cloudedcordial

Lumping together "Asian" as a group is definitely annoying. The different nations and countries from East Asia alone could be unique culturally and politically. In addition, many ethnic Chinese have been living around the world for generations.

I'd drive a more humble car than a Toyota Camry to dodge the annoying questions on "Chinese money". I made serious efforts to do well at school and to have a reputable career in tech.

The issue is not new. I am of East Asian heritage and live in Canada. Several people asked me causally why I went to school and had a regular job. They explained that with the "Chinese money" I should not compete for jobs with folks who really needed the money.

Smh...

I practiced classical music 3-4 hours per day. Sometimes in the weekends, too. I played multiple instruments and sang in choir growing up. I enjoyed the work that gave me a sense of accomplishment.

Although I am not a professional musician, the time spent kept me out of trouble as a kid and a teenager. In addition, I learned to win and to lose gracefully, which publicly funded schools no longer teach.

Nostalgia certainly hits hard! In the early 2000s, someone showed me how they ran an ssh terminal on their Blackberry. They were amazed how a device that size could do real work.

Fr Francis Ching, possibly the only blind Roman Catholic priest in Canada, explained his setup on iPad. Note that this is an older video from 2015. (I cannot find his current setup at the moment.) The key points in the setup are enabling voice over in iOS and getting a set up earbuds.

https://www.facebook.com/francis.ching.731/videos/1646247715...

:'( I won't be surprised if he knew about the illness for more than a month but kept the diagnosis private decided to work until the very end.

It pains me to see that the last commit was the beginning of July.

This message, whether in the context of Bram Moolenaar or not, rings a bell. Academic education does not necessarily give credit to the humble and the team players. The top folks from school are not necessarily doing impactful things later in life.

In addition to for-profit companies, some non-profit research organizations and government agencies do formal verification research work. I encountered with some researchers from Formal Methods community over 15 years ago. Those folks worked for and with NASA, SRI International and Mitre Corporation.

In terms of how to get those roles, these folks worked on topics related to Formal Methods during their graduate studies. They got the positions from the connections. Those jobs could be niche. They weren't widely advertised like an SWE for a software company. Those organizations could be conservative and moving in a much slower pace than Silicon Valley software companies.

Some individuals stayed in those organizations for a long time. Depending on your nationality, working in those US organizations could be tough. The one worked for NASA left due to a policy change in the hiring policy for non-US citizens: They weren't an American. Despite the abrupt departure, they still joked from time to time that they worked for NASA.

> 2) You will be part of our family

Treating business like a part of the family is a bad idea. You will end up with nepotism in the organization and shun out new ideas. Yet some real businesses embrace this mantra and bad things have been happening.

Given how bad the job market was, how did the current senior and staff engineers started their career about 20 years ago? How could they stand out from the sea of applicants?

Ditto. I got my undergrad after the dot-com crash and finished grad school before 2008. You've reminded me the bad old days. I was considering seriously to go back to my old profession established during my teenage years.

I got lucky to get my first real adult job from my grad school's industrial partner, which paid with peanuts. At least I kept a great credit score. My undergrad education was paid partly by my old profession's gigs. Grad school was tuition-free with a stipend.

I'd say expand your network. You need to see how your skills could be impactful for others. Something could be a big deal for you but not for others. In addition, you may discover some trends or knowledge that you may not know. You are taking a great step by asking here.

Armed with the knowledge, you can build a portfolio that is relevant to the employers. Prepare to have some stories to tell how you overcome the obstacles: Just like what others point out, you need some evidence of get things done.

It'd be more productive to contact the vendor(s) of the software unless the software has been developed in-house.

My past employers include some lackluster companies that not too many people knew. I found those companies by browsing the local startup incubator's press releases. When the times were good, I attended some tech-related meetups (virtual or in person) to learn what others did. There are some smaller venture capitalist firms such as 8VC that work with many startups. You may learn about opportunities that not too many people are aware of.

Just like what at least one other person have said, ensure that you've an up-to-date LinkedIn profile. In addition, have someone in recruiting or in software development to read over your resume. Remote jobs could receive many applications because the applicants are not bounded by their locations. With the number of applications, it is easy for the recruiters and the hiring managers to stop reading weak applications even if you are experienced. I used the paid resume review service from levels.fyi.

New Zealand government hopes to establish a plain language law when communicating with the public:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/new-zealand-ho...

Even if there's such a law, people will find a way around it.

There was a healthcare reform at around the 1970s concluded that the individuals must consent to receive treatment. I don't know the details of the before-and-after of how the healthcare systems provides the services. Nowadays, the adults can refuse medical treatments: One of the family friends considered not receiving an organ transplant and it's ok. I don't know if one can be forced to receive treatment for infectious diseases such as tuberculosis. Even if there's a rule, I don't know if such a rule is enforced.

Perhaps the hole in the healthcare system is that the practice assumes that all adults have a sound mind and can make decisions. Having a rule to force people to do something (such as taking vaccines) put a bad taste in many people's mouths. We Canadians are too nice to tell someone that the fault is on you - As an employer, we could just document how the job does not "fit" someone instead of telling them that "you have a mental illness."

Indeed, my friend's acquaintance (let's call them "G") has run into law enforcement at least twice. An arrest may not be a strong reason to get a psychological evaluation. For one of those incidents, the police called my friend at 10pm asking if G lives in the address. My friend told the police that she knew G but they didn't live here. The police thanked my friend for the info but could not disclose how or why G was with the police at that moment due to privacy laws.

There are organizations in the community providing mental health services. They all required the person to agree to receive the service.

Let me put a plug on this thread for Bach Stiftung's recording and its YouTube channel for many of the choral works.

https://www.bachstiftung.ch/

I had an onsite interview for a unicorn company. The onsite consisted of 3 meetings. After the first two meetings (one with a C-level personnel), the recruiter came to the meeting room and told me that he's checking the availability of the developer who was about to meet me. Then he came back and told me that there's an outage in prod that the developer needed to deal with ASAP. He apologized the interview was cut short because of the "fire" but the team had enough data points during the first 2 meetings.

I believed the recruiter's explanation at first. Then I got a yucky feeling that the 3rd developer just wanted to ghost me. (No, I didn't get an offer.)

Note that multiple border crossing points including the ones in Poland shows red or orange in the traffic data. I assume that many people are still trying to reach the neighbouring countries.

Sorry I meant GiveSendGone. Butter fingers!

Wayback machine has taken snapshots of GoSendGone including the csv.

I had a similar negative knee jerk reaction upon learning that Yo-Yo Ma gives one of the courses from MasterClass. The whole MasterClass business seems like entertainment as you've noted. Music could be entertainment but there's some deep subjects just like mathematics. One cannot just sit back and gain deep understanding.

I live in Canada and have worked with a lot of former Blackberry/RIM employees. A lot of them are still very fond of the exciting era in the 2000s. I can see some of them would be emotional over the EOL announcement.

Some people own an extensive collection of Blackberry memorabilia: Anniversary crystals, engraved watches, knick-knacks, hoodies, t-shirts. Not to mention a line of old Blackberrys over the years. I have heard about stories of debugging the enterprise server in ungodly hours. Even after the formerly Blackberry buildings have been housing other companies, a colleague told me vividly where the server racks were located exactly and was sad they're not there anymore.

I am old enough to see the rise and fall of Blackberry devices. The rise and fall reminds me to be cognizant of potential competitors and not to stop improving.

One of the students from my high school, who was orphaned at 11, enrolled himself to the military university. At that school, he got free education, free uniform and free boarding. Every graduates must commit themselves to serve the military for a number of years. He possibly figured out that it's a good way to be independent, to get a quality education and to earn a decent living.

That school in my country has not been trivial to get accepted. He aimed for good grades at high school and participated in sports teams.

Thank you for cautioning others not to over-generalize and discount Jesuits in history.

I know someone who has been a Jesuit in the last 10+ years and was ordained a few years ago. At present, the order still encourages education, intellectual pursuits, service to others and learning other's cultures/languages. A number of Jesuits entered religious life with previous experience in many ordinary professions such as teachers and bankers. During the formation, the seminarians work in less privileged places around the world. The most enlightening aspect of the formation admission process is that the superior, using 3rd party medical professionals, ensure that all prospective seminarians have been in excellent mental health.

Jesuits is one of the forward-looking and outgoing Catholic orders. They work on topics that both non-believers and believers could agree. Matteo Ricci was fluent in Chinese culture and language. Jean de Brebeuf learned aboriginal language and culture in the present day's Canada.

Many other orders have not been so much on going to foreign places and are pretty insular to the unfamiliar.

The guide is only good for people who have received a diagnosis or are aware of their own behaviour. For the folks who don't aware of their own ADHD behaviour, they think it's completely normal to interrupt, to feel restless, to blame the job to be so boring, to plan for the immediate need instead of long term etc

A close family member exhibit the ADHD behaviour. Growing up, I thought that the normal adults are all restless talk over other people and only think short term. I unconsciously mimic the behaviour. The traits really hurt me during my early career because the traits come across as non-professional and blunt to others. I've since identified those traits and fixed my own behaviour. I've since advanced my career and increased my income quite a bit.

I brought up the topic with the family member and was interrupted.

What you've described is common among many first adopters. I know someone who has a common first name and last name combo, signed up for gmail in mid-2000s and use the firstname+lastname@gmail.com.

He got many "weird" messages over the years from messages addressed to a religious minister, to a pro-gun individual and to NSFW account that he didn't sign up for.

Somewhat related to the 90s web. Here's the aesthetics of the buttons, title bar and dropdown menu during those days. https://jdan.github.io/98.css/