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I applied to over 500 jobs, had about 11 interviews, got rejected by 9 out of 11, and got rejected twice by the company I'm working for. (Once a hiring freeze, once they didn't like me) To me, you're not applying enough.

Also I don't count phone interviews as interviews. Those are just to weed out candidates from the in person interview.

Lastly, I think we're missing some info. You must be doing something odd on the phone or you would've had an in person interview. Do you have any friends in management who can do mock interviews with you to figure out what it is?
"Well, if he had nothing to hide then he had nothing to be worried about. "

lol constitution wut
The issue is, of course, that the more you focus on specific tasks the more your language becomes "designed for" those tasks, and the language becomes less general. The language already went through some of this with Servo - the DOM would be much easier to implement with an object-oriented language, but that wouldn't fit in well with the rest of Rust and would significantly raise complexity.
I am the author. And I am not an academic interested in bringing out a lengthy article with explaining the interpretations and all.

I am, in this instance, pragmatic: explaining what’s bad, why it’s bad, what we need to do right now, and that’s it, and now I’m trying to work on a solution with the GitHub people.

If this is not enough, do your own research. In my referrers, there have popped up some Russian sites that (according to Google Translate) did some of their own research (and came to similar conclusions). Ex-Debian’s joeyh did, too.
One way you can end up using the wrong tool is through trying to cram every relevant fact about a variable or function into its name because you have been told comments are bad.
I've had lot of one sites going wrong, as anecdotal as it might be, I mostly changed jobs by a connection bringing me in and once by just a phone screening.
As somebody who deploys high density wifi for a living I can agree that WiFi sucks. 5Ghz is already super crowded and it's only getting worse. The new LTE over 5Ghz is going to kill 5Ghz I think once it becomes deployed. Some of the cameras in arena run on 80mhz 5Ghz frequency that hop around and can't be channel planned. They are the worst.
Thanks for bringing an actual realistic explanation for what might be behind this.
lets also acknowledge that there are billions of people who are using their dollars to vote against uber by taking taxis, use lyft, take public transportation, purchae cars, walk, or ride their bike.

in other words, thats a terrible argument in support of uber.
Yes I believe is within the realm of possibilities, although I do not know if it is factually true.

What we do know is that under the Obama administration the IRS was used to target and undermine conservative groups, and this practice went on for years with very little outrage. Therefore it's not totally uncharacteristic behavior.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/5/irs-reveals-lis...
Reading this first was helpful for me: https://www.lvh.io/posts/nonce-misuse-resistance-101.html
I used to work with a programmer who literally did nothing for over a year - he came into the office and sat there browsing the web. He was the highest paid employee. Everyone knew it was happening (including the clients) but no one mentioned it.

The company was too small to promote him to a manager position, which as far as I can tell is how the situation is often dealt with in big companies, i.e. pass the buck to another department.
Is it illegal to use either radar detectors or gps camera locators in England? What law is it?

I'd be interested in a link to the "flashing lights" case too.
In Java, you just have to repeat types twice very often:

DescriptivelyNamedFoo = new DescriptivelyNamedFoo();

In a language with even limited type inference, e.g. C#, this repetition is gone.
Coding software needs to catch up with usability testing of presenting software. The dynamics are equivalent. In usability theory there is no one practice for all domains. In fact, usability theory completely embraces marketing where branding is important, i.e. distinctness is highly valuable. I suggest then that usability studies be companion to software written to the same extant as software presentation. Naming is just one aspect of usability. Information architecture, or grouping of names, is one of the most important roles in usability. In his report this year Jakob Nielson did a comparison study across ten years. Usability of software has increased in every category save one: information architecture. Grouping names into menus for tasks is really, really hard. The current trend of mega-menus is no help from experience. Doing usability studies and task analysis on the code would be a huge boon to usability of the application. It would raise overall usability awareness and its value.
I might need a job badly but I find it difficult to show that I need it badly. It just seems too much drama for me. I just hate these interviews - they are so much about pretending to so much better than you really are, etc etc... But I really don't have a solution to propose either. I just wish interviewers start registering in for different kinds of personalities.
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Sorry, I realize my comment was unclear. I meant the actual board in the dock is quite small and easily accessible, so removing it and placing it into a new housing should be fairly straightforward.
I love HackerNews. People are clinging really hard to the idea that Obama was a great guy or whatever. I'm going to take my little -3 point soapbox and lead anyone who wants to understand how bad Obama's presidency was to this reading list by left-wing writer Emmett Rensin:

http://www.bookforum.com/booklist/17438

The era of Obama is over. Now the majority of Americans may see it clearly for the first time. Over the past eight years, it has become apparent that President Obama's presence in office was a distortion. His calm demeanor and steady optimism seduced liberals into thinking that they were living in good—if occasionally dull—days, at war with an intransigent Congressional GOP, but blind to the breadth and power of the reaction brewing below. Liberals were often frustrated by the slow progress under Obama, even offended by the indifference and injustice that persisted in the practice of American power, but the White House and its boosters in the respectable media always had their rebuke: Don't worry. We're getting there. Trust the process.

That calm is over and for many, the sudden chaos of the political situation comes as a shock. What happened? When did the country become so precarious again? But there is no "again." None of this is sudden. It is only that, in the absence of President Obama, every cruelty that persisted or grew under his stewardship has come fully out into the open. Some of this was the former president's doing. Some of it was not. But none of our problems are concealed by the veneer of steady progress anymore.

Obama was a bad president, Clinton was a bad candidate, and the Democrats are the main group to blame, since their failure gave an odious Trump the presidency, no matter how much saber-rattling tries to pin it on Russia.
Works in Elixir, too...

Enum.sum(for x <- [1, 2, 3, 4], rem(x, 2) == 0, do: x * x)

Edit: BTW: I'm not sure, but I think Erlang had list comprehensions even earlier than Python.
What kind of human being downvotes when someone survives a terrorist attack?
I guess it's the way I understood it. "Drops frames occasionally when there are a lot of elements moving on the screen" vs "plays poorly". Disappointing, sure, but hardly a deal breaker. I guess I'll wait a bit and judge on my own.
It started with the Mexican-American war of 1846, so that is a viable theory (though the CIA was not yet involved). That's the war Mexicans still teach in every Mexican school with a big famous map showing that California and Texas are Mexican territory unjustly stolen by the USA.
> In the history of human interaction, has anyone said that and not then followed it up with something arrogant and dickish?

Of course not. I take that to mean "what I have to say I cannot say in a way that is not dickish, so understand that I'm not doing it with the purpose of hurting you".
> I often notice that I can remove a comment line after renaming a few identifiers in the code below it, because the code starts to read self-explanatory enough.

Careful with that. I'm of the mind that the code author is incapable of describing how readable any codebase is. It's too easy to mistake your innate understanding of your own creation for readability.
Other than the "hacking" part (which is very cool and a good show of how far Linux went in terms of compatibility IMO) is there any interest in this?

I mean, in installing a base system that is just not optimised both in processing power and in interface in a tablet?

I've installed Ubuntu in my parents laptop (some Core 2 Duo with 3GB RAM) and it runs really slowly. I guess in the tablet it will be even a bit slower, so I can't see anyone actually using this other than a gimmick.
I keep wondering what kind of jobs are going to be there for my kids and what I need to be teaching them. My oldest daughter wants to have a beauty business instead of go to college. I think she might be better off that way. I mean, the day when women would rather gossip to a machine while getting their hair cut by it is a long way off.

I'm not so sure what to do for my other kids though.
Do you really think the only option other than selling you a new full-price console every couple of years, is a decade of PS3 or the like?

Come on.
Has someone looked into a problem of automatic (computer-generated) naming? As in, generate a unique name that somewhat describes this thing that was just generated (like a piece of code)?
Maybe that is the case for some, but I think your argument misses a large percentage of the workforce, which is, the part that is already married and / or has kids.
You can't "make it" or legislate that everyone gets to live in San Francisco or in a house by the beach if they work a minimum wage job. That's how you get into the unafforable mess. Most cities with unaffordable housing, like NYC and SF, have rent controls and zoning issues artificially increasing demand and tightening supply simultaneously.
Much agreed - I quite regularly write code like that, and it's very clear on reading the first thing after the `=` that you're doing something conditional. You can also embed complex expressions in there without confusion. The ternary syntax requires you to read the entire statement before you even know what kinds of expressions it contains, then backtrack to figure it out.
Read more (page 2) - there is a considerable discussion of channel congestion and interference due to over powered zones and large number of devices.
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I didn't have time to snap the picture, but I was in the pleeb lane standing behind some very dark skinned Africans and two lanes to the right in the Lexus lane was a large group of shinning, twinkly blonde Australians. If someone wanted to fabricate a story about apartheid being instituted in America, this would have been it.
As the paper I cite shows, what changed is that women are entering the workforce and finding better jobs than men. I think we are saying the same thing.
That's incorrect and misleading. There are two things here: US law, and what the State Department does, which are sometimes contradictory. Current US law says citizens can renounce citizenship regardless of tax obligations, although it does not remove these obligations - the IRS could still take steps to get their money back. In practice, the State Department slows down or blocks people renouncing citizenship for all kinds of reasons (tax reasons, they may be under duress, age, lack of second passport, etc etc.) This does not change the law, and ultimately if you're wealthy and persistent enough to go through the enormously complex procedure of renouncing citizenship, you will be able to get it renounced despite tax obligations.

Once that happens (rich person is no longer a citizen & owes taxes) they'll face many consequences, and the two largest are 1) the IRS will take steps to get their money and 2) they will be barred from entering the US if their renunciation was for tax purposes. Note that in 2) the Attorney General must state that your renunciation was for tax purposes, so if the AG is busy with other things, you're not high-profile enough, or nobody cares, you will probably be able to return to the US.

In reality, of course, things are a bit more complex: the State Department officers are usually unfamiliar with renouncing citizenship and mess up with one or more steps. Some people are never put on a list of renunciants and some do not have their US passport taken away or cancelled. Even some high-profile renunciants have not been put on the list - or were not put on the list until people complained.

If anyone wants to read more, this [0] is mostly factual and pretty well researched.

I am not a lawyer, I am not a renunciant (and never will be), and if you make any decisions about renouncing your citizenship based on this comment you are insane.

Sidenote: renouncing citizenship is not a right everywhere (many countries don't allow it.)

[0] http://www.renunciationguide.com/expatriation-process/renunc...
Thanks for the info, that might save me some benchmarking time myself in the near future ;)
> [..] though I bet if Apple had designed it, the stylus wouldn’t just be sticking onto the side of the laptop with a magnet.

Indeed, you'd have to buy an adapter to attach it to the laptop.
I get to choose my car insurance separate from my closing my job. I get to choose my life insurance separate from my job. I get to choose my liability insurance separate from my job.

Why I have to choose health insurance and my employer together is beyond me.
I'm not sure what the UK is like but New Zealand has a public system and, to be clear to American readers who only hear negatives about wait times, you generally are not waiting if you have a life threatening issue. The wait time if for issues like joint replacements and varies depending upon your need and the availability of medical staff etc.

A suspect a few people are going to read "weeks, even months before they would have otherwise - that's important if you have a painful or debilitating condition. " and assume that is a given for a public system. You often have to wait for non urgent issues in the US as well if you want a specific doctor or clinic.
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freddie_mercury bellow touches most of it, and there are other issues: a friend of mine who lives abroad but maintains a mailing address in the us, has a yearly dance taking hours of calls, faxes and writing letters to explain that he does not need to file state taxes and that the state should not, in fact, put a lien on his assets.

Also, the filing requirements (fbar and fatca in addition to a lot of stuff on the "regular" form) are insanely onerous. The tax code essentially assumes that any financial activity a US taxpayer does outside the US (even if that's where they reside) is done with the intention of tax evasion.

When FBAR was created, it covered a few hundred to a few thousand presumed evaders. Now it covers millions to ten of millions with the same presumption of evasion.
> I might need a job badly but I find it difficult to show that I need it badly.

Okay, so there's a very fine line here. You don't want to show that you need it badly. You want to show that you want it badly.

Need it badly would imply that the reason you're there is for the cash, and you don't care about the company you're applying for or the job you're going to do for them.

Want it badly might likely imply that you're dying to do the job you're applying for, and you're dying to work for this particular company.

A candidate who just needs a job and spends time communicating that they need a job badly is going to lower their chances. A candidate who wants the job badly spends time talking about the company they're applying for, and why that particular company is the place they want to be, and why that particular job is the job they want to do.

> they are so much about pretending

In my experience, pretending doesn't go very far. It's far better to be in a place of complete honesty about your skills and about your needs and wants. When you're honest, and you find the job you actually want, and you apply for that job, it will show and your chances will go up. I've been interviewing engineers for a couple of decades, and I can tell you it's fairly easy to spot people who are pretending about how good they are and how much they want the job, the entire process is designed to weed out pretenders.
We actually don't know the IRS was used to target and undermine conservative groups.

There are indications that the IRS did target the groups, there's no documentation of the motivation or whether it was directed by someone with political ties to the Whitehouse.

(For example: a mid level manager could have done it to be capricious. Or because they had experience with people exploiting energized political movements to obtain fraudulent tax exemptions.)
The ones I know about are coming up on 55 years in use and still look good. I expect as long as you keep them dry and insect-free they'll last a long time.
Sounds like "everything is amazing and nobody is happy" syndrome [1] :-)

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgEvjW1Pq4I
Exactly. High rent is an economic signal, saying "build more housing" or "move away".

You have to listen to it, not fight it.
1) Are you discussing in the interview that you HATE your current job?
That is likely somewhere between a 'yellow' and a big red alert, depending on how you describe it and what prior beliefs the interviewer has about your company/industry.

Let's say you interview pretty well overall, and the interviewer guesses that there's a 80% chance that your previous company is really that bad, but a 20% chance that you are the toxic personality.

In general, a smaller company filling one of its few leadership roles will have less stomach for risk, so any real or perceived warning signs can be grounds for rejection. Even more so if they are small and not growing very quickly.

2) 7 interviews without an offer doesn't mean you are damaged goods, but you didn't mention any feedback or learnings from those 7 interviews. Its ok to ask how you did at the end of an interview. Even without that, what are they telling you without telling you?

* Statement questions like "so it sounds like you don't have direct experience with X?" or "is there a reason why you didn't do Y?"
* Enthusiasm/body language changes during the interview - whats the topic when they occur?
* Leadership questions like "that does sound like a problem, what did you do to address that?"
* Do you feel like you are doing well with some interviewers but not others? peers, senior leadership, engineers, direct reports... they are grading different things
When she said "I have agreed to forgo" it means she was "asked" to forgo her bonus -- presumably on the threat of being fired, otherwise.
Can an article be honorably retired? Joel's article was important 14 years ago, but that was a time when it was not clear that UTF-8 was going to become the default encoding of the Internet, and a time before emoji. In 2003, codepoints outside the Basic Multilingual Plane could be safely ignored unless you were a historical linguist; now, people use them every day.

This article is much better at telling you relevant things (with nice data-driven visualizations!) about how Unicode is used now.
Can you clarify what impact that has in regards to population? I don't believe the US has significantly different medical needs compared to any other OECD nation?
it's an extreme and i would not advocate it, but cuba shows it is possible.

i also think with amount of money sf spends -- which is A LOT -- we could provide way better circumstances, if better managed.
I have taken a 'certification' and a 'class' with Udacity and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The courses are shallow and do not challenge the student and the certifications hold no significance.

I prefer EduX courses as they are more like 'classes' and I feel are slightly more respectable to put on a resume.
I don't know if America's "size" is really used as an argument against single-payer working here but if it is, I'm sure what is meant is population size. What's an example of referencing a country's large size meaning more diverse or heterogeneous rather than greater population?

But I agree that "size" in this case definitely does not mean geographic size. Geographic size might be a factor for why America doesn't have better telecommunications or rail system, not health care.
caught is a bit hyperbolic. Government agencies have every right to work with industry partners to promote, understand, and enforce regulation. This happens all day everyday in industries around the world. Uber isn't somehow exempt from that.
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I don't want to discourage you, but those numbers are very good (7/50 onsite means you got to almost the final stage and considering that you are not applying for every job under the sun - this is a good number - 10/50 would be a great number imo).

Don't give up now even though you feel like it!

While I don't have 12 yrs of experience as you do, I had almost 2 yrs of exp leaving Uni and still had a hard time getting a job!

Just out of curiosity - are you looking for jobs at startups? and are they located in SF/SV?

As a final point, from what I've been told it's a better idea to deal with good recruiters instead. Maybe asking your colleagues for recruiter recommendations and contacting them would get the results you are looking for.
but non-city areas are cultural wastelands. theyve been hollowed out. does it really have to be the case that nice cities by the sea can only be the playground of the elite and the workaholic childless?
We already have Universal Basic Income, it is just buried in bullshit
CEO for big companies is almost a no lose situation, no matter how bad you mess up... or what you do might be a better way to say that.
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I don't know about the bible, but here's an old Russian proverb:

Алты́нного во́ра ве́шают, а полти́нного че́ствуют.

Translation: One hangs the thief who stole altyn(3 kopecks), and honors the one who stole poltinnik(50 kopecks).