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Historically, to protect middle class people's retirement from swindlers and high-risk business deals, companies raising equity rounds are given the choice of three options: a) go public and accept the discipline of reporting requirements (which, the theory goes, de-risks the investments relative to private companies), b) raise money only from people one has a pre-existing social connection with (so called "friends and family" investment, which the government believes are less likely to be out-and-out scams and which would be difficult to sensibly prohibit anyway), or c) solicit investment actively, but only from sophisticated investors or investors who can afford sophisticated advisors.

The vast majority of startups choose door #3, which requires that they raise from "accredited investors." There are a few ways to hit the sophistication bar; the most commonly invoked are an asset test (~$1 million in net worth exclusive of positive home equity) or an income test ($250k in income for 2 years with expectation of same in the future).

This makes many normal people in the tech industry and in the professions (doctors, lawyers) into accredited investors, but excludes much of the middle class.

Reasonable people can disagree on whether this is good policy, but it is more-or-less the law in the US. There are recently some exceptions due to the crowdfunding law, but they're as-of-yet outside of the startup mainstream.

Accredited investors can't necessarily get into any particular deal; the most desirable companies quickly fill up, and since Snap was a fairly desirable company, the fact that an investor convinced their co-investors to sacrifice allocation in favor of getting a favored charity involved was basically a charitable donation all around. Accredited investors can generally find a company willing to take their money, but most investments in startups do not go well, even when the startups are executed competently. (This is the reason we have laws preventing e.g. 40 year old teachers from taking out a HELOC to put $100k into photo sharing for dogs.)
There were lots of attention to details like that... I still hope AROS will get to the point where I can use it more. The big challenge is SMP and memory protection; without it a lot of software gets really hard to port (a lot of essential OSS software depends on fork()). It's in the works, though, so maybe one day...
Windows Phone 7 did fine grained security much earlier and with full device encryption as default.

It's now also a standard on WinRT/UWP on Windows8/10.

Android was very late to the party regarding fine grained security. Google knowingly put billions of consumers at risk for a long time. And even today its security a nightmare.
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This is what I'm curious about too. It's not clear if this is a factor in your case. The Visa process can be an expensive and very long process, and I have seen companies turning down great candidates because they can't afford to wait a year to MAYBE get the candidate a visa.
Yeah, I'm a big Nintendo fan but so far I'm meh so far.

I am not clear why they are having performance issues but the NVIDIA Shield I have, based around the same or even earlier version chipset, is capable of outputing 4k games to my TV at quite excellent frame rates.

The touch screen should always be available in both modes, otherwise not useful to developers.

A second screen experience would have been nice so they could unify DS and Switch developer experiences.

They should have by default made people's Wii U virtual console purchases transfer to the Switch, as a token of good will and to encourage initial purchases of the console before other games are out.

There's no compelling reason to buy it for the new Zelda game as the Wii U version is just as good as the Switch version (so that's what I bought).

Unfortunately unless this product drops a bunch in price and takes over their DS niche, I am not sure it's going to do that well.
I agree with lr4444lr: there is something going on that apparently only comes out when they meet you face to face.

We do not know you so I will have to work on the little you put on the OP... maybe during the on-site interview you come out as a bit too desperate about changing job? or too whiney about the current job? Or both?

Try to consider if this could actually be a factor: I am sure that "what do you think of your current position" is pretty much a criteria in considering a new hire, even if it is not necessarily prominent during the interview.
Silicon Valley itself wouldn't have existed in the form it does without the huge government investments in the area, so even if that happened - and you can speculate all you want but facts remain they didn't -, it'd still be a win for government R&D funding.
Its a super hard topic to get more energy into a battery of similar weight and dimension.

In relation to that - it would be super easy to create a User Defending App that guns down rogue energy using Background Apps (GPS Location, homecalls every minute, etc.) but hey - all hail the mighty data kraken getting his prioritys straight.

No battery maker will keep up, with the energy demands of the surveillance industries.
Much of the negativity is related to the fact that the launch game itself does not play well when docked.

And this seems unjustifiable given how well the same chipset does in the NVIDIA Shield, which is capable of driving 4k games just fine.
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Take Elop out of the picture and they did just fine. He did everything he could to destroy Meego.

They launched the n9 without marketing and only made it available in secondary markets, but people still beat down a path to get them. Elop also refused to provide sales numbers (instead writing the infamous "burning platform" email), but third party guesstimates are in the 4-8M (for comparison, the subsidized, heavily marketed, easily available S3 sold around 40M units in the same year).

Elop even refused to launch the n950 (aluminum n9 with a great physical keyboard) despite it being ready to go (they shipped around 5K as developer units).

Nokia had the answer. Elop was paid 25 Million to killed it.
All those factors existed before.
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Maybe you could rip open the base (it seems it's only plastic), do a little work and get back the power/hdmi/usb c converter inside it.
So far I'm loving it, it's like a kid-friendly, slightly simpler Skyrim.

Though so far the atmosphere isn't as deep as the Zelda games have done in the past.

Though I thought Skyward Sword was just annoying so this is a relief.
Pretty much all of these other posters appear to agree that it's some form of "here's what's wrong with you", when in fact, none of us can know if that's the case.

But let's look at the numbers. Pretend every onsite interview had a random 10% chance of resulting in an offer. 10% offends certain people's sensibilities, but in this crazy bubble, I'd say for some businesses, it's on the high side. Management is a political game, and it's rigged, often against high performers. One interviewer may have made their employer pass on you because they felt you'd jeopardize their cushy monday-morning work habits, despite the fact the project is months behind schedule and falling further behind.

If you were to publish your experiences to a peer-reviewed scientific publication, everybody would tell you "need more data". 50 job applications is simply not enough, and 7 onsites nowhere near enough. If the search is grueling and bumming you out, maybe let up a bit, take a month or two breather, and try to focus on higher quality at the beginning of the funnel (if you're not thrilled about the job, don't waste any time on it).
When you agree to forgo something, you do so because someone else asked you to do it. Otherwise you would say you offered to forgo and they accepted.
I was not aware of that. Which is strange since I read more than 10 reviews, surely they would have noticed? is this your experience? All I heard was that it runs smoother than in the Wii-U even though it is not optimized for the Switch.
In some states, the validity of the Driver's License (DL) is aligned with the H1-B petition expiry date and I am in one of those states. My current petition expires in 4 months. Ideally my employer would have applied my H1-B extension under premium processing so that I am not without a valid DL but with this new rule, we'd have to go with regular processing and wait for the approved petition before I can get my DL extended meaning I'll be without a valid DL for some time which is a real pain. Ideally DMV should extend the DL based on the receipt for the petition but a lot of states, including the one where I am, don't do that.
Naming is hard for all the reasons OP mentions. But why I believe it is especially hard in computer science is that, like cache invalidation, it does not have a deterministic or "correct" solution. At some point, humans have to make a decision based on circumstances and tradeoffs.
> you invent these concepts independently

That sounds confusion to me. Those patterns are called patterns, because people practice them over long time, during the cause, they decoupled them nicely. Assigning the right name, implicitly means the clear understanding of scope and responsibility. Self-invented solution may echo the original idea in some aspects, but most of time, is not even nearly as clean.
I think you hit the nail on the head with this sentence: "A few of years ago, Gallup found that what most people wanted, all over the world, was a secure full-time job. That, after all, is the way most people get enough money to live on."

But then backtrack here and miss the point "A lot of us, men and women, grew up thinking of male full-time jobs as real jobs. It’s no wonder that many find the decline of the dad job so unsettling."

I don't think it's 'realness', whatever that means, that matters. It is the benefits like healthcare, ability to afford a place to live, education, and further the social and mental health benefit of working in proximity with people with similar interests and abilities.
Not all the factors are the same. It used to be legal in all states to leave school at age 16, which is part of why the traditional workforce participation statistic is for ages 16-64. But that only remains true in 16 states; 34 states have raised the minimum school-leaving age, yet the workforce-participation statistics are still calculated for age 16-64. Naturally you would expect lower workforce participation among people aged 16-18 when it's illegal for them to drop out of school and get a job instead.

It's also now more de-facto expected than it used to be that you attend at least some university (2 years of community college if not a 4-year university), so workforce participation rates for people aged 18-20 are declining for non-mysterious reasons. Although that's at least something you can legally choose not to do.
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Don't put everything in the same object .... A file object should not be used to open files, make something else to open the file, like editor.open(file), editor.clone(file), editor.move(file) ... And the file doesn't need to have all those properties, make functions that derive from file.path like dirName(file.path), fileExtension(file.path), fileName(file.path) ... But object oriented (OOP) is not the only paradigm. Don't make classes if you don't have to. Once you have discovered OOP you tend to make everything into classes, and spend a lot of time building cloud castles.
Well if we're talking about retirment you don't need to find work. What you say is otherwise true but for me the only real argument is medical care, and if it's not an emergency you can still travel a couple hours to the nearest major city[1] to get the rare treatment.

If you're not retired or working remotely I would never suggest living in India or anywhere in the third world for that matter - making money is so much easier in the west.

[1] random example: https://www.google.de/maps/dir/Shimla,+Himachal+Pradesh,+Ind... almost every Indian town will have a major city within a couple hours' distance, the country is very densly populated.
I do really like that rule that states that name_length is proportional to log(scope_size).
There was a reddit post a few days ago about how crazy it was that the original Porsche design was heavily reject by some company the guy worked for. I couldn't help but express the same opinion as you, I think I even used the same phrase. I guess there's something to be said for being able to inducing extreme opinions on both sides.
Absolutly!

Diversity means different perspectives on problem solving. It also means that it's likely one persons weakness will be another persons strength, as a result the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.

You need the exploratory programmers, the ones who can knock up a prototype in a couple of hours to validate an idea. But they might not be so good at doing production quality work. In your API example, this is the guy who is able to try out that new API framework that got released, and see if it fits with our systems in a couple of days. This programmer likes the New Star Trek, playing online MMO's and listens to drum n bass.

You need the diligent programmers - the ones who think of every edge case and make sure it's covered. Their systems are more robust than the exploratory programmers, but slower to deliver.
This engineer is the one who will think of every single possible combination of events that could be called on your API. They worry a lot, but don't take this as a sign they're unhappy, as they usually are generally happy. They like reading sci-fi books slowly, they don't make many jokes themselves but will erupt in laughter if you pose a quirky pun or bit of dark humor. They can appreciate the old and the new star trek, but would rather be coding.

You need the grumpy guy with a white beard, because he can see the entire tech stack and doesn't mind writing a high perforamnce kernel extension that 10x's your companies I/O perforamnce. But this engineer is NOT interested in working in the latest fad framework. They'll pull your chestnuts out of the fire when it matters most. They like the old star trek, dungeons and dragons and read Poe during lunch breaks.

You need the social coder who's great at seeing how systems interact, respected by different teams, they're all about the interface boundaries. They'll be on twitter and in your slack channel. They'll be reading all the pull requests and helping answer questions on the wiki. They dont care much for star trek, but are subscribed to 100 youtube channels.

Please forgive my tongue-in-cheek stereotyping, the richness of diversity allows a large field of view, and this comes from everybody having a different background, different interests, and different lives.
Many reviews have pointed out that the 720p tablet run of the game runs smoother than the docked form, which apparently has noticeable frame-rate drops.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9t2uY91kyg
>The obvious way out is to refactor by renaming those variables, but 'unsafe_filename_as_given_by_user' or 'list_of_files_as_given' doesn't quite roll off the keyboard.

That's absolutely the way to do it.

"unsafe_filename_as_given_by_user" is clear, precise and a much better name than just "filename" when used in a large scope. It's a stepping stone to better code.

The length and unwieldy nature of the specifically named variable is a code smell, but it's a code smell indicating a different problem this time - the problem is that the variable's scope and/or context is too large.

When I set out to refactor a large code base I almost always increase the variable name length to begin with to prevent name conflation, ending up with the 'unsafe_filename_as_given_by_user' kind of name and then bring it down again later when short variable names in a short scope are precise enough.
I do think 'realness' factors into it though. If you can connect what you're doing with the value the company gets from you doing it, you naturally are going to feel like you doing well == company doing well == security for all. This is, in fact, the implicit bargain in long-term employment.

As business and industry has become more abstract, more interconnect, more outsourced, and as in general human capital's value has crashed much harder than any graph from the article will show you, it becomes significantly harder for an employee to understand how his or her role actually translates into value. Or if it is understandable, it's abstracted away through a few other layers of the business and many of those layers change often, leaving you wondering if you're going to continue to be a part of it.

I think 'realness' factors hugely into it.
And who paid for the law to be created.
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The biggest thing I look for in the later interviews is the candidates ability to tell a story. Achievements, awards, schooling, and all that stuff aren't very reliable (look at how many cars win "car of the year"). If a candidate can go into detail about a particular event, that means they worked closely enough to it to actually care enough to remember the details. If they can explain the concepts I don't understand, that means they have a deep understanding.

Other than that, there are some aspects of Indian culture that are daunting to a potential employer. "How many people do you manage" is a common question to get during arranged marriages. The American equivalent would be "how much money do you make". It's a lot easier to pay someone more than give them more people to manage. You really need to show that you've bought into the American versions of self-worth, work ethic, and personal responsibility (that last one may seem weird, but it's often the case in India that if someone forgets to do something, you are the idiot for not reminding them).

P.S. Your stats honestly aren't that bad. People used to wallpaper their rooms/corridors with rejection letters before things went digital. Getting more perspectives never hurts though.
That probably explains why the amazon smile program included a local charity that caught me by surprise. I didn't think the local office would be technically savvy to sign up for a special amazon program.
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I'd add that "healthcare" as a benefit is a very American concern. In most real countries, that's taken care of separate to our jobs.
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Trump administration has a very hostile rhetoric against ANY immigrants. For illegals, they are criminals, and the legal ones are stealing the Americans their jobs!

That is what I read from his campaign. Of cause, for legals, he might not take action too soon before he had enough dealing with illegal immigrants. However legal or illegal, both are not welcomed by he and his supporters, just a matter of priority.
Fraud is a legal term that presumes a finding in a court of law to be anything other than a nonsense word (that means whatever someone thinks it means). It's absolutely correct in this case for the headline to refer to "redirect" because no court has found that to be fraud (yet) - that's the allegation the lawsuit is making.

It's why we don't call murder suspects murderers.
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This has been a fun little project that began during the holiday season last year. I got a lot of inspiration visiting SFMoMA late last year and had a strong desire to dissect some of the artwork I saw and to see if I could create something similar. I thought it'd be a good exercise to decipher and see if one could formulate the algorithm some of these artists are using and then be able to apply said algorithm to arbitrary subjects. I'm going to beat around the bush and not say the artist that inspired this (shouldn't be difficult to tell), I've found some articles online that they don't want any outside projects with their name referenced on it so I'll respect those wishes. I've tried some neural-networks to see if I could extract features and apply it to another image, but in this instance I got better results with a procedural approach.

The core is written in Python and nested in the Cocoa app. It uses scikit-image and PIL libraries. I actually originally wrote this project as a web application that allowed users to convert images online. It had an easy to use mobile web interface for users to upload images and download conversion. The upsell was for users to pay for high resolution images. I ultimately decided to remove the web app because I felt the quality of the images it was producing wasn't that great due to certain technical constraints.

It takes real estate to draw the nested shapes, thus drawing work better on larger images.
The conversion is inherently CPU intensive. The server I was renting had one processor and 512 RAM, which works well for images less than 1000 pixels. Anything larger requires some gymnastics such as cutting the picture into 100 smaller pictures, processing, then stitching it back together. I also didn't want to upgrade the servers too much because that becomes a re-occuring high monthly cost for a small project with a low feature set.

Next steps:
- Working on some additional effects.
- Vector output. PIL doesn't support vector output by default, but was easy to hit the ground running with. pycairo would be a good candidate.
Yes, I almost expanded further on the healthcare point for that reason, but then realized the author seems as if they are possibly writing from the UK.
Yes! This "health insurance is a job benefit" is an artifact of labor competition in the US during WW2. In Switzerland, where health insurance is mandatory, your employer specifically isn't allowed to purchase it for you...you have to go into the same market as everyone else (which is more fair, and doesn't impair labor mobility).
Brazilians and Chileans are Americans too. Even though they are from another continent.
>As Intel owns all rights to the x86 architecture, there will never be any new manufacturers licensed to make x86 chips ...

This strikes me as the root problem here. How can one company be granted a monopoly on what is basically an instruction set? Particularly in the case of the instruction set our civilization runs on?

Since I can't understand how something like this could happen I don't understand why any replacement architecture wouldn't end up being controlled by a single entity.
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But if B's position is untenable, that will eventually become apparent.

Sure. That's why B is investing heavily in its military.
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Thanks!
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Maybe it has something to do with the US/CIA fucking up those countries.
Was entirely unnecessary in order to tear holes in your calculation's assumptions.