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I believe that any knife that can be opened one handed would qualify, no?

This would be a "gravity knife": https://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-Swiss-Trekker-Pocket-Knife...

For context, I carried one of these throughout college for random boxes, cutting wires, etc.

Same. This sounds drastic to people who are in the habit of Facebooking, but I still have friends and a social life and the hours of mindlessly scrolling through low-info-density posts, likes, links, and whatnot is all gone.

You think this exchange shows a recruiter conducting a psych experiment?

All I see is a human keyword grep that is clearly failing to do their job: find relevant candidates and forward them on. I say this having been in both ends of the recruiting process and have have struggled with recruiters who had no understanding of how to read a technical resume and rejected JavaScript experts on this basis that they didn't list html in their keywords.

Why does equality require a loss of chivalry? Equality does not mean we pretend people are completely uniform.

It's a 100 x 100 mile area. I grew up there and drove 5 miles to high school, through sprawling neighborhoods.

Retrofitting a transport system to replace the need for cars is virtually impossible.

I disagree about the lack of space. If anything, it makes more economic sense to build a wider, shorter building in the expanding suburbs and exurbs.

This is why the US has so much sprawl.

I didn't even notice the text on the shirt underneath his greasy, unwashed hair.

You are missing the point of the second amendment. The second amendment isn't about making sure we get to keep firearms for the sake of having them.

The purpose of the second amendment is to protect the right of a free people to protect themselves. This includes self-defense, but is not limited to it. Understand the context in which the Bill of Rights was written. We had just fought a long war to overthrow British rule. This meant ordinary people, farmers and craftsmen, took up and used their personal firearms.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

In the language of the day, a well regulated Militia means a well prepared body of men 18-55.

What the founders were saying was that for this country to remain free, all able-bodied persons must have access to a means for the personal defense of their freedoms: firearms.

The second amendment is critical to freedom because it enables free people to defend individual or collective freedom from tyranny. It enshrines a method of last resort when all else fails (as it did in the American colonies on April 19, 1775).

I'm (un)fortunate enough to have taken the SAT long enough ago to have had analogies on it. I suffered through them, scoring disproportionately poorly on them as compared to my math score. It was frustrating since I'm a voracious reader. I did not understand why such an important test would require memorizing so many obscure words to perform well, especially since most of the math section is about solving puzzles and trick questions. It seemed a completely useless skill.

It was years later that my (bilingual) wife explained her view on the analogies. She saw them as logical puzzles to figure out. If a student understands word roots and has some concept of foreign (romantic) languages or latin, it is simple for them to apply this knowledge to remove possible answers, figure out properties of the words, and solve the analogy.

My high school (even with 3 years of mostly worthless spanish) never presented me this toolbox. We spent 2 years in english classes with SAT prep vocabulary tests. We memorized random words and their definitions. It never occurred to me that this was contrary to the purpose of the verbal section of the test.

It is sad that people seem to feel the same way about the math section as I felt about the analogies section. "There's no way I can memorize every possible answer."

For 99% of code, worrying about the number of cycles in an operation is an utter waste of time. It just doesn't matter. Correctness and readability trump machine efficiency.

Do you work on real-time systems, embedded code, or something similar?

Breeder sex? Who talks like this?

This explanation helps more than the link does to tell me what this application does.

So, it's a photo and status slideshow mashup? Why not advertise it as such?

The buddhist(?) jargon makes this extremely unapproachable to people not versed in this terminology. I hear "lessons in compassion" and imagine a religious lecture over war orphan pictures or something equally unappealing.

What on earth does this have to do with technical talent?

Projecting your political opinions a bit?

Donald Knuth too.

Your first sentence reminds me how much we are divided by a common language.

Dying impacts you for the rest of your life.

What about the statement, "I think I'll take a seat next to the beautiful lady in the room."

Is it clearly not treating her the same as everyone else? Yes. But is it sexism?

That's interesting. Give some examples of Marine Corps cultural pathologies.

You're thinking about buying "big business" enterprise software like buying a cell phone or any other off-the-shelf commodity. Don't do that.

It's more akin to buying a house. You've got to find one of many that satisfies your unique needs. You've got due diligence to do. You've got negotiations. You've got an entire purchasing process to follow that is externally imposed. You may have renovations to make before you can move in and need estimates on that.

A website can cover generalities, but the reality is that enterprise products are big, complicated, and (generally) are not purchased by technical people, although technical people may be involved in part of the review process or requirements analysis.

The only process more complicated is selling to the government.

So, 2 hours of sleep at most?

That's stupid. It doesn't look like a gun; it is styled after a gun part. That's like saying you'd confuse a car with a tire.

I'm embarrassed that my children only have TSA flights available. This is not how Americans live.

So, you're looking for someone to build you a website for a validated business model? And to the table you bring ... 2 "meh" domain names? And for this, they can get up to 50% equity?

How nice that you're willing to negotiate on licensing your "assets."

That looks nice.

Curiously, where do you live? I wouldn't let my kids ride transit by themselves; that's where the crum bums go to pee.

I also don't want to be against a grocery store as the noise from the large parking lot (and busy road) is annoying. Living by a park is highly desirable.

You've essentially modernized the old debate between free will and predestination.

As a father of two small children, I'll chime in. Your concerns are bizarre.

The idea that second-graders are accessing hardcore pornography is laughable. The idea that they're buying pre-paid phones, installing TOR, and using that to access hardcore pornography is insane.

Will <18 kids look at porn at some point? Probably. Will social services get involved? Extremely unlikely.

Guiding my children is my responsibility, not T-Mobile's. While I appreciate tools to help me, I do not appreciate the idea of entering a credit card number to allow myself to visit TOR's website. That's very strange.

While every interviewer has different opinions on what should/should not be present, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm not cargo culting, I'm complaining about receiving garbage.

Extreme length is commonly a sign that the person is too lazy to ever prune or clean up things. And my complaint about excessive length is "if they cannot bother to revisit it, why should I?"

I'm aware that every resume is not created from scratch just for me. Still, I should be able to create a guess as to who the person is, what they're looking for, and (generally) why they might be a good fit. If not, why am I reading their resume at all? What am I possibly getting out of it?

While updating resumes usually means adding, that doesn't have to mean that a 1/2 page discussion on tweaking spreadsheets for a law office in 1992 will stand there until retirement. Do I really need to see that someone has experience with Visual Studio 2010, 2008, 2005, 2003, 2000? How about every version of every Office product that they have ever used?

How about a skills section that lists 4 versions of MS DOS? Sure, there's a possibility we have a legacy system to update, but really, if you want to include that stuff, separate the (likely to be) relevant information so that I can find it easily without wading through crap like your Code Warrior Certification in 1995.

I'm not your mother and I'm not going to do the equivalent of cleaning your room just to find out if you might be worth a phone call.

There's a difference between "excellent at communicating" and "obviously does not care".

An excellent example of the latter is the presence of spelling errors that could have been fixed with spell-check, completely random font changes due to copy-and-paste, etc. These typically are just the superficial signs that no thought was put into the content.

It's like showing up for an interview in a dirty t-shirt and sneakers. I'm not looking for excellent fashion sense; I'm looking for a basic awareness of the world around them.

As someone who reads a lot of resumes, I regularly see two types of resumes:

1) Those that are roughly 1-2 pages per 10 years of experience with care taken to emphasize relevant and recent experience. Skills and knowledge that I actually care about are placed such that I cannot help but notice them on a first glance. Thought is clearly present in this resume.

2) Those that are roughly 13-21 pages (I have one on my desk that is 17 pages for work experience dating to an internship in 1996). Each job is discussed in mind numbing detail without ever giving me any of the details that I may actually care about. Each job includes an "environment" section that lists every tool that was in the building while that project was going on. Spelling and grammar issues are present. Any skills section will be overloaded with undefined in-house tools and frighteningly basic items (such as a senior developer/architect who lists 11 years of experience with FTP and EMAIL).

When you see an interviewer complaining about resumes that are too long and waste time, understand that they're complaining about the latter. I can easily accept minor issues. It is a huge warning sign when their resume makes me wonder if it is their judgement or motivation that is seriously lacking.