medusa666

Will that man please either return to playing serious chess or (better) go away and stop his attention-whoring!?

Nice initiative. The website is cool (assuming that it is original design - new to me), but the content needs work: I see some sucking up to Evernote, lots of praising yourself with adjectives like "rigorous" and "autonomous." (Remove all self-congratulatory adjectives. All of them.)

Employers want to know that you understand the job and that you can do the job. That's it. Your task is to convey that you can DO THE JOB - by describing the RESULTS that you have ACCOMPLISHED. Also, read _Ask The Headhunter_.

I also use Evernote. Powerful tool. Sucky marketing and training materials, though. They do need help, perhaps from you.

Good luck.

In addition to the good points you make, I've heard that top people within Apple are increasingly assigned to the iPhone and iPad, and there just aren't enough (human) resources left over to design new desktops (to Apple's high standards).

F.lux and Clipboard make my life better.

"Years of experience" is a BS requirement from HR. You need to figure how how to convey to the hiring manager that you understand the work/problem and that you know how to do/solve it in a way that will suit them.

Read _Ask The Headhunter_. Really. Best job-hunting resource ever.

Huh. I thought Instagram had pretty much set a lower bar on the price of a startup with no revenue. Guess I was wrong.

Hey, I (much) prefer urban life. Starting from the ground up, I wish they'd built Palo Alto and Menlo Park to be real cities. I wish I lived in a city with a real subway, and the people density to support it. And women.

But all that's not the same thing as adding skyscrapers today's mid-Peninsula. Most of these responses are coming from an idealistic blank-sheet mindset. In the real world, we don't have the option to start from scratch.

I used to love local, independent bookstores.

Then, when I wrote and published my own book, and learned a lot more about the industry, I realized that the current book publishing and distribution model makes no economic sense (unlimited returns!!??) and is fated to die.

Support your public library. Support online competition to Amazon. But the brick and mortar bookstore, except for a very, very few, is history. Don't mourn it. Create a better, different tomorrow.

Google "urban planning." The "dumb rules" may not be convenient for you or me in the short run, but they exist for a reason: water, sewage, traffic, pollution, supporting a sustainable quality of living for the long term.

I don't have the answer - and I notice that you don't really offer one - but I know that the answer is not to throw out all our laws in a short-sighted imitation of some polluted Chinese metropolis.

This may come as a shock, but some people manage to lead perfectly fulfilling lives without ever visiting the US.

About the only inconvenience I can imagine would be the inability to change flights (or refuel his jet) in Miami, but I'm sure he'll manage.

Perhaps your decision to leave will be easier if you realize that if they needed to let you go, for whatever reason, they'd do it in a heartbeat. Not out of malice, and perhaps not without regret, but as a rational business decision.

I'm confident that the vast majority of those who agree with this decision are white, and therefore believe (probably correctly) that it will never happen to them.

But if you're a darker-hued, equally law-abiding citizen ...

I'm not sure that STL is a very desirable or interesting location for immigrants, particularly non-white immigrants, who are a backbone of Silicon Valley.

It has been discussed (in chess circles) in excruciating and unambiguous detail how Rajlich blatantly ripped off (Google it) open source code, thereby violating tournament rules, open source licenses, etc. This "debunking" series of articles by Chessbase is a pathetic attempt to reinvent the past on behalf of one of their most lucrative products, and perhaps to fool a wider audience who didn't follow the original scandal when it happened.

I used to be a big fan of Rybka, Rajlich and Chessbase, but these continued denials just make a bad thing worse. It's like Floyd Landis, Tyler Hamilton, and the third guy.