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Some of the Recruiters I Worked With Recently

Lorisa Holland <<< Got me my new job!  Giant Recruiting lorisa@giantrecruiting.com  https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorisaholland/

Allison Cox Genuent 714-465-1180 ACox@genuent.net https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-cox-b850b228/

Mark Puetz JobSpring Partners (949) 553-4200 mark.puetz@jobspringpartners.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/markpuetz

Ahmed Rahmatullah Ledgent Technology & Engineering A business line of Roth Staffing Companies, L.P. 714.940.5420 arahmatullah@ledgent.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-rahmatullah-99ab5812/

Cassandra Ray  NewFound Recruiting Corporation (613) 435-6607 x 103 cassandra@newfoundrecruiting.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/raycassandra/

Claire Perry Real Life Sciences 619 881 0004 Global Village: 215-7016 c.perry@realstaffing.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/clperry1/

Stefanie Stewart Workbridge Associates 949-833-1300 stefanie.stewart@workbridgeassociates.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefaniestewart/

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PDF -> OCR’d-PDF Python Script

https://virantha.github.io/pypdfocr/html/

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Amateur vs Professional

H/T to Bryan Suits of KFI AM 640 Military Mondays where I heard the emboldened quote below. I dug in to look for its history and found the following:

In 1944 a full version of the adage appeared in the volume “Psychology for Musicians” by Percy C. Buck who was an organist and a prominent Professor of Music at the University of London. This popular book was reprinted several times in the succeeding decades. Buck did not take credit for the saying which was presented as an anonymous definition:

What is the real difference between a professional and an amateur? Does not your mind immediately turn to the shallow explanation of money-payments? Two definitions have been made which may help you to think deeper than that:

“An amateur can be satisfied with knowing a fact; a professional must know the reason why.”

“An amateur practises until he can do a thing right, a professional until he can’t do it wrong.”

Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/29/get-it-right/

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Are you interested in some occasional PHP troubleshooting and development on a 1.9.1 Moodle application? John B

Hi there,Thank you for contacting me. I would love to help but I have too much on my plate right now.

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Hi Phil - I saw your tips for getting rid of cable. Thanks for going into so much detail about your setup, especially the schematics document. I'm actually working on a solution for à la carte television. Would you be interested in participating in the beta?

Sure

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How to cut the cord and stop paying for TV you don't watch

Cox Cable TV and DirecTV are both expensive ($75 to $100 monthly for what we’d like to watch)

So for about $700, I added the following to my existing home network:

Roku 3,

New Core i3 computer (built from scratch),

Software: PlayOn + PlayLater HD,

Software: HDHR Fling,

WiFi Ethernet bridge,

SiliconDust HDHomeRun Plus, and

Mohu Sky TV antenna

We now no longer have to pay for a TV bill anymore — just our existing Internet connection through Cox Cable.

Here’s the whole design:

http://tinyurl.com/kme4hab (it’ll open a Google Drive PDF doc)

If that shortened URL fails, here’s the full Google Drive URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_asNurtfyADMktWelIxeVY3VDQ/edit?usp=sharing

FYI we already pay for Amazon Prime, so we do get some content from there.

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Backup your iPhone before upgrading iOS versions

A warning to all of my friends with iPhones: whenever you install an iOS update, make sure to have iTunes do a full backup of your phone before running the update. iTunes will not do the update for you automatically; you need to request it by clicking the button to backup the phone. And no, backing up to iCloud is not a full backup; you need to click the backup button in iTunes.

Luckily, I did the backup just before upgrading from iOS 6.1.1 to 6.1.2. I am so glad took the time to do the backup; 6.1.2 somehow borked my phone completely.

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Fredric Paul, readwriteweb.com

Email blasts may seem like the out-of-touch old fogey of online mar­ket­ing, but there's a rea­son they keep hang­ing around: They still work. But that doesn't mean most busi­ness­es under­stand how to get the most out of them. One of the biggest,…

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#CloudFail: Six pitfalls to avoid with enterprise cloud deployment By Bart Copeland, gigaom.com

Many companies — perhaps blinded by all the hype and marketing claims — are still hanging back when it comes to cloud adoption. They shouldn’t. They should make the move now — but keep these 6 potential pitfalls in mind.

Done right, the enter­pr…

Interesting article

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Be ready to answer these questions the next time you go into an interview

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Why The Internet Hates My Name (It’s The Accent Marks) Sara Inés Calderón, techcrunch.com

The Inter­net doesn’t like me — or, at least, it doesn’t care much for my name. My first name con­sists of two words and I have accent marks in both my first and last names, which seems to com­pli­cate my online life con­sid­er­ably. When try­ing …

Interesting article on internationalization