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You are right to think that there is a correlation between previous salaries and difficulty in finding jobs. In an ideal world, if your true worth is $X/year but you're willing to work for $(0.90X)/year, then you should be able to nab a job right? After all, you're a bargain. I struggled with this myself as a student job hunting, fighting the mentality of self-worth. All my jobs previous to my new one were low pay for our industry (highest was $25/hr CAD). As someone who's had to learn to embrace this mental shift when negotiating with much better offers relative to what I was used to, the first thing I will say is that you are spot on: a race to the bottom helps no one.

So OK, let's talk about your main question: where to begin to command interviews and ultimately a better salary? The advice here so far has been standard: (a) look outside of one area (b) do side projects and (c) talk to recruiters/network. This is fine advice, but IMO, not the most helpful. Advice like "find your niche" is better... but that is a difficult task on its own, to decide on one path that is by definition obscure.

Again I will draw from personal experience to try and share what I've learned. What worked most for me was to aim for a dream job, and to do things that would lead to building skills that would make me qualified for this dream job. I was in my 3rd year of undergrad - at the time, it was to work in an NBA front office - I was studying stats, and didn't have many interests besides having fun and following basketball. In following this pursuit to its limit, I learned many skills along the way that I didn't have until I decided what I most wanted: web scraping, web development, databases, scripting, algorithm development, computational statistics, explaining statistics to non-technical users, trying to build a business, etc. Side projects, building a network (both local and out of town), and finding my niche (data science + web dev + product skills) resulted from this goal. They would have never happened on my own initiative - I would have been one of many people dreaming of app ideas and side projects to start but never finish. This has a nice benefit that comes for free: you are now different than the rest. Your perspective to solving problems and your experiences will be unique (to what degree, matters based on whatever it is you choose).

The downside of my advice is that it is not a short fix: myself, I am now 3-4 years from when I started this story, as I am soon to graduate from my MSc Stats. But you can accelerate this process, and I can tell you it works: applying to jobs coming out of my undergrad, I only heard from companies that you wouldn't recognize. This year, I got on-sites at Amazon and Capital One before deciding to accept a dream job offer at Shopify. You can do it - and I hope that this is an answer and story that can help you in your search of where to begin your change in approach.

P.S., when you get there, do not underestimate the truth behind how useful resources like CTCI, whiteboarding, etc. are for the interview stage.
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"the article made the product seem very heavy, all-in-one"

This is what amazes me. WeChat has lots and lots of features, but doesn't feel heavy at all. The messaging UI is both clean (no unnecessary clutter; snappy) and feature-rich (can send text, start a voice chat, send money, send a voice message). Some of the other features that you might not use every day (like paying utility bills, topping up mobile) are in a separate 'Wallet' section which actually looks a bit like the Alipay app.
Whilst I found the Hong Kong branch or influence of this religion interesting, one cannot help a desecendent of this religion - Manichaeism - has a major mark in chinese history and even recent literal culture.

The Ming dynasty was said to be found partially based on this religion. ...
I do the same thing, and have a couple of commands set up to run grep over the last day, week, month, or ever in my history. I don't use my full history every day, but it's something worth keeping around.
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"WeChat's specific success in China was really driven by WeChat payments and QR code"

WeChat was successful (in DAU/MAU) way before WeChat payments existed. WeChat payments couldn't have succeeded without the existing user base.
this is some self-help guru type of bullshit.
The HyperFIDO Mini (U2F Security Key) is the cheapest and smallest key I've found so far for $10. (Amazon)

The Yubico are probably the best key chain candidate. No one wants to trust their key to a weak nylon thread.

You can also set up a Google account to use more than one U2F key.

As for Google 2FA, I think Google caused a lot of confusion by how they set up the Google Authenticator app. Always opt for the text generator codes instead of a barcode. You can then use the code to use on a second Google Authenticator app on another device. Google at one time stated that you could only set up 2FA on a single device, which makes most users leary as one could lose his or her phone.
> why is IoT, as an idea, retarded?

The usual complaints about IoT as an excuse for surveillance capitalism aside, the key problem with IoT in most products is the (currently obscured) costs do not outweigh the (often novelty) benefits. By benefits I mean actual, significant time or effort savings that need to outweigh the large risks inherent to anything IoT.

> underlying platform for secured communication

That illustrates a big part of the problem. There is no such think as a "secure platform", because "Security is a process, not a product."[1]

The internet is and will always be an incredibly hostile place. If you plan on internetworking on the shared global network or anything that connects to it in any way, you need to plan on a way to maintain vigilance over the devices you created or are responsible for. This means continuous work into the future[2].

> I bet I could [...beneficial outcomes...]

You're only listing the positive side. To judge IoT properly also need to enumerate the known problems and possible risks. A few examples of the risk that most IoT devices bring are:

* The other end of the supposed "secure communication" being compromised by governments, criminals, disgruntled workers, etc.

* Bugs (everything has bugs) allowing assholes of the "swatting" persuasion messing with your power, food, etc "for the LULZ".

* All that data being logged - even when stored locally - becoming the target for discovery in a trial (maybe involving you, maybe not).

* The manufacturer of your IoT device selling data to your insurance company, or you insurance company requiring that data from you directly (e.g. fitbit data for "cheaper" insurance that now has more ways to deny you coverage).

That's just some obvious examples. The real problem is that after data is collected it tends to be permanent. Nobody has thought of the big risks of plugging your devices into a hostile network. You see the potential benefits of IoT devices, but you also need to consider what some black hat (or script kiddie) will do with all of those devices - and the data they collect - in 10+ years with a clever new exploit.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2000/04/the_process...

[2] It might be possible to limit this with products that have a limited lifespan and are guaranteed leave the network.
I didn't see getting beaten up by airport security anywhere in the contract of carriage.
As Nicholas Taleb put it - stuff that is natural is time-tested. Food we've grown + consumed has a multi-millennium history of being safe to consume. The burden of proof is on the synthetic. And health issues can materialize with a time gap of a decade or so - essentially you can ruin a couple of generations with a mistake you didn't catch in time.

It doesn't help when those who have to prove their validity have to resort to regulatory capture so often.
Cars kill people. At worst current IoT let a pirate control your light bulbs, see your heart beat or record your sleep patterns, waste your food and listen to your music.

This won't interest anyone.

For this to start seriously motivating people, you'll need:

- even more numerous DDOS, with more expensive consequences. Companies are affected so they act.

- scandals with naked people, preferably famous ones or underage, or both. People that gets the medias talking.

- money stolen. A lot, to bother insurances.

- people dying. Scaring the public always work. E.G: fire started by pirated IoT device.

Otherwise nobody is gona bat an eye.

We don't live in a world were most companies do the right thing because it's the right right. Remember that tobacco companies use to run ads to show you how cool your life is with cigarettes while lobbying the congress to state how non dangerous for health it was. Remember that people are putting their entire life on systems with text analysis, geolocation and face recognition and they don't see the big deal out of it. Remember that the government spies on every citizen, considers it perfectly acceptable, and that the citizen let it to.

So really, the fact that your connected fridge has an open telnet port is not going to move anyone.

You need damage done to get a reaction. Not potential damage.
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Alternatively, you can use ZSH and not lose history, even better, have history work simultaneously in multiple terminal windows simultaneously without closing the window to save/read the history of other windows. http://ohmyz.sh/
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Apple made it clear in their roundtable discussion with selected journalists earlier this month that they don't have plans for a mac with a touchscreen.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/05/apple-no-plans-for-touc...
Maybe someone should SWAT Uniteds CEO and his family so he knows what it's like. Violence is good and appropriate right?? /s
There's something else going on as well, though. People in China will now use Alipay/WeChat to pay at (for example) restaurants even though they have a bank card, and the restaurant can take bank cards. The restaurants increasingly have specialised hardware (maybe part of the same POS terminal that takes bank cards) and aren't using a smartphone to process customers' mobile payments.
As they say: 'sell hubris, buy humiliation.'
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Well, there is currently a huge uproar in India about exactly this so I'm not sure if it's all that disingenuous.

Moreover, even a cursory search of electoral frauds in India throws up a huge gamut of complaints, ranging from 'ghost voters' to missing ballot boxes (and EVMs). Parking aside an another unsubstantiated claim that leaders who lost are just 'whining', I will still contest the claim that 'there have been no electoral frauds' since EVMs were introduced, as your original comment implied.
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I think requiring someone to swear to tell the truth is more a way to nail someone for perjury later than it is to make them tell the truth. It's like those immigration forms where they ask you if you have ever performed an act of terror (or somesuch). Nobody in their right mind is going to check the YES box, but if they find out later that you lied, it's much easier to charge you and jail or deport you.
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I think it's more about the MacOS's add-ons to bash here than bash vs zsh -- but who knows!
The article mentions Yubikey at $18. As an alternative, the Nitrokey U2F is only €9 (€11 including delivery)

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So we're off the whole "Trump is a Russian spy" narrative now are we? It's hard to keep up sometimes
Is the stuff you linked to needed to realize those benefits in zsh?
Yeah sure. Like people are caring about Facebook so much right now because of all the informations they've been given about how dangerous this is ?
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Right now yes, nuke forces are crippled and no longer sufficient to do their job in many cases. Essentially they are sufficient in just one case: Russia finds itself in unmanageable situation and attacks countervalue first, in a deliberate suicide to take everyone else with it. To me it seems highly unlikely. In all other situations, nukes will simply play too little role with every possible conflict fought and won without or with very minimal use of nukes.

They didn't update for 30 years after all, and conventional smart weapons evolved a great lot in the same period. Nukes are almost not needed for counterforce (almost, because area targets such as sub bases and mobile ICBM garrisons are still better attacked with airburst nukes, but these are so low number it will be inconsequental from humanitarian or environmental standpoint).
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In the Netherlands, where I live, there is the International Institute of Social History, which does a lot of data processing, and has programmers as employees. As a student I screw up an interview very badly, by not showing up. I still regret it after 20 years. How stupid can a youngster be. On the other hand I don't have any complaints about my work and pay and benefits at the jobs I have had since then, which probably would have been very different had I gone the historyprogrammer route.
Take what you read with a grain of salt. Amazon can be an amazing place for some and horrible place for others. The horrible stories are more interesting to tell and stick with you but doesn't make them the rule.
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The main reason I found this interesting is that recently my wife and I started eating Shyojinryori (the food the Japanese monks eat) quite consistently. The food is vegan and also contains no onions, spiciness, or garlic. It was a first for me to leave these out. I noticed within a few days that I could smell multiple times better. My wife had a work party where she broke her diet. When I came home, the entire house reeked of garlic and alcohol to the point where it was uncomfortable to breath. I had to open the windows in our room despite the freezing temperatures.
I ended up also breaking the diet because I just couldn't stand the smell of people in the subway. Popped a bit of garlic and onions in my food, and I could no longer smell the people around me.
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"After moving to California from Beijing, I can do all those things easily now online."

I'd find it hard, in California, to do any of these things:

- Send a small payment to a friend (sure, Venmo, but most of my friends don't have Venmo)

- Buy movie tickets and choose a seat

- Pay in a restaurant without risk of my card being cloned

- Pay a water or electricity bill

- Share (real time) location with other people (yes, 'Find my friends' works if we're on iOS, but now everyone is, and it has major setup friction, and no concept of temporary sharing or groups)
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Ockham's razor reasoning is that a gigantic profit driven structure with a huge lobbying activity, and high financial stakes should probably not be trusted with making the right choice between their business and our health.

History tells it didn't work very well for us when the big guys said tobacco, asbestos, the Chernobyl cloud and PCBs were all safe and good.

Given Monsanto's pretty poor moral track record (improper accounting for incentive rebates, Agent Orange, terminator seeds, patent trolling...), it's only fair to be suspicious by default with them.
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That problem was solved (for at least the big banks: ICBC, BoC, CMB, CCB) for WeChat at least 2 years before you left China.

For Alipay, it was already solved when I moved to China in 2010.
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I found the shaman's perspective fascinating from an evolutionary psychological point of view. Cultures have had to decide how to treat the mentally ill long before science was around to try and explain it.

The shaman's perspective also had some interesting food for thought about the implications of western society's lack of ritual for the right of passage into adulthood.
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I think that the 1960's plans called for Moscow to be struck by about 400 warheads. Perhaps the modern ones call for less than 10, no one who knows will be able to comment I guess. In any case, not a great day to be in Moscow, London, Los Angeles, Paris... Perhaps casualties will be lower than the second world war, but I doubt it, and my guess is that they will be much higher for civilians, and that the injury count would be perhaps ten times higher due to flash burns. In any case my guess is that everyone who reads this would know people who will die in such a conflict. Not an exciting or positive thought.
We are seeing this same replicated in India (in a different sector). India's richest businessman has started a new telco because he has 23billion$ put in his new co which provides cheap data and started the trend of lower cost per sms/data for consumers.

Being rich and influential takes you to places for sure and since Tencent was actually powerful and had their own IM like GTalk, they had the skills and the presence for this. But we have to appreciate that they were not restrictive to their cash cow, they disrupted themselves and moved forward to create/acquire wechat
> Likewise, most European countries do not fluoridate their water and the correlation doesn't seem to show any significant difference in dental health

I've never researched this so it may be confirmation bias, but my experience living in Europe and the US is that Americans have better looking teeth.
All the things you listed are things to be planned for. None of them are extremely terrible in and off themselves with the proper vigilance. Even the data logging should be solvable with reasonable laws.

Apply the general argument to personal computers. Anyone can attack your PC. Once pawned, they can get valuable information. Your IP could be wrongfully associated to a crime, which brings Jonny Law to your door. Given all of this, I still assume you see the idea of being connected via a PC as a good thing since you wrote a response via a browser.

My question was essentially, why dismiss something whole cloth? You raise valid things to consider, but I don't think that anyone of them is a death stroke to IoT. They are, at least in my opinion, design considerations for products that make sense.
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I remember a few years ago RTÉ news did a fake news report about Sellafield (nearby English) nuclear reactor going boom. I was there like "okay guys let's keep calm" but the girls all went ape-shit. Running around the house bawling. That was stressful.
Particularly, they have been time-tested in a complex system.

Our tests are not only limited in time, but also in complexity. Scientists take a sample of subjects in a defined environment. The benefit of that is that they can draw definitive conclusions because of the manageable variables. The problem with it is that you fail to see the big picture, the many interactions with the numerous components of a real life activity, and on the long run.

When talking about living things and food, or in that case, living things that are food, the context is incredibly important to define what is safe or not.
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There's noting stopping you from scanning the barcode multiple times
I'm the same age, and from Northern California, and I read and watched plenty of Post Nuclear War Fiction. We knew how to use a Geiger counter, survivalism was definitely A Thing, and I'm pretty sure I was exposed to at least as much Third World War Angst as your average kid.

Nobody I knew, and nobody I had ever heard of, expressed any doubt whatsoever that we would all live into adulthood.

People planned for college, or for jobs; people fell in love, people daydreamed about what the future might hold. The background threat didn't spoil anyone's day, and in the case of the survivalists it probably gave them a much-needed sense of purpose.

Based on my own experience of those same years, I'd say you were in particularly bleak company.
You are still missing the point. It was never Dao's problem. The United staff member on scene had a solution offered to them for $800-ish more than they wanted to commit to - and instead they chose to do this.

That choice was just plain wrong, and allowing it to unfold as it did knowing there was an $800 solution on offer was morally reprehensible.

And you're being accidentally or intentionally misleading about what we can all see in the video - Dao did not "get into fisticuffs" or "become belligerent", he sat in the seat he'd paid for. United-directed rent-a-cops started the fisticuffs and belligerence.

Excusing this with "but it's how airlines operate" is such a cowardly point of view it genuinely astounds me that anyone capable of reading and commenting on a site like this could hold it. If _any_ business is designed to operate this way - where errors on their part result in a procedure that involves and excuses assaulting people - they deserve to be shut down.

I'm happy not to "re-regulate" the airline industry, I'm just saying if we're going to let "the market" be the fundamental driving factor - that "the market" needs claws. The things that they should not be allowed to do need to have powerful corrective market forces against them.

And claiming that any alternative solution to assaulting Dao will result in "the privilege to pay 2x to 4x current airfares" is again intentionally missing the point - THEY COULD HAVE SOLVED THIS FOR $800! AND THEY CHOSE NOT TO.

Fine them enough to _really_ hurt, or close them down and put everyone in charge in jail for assault.

(If you want to get into pure speculation worst case outcomes here - take a look at the UAL shareprice - it dropped tom 71.5 to 68.5 in the 25 mins from 9:30am yesterday - about $900mil of market cap - which then bounced most of the way back, but settled something like $450million down . If you want stupid rationalizations for why we need to change or not change the industry here - here's mine: If we allow this as acceptable practice, then obviously next time a flight crew needs a seat, the gate manager will just call his broker, make sure all the other passengers have their phones out, and beat shit out of the most photogenic passenger on board. Instant profit.)
"Also doesn't support multiple device."

Not strictly true. You can log in a second device (e.g. web browser, tablet client, desktop client) by scanning a QR code with your primary device.

My iPad is my secondary device. Not all messages are synced, but I can pick up my iPad to start or continue a conversation or do other stuff, without doing anything special. The full conversation history is only on my phone, though. The iPad only has the messages sent/received whilst I was actively using it.