31reasons

Recently I was interviewed by a well-known dating company. After the onsite interview they rejected me by saying "Our team liked you very much but they have decided to go with the candidate that they worked with in the past".

Is this right ?

Maybe my comment is also contrary to your own personal interest.

>>Estimates that more than 7,000 houses and apartments have been taken off the rental market in metro Los Angeles for use as short-term rentals.

As I am searching for a good apartment in LA, this makes me bit upset.

Rhino horns = illegal and dangerous = very expensive = rich buyers.

Since when access to scientific knowledge stopped people from believing pseudo-science ?

People who are crazy enough to consume rhino horn for any purpose will discard this attempt as "fake rhino horn".

What about Coca-Cola ? It sells sugar water to kids.

Krishnamurti Foundation is not at all about religion. In fact Jiddu Krishnamurti was completely against any dogma to the point where he asked people to not even follow his words. And they still made it part of the Hinduism branch, which is funny.

>> It's not like Uber or Snapchat will become the next friendster and myspace.

They may very well become that. At least in Snapchat's case, things can change very quickly.

You can find $1200/month apartments all over LA (may be not Santa Monica). Is that true for SF ?

We need Hyperloop so that you can live in LA and work in SF!

Every time some statistical "studies" come out I think of which industry is going to benefit from it.

I think OP has a valid argument. People who are 50+ now started programming when not many people even heard of computers. The major increase in CS graduates in recent decade will mean that when 20-30 something will become 50+ year old in next 2 decades, there should be lot less ageism related factor as programming industry would have matured by then.

In North America at least, any good tech company worth working for will ask you to write code on a whiteboard or computer. I am not sure where do you interview.

What kind of ageism have you experienced ? Can you describe some experiences ?

Also it should be mentioned that the author is a co-founder of HackerRank.com , which is trying to be the testing platform for new interview candidates.

From the article, I didn't get any information on why or what or if there is a "Looming Fall" of the whiteboard for testing engineering candidates.

>> It would be great if I could trade equity with other engineers to slightly lower the risk of the "all in one company" issue.

Yeah, one thing I never understood is that people consider it normal to go "all in" as employee but a big no-no in terms of investing. As an employee I AM investing when I get the equity by working there and taking lower-than-market salary. No one questions or protects me from making that decision. Yet if you want to BUY equity for some startup, you are not allowed to do unless you are Accredited Investor. I think thats just not fair.

Not to mention you can actually afford a mortgage there.

Maybe the power rank should be self-referencial. More higher power-rank country you can visit higher your power-rank.

Glassdoor is probably the best resource on salary, so yes. You can also ask anonymously on forums. Mostly top tier companies going to pay higher than others (Google,FB,Amazon). I have heard Netflix pays well too. But salary should not be the only criteria, some companies pay well but they also take their money's worth from you by making you work late nights and weekends e.g Amazon , Netflix are known to crush you with work load.

I recently had experience with Hired.com. It was pretty good. All companies that were interested in me were posting their salary offers upfront so I can decide where I want to interview.

>>It's funny to imagine social hackers buying tons of diapers to get on top of the rankings.

In that case government might release guidelines by which buying diapers without its need become criminal offense.

A Startup was using a really bad way to communicate between their software components. Their main architect was a moron. I was a contractor at the time. I told the CEO that there is better way to do this if he let me. I was asked to leave the next day. 6 months later the startup went belly up.

I am curious why would Google be in trouble with antitrust ?

SICP in Middle School! who are you ? Please start working on fusion if you are not already.

MS then :)

Amazon?

Can deep learning algorithms learn from temporal data ? So far I have seen object recognition from a single image but not some intelligence gathering from a video.

Starting a successful small business like a restaurant can make you a millionaire too. Starting a startup has the least possibility of making you a millionaire.

Mentors are not just for knowledge, they provide connections, confidence and motivation based on what they know about you. The internet has lot of knowledge but it doesn't know you deep enough to tell you what is good for you.

So what made you so much happier in Berlin than presumably in the US ?