On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Paul Cameron wrote:
> When did you look for a job? I was looking
> for jobs from a Unix/Linux/C/Perl/Java low level/systems programming
> perspective background in January/February
Umm, in hindsight talking salaries on a public list was probably
foolish, a sign that the trolling got to me. I was looking for jobs at
the same time you were. Jan and Feb this year. I looked for
Java/OO/UML/c/Perl/SQL/Database type jobs and ended up taking a job as a
systems analyst. The market is a bit dry, but not that bad.
> What happens when, say, your resulting document ends up looking
> like utter crap? What went wrong? Do you understand how the
> convoluted tool chain works ? For PDF, How are you converting it?
> Directly to it using an XML transformation engine, via TeX to DVI
> to PDF (thrice, it takes three iterations to generate proper
> versions, it just does ...) using pdfjadetex? Your index is malformed,
> why is that ?
>
> Riddle me that, oh Martin
The docbook comment wasn't mine. I was responding to a troll who said
that you couldn't get a job without skills like Word. Frankly, I'd
dispute that there's much skill in Word, and would prefer many other
tools. But I do use Word, mainly to fit with legacy documentation, and I
don't care that much. It runs on a cruddy unstable OS, and I find it
awkward, bloated and counter-intuitive. As for DocBook, I haven't used
it for enough to give a really informed comment, so I couldn't say.
cheers,
Martin
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