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The most specific, and yet still very general, advice I can give is meditation/mindfulness. it works even separated from more fundamental perspectives on life, but I'd argue it's especially valuable in that context.

EDIT: what I like about characters like Feynman and the stories they tell is that they seem to really confirm this approach to me. Feynman struck me as a person not too inhibited by introspection, but rather propelled by curiosity. If I meditate or let my mind rest and give up on the 'demands' of the world, I cannot help but feel that the resulting state is the kind that Feynman actively cultivated (without realizing it, perhaps).
There's other stuff I feel like sharing, but honestly I believe that if you focus on this, and not just as a cool new idea but actual practice, it's likely to be worthwhile enough to make the rest inconsequential in comparison.
If an attorney were building an age discrimination case against a person (or entity, per jacquesm below) involved in the rejection of a younger candidate, posts like this are among the evidence I suspect would be used to point to a discriminatory mindset. That said, I'm not a lawyer.

If someone were to be making hiring decisions, posts like this discovered during the course of casual googling would oblige the person with a robust basis not to hire. Heck, at least one firm on my CV has instructed me to regard discriminatory language involving suspect classification, age included, as grounds to reject.
Somewhat related: is oldgeekjobs.com still going? I can't tell from looking at the posts if it's really active.
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Yeah - crazy extreme. I didn't even know until I tried to log in and my password was "invalid", and reset didn't work.
If the pairings of courses and students are registered in the school object, then that's basically OO implementation of a many to many relationship of students and courses.

That's why I like Django. You just tell it that you want a many-to-many between students and courses and it does they for you, symmetrically, without forcing you to introduce a class such as "school".
How do older programmers deal with coding interviews from companies like facebook / google?

Badly. The unfortunate truth is that if you've hit 40+ without having built up enough expertise and contacts to bypass those types of interviews then finding a programming job is going to be really hard.
I would _never_ hire this candidate, based on seeing this.

So - the author says that he has "developed some good communication skills". Great! Moving on, let's look at his linkedin page. Quotes from past jobs: "even after our idiot (now ex) CEO canceled the platform.", "wonky JavaEE stuff.".

So, as a hiring manager, from this post + linkedin, I now know that this guy: 1) can reach large audiences, 2) trashes past jobs and colleagues publicly. And thus, I would be terrified of hiring the author, as there seems a 50% chance that this will end with my employers being trashed in the same way. That's just not worth it.

OP: Come on, give yourself the chance to be hired by removing that from linkedin.
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>The "counterfeit" oscillator actually did provide a clean 25Mhz clock, but the PHY did not work.

Did you find out why?
and yet, here it is.
Nothing in my post was a joke, because I've seen it happen here in person.

And what's sad, is that anybody with half a brain could've expected the outcome. But of course, there are far too many people in the government who want a slice of cake.
I used to work in tech in France (now I'm in the UK) and I had to pee in a cup, so YMMV I guess.
What is the difference between a novice and an expert?

The novice thinks twice before doing something stupid
This is usually delineated by wisdom vs intelligence. Intelligence is raw horsepower, and wisdom is the ability to make good decisions.

In the context of older developers, I don't think you can really assume wisdom has been an outcome of all of those years of experience. Wisdom grows with a certain affinity for introspection and self-correction, and not everyone has those traits.
I agree ;)

But truth to be told, it was a quick reply without much thought.

Thanks.
If you find one, can you please put the link here?
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Ha! typical propaganda. Why are some of you Tamils are so insecure about the "antiquity" of your language. I even mentioned Tamil before my own. But, NO!! You had to come here and tell something irrelevant.
(1) You don't make legal cases against people involved in a hiring rejection, you make a case against a company.

(2) If you are making hiring decisions the appearance of random blog posts should not and will not give you any legal basis not to hire. Legality is encoded in the law, not in blogposts, especially not in blogposts by random passers by. If you were using this as a reason not to hire the person writing the blog post then you might get some mileage out of it but it could also easily backfire.
I still don't see the value of it...
For U.S., the one that worked the best for me is https://stackoverflow.com/jobs

I've also had descent results from the aggregator http://indeed.com
When talking with young programmers I too often think "well, you are doing that wrong, been there, done that". They don't want to listen. A couple of months later they notice that the gray beard ones were right. From a company perspective, that's just too late, as the money loss is not recoverable.

There is nothing wrong with being a young one with no experience. There is so much wrong when a company has only a bunch of young programmers and no experienced one who lead them.
Yes, and how important it is that they play golf with the other C-Levels during the working week.

Somehow I don't feel the same rules are going to get applied to the rest of us.
If anything, the fact that a lot of chips you can buy from China do not match their specification is exactly one thing that keeps China's semiconductor industry back. If some Chinese company built a cheaper and in every regard better NE555, they would have a very hard time marketing it because noone would trust that sellers offering them wouldn't be selling them recycled bad-quality TI parts instead.
Are employers so dumb that they would hire on the basis you're suggesting without considering the arguments put forward in the piece? Young and old have, perhaps, on average, different characteristics worthy of note if you're hiring someone. Is all!
I believe the naysayers will be right at some point. Cloud storage is really a race to the bottom.
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> Has this always been a feature?

I've seen it before so I think it's always been a bug :)
Yeah, except 10 years at certain companies could teach you less than 6months to 1 year at one company that's actually doing it right.

I hesitate to try and prescribe an answer for the "how employers should find good employees" question, because it's so difficult, but I imagine the ideal hiring process would:

- Allow candidates a choice on how they want to be tested (take home thing, online code test, whiteboard, whatever else)

- Ask better questions at the abstraction level that would show experience. For example, if you want to know whether someone has experience, give them an architectural diagram (or process diagram) of your current project/workflow/whatever, and ask them how they would improve it (and if they've ever been through the steps they suggest themselves/how they would roll it out).

There was an excellent post on HN a while back detailing what a specific company (whose job is doing interviews, I can't for the life of me remember what company it was), learned from doing thousands and thousands of interviews.

Also I'm not super good at math, but in the equation you posted wouldn't the intellect variable be pretty much equal to experience, and you could make up for one with the other? Or maybe you're implying that the scales for each multiplier are different (like intelligence might only go 1 to 10 but experience might go 1-100?)? I agree with what you're getting at, basically that someone who has seen lot but isn't as clever will often make better choices than someone that's very clever, but completely green.
I'm working on my own Better and Improved, but for now i use hn.premii.com for my mobile needs, and hckrnews.com with a few userscripts for everything else.

EDIT: and hn.algolia.com for anything vaguely related to search.
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If you're trying to get hired please always include your location in your communications so that you don't get rejected out of hand for not appearing to be 'close' and/or waste peoples time.
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IMHO, the most important thing in architecture are the concerns and goals of the architecture. Not the particular architecture itself. A single architecture can't check all the marks, or you end up with a monster. The job of an architect is to identify the main risks and pain point of a particular system, and adapt the structure of the project to address them best.

"Enforcing separation of concerns" is a good one. But so would be "identify the various runtime threads of your system easily", or "minimize code surface responsible for mutation of shared data", or "decouple configuration primitives from the components themselves".

Those concerns are more or less important depending on your use case. MMORPG server code or regular desktop app, or mobile webapps sold as templates, all have very very different concerns, so i dont think it would make sense to use a single architecture as a template for every problem.
You know that Munich is currently expecting Microsoft to create a big center in their city and the major (a pro-Microsoft guy) try to court them. That has nothing to do with the quality of Linux.
I don't live in France anymore and don't have the accounts but they were big banks: Credit Agricole and Caisse D'Epargne. I've heard similar stories with Banque Populaire too.

As for cheque usage, 4 years ago (when I was there) loads of people were still using them (young and old). This is in central and south France (no idea about Paris, never lived there).
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But the "innovative" part is that Dropbox hacked into the OSX kernel to achieve better integration. See e.g. [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463338
It is true that US citizens must file their yearly US tax return, no matter where they live. That is different from the majority of other countries that do not require this from their citizens living abroad.

In practice, double taxation - which your comment seem to imply - is not really an issue. A lot of countries - including France - have mutual agreements with the US that exempt foreign income (up to a certain amount) from being taxed twice.
That feels like sufficient reason to not use this tool.
In one small edge case. I doubt it would be as easy to pollinate everything by hand.
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Although, if we're realistically considering the present situation, the number of people who already speak English as either a native or non-native language are roughly even with the number that speak Mandarin, and far exceed that number for Spanish-speakers. Only looking at Europe, this still holds. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...
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Another one of Bogle's self serving comments. He's a legend but rarely unbiased. The key difference is the speculator buys it purely in the hope of flipping it. The investor considers the fundamentals of the investment. Time horizon is irrelevant. You can have special sits which you are in and out of in a month or so; but it's definitely an investment.
the article is interesting yet based.
Most notably, it's clearly written by an old programmer.
> (1) You don't make legal cases against people involved in a hiring rejection, you make a case against a company.

Entirely true. In my defense, I'm not a lawyer. Technically also in my defense: the United States has a bad habit of calling corporations people.

> (2) If you are making hiring decisions the appearance of random blog posts should not and will not give you any legal basis not to hire. Legality is encoded in the law, not in blogposts, especially not in blogposts by random passers by. If you were using this as a reason not to hire the person writing the blog post then you might get some mileage out of it but it could also easily backfire.

This may be true in the Netherlands, but in many states in the US, quite a number of things can be used as grounds to not hire, with the notable exception of anything involving suspect classification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspect_classification). My understanding is that if someone is likely to cause the firm to be responsible for illegal conduct e.g. age discrimination, for many firms, that's a sufficient basis not to hire.

I'd love to be corrected, though.
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Bi-directional models come with their own problems.
I did not get the point of this.
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Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. If it isn't a household name, please explain what your company does.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.

Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.

You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
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How can you go to bed if you're still stuck in the loop?
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What do you guys think are the other best blogs that might have missed out on the article?
Police doesn't do much, because it is low on their priority list (despite the terrible numbers in the NL).

In case you HATE BIKE THEFT as much as we do, give our FB page a like (https://www.facebook.com/AgainstBikeTheft/) and sign our petition (bit.ly/bikes-petition) aiming on getting more focus on the problem.

We're also building an active solution - again, check the website and FB.
Sure, but the parent commenter explicitly mentioned free as a reason for using GitLab.
can you do another for dog lovers ?
Could you give some examples of where you first got your contracts (outside of personal connections)? The contract market seems great (I'm in it right now), but finding decent positions seems pretty difficult without a pre-existing large network.

Also, a lot of the sites that feature contract work ask for way too many details, and are basically a race to the bottom on price, sometimes at the expense of quality, and I don't feel panicked enough yet to join that race.
I enjoy your attempt to use "it's not the years it's the mileage" but your assertion that there is some way to gain "experience" without "time" doesn't make a lot of sense.
Please feel free to share your feedback.. what other factors do you think affect the success of a blog?
Please, don't misunderstand me.

special visa doesn't mean no visa.

myths and fantasies are not about their degrees but more on the public image we have of us who do more harm than good in my opinion.

"Rather than placing tech leaders on a pedestal, we should put their successes in context..." [1]

I would never advise someone to drop school without a strong family background, a solid bubble opportunity or just luck. And I don't like schools, for me they are clearly not the best places to learn, just to network.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/539861/techs-enduring-gre...
@whoishiring, you have forgot this month's. Since I'm personally interested to know, who is hiring?
Honestly? It's from voracious reading over many years, and including both pop and more academic sources. Books almost always go deeper than what you'll find in video format.

That said, if you try googling geo-engineering and climate change for a few minutes, you'll almost certainly find some of the techniques people have evaluated, their trade-offs and how the issue of moral hazard adds a cost to discussing them.
"Macroevolution" in modern biological theory is microevolution acting across geological timescales.

"Geological timesscales" is far longer than "tens of thousands of years".

"Testing" is a more encompassing term than "experimentation". To give an example, a test of evolutionary theory is the prediction that the transition from fish to amphibians started during the Devonian. Indeed, after years of work, Tiktaalik fossils were found in Devonian rock. Evolutionary science is full of tests like these.

As I understand it, you also do not consider astrophysics to be a science.

There are many transitional fossils, including Tiktaalik. The transitional fossils for cetacean history make a quite lovely series. All fossils of a given species are "very similar" for the simple reason that the species labels "are human constructs that have been imposed in hindsight on a continuum of variation", to quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_fossil .

What aspects of the Cambrian explosion are you talking about? There is much we don't know about it, but nothing which forces us to reject well-established evolutionary theory.

Modern humans evolved from archaic humans starting about 200,000 years ago. Archaic humans evolved from Homo erectus, which evolved from Homo habilis, which evolved from Australopithecus, etc. The common ancestor of humans, chimps, and bonobos was about 10 million years ago. The common ancestor of humans and the non-ape monkeys was about 29 million years ago.

This is far longer than the 10k years you mentioned. For that matter, we have found human remains from Combe-Capelle, La Brea, Cheddar, and Kow Swamp which are about 10k years old. Are you seriously proposing that humans "jumped" into existence 10K years ago and within 1K years were found from North America to Australia?

You write "Monkeys have the intelligence according to tests of a 2 and 1/2 years old". But "monkey" isn't a species name, so what you wrote is meaningless.

"Monkey" has multiple meanings. Humans are part of the family of Old World monkeys, so yes, humans are monkeys. However, apes, including humans, are traditionally not included as a monkey in that sense, making "monkey" a polyphyletic term.

All told, your critique shows no real knowledge of the evolutionary theory that you are trying to challenge. I would much rather have inconvenient facts than the fabrications you presented.
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> I can get programmers to follow me if I move company which is a plus.

It's at best a 'neutral' because when you inevitably leave again you'll take all those people with you potentially leaving the company floundering.
This is indeed basic psychology [1]: talking bad about other people reflects poorly on _you_, not just the people you're talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_contagion
Conversely I find that a number of the old(er) programmers I've worked with are incredibly stubborn and bigoted. They refuse to see anything from another persons perspective especially if that person is young. As well refusing to keep up with 'modern' technologies and paradigms because "that's not how I'm used to doing it". It's a lot of the "I've been round the block a few times I know what I'm doing" bullshit attitude.

But obviously that's a generalisation. Just like your comment is.
Bike theft figures in the NL are indeed horrendous - and it is by far not just Amsterdam. (In fact, the other cities - Utrecht, Rotterdam, Groningen - are in many factors already "ahead").

We actually started an initiative to tackle this issue. So, in case you HATE BIKE THEFT as much as we do, give our FB page a like (https://www.facebook.com/AgainstBikeTheft/) and sign our petition (bit.ly/bikes-petition) aiming on getting more focus on the problem. It'd be a huge help for us.

We're also building an active solution - again, check the website and FB.
To be honest, as a middle aged folk I find it impossible to relate with ping pong culture and open space offices. On the other hand, cubicles here are too often signal of brick & mortar ways to intend business, which ultimately means losing value. That's why I think older folks like me should really get into contracting or external consulting. As an alternative, do with finding a job at utilities or other non-cyclic ventures, they always seem eager to listen to juvenile-but-not-disruptive folks to innovate just a bit, not too much, not too fast.
> What is unscientific, and all to common among liberals is ignoring those who point out inconvenient facts

So against my better judgement I'm going to not ignore (downvote) you and reply briefly. Key word being briefly. I have no interest getting into a debate.

No one is ignoring those "inconvenient facts"

1. Calling them "facts" is a red flag you are not open to debate. A fact has a very specific definition and what you said is not a fact and I wouldn't call it one even if I agreed with the idea.

2. The "no transition fossils" idea has been thoroughly debunked (there are indeed many).

3. The Cambrian Explosion has been debated and written on quite significantly and the research is pretty convincing for most people.

4. On your comment about the speed of evolution. The number of mutations needed to change the DNA of a chimpanzee to that of a human is far fewer than a single celled organism. A common first program in bioinformatics courses is to calculate the longest subset of similar DNA between species. The differences are very subtle. Which incidentally is why a small mutation can cause a human child to be born with very different physical properties than a healthy human child.

In fact, if you take the time to study how DNA works it is very clear to see how evolution works. After studying the subject it very clear and clean cut.

I think one of the biggest problems with science education is that we talk a out evolution on a marcro scale. Talking about it at a DNA level I think the amount of closed-mindedness to deny it would be astounding.

Edit: As another aside, assuming you are Christian, what is it about the bible that you think 7 days and 7 nights is to be taken literally? The bible is meant to be allegorical not literal. Most Christians I know have long since stated that they believe in evolution and that they do not feel that contradicts their faith.
It's more nuanced than it seems on the surface. I started with a similar opinion but I have to say there is something to be said for everyone from hairdressers on up actually having some form of relevant qualification. At least for the trades etc. - you end up with much more knowledgeable practitioners.

There are problems though: it leads to very early specialisation (when someone fresh out of school may still not be exactly sure what they want to do) and makes it difficult to hop between different trades/jobs (since you need to re-train in a lot of cases).
ICO is the Information Commissioner, the English regulator for privacy law.

Royal Free is a hospital, run by an English NHS foundation trust.

The regulator hasn't said these collaborations with Google are outright not legal. They have said that any future collaborations need to include some minor changes, and that these minor changes are not a hindrance to innovation.

The blog post provides a bit more information.

https://iconewsblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/four-lessons-nh...