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The most productive time I've had has been hobbies that I enjoyed and was passionate about that involved human interaction. I'm an introvert by nature, and thus somewhat disinclined to socialize to the same extent as more extroverted people.

When I was younger, I was far from the best at interacting with people, but hobbies, and forums and groups surrounding them connected me to people who shared similar interests and helped me interact with them. Through shared passions and enjoyment, I developed better social skills, reduced anxiety, and built life long friendships and relationships.

you don't even have to go to non english, just utf-8 has stuff like mathematic spaces and spaces of different em sizes. http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrecharclass.html has a reasonably good list of non ascii spaces, though I'm not sure where to dig through for locale specific lists.

That said, while it may not be a solution for every case, it's a solution for the common case and a starting point for other cases, and thus pretty nifty and potentially useful.

21st century C programming, as I recall, will get you set up a dev environment with tooling, which can be hard for an entry level C programmer. It also covers useful tools and libraries.

It's also a fairly good C book in general, though I don't know that I'd want to try to learn a computer language from it.

I believe the previous owner, whom the current owner inherited from.

Not if you want your property rights to be enforced or a court of law to uphold your position.

Seems something of a straw man argument. Women have been saying that this is an issue for a long time, across a number of companies and industries, which points to a systemic issue, not an individual's responsibility.

Is being conflict adverse inherently "dumb" though, when people's responses to it are gendered?

Or think of it this way, is the ability to negotiate aggressively that much of a value add to a company, and if so, is that worth more then the interpersonal skills that a less conflict prone person might have developed in areas like team work?

Correlation finding is still an incredibly important first step towards figuring out what would be a good double blind randomized trial. Science media could definitely report correlations better.

I feel like reviews really need an A/B test at the very least, because someone comparing and contrasting two products gives you an idea of the relative importance of different features.

http://www.realtor.com/news/trends/americas-fastest-growing-...

Link for those without wsj access.

circulation numbers look at recent circulation, with no consideration of the way certain books may change in popularity. Here we have a Domain expert without financial motive who is saying that the algorithm is inefficient.

Algorithms should inform book culling decisions made by the Librarian, but they shouldn't replace the Librarian's knowledge and expertise.

I've been using bing.com for this, but this will probably replace that.

Lab rats are brown rats, which aren't nocturnal, but active day and night. I'm not sure that's important for a test of damage to the eye, but there you go.

Not a lawyer. Itemize the list and costs. Gather up any emails, letters, contracts, agreements, etc.

You can potentially pursue them in small claims court (limits may be higher then you think), where the costs are relatively small, or talk to a lawyer, an initial consultation may be free.

You can also send a letter to the company, saying that you relied on that offer of a job for a specific period and suffered financial damage (detailing it) because of there misrepresentation or omission of material facts, and requesting they pay such and such an amount to compensate you.

Finally your state labor relation board or whatever may agree you have some claim on your one day's wages.

I am not a lawyer. My understanding is that CA has different laws concerning IP then most states, where is you don't use any company resources or write it for the company, you effectively own the code. I tend to think you are overthinking it... your generic wrapper scripts are likely not valuable enough the company to care about, they probably aren't the secret sauce.

Firefox supported way more in the way of extensions and alterations then chrome, things like the zotero citation manager, grease monkey for user scripts, tree tyle tab for modifying the tab and bookmark menus, downthemall download manager, and importantly, TOR. Some of these could be ported to chrome, but they were easier to implement on firefox.

It's always been incredibly hackable, in the classic sense. That ability and the legacy of tools built on top of firefox was an important feature that they have largely maintained.

Chrome not only didn't have a legacy but still may break things for developers and sometimes just shrug off their complaints. It's a powerful browser, but it's focused on the needs of the parent company.

I'd start with 10k inflation adjusted personal Series I savings bonds from the US treasury, which pay quote a bit more then any available CD in terms of APY, and have a 3 months interest penalty for 5 years after purchase. I'd probably wait until after april 30th, since the fixed rate interest rate on them is currently zero but will hopefully go up. You don't pay state or local taxes but you do pay federal taxes.

That leaves 490k. I'd put 100k into wealthfront, so they will use individual stocks instead of etfs for tax loss harvesting.

I'd take 90k and invest it in AA or A rated municipal bonds, if you are in a state where gains are tax free, creating the beginnings of a bond ladder. We expect the fed to raise interests rates 3 times next year so I'd probably split this 15k for the first raise, 25k for the second raise and 50k for the third raise.

if I have a 401k I'd invest the maximum 18k in 2016 and contribute the 18k in 2016, making purchases immediately after interest rates go up in dividend stock etfs, reit etfs, broad market etfs, and a small cap etf. Likewise 5500 each ear for an ira, or possibly a roth IRA, depending on current income levels.

I'd save 153k in a savings account like synchrony bank with 1.04 apy interest. Part of that should be a year's expenses, the rest used to purchase stock in solid companies if the market crashes. I'd want to adjust this after a market crash year.

Then I'd split 300k into 100k for a broad based index etf, 50k in a small cap etf, 25k in a midcap etf, 75k in a large cap etf, 25 k in a bond etf. I'd spend 5k on individual stocks using a robinhood account, so I could get a feel for the market. The remaining 20k would be for taxes on any dividends, idly playing the market so I wouldn't touch the bigger investments, and an emergency fund, again placed in a synchrony or equivalent savings account.

Hmm... first this looks pretty, and free is nice. That said as I recall sweepstake/promotional contests laws are a kinda crazy patchwork, both in countries other than the US, but also within the US.

Restrictions don't just differ state by state, but industry by industry, and age of contestant, method of entry, and value of prize are all relevant.

Listen, your hiring process reflects your company culture. The fact that HR is in charge and you have to work to change it, rather then you, the people who will be teaching and supervising these interns, sitting down, telling HR "This is what we need, This is what we want, how can we make this scale" and having final approval says a lot.

Further, this expectation of a private quiet clean place to interview for several hours seems rather biased against poor people. Not to mention the test itself sounds like it doesn't account for the possibility of people with motor disabilities, the blind, the deaf and other disabled people.

Honestly, open book tests are a thing that has been extensively studied. Use IRT based adaptive multiple choice tests (like the computerized SAT or GRE where tests adapt to your ability), set a time limit, have a rolling set of questions to prevent knowledge transfer, and have an intern test day every quarter. You can calibrate test responses based on Amazon engineers at their desks.

Seems like Pebble is shutting down, only 40% of SEs getting job offers from fitbit,HWE unknown.

Multiple users could collude to determine the top of the range for a position, if that were the case.

In any case we are discussing passive job searches. I'm not going to take the time to apply to a great job if I already have a great job, in the hope that they might meet my salary requirements. I might however use salary as a metric in initial search.

The best data from a job seeker's perspective isn't a salary range, which is a signal about what to expect that you chose, it's making public but perhaps anonymous what your developers actually make, which are facts.

It's a market. Efficient markets don't have secrets.

I think Udacity had a claim like that for a nano degree.

Yep. Not under this name though.

You have depression, and it's warping your thinking whenever you think about yourself. A sample size of 20 is tiny, and you can adjust your CV/resume.

It may be helpful for you to imagine a friend who is in your situation, and to think about what advice you would give them. It's a quick hack to get around the way that depression localizes on the self. So, pretend I had posted this, instead of you, what would you tell me?

Combine with the ability to train a neural network to identify typing noises by sound, and they can also read everything you type, including passwords.

Sure you are law abiding, but that doesn't mean every person with this power is.

I have experience being a american remote worker for a company that is based in canada. They have a wholly owned subsidiary managed by trinet (http://blog.capterra.com/top-zenefits-competitors/) that employs me and my fellow SF coworker.

I'd note that SAS is still used in the public sector and enterprise to a larger degree then you'd think, just because of legacy usage. For example, the FDA had to clarify a few years ago that R was okay, because their regulations required the use of SAS5 formatted data for electronic submissions, and when I worked in a county health department, we used SAS.

Perl was also the bioinformatics golden child for a while, and I expect there are still people using it for that purpose in industry.

That said, looking beyond the public sector I'd look at Python as broadening her prospects more then anything else, just because it's more broadly used in a variety of industries, and general understanding of it is more broadly applicable.

I'd suggest she also learn enough R to import stuff and export stuff. If there are R scripts she needs to use, python can be used to script R from the command line, and she can import data, process it, and be able to export the results back into python as an intermediate step.

I think it would be best to start with a small feature. For example, build a classification tool seeing if perspectives of both sides of an issue are interviewed and quoted. Open source it along with your dataset.

We need to build more composable machine learning based tools, and then we can use machine learning on their results to determine which serve which purposes best.

Off the shelf hackintoshes don't exist afaik. You might be able to get a bespoke one from someone though, if you check relevant forums and post there.

Didn't the law just require fingerprinting?