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people talk: Don't clean up your web act. Be yourself. Let the HR go to hell. HR can't do their job right. They're just idiots who are in positions they don't deserve. Tech brains need to learn seriously tough skills in order to get their tasks completed to satisfaction. To graduate from a business school and wind up in HR, all you need to do is talk a game. Business schools don't teach you anything. They just teach you to talk a game and expect everybody else to carry your weight. They preach system over innovation, and pass out more degrees than any other discipline last I heard. HR recruits and job placement recruiters are as worthless as the things they learn to qualify for their job.

I overheard a group of 3 young adults discussing starting a business. Nobody was focused on making the product and delivering it to whatever market. They were just jabbering together about the pros and cons of different offices, and trying to use the words "synergy" and "solution" a whole lot.

The recruitment standards for the tech industry are changing, though, and the tech industry itself is morphing. It no longer really matters that you have a degree from here or there. I'd hire you over any degreed individual who was "well-rounded" in the sense that they could talk a good game about a bunch of crap but aren't as bluntly realistic about things as you are. If you could write better source code given my criteria better than a person that can't write as well, I don't care who sold them their diplomas- you're the one that can write the code. Plus, Google and Microsoft are dying quick. Google just recently stated that they believe 10% of their adsense is click fraud. That's likely a legally-strategized precursor to a formal investigation, which will yield that somewhere closer to half is click fraud, meaning most of their proceeds just come from their enabling of rooms full of mouse-clickers to get money for clicking on ads all day. Microsoft has attempted "you no sue me no sue" agreements with partners, and then has called upon those who "steal software to steal [Microsoft] software." That's likely because their software is loaded with software they stole from competitors and recompiled as their own, including GNU GPL software. So if a bunch of little software pirates can be caught stealing, then even if they paid Microsoft $200 for some version of their OS (which is legally free under the GPL), they can't get it back from a lawsuit because Microsoft can then press a counterclaim on them and at least eliminate the proceeds for the theft of the software.

There is an impending software industry power vacuum that decouples quite a bit of capital influence from the software trade. If you have effective search without ad fraud, you're golden. If you can monetize media, you're golden. If you can hit cell phones, you're golden. If you can use Linux or something other than Microsoft, you guessed it. There's a lot more goldenness where that came from if you've got enough foresight.; Posted by: bcroner Posted on: 03/28/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use