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I can understand that frustration. An auto-decline after spending a while to customize an application probably feels bad, but frankly most people won't feel great even with a personalized "sorry not interested".

My comments about spending time in the application process primarily are geared towards candidates right on the border of being qualified.

If I get a resume from someone who is clearly very qualified, I'm going to see it immediately and schedule a call. If the resume is from someone who is absolutely no industry experience applying for a senior job, I'll decline (with a note usually if they took the time to write anything).

But say we have a candidate that is slightly underqualified or barely qualified. They can spend a few minutes writing something targeted, and that will make the difference in them getting an interview.

I've had this debate here before, but if you apply to jobs you are clearly not qualified for, you shouldn't expect a reply because you've wasted your own time and theirs now. If someone applies and is just slightly underqualified, they generally are entitled to a response (especially if they took any time in the application process). Anyone who interviews deserves a response and ideally some specific feedback, but that's another story.
I didn't quite follow the same approach recently... Was my first time looking for a job in several years. I sent out maybe 50 resumes and got callbacks on about half of them. I mainly applied locally. Also, updating my linked in profile got a lot more cold contacts than sending out resumes did.

I was pretty selective as far as finding a job, the interview process reduced the responses to about a third. In the end there were about 3-4 I was interested in, and one of them bumped up the offer to where it was about 20% more than the closest competing offer, so I decided to go with it.

However, I've got about 18-19 years of experience in my field (full stack software development, focusing on web applications), and stronger throughout the stack than most. Many of the positions were labelled "Senior" but the pay, and desired experience, didn't align with that statement in my opinion. It really just depends.

Having a strong resume will go a long way... having a summary statement with your desired position, goals and skills along with technology you are familiar with followed with work/project history reinforcing that experience will go a long way in terms of getting in the door.
I wouldn't say we have it "harder," because I don't believe that at all. The opportunities globalism and the Internet provide us are almost infinite. But the long-term view doesn't look too damn good from an employment perspective. There is a real mismatch of skill development and what is actually available on the market; and the labor demand is not nearly as stable as it used to be (career opportunities are changing every 5-10 years rather than 20-40). There is a lot more variance and randomness going forward by any reasonable projection, and while that doesn't actually change the underlying resource allocation, people don't do well with unpredictability.
Do you have an opt out option? Talent Bin (https://www.talentbin.com/) does something similar and they've created at least five incorrect profiles for me based on having a common name and their being unable to distinguish between several people with the same name in similar industries or that went to the same university. They also claim you can see the profile they've created for you but then just send a screenshot that doesn't help much when figuring out how they've linked a social profile to an email address which their customers then use to contact the potential recruit.
I'm honestly trying to understand your point of view, and coming up empty.

Those misguided (or not) fools who think they can become rock stars often ignore the lack of cooperation. Even a few of the successful ones get where they are by ignoring the lack of anointment. It does not seem to be the requirement you make it out of... we live in a world of 7 billion people, after all, and the statistical noise alone is enough to give someone a fanbase of hundreds of thousands if they put in the effort and have a little luck.

But, most teenage dumbasses that claim they'll be a rock star spend a little too much focus on drugs, and not nearly enough on the effort part.

We don't believe them (or, at least, I don't believe them) not because it's impossible, but because they do not put in the work to back up their daydream fantasies.

Why would the same not be true of a wannabe shooter?

You've super-imposed your beliefs with the thinnest veneer of logic, but it isn't very convincing. Many people want to believe that these kids can be identified prior to massacres, because it would be comforting to live in such a world. But there is no way to do that. Jumping to the conclusion that his teenage obsession's paraphernalia indicates that he would have done this is silly. There's no way to know if there is ever any correlation between the two. Playing with fireworks (and even explosives) as a teenager is hardly unusual... I suspect this describes hundreds of thousands or even millions of them. If that were the case, then it does not correlate at all to future school shootings.
> Adulthood is also tied with marriage, home ownership, car ownership, child-rearing

No. Just no.

Those are things which some adults do, that does not mean you aren't an adult if you don't do them.

Is a 40-year-old with a successful career who just never got married not an adult?

Stop insulting and marginalizing people.
Makes me wonder if there's already some form of credit default swapping going on with student loans that we won't uncover until after the bubble pops.
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That's as meta as it gets

I could have sworn that Reddit prevented commenting and editing on post that are this old.
Exactly. This seems like a definitional issue as much as anything--but any definition of "disturbed" that doesn't include a kid who's about to shoot up his school isn't a very good definition.
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Absolutely. So what I'm doing in my life is walking the line between easy and hard, in such a way as to keep it challenging and interesting, while not making it downright painful and so difficult that I won't enjoy it. Everyone has their own personal line to walk.

I'm driving a nice Jeep, which for me, is as challenging as I personally can handle, without it being painful and not enjoyable. At the end of the day I'm doing this for enjoyment, not for punishment.

People tougher than me ride motorbikes.

People tougher than that ride bicycles.

People tougher than that walk (yes, it's been done).

etc. etc.

There will always be someone doing something more daring than me, but I'm not interested in what other people are doing, I'm finding my own personal balance / limit of difficult yet enjoyable.
> easy access to firearms

> glorify violence

> shifting focus from other problems

Blaming guns, violent video games, violent movies, etc. is just another example of shifting focus from the real problem.
I would posit that many businesses don't know the great value of a graduate with a good philosophy education. Critical thinking, clear writing, and persuasively advocating a position are all essential to business management.
I mean having a clear summary at the top regarding your desired position/goals, with a keyword mash of the technology you've used followed by details of work history, projects and the technologies used is a better place to start.

Having actual paragraphs combined with the keyword jumble goes a long way. You don't have to do excessive customization for each job.
I don't think it's a counterargument, it's more a prediction for the late-game of manufacturing technology. For the mid-game, I suspect it will be like it's with chemistry, agriculture, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology nowadays - there is no unified sector encompassing all the areas above, but there are big companies, like Monsanto, 3M or DuPoint, doing all four at once, exploiting the relative similarities of the fields.
I'm not convinced that more effort equals more success in this context. Actually I think the less effort you have to invest in getting a job the better the job will be.
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I agree that the educations aren't created equal, but consider what these kids were told going into college: a college degree = a good job.

The nuance of "the economy can't support liberal arts majors" didn't crop up with gusto until after the economy crashed, and isn't even true-- the economy can't support a bajillion physicists or electrical engineers either, nevermind that most people aren't cut out for it.
http://paper.genius.com/ anyone?
We can elaborate on those all day, but I nailed the gist of it and you know it.
>I was brought up to respect my elders and to consider society as a mostly-altruistic, benevolent mass of humanity with a conscience bent more towards justice and meritocracy

Interesting. Do you see this as more of a failure in your upbringing, or of a failure of society to live up to your expectations? Has this realization changed your political thinking in any ways?
This is why young people need to vote.
Thanks! I rewrote the example according to your suggestions. It's true that the part with @v, open-command, etc. wanted to be written differently. I realized that there has to be a better way of calling external command - I just couldn't find it then. Looking at the docs now, the meaning of ! is mentioned briefly:

> The @(next) directive supports the file name conventions as the command line. The name - means standard input. Text which starts with a ! is interpreted as a shell command whose output is read like a file. These interpretations are applied after variable substitution. If the file is specified as @a, but the variable a expands to "!echo foo", then the output of the "echo foo" command will be processed.

So it looks like I just missed it on my first reading.
> For C# equivalence, imagine if all the most easily accessible functions operated on the concrete `List` to avoid having to introduce interfaces and all had duplicates taking an IEnumerable instead (that doesn't quite work as C# uses methods but there you are).

Thanks! Considering 'List' is one of the few structures of FP I understand, that makes actual sense.
I like the call to tribal pride to build a better language and more constructive community.

I like too the fair descriptions of the major Python's alternative programming approaches and languages, even if this list is incomplete.
But the "Playboy philosophy" (which was a thing Hefner, at least, took very seriously -- see http://www.brooklynrail.org/2005/07/express/the-playboy-phil...) was always explicitly about liberating men: liberating them from the constraints of things like marriage and monogamy and propriety. It was interested in liberating women only insofar as it's difficult for men to live a swinging lifestyle in a culture where all the women are either monogamously married or saving themselves for such a marriage. Swinging men can't swing unless there are swinging women around as well. But women's lib, for Playboy, was always about them being freer to offer themselves sexually to men.

Women eventually reappropriated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation) its pages to enable a kind of female liberation that was about what women wanted rather than men, but that was something organic, not something the magazine itself created.
Just reiterating the state of the status quo's expectations-- they happen to be tied to useful and measurable economic activities.

I fully believe you can be an adult without any of the above.
Looks very similar to https://github.com/asm-products/buckets
I wish I could down vote this. This feels really spammy and not in the spirit of a "Show HN." Show HN, IMHO, is about sharing code or processes that other people can use that solve a problem. This is just an ad.
So its basically a reinvention of the servlet container model.
Shield equals tomcat or one of the other servlet container apps. Caplets equal war file packaged applications. Have I missed something?
Interesting, I have never used Haskell, only read tutorials and articles about it, but I don't get why the Foldable version should be harder for a beginner.

Instead of explaining that [a] is a List of a's, and then explaining what a list is, you explain that t is a container that is foldable which contains a's.

Does he really need to know the exact details of what a typeclass is?
I think your response rate in relation to time spent on the application has a third element, and that's your audience. If you are applying to giant corporate bank, your resume is first being read by a machine (ATS) scanning for words. I have no idea if your cover letter is being read. Time spent customizing is no better than basic SEO optimization perhaps.

Contrast this with applying for a startup where the CTO is reviewing the resumes, and you mention in the body of the application (they don't want a formal cover letter of course) that you've used their API and say something about how easy the experience was. You're getting an interview, unless you are largely unqualified.

I understand your complaints on process, and that's why I only work represent startups and smaller companies that usually let me streamline the process for clearly qualified individuals. I, too, was once frustrated by the process of some of my clients.
There's also the classic of Eric Drexler, who coined the very term "nanotechnology", "Engines of Creation". I highly recommend the read. It's very good at extrapolating possibilities and issues, though I personally don't agree with the conclusions about 'defense against nanotech attacks' outpacing the offensive capabilities.
The world's needs are not being met. Only the needs of the capitalist who wants to turn a profit. I can think of a million and one things we should be doing but won't because of money.
I'm not sure how they can pull this off without rebranding. State, ISP, and end user devices/software filters exclude playboy by name. Right?

How can you distinguish between old rated X playboy, and new PG playboy.
> There is no law stating that each generation of humans should have it easier and with more resources available to them

There is no law that requires this, but looking at world economic productivity numbers and our industrial & technology base there's no physical reason that people shouldn't have it easier with more resources every generation. If there is no physical reason, that leaves economic, social, & political causes...
That's not a that large of a number, considering it's a global industry.Also, we don't know how concentrated this wealth is.
I'm also not sure what keeps the light from coupling into your skin, instead of just the hairs.
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It was normal for women in 18th and 19th-century China to have two husbands
> chromophores (color bearing molecules) in hair can be severed at relatively low powers

What if you're blond?
And it is up to your generation to do a better job of it (no pun intended) so run for office!
>there is tremendous demand for certain occupations

The problem is that if you redirect all youth into these occupations, you will likely find yourself with more supply than demand. Software engineers are well-paid, well-treated, mobile, etc. because there are relatively few of them. This will not be the case when the default state of any 18-year-old is to become a software engineer.
Could you elaborate?

In my opinion, The New Yorker is widely considered to produce high-quality journalism.
> That candidates aren't obsessed enough with a potential "false positive" hire where they end up working somewhere they don't actually want to work. You can't tell me that someone applying for 40 positions a week truly wants to work at all 40 of those places.

This sounds like a whole lot of blaming the candidate. It also assumes that the candidate could even land one of those 40 positions in the first place. I applied to a whole lot more before I landed mine - as did most of my peers now in our early-mid 20s who didn't get swooped up in a career fair early on in the process.

You can't really tell me that someone applying for a job _in the first place_ truly wants to work (instead of pursuing a passion they like) period. More likely, the candidate doesn't want(keyword) to work at any of those 40 places at all. And here's the kicker:

The candidate should not be faulted for that if he or she is competent at the job and works hard.

The modern age has shown a lot of workers being faithful to their companies and having that faithfulness be an expected one-way street. Look at the firings of Disney and IBM Engineers. The Disney engineers had to even educate their replacements at reduced salary.

I'd love to be spending all my days producing music and building native iOS apps, but that's not how the world works. So, I work somewhere I tolerate working, somewhere I work well. And I count my blessings for it - not many millennials are as lucky as me.
Let's be practical, and I don't mean this in a cynical way: The goal isn't to actually BE honest.

The goal is for the employees to feel as if you ARE being honest, and that they have something positive to focus on that is not just plain disappointment and insecurity.

Plenty of corporate drones take this too far and focus too much on the sugar-coating to the point that only other top corporate drones think the email is a good one.

But I think Dorsey's passes the b.s. test (Most people's reactions, even those being fired isn't going to be "what a load of b.s.")

Could he be more direct? Yes. But it would come at a risk of coming off as callous and incosiderate.
Maybe everyone else just calls their customers "investors" for some reason?
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Found a broader discussion of archive theft here for those interested: http://blog.oup.com/2012/08/difficulty-inside-book-archive-t...

The basic challenge for the thief is finding something valuable enough to be worth selling, but not so valuable it's obviously hot. Then make sure there are no records it existed (in this case it appears the catalog didn't include the letters) and find somebody trustworthy to sell it to.

I have to agree that the best approach would be to digitize as much as possible, but that might or might not be a tall order for the institutions in question.
In some hand wavy statistical sense, those old people you see bagging groceries probably would have been dead 50 years ago. If that is true (I don't know if it is, I'm speculating), they aren't evidence of scarcity.

It's hard to measure quality of life, but if you look at things like housing, people in the US have more households now, with the average dwelling having increased in size (I'm sure McMansions pull up the average, but again, oversized houses aren't evidence of scarcity).
That's probably how he rationalized it to himself, given that opposing the airline over this would probably cost him his job. People generally take risks and then tell themselves stories to justify them.
I do not like fat jars. We use JVM + mvn + appassembler and pack the output into docker images. Not a big deal.
The article offers a conjecture, but other than that, it's not too helpful, and focuses too much on one incident.

The Stanford libraries have a mass shooting tracker.[1] It's not complete; it comes from what they could find with social media. They have an interactive map. Interestingly, some likely areas show few mass shootings. Manhattan has zero. New York City as a whole has two. (One was family related, another was someone shooting their supervisor, so they were ordinary motive-driven murders, not random targets) New York City is doing something right.

Looking at incidents on the map, it's striking how few of the motive-less killings happened in major cities. It's more of a suburban problem.

[1] https://library.stanford.edu/projects/mass-shootings-america
Snippet that I believe exemplifies what you mean (since it's a bit hidden):

It would be wrong and harmful to give MacOS an "equal footing".
Our goal is to replace nonfree systems (and nonfree software in
general), not to enhance them.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-10/msg00...
Is LKML generally hostile to newcomers and not assuming good faith? I heard it had issues, but not this one.
What makes it a sad truth? I personally see it as joyous, in that humanity is finally shedding the notion that our bodies and their needs are some sinful burden we must eschew.
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"solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"

Isn't this also our future? The future is unevenly distributed... Detroit hasn't reached you yet, but its only a matter of time.
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So you reinvented the vnode from riak_core?
Which is the best model to date for complex UI ?

Cocoa + Interface Builder or XAML/WPF ?

Have used Cocoa + Interface Builder and its quite a joy compared to web dev.

EDIT :

Has some thoughts on this :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2442340/how-does-cocoa-co...
> But I can't think of a way that the bubble could actually pop. Or what it would look like if it did.

It would look a lot like the retrenchment of the private for-profit college industry when private lending outside of government guaranteed programs collapsed with the 2008-2009 financial collapse, only hitting all of higher education, and the real-estate markets buoyed by universities, and the communities and industries supporting higher-education generally.

And it could happen with the stroke of a pen -- the federal government just cancels direct and subsidized loan programs.
That's a sentiment that every OSS project maintainer should take note of.
Post your resume on the next HN who's hiring thread. First of the month
I'm perfectly fine with socialism, with the government owning robotic manufacturing and software providing basic/government services.
Once you achieve a certain degree of success, you no longer have the same challenges, concerns, or mindset of the typical "indie dev," yes.

This is a guy whose tech podcast I stopped listening to partly because he and some other dweeb wouldn't shut up about their brand new BMWs.
I think it really depends. I suspect that, for a lot of people, the best strategy is to focus time and energy on companies that they're particularly interested in, have some in with, have unusual qualifications that are a particularly good match for, etc. But, perhaps in parallel, cast a wider net with a more shotgun approach that doesn't devote a lot of time to any single company pre-interview.
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Yeah I'm not suggesting that the candidates are entirely innocent. But I think the companies share a bigger portion of the blame. If they didn't want to get a million responses they could do things to limit their responses to people who actually want the job like say not allowing people to apply online, or making people apply in person, or requiring a cover letter of a certain length, or whatever.

But what has happened is that the companies set up these online systems to ostensibly make their own lives easier. Candidates have responded to the environment that they live in and started resume spamming. Companies respond by using overly-precise keyword matching to filter out candidates, despite the unsuitability.

It's not as though job seekers started printing resumes by the thousands and sticking them to the door of every business in their town and the companies had to adapt to this by making online systems to reduce the crushing influx of paper.