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Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: Bit-shifting is an integral part of C.
It also applies to C++ and C#.
I've failed interviews through not knowing.
It should definitely be practiced, even if it doesn't go on the CV. Some interviewer is likely to bring it up to show how clever they are.
I agree you should know it, but do not think it should go on the CV. It is one of the fundamentals that is assumed you know.
Your CV is supposed to make you stand out, not scream mediocrity.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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Not mediocrity. Just inexperience. Which does appeal to some interviewers recruiting for junior positions.
Of course the best thing I ever did was load up a netbook with my sample projects so that I could show things like Linux face detection and capture to the interviewers.
It was frequently a bit of 'wow factor' in the interview which helped me get the job I now have.
And of course, it sounds a lot more difficult than it really is. The internet is teeming with samples which can be adapted. 
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So, do you want to learn more about it?
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Who me? No. I learn and then forget as I only need it once a year. Better just to revise when needed. 
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Accenture[^] has a student program where they offer time-boxed jobs with coaching by experienced employees.
The scariest moment is always just before the Start - Stephen King
Die Frauen warten auf die Liebe, und die Männer warten auf die Frauen - Wolf Wondratschek
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Marco Bertschi wrote: Accenture[^] has a student program where they offer time-boxed jobs with coaching by experienced employees.
Heh, I just left a job that was through Accenture. Good company.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Heh, I just left a job that was through Accenture. Good company.
I need to search for a job after my final exams and military duty, currently collecting company names where I am going to apply. I strongly consider contractor companies as Accenture, not only international but also local ones. Can you tell me a bit more about Accenture?
We have Accenture people under contract at my current employer, but never got to really know someone from that company because they are assigned to a different project.
The scariest moment is always just before the Start - Stephen King
Die Frauen warten auf die Liebe, und die Männer warten auf die Frauen - Wolf Wondratschek
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Pro bono, or do you want to get paid?
What technology are you interested in? Do you want to focus on C# / .NET / ASP.NET, or explore something like Ruby on Rails?
I've got a few projects on the back burner that could use a lot of work in both technology stacks, and would love to have someone I can mentor and that could work on these things, and you could use as a reference.
Marc
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No, I'm not looking to get paid at this time. While ideally a job is the goal of this endeavor at the moment I'm looking to gain some practical experience. I really only know the .Net environment, I'm taking the codeschool.com courses as I get the time but I have absolutely 0 experience with Ruby.
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If you are in Florida I know a company that is probably interviewing for summer intern right now.
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You could try elance.com for projects to do.
Teaching anything related is always good, especially because you can get to see inside companies and build up contacts and references.
Maybe you would rather do developing, but your network security is in high demand, and could be a way to get your foot in the door of a company that might have openings for a developer. That is basically how I started, although it took 5 years to get what I wanted.
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One of the things wrong with education is that they are too often owned by big gorillas and don't teach anything else. Being tied to .Net is going to tie you up and greatly limit your opportunities. I would try to do anything to expand beyond Microsoft.
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I wanted to take the time to thank each of you for your responses. You have all given me a lot of good information. I'm definitely going to look more into bitwise operations and more into open source projects to try and contribute to.
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on my 2TB external HDD for portable use.
I use the code from here[^] to get Cygwin to work without permission errors.
How many people here use Cygwin?
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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I havnt used it for years, but thanks for the post - I've filed it for future reference
The last time I saw it used was really only for SSH on Windows, using a Windows machine as a hub to connect to various LAN drives, and having unix machines be able to transfer to/from the LAN drives. There were some reasons why Samba/CIFS etc wasn't used, I think they were security related
Always handy to have stuff like this is the kit bag though 
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I like Cygwin, and I am planning on building a number of things for it, such as PHP (hopefully), Geany, Abiword, Gnumeric, GnuCash, Dia, Mono, Ruby 2.1, and anything else I find that may be useful.
EDIT: Just looked at Cygwin Ports and found they have some of what I was going to build, so I will use their builds instead.
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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 I guess its horses for courses - I felt it was a bit big and unwieldy if all it was doing was acting as this SSH/HUB<->LAN interface - that being said, it did the job
'g'
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been using it for years - great tool! I had done a lot of Un*x shell scipting in the past and being able to have all those tools accessible on Windows is really nice.
modified 2-Mar-14 15:23pm.
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I am using Win 8.1, so Cygwin is really my only option, as neither of those Unix subsystems works on that platform (AFAIK). I like Cygwin, anyways, although I usually install a base system with some development tools and build most other things I use.
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: as neither of those Unix subsystems works on that platform
Mingw works on Windows 8.1, but it seems Microsoft dropped support for SFU as of Windows 8.1 - perhaps they'll drop support for keyboards in Windows 9.
Brisingr Aerowing wrote: I like Cygwin
It's an impressive effort ... implementing fork on top of the Windows API is no mean feat.
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As a side note, there is MinGW-w64[^], which is GCC for 32- and 64-bit Windows.
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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One of my uncles had to smell armpits as part of his job at Gillette.
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