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Passion can't be measured with credentials so why do companies keep screening for them?

I spent the last three years studying as a hobby and as a full time student learning multiple frameworks, front-end and backend, and additional technologies that made me curious like Vim and I can't even land a single technical interview.

After coming to the Bay Area, I was thinking my github portfolio and communication and networking skills would at least get me in the door to prove myself.

Once coming I found out I would need to learn CS topics to get past the technical interview and that React would be a good entry point for a first job. So I left and studied another 6 months before returning. The second time I got a part time job as a coding instructor at a bootcamp because I have a history in teaching, but still struggle to get in the door for engineering interviews.

Nobody takes me seriously without credentials, I always thought that in a technical interview people would be able to figure out where you stand and not need credentials. The problem is companies get flooded with resumes so they build automated software to screen the best candidates but passion can't be screened.
Reminds me of the Lancia Stratos Zero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancia_Stratos#Stratos_Zero
Anyone know what (if any) haircut the pension-recipients would need to take if he actually runs the company into the ground? Does the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (aka PBGC aka USA aks "us") have to pay pensioners 100 cents on the dollar? Does the defined benefits plan get turned into a defined-contribution plan as of current value?

I feel bad for the employees of Sears...but i'm also selfishly worried that the US Government ("we") ends up having to pay out absurd pension schemes with absurd 7% annual return assumptions.
No, that's Google.
If it's built with wood, a bigger house is a larger semi-permanent sequestration of carbon dioxide.

If it's being built in an energy efficient manner, it may actually wind up better all things considered.
I was mostly just assuming that people at Google have a relatively stable job, which is really all you need to start being financially responsible and do things like set any amount of money aside each month, not live paycheck to paycheck, slowly cut out unnecessary expenditures, etc.

To bring things back to the ancestor comment this was all responding to: people who can't leave a job because they're relying on a paycheck are definitely less powerful when it comes to being able to take a stand and make change at that job. People who are able to rely less on a paycheck have a bit more of a cushion in this area (especially when they have some savings for e.g. doctors, car problems, etc, and have enough set aside to find another job before those savings run out).

Anyone can put a % of their paycheck aside each month to become more financially independent. Whether they're at Google or not doesn't really matter here -- but, it is probably a bit more likely that an engineer at Google might be able to put aside a little bit more than a grocer at Target (and, is probably more capable of finding another job faster).
Hold up. I think everyone is getting caught up on the idea of "freedom". Capitalism does not grant you any shred of personal freedom from the bottom of the chain to the tippy-top. The higher you get, the less personal freedom you have. Financial freedom, yea, but not Enlightenment era freedom. Being a titan in business has to be a fucking nightmare. Your responsibilities are astronomical. Everyone wants to slit your throat for your crown at the top. Back stabbers. Gold diggers. Cheats. Con artists. And just trying to be relevant and competitive. Oh, and phone calls. I can imagine anyone in the top 100 of forbes, that actually runs a business, does not get a decent night sleep most nights.

And I'm a capitalist myself. I'm happy with being a moderate fish in a small pond. Because more than this, fuck it, I'm going to go live in the woods and grow a beard that can be used as an axe to chop trees. But that means I'm a little tad-pole when I do that. That, I'm not really willing to go back to.

You're trying to be the biggest fish in the pond, in the biggest pond you can find. Biggest gorilla. Fiercest lion. Whatever your analogy. You get the point. Sure, folks tap-out and cash out, then become poets, sail around the world, tell people how they should live their lives, etc. Not that I blame them. The burnout being on their level...

Bit of a rant. Might as well follow it up with a bit more ranting.

I'm tired of people, like the dude in the article, "Well, Marx said...". Who the fuck cares? Let's face a fact of the matter. His ideas of how an economy should function never worked. Soviet Union? Venezuela? China abandoned it with Nixon's blessing. It's been tested time and time again on different sides of the planet. His ideas of how social structures should work has consistently resulted in strangling police states and high levels of corruption. NKVD? Stasi? China in general? Anyone sucking the sickle of communism isn't exactly going to win a humanitarian or economic award anytime soon. What's the practical definition of stupid? Seriously, wtf. Sure, communism may work in small doses, like I've heard that some <30 people communes have happy people in them. But the same is said about people who got suckered into cults too.

Why are people still stuck on a guy who was proven wrong many times? Not just a little wrong. But people have been slaughtered or starved to death in his teaching. In the millions. And yes, other teachings have done the same. I'm positive someone is going to say with avocado on their breath, "Yea, you just described religion too". Great. Stalin is now above Ghandi and Borlaug because of your religion comment. Assholes, of all shapes, colors and sizes, get thrown into the same shithole. Regardless who else is in their too.

I'm angry...

Phone typing, so probably typos and I don't feel like rereading this. Take as you will. Go find 2 cents in a parking lot somewhere.
I simply refreshed the page (in Firefox), and it went away. Well, it was quickly followed by the now-universal popup asking me to subscribe to their newsletter, but that was easily dismissed.
The problem that has happened at my company is that we take a "chance" on bootcampers or other people who aren't proven, we spend the time and effort to mentor and train them, pay them well, and then they turn around in 9-12 months and leave us for another company with their enhanced experience. It has happened 3 times so far, so we have stopped hiring bootcampers, and fresh grads and instead have started hiring people with a couple of years under their belts or more, since they appear to at least want to stick around enough to contribute positively to our teams.
Nah, you misread.

Their problem is that they _can't_ use SIM only options as they need a phone (potentially multiple) too, so it's cheaper in the immediate term to sign up to a £15-20 a month plan that provides a (really crappy) phone than a similar £7 a month one which doesn't.

Of course, on a purely rational level seeing as we're talking about iPhones as opposed to just phones in general, the best option would be sell the iPhone and use the proceeds from it to buy and donate multiple cheaper (but sturdy) Androids
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Our Online Backup service is primarily for backing up computers, but Backblaze B2 is used for a wide variety of things including origin-stores, and those use-cases are pretty in-line with what folks use Azure and GCS for - so should be pretty similar - unless I misunderstood!
What's interesting is that you'd think the switch over to a laparoscopic technique would save money, but it actually costs more.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4653254/
Using the term "give-up-itis" discredits this article. It's like describing it as a "case of the mondays" when you die.
Happy birthday to the project that enabled the revolution in computing that we are enjoying today. Free access to quality code and stuff that helps us all grow as human beings!

\o/
Would you eat a pizza that's been dropped by a drone? I wouldn't.
It depends on what you mean by "CS".

If you mean CS in the academic sense, e.g. algorithm research, probably not much.

If you mean CS as in "occupation that involves designing and/implementing software" then I'd argue empathy is an integral part of being an effective professional. Empathy facillitates effective communication and ethical/moral decisions.

I think the idea that "all that matters is your code" is flawed. It's very short-sighted and narrow minded, and it does nothing but to artificially limit oneself. The world is bigger. You interact with other people and can have either a positive or negative effect on them.
> "This code has more warnings than we accept under our process; please remedy."

That fails to address the possibility that their process is broken, and so achieves the possibility of inducing technical debt when these issues will inevitably arise again.

Fixing process can be as important as fixing code.
The original essay states that some women want to code, but only enough to make up 20% of the CS workforce, and that the author believes this isn't a result of discrimination. You can't disprove that hypothesis by talking to women who do want to code.

The argument at hand is if the 20% representation level is a result of discrimination and bias in the field, or something else.
https://github.com/def-/nim-benchmarksgame
React Components as a Service - Blog
The post is literally a collection of responses to Dr. Reges, and it’s the misinformation—not the correction thereof—which distracts from the conversation about the access women have to CS.
Amazon training videos coach Whole Foods staff on how to discourage unions
Sorry for the late reply. I believe you can do that: https://getpocket.com/import/instapaper/
Well known fact that men are all but extinct in tech because of militant feminists.
Running on WVO?
What about plastic straws? :)
You would be surprised about how many founders who post on HN bemoan the fact that they can’t find developers who have passion for the founder’s “vision” and only care about the money.

My usual retort is why should I care about a founder’s vision if I don’t have a substantial amount of equity in the company? They find that highly insulting.
This is wonderful, thanks!
I don't think there is a bulk discount but prices vary by tld.

Base rate for a .com is around $8 plus a small icann fee. If anyone is selling it for .99, they are simply eating the cost in order to earn a long term customer.

In this case with cloudflare, I'm sure the point is, like their other products, to offer the free service as a gateway drug to their profitable enterprise products. They have an Enterprise registrar service that is pretty pricey.
It's perfectly fine for women not to be interested in CS or any other field. There's probably a nature/nurture argument to be made for some of the disparity but that doesn't explain all of it. For example, one of the women in the article referenced a boss commenting about her breasts, another talked about being encouraged to drop out so a more deserving man could take her place... that's not lack of interest, that's actively discouraging those who want to be here. Can any men here seriously recall in a professional context a boss referring to their 'package'? Or that they should leave the field so that some more deserving woman could take their place? To me, that's a problem. If a woman doesn't want to be in a field, sure that's their choice. If they're actively discouraged from it, that's a problem.

I've been in more than one professional situation where I was made uncomfortable with how a co-worker or manager was referring to female candidates/co-workers. I'm not talking about good-natured joking around on the job or even flirting, but rather something that in retrospect I can honestly say was discrimination. I also recall that in those situations, I was in no position to do anything about it so it's not like speaking up would have helped... more likely I would have been shortly out of a gig myself.
More charitably, I'd phrase it as "extracting what valuable assets it still has as dividends, in the (perhaps mistaken) belief that those assets no longer create as much value when being used by Sears".
in general the presence a stone (appendicolith) would no longer qualify as uncomplicated acute appendicitis. I did not see if that was specifically mentioned in this trial, but I have seen similar trials enrolling in the US where this was the case
Authentication and Authorization: OpenID vs. OAuth2 vs. SAML (2016)
I have a 1300 square foot home with 3 bedrooms & 1.5 bathrooms. While my wife and I don't have kids, I'm happy with the size. Anything bigger and I feel like it'd be overkill for us. I wish the floorplan was a little more open or could be easier to open up, but otherwise I feel the size is perfect for our needs.

Obviously if children enter the picture, things might change, but I feel like having a house that's too big is more of a pain than it's worth...especially when you need to clean for company.
Google loved asking questions relating to the square-cube law. Like "you're shrunken down to the size of a dime and placed in a blender that's going to start in thirty seconds, what do you do?"

From what I gather, this is covered in required curriculum in schools like Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, etc. I've never heard of it in my life, and I was one of the top two in my CS graduating class.

IMO, this boils down to cultural bias, plain and simple. "We hire people just like us."
Does he, though? That's a stretch. If someone believes that 20% of the elite computer scientists will be women, why does it follow that he would not have confidence in the women who take his class?

For instance, suppose about 20% of his class is women. He's not saying that this 20% of his class shouldn't be there, or won't rise to the top. He is saying that it may not be productive to even out this ratio. Plenty to disagree with and object to in that thesis. But that is very different from not believing in the women who take his class, and it is utterly different from sabotaging the women in his class (making sure they don't rise to the top).

I want to be very clear in this comment and elsewhere that I believe that there is plenty to object to in the claim that 20% represents some kind of natural plateau. My position is that we need to accurately represent the point of view that we are debating.
Companies that consider themselves special generally "Google Interviews". That include bulk of the FAANG class companies, or any body who pays in the same ball park.

There are also a huge alumni of the FAANG club, who have a vested interested in doing "Google Interviews". Basically these people have spent so much time(thousands of hours) that the only way they can justify it is by making that interview process that way. Anybody who hasn't spent that kind of effort is obviously beneath their station.

But I hope you see where this is going.

>>Here are some real world issues we are having with our architecture. We are on AWS. How are you going to solve them

The "Google Interview" club likely won't ask you these questions. Their job isn't to build software. It is to get good at interviews, if you are good at interviews, interviewing is your day job, as practicing questions brings you a raise/promotion/title-change every year.

Why waste time building software?
Consent in the digital world is fraught with difficulty:

1) Do you have to repeat consent every time the ToS or another policy changes?

2) What about repeating consent every time there is a feature change?

3) Should your consent remain after controversial events involving security (FB using 2FA phone #'s for ads; data breaches like Equifax)?

4) What about internal company changes like leadership changes at the executive level?

Unlike consent involving intimacy, there is no big red line where it clearly becomes non-consensual. You can technically delete all of the data, but no one has built something that does that and is trusted. There isn't a right-to-be-forgotten law in every country, so archiving sites can still retain this information anyway.

Plus, it could always be on some flash drive that a malicious employee passed to other companies. Large companies like Facebook have pockets where people can essentially operate with impunity or oversight for periods of time. The core issue here is that consent to one site proxies affirmative consent to share your information out to other sites.

As a hypothetical, would you give consent to Facebook knowing that they will then share all of that information with anyone who asks (every site, every 3-letter agency, every stranger from anywhere in the world who likes your bikini pictures)?

What if they say they won't share that information, but they do anyway? Tech companies move too fast for law to keep up, and once the information is duplicated to multiple parties, it's almost impossible to track down every copy with certainty.
BBC's Planet Earth.
Everything you've mentioned are shallow assumptions based on brief exchanges with people. These are not qualities you can effectively suss out in a few hours through an interview process. You can at best get hints, but just like how GPA is not an indicator of a students on-job success neither is an interview - or our conclusion - any better indicators to the candidates success.

> Are they full of themselves/assholes / This is pretty evident within the first few minutes

Not it's not. People can act awkward during interviews, it's a stressful situation. Some people need to peacock to feel self-confident - I may not like it, but I'm not going to fuck with their future because of an emotional reaction I had to how they present themselves. I've hired plenty of "assholes" that just needed the benefit of the doubt and a chance to grow.

We're not psychologists or therapists, so we should we stop trying to "figure people out" and decipher complex human interactions & behavior by trying to bucket them into checkboxes for whether or not someone is good.

Be kind, give the benefit of the doubt. This is someones career on the line, not a first date. Treat it with the respect and gravity you'd like someone to give you.
They do not. In fact, in my city, one-story houses with less than 2000 sq. ft. sometimes sell at a premium.
Essentially no. Luckily tons were built in the last century so they still exist.
Compare that to my experience: I was working from home and it was my lunch hour, vive box came in the mail, opened it up, plugged in three cables, downloaded a steamVR update (a minute or two and then possibly a 5 minute restart for the drivers IIRC), Zip tied the lighthouses to my wall, ran the setup, put on the goggles and went "oh wow VR is actually way cooler than I ever thought"

I am on Windows 7 though
FTA:

> With Visual C++ 2005 Express you can build both native and managed applications. Using the .NET Framework you can easily create Windows Forms, console, and class library applications. By downloading the Windows Platform SDK (freely available) you can build applications that take full advantage of the Win32 API. Web developers should use Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition.

I mean, I'm pretty sure Win Forms, Console apps, and class libraries were all most of us were using .NET for back in 2005 (I wouldn't know for sure as I was in high school still).

Don't get me wrong, there were and are advantages to the non-free versions of Visual Studio. Notably, until 2017 I believe, was extensions. But there's just a lot of misunderstanding in this thread about the general licensing model of .NET and its toolchain.
I bought your book with the hopes that you would include a chapter on embedded programming, but was disappointed to find it barely got a mention in the book. I remember an earlier discussion here where you were considering and it seemed like a real possibility.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find recent (ideally official) documentation/discussion on embedded programming. Contrast this with Rust where there's a significant focus on embedded bare metal, particularly for Cortex-M MCUs. With the recently announced support from Status, are there any plans to provide more support for embedded bare metal?
GVim carries a lot of extra weight because of GTK. Vim without a GUI uses 2.6 MiB of its own memory and 5.3 MiB of shared memory on my system.
I'm not a hiring manager but if I were reading your resume for a SW engineering position I might see a 6-figure gamble. Sure, you'd probably be a good bet, but listing off all those accomplishments in an unrelated specialization means you're going to ask for a much higher starting wage than someone who would grow into that position with the same programming experience. I bet if you create a resume with the experience not related to the job stripped out or played-down and submit both to a few companies using different names you'll see a different response.
In my experience outline.com does a bang up job of getting all that clutter out. I am not in any way affiliated with them and don't even know how they monetize but I hope they stick around for as long as possible.
I thought it was widely known he was doing some longterm liquidation of Sears’ assets, specifically their real estate and top brands.
"Politicized agenda-propelled random search" Lol!

I think you and arkades both have it right. It's a "politicized agenda-propelled random search" on a large enough scale and over a rich enough search space that it "has made impressive strides" despite its flaws and inefficiencies.

I have a friend who works as a Healer. People come to him and pay him good money and he gets results. He doesn't advertise, he gets referrals by word-of-mouth alone. My point is he gets results.[1] He can do things that are totally off the map of conventional medicine. However, he's uninterested in science and scientists (in general) are uninterested in him. "It's something that moves generationally" indeed, if paradigm shifts really require the dying out of the old guard.

If we think of inefficiencies in the search due to e.g. politics and superstition as a kind of malady, then it seems we are witnessing a phase of "Physician heal thyself", what with the advent of mass medical monitoring and big data correlation, eh?

[1] Have you heard the joke, "If alternative medicine works it's just called medicine."? Well, yes and no. Some things that work are too far outside the belief structures and will be ignored or ridiculed.