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Two Years Later
Posted by Joey on 3 February 2005, 04:28 GMT
Two years ago today, a news article similar to this one was posted here, searching for file archivers. I was one of the two people selected, and I have thoroughly enjoyed my time working on this site. Processing the immense queue of 1378 files with my co-worker in a mere seven days is still one of my favorite accomplishments. Unfortunately, I just don't have the time any more to keep up with the demands of the job. I spend 30 hours a week working with a FIRST robotics team, in addition to actually showing up to high school. Once I'm done with all of that, I'm off to Carnegie Mellon University in the fall. You all probably don't care about my life, but the point is that this serves my official announcement of retirement from file archiving. Why is this good news for you? We need some new staff members, and you could be the person we're looking for.
The main thing required here is time. On a regular day, we get an average 12-13 files submitted. On a busy day, we get 50.
Experience with multiple calculators is a big advantage; we try not to put a preference on any calculator model or platform. Owning a lot of calculators is not required, but having some general experience is a plus.
Also, Jon is looking for another staff member to assist with editing reviews. Since the main work contains lots of editing and writing text, you need to be reasonably fluent in the English language.
For both positions, we're looking for a long term commitment, as well as a high availability. You all know what our users think when there are weeks without updates. If you can do it 8 hours / day now, but expect not to be able to keep that up for more than a couple of months, this is not what we want. Expect it to be quite time-consuming, but certainly rewarding. Finally, if you can increase the staff's demographical diversity, that's a plus. but not a requirement. We encourage people, both male and female, from all countries to apply.
If you're interested, contact us at newstaff@ticalc.org. Please include the following information:
- Full name
- Email address
- If you have MSN or AIM or similar as means for us to contact you
- Position you're interested in (you will be trained for both, but primarily doing only one)
- Age
- Current level of education (finished or unfinished)
- Where you live (town/state/country)
- Approximate amount of time you think you can put into this per week
- Which calculators you have experience with or access to
- A quick motivation on why we should pick you
Also, from experience of last time: This is not a paid job.
We will accept applications up to and including February 15th. I'll still be keeping up with the pending queue as best I can until we've found our new staff members. Once my FA duty is done, don't expect me to disappear. I'll still be working behind the scenes, doing site maintenance and peering over the new staffers' shoulders. ;-)
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TI ProgramEditor for TI Connect
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Paul Nickerson 
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Hey guys, it's been a while since I've been here, and I know this isn't the place to post this, but I can't really find anywhere else to put it (the mailing list archives are closed at the moment).
So, it seems my brother and I stumbled against something pretty cool; it's the TI ProgramEditor for TI Connect. It comes with TI Connect version 1.5.0.027 (I think it's a beta), he got it with his TI-84 Plus.
It's a little better than TI GraphLink in a lot of ways, like the fact that it's integrated in TI Connect, and seems a little easier to use and more feature laden. And it's compattible with all the calculators except the 82. This is good news for you BASIC programmers out there.
The reason I'm posting this here is because affter a few google searches and in-site searches, I couldn't find anything about it. So I'm guessing it's not yet fully realeased and only a few privalaged persons have it.
But for those of you who want to try it now, above is a URL for the install file (it only works if my computer happens to be turned on at the time).
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4 February 2005, 01:34 GMT
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Re: Two Years Later
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thechessmaster88
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Thank you, Joey for spending so much time to manage files. It must be a lot of work. Good luck in college and we will surely miss you when you leave. I'm sure most of us do care about your life and the lives of the entire ti-calc staff.
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4 February 2005, 02:55 GMT
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Re: Two Years Later
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Ben Cherry
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I guess Joey must be my age then... I'd apply for the position, except that I can give a grand total of 0 hours from about June 15 through August 15, every summer. I would not even have access to the internet during those two months. I'm sure we'll find another great staff member to replace Joey. I hope Michael isn't planning on stepping down any time soon, though, now that Joey and Morgan have both retired.
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4 February 2005, 03:45 GMT
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Paul Houser
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CMU?? My god, I'm envious! Instead I'm just going to use the standard cop-out excuse: I could have got into that college, but I'm too lazy.
In all seriousness, my excuse is true. If I had actually studied for my tests, and done my homework, and didn't play calculator games in class, I would have over a 4.0 gpa instead of a 3.6, and I have a exaustive resume, including 2 years of Computer Science credit from a comm. college (which I'll actually end up going to). So if I had really cared all that much, I could have got into CMU, but again, I'm too lazy.
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4 February 2005, 12:54 GMT
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Morgan Davies
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I anyone is interested I have posted some helpful hints to getting the job at ticalc over at ti-news.net. Click the link or go to the link below. Best of luck!
http://www.ti-news.net/ viewthread.php?id=00000303
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4 February 2005, 19:11 GMT
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Enchanted Coders
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I would do this if I wasn't in college right now, with no free time every Monday and Wednesday (actually, I'm posting this from college).
Gosh, I haven't posted here in a while. That doesn't make me the least frequent poster though...not by a long shot.
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7 February 2005, 21:37 GMT
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