +0100, the renowned John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In message <hsogf2tfqmq5dvchfq7qnlj6m6kcmuvs3m@4ax.com>, dated Fri, 1 >Sep 2006, Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> writes > >>You had him executed by the Spanish Inquisition, didn't you, Mr. WOOD >>of GATE? > >Not me, it was one of the six other 'John Woodgate's in UK. In any case, >the result was unexpected. That the police actually *did* something? Yes, that would be unexpected. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com
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