[unemployed] job postings [IHBT]

-3+ years with HTML
5+ years experience hand-coding HTML and CSS

The number of times I see this is frankly shocking. It is extremely disappointing to lose all interest in a job because you realize whoever wrote the posting has no idea what programming is. I have also seen requirements for experience listing whatever new framework or API that will supposedly solve everyone's problems--mostly with JQuery, MooTools, CakePHP, etc.-- and an impossible amount of time using said API, meaning I had to have been using the API before it existed.

Master in Computer Science Obviously no degree was required for whoever in this company wrote the job posting.

Proficient with Visual Studio 2005 and higher.
I am proficient with all text editors. I still don't know what this means, and since I'll never ever pay for a Microsoft certification, I may never know.

o C# and/or VB.Net
these two things are interchangeable so easily?

You will leverage your knowledge of JEE-based web architecture and related technologies including Java, J2EE, Spring, AJAX, and GUI Expereince relational database connections.

I have seen Chinese electronics dealer websites with more comprehensible English.

Go ahead, even if you're fortunate and have a job right now, venture into your local craigslist.org/sof/ or other job website do foreigners have job websites? and check out the postings for your development specialty.

>>27
Unix is so much a pile of shit that they've dedicated a whole book on how it sucks.
Assembly is not dirty, why would it be dirty? Did you mean the x86 architecture? If so, you're right, it's bloated as fuck.
Conkeror is acceptable as browser, but XUL Runner leaks memory like a champ.

Now,
Why don't you write your own OS in Lithp, faggoth.
I have read the Intel manuals, all of them. I quickly realised that writing an OS from scratch on x86 would be literally insane, and theory is always better than practice.
One person writing an OS all alone for a sanesimpler architecture would still be insane.
Why don't you write your own browser?
It's not as simple as you think, the internet is literally filled with not well-formed HTML documents and browser-specific assumptions. Handling just the best case equals to ban yourself from the 90% of the internet.

>>33
I have read the Intel manuals, all of them. I quickly realised that writing an OS from scratch on x86 would be literally insane,
The hardest part is to start, because The Right Thing would require rethinking everything we know about OS design, and without a tested design you'll get nowhere. The hardest part would be a low level DSL with C-like capabilities and scalable garbage collector (if you want to freely pass resources between processes).