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I'm 34 and I'm also realizing this slowly :) Choices are a major source of my stress. It's the fear that am I making the right choice or will I regret it in the future? I only have one limited life :(

Sounds tautological. Universe without humans is meaningless (in human terms) because we define what meaning is (in human terms).

Oh? And what does contemplating and appreciating the beauty of universe and planet earth accomplish?

did you mean "model web developer" instead of "modal web developer" ?

thanks :)

wtf are you babbling about? this is hacker news, not reddit. stop posting made up stuff.

tangential questions: why did you pause your career? Did you regret pausing it? were you easily able to get back in?

nope, but i will. Thanks :)

Yes and right now the industry is trying to create more and more programmers by pushing schools, promising riches, etc. just like the oil industry has been experimenting with various ways of extracting as much oil as possible. Wondering what the side effects equivalent to environmental pollution are in this case...

I'm not sure if that was necessarily racism though. I think because China is now seen more and more as an enemy and the professor was born in China, maybe that's why. Not excusing the the FBI, just questioning whether racism was at play. What if it had been a white Russian scientist? Would it have been different?

What would be very useful is an "update reminder" feature where if some information in the article is updated (maybe a couple days or a few years) later, a reminder is sent.

How can we get this in Victoria, BC, Canada? Anybody want to team up?

this is awesome. I'm just finishing my masters, and would love to do phd in the same area, but the TA grant is measly. no way I can do that right now.

how do people found cloud or network services which require a huge infrastructure? It's not exactly like creating an app and hitting it big.

how did you get a .cloud domain?

Can't wait till this happens in North America. I hope we realize shorter work days and basic income in the next couple of decades. Then we will truly have a golden age.

>With all due respect, the problem is most likely a series of poor decisions on your part.

seems like he moved to china a while back and only recently started a tech company. Managing tech companies over several geographical regions is not rare, especially if your business model calls for it.

How exactly did you arrive at the conclusion that it is most likely a series of poor decisions on his part without knowing anything about him or his business?

With all due respect, you have no idea of what you are talking about.

The situation sucks, but I find it so amazing, the outpouring of support for the boy from everybody! Hopefully his faith in people will be restored.

Damnit that was depressing.

Why not? How else would the next guy know not to apply for them? If I had known this before, I wouldn't have wasted my time with them in the first place.

Thanks, this was exactly my point. I used to like doing these kinds of problems when I was a second year comp-sci student. I was also a C purist. But then I grew up and learned that there are far bigger problems in software development world than some puzzle or making 100 line programs as efficient as possible in C.

Now I think about usability, design, etc. of a system and wonder what the trade-offs are when choosing one design over another, not to mention time and cost trade-offs.

Isn't this what any respectable client submitting projects on Toptal should look for? I don't think I'd want a junior dev diving head first into my project without first understanding the requirements and presenting me with different trade-offs, etc. Unless ofcourse Toptal wants to be a platform for lazy college kids asking help on their assignments.

I know you understand these points, but I'm just adding this for future readers.

Yeah I've done many whiteboard interviews and I'm well aware of algorithmic problems, complexities, etc as I have a BSc and an MSc in computer science. Codility problems do test for those, but their problems are usually some sort of puzzle or brain teaser type of questions that I have hardly encountered in my work.

It's not that I "failed" to get into Toptal. I refused to take the codility test after seeing it as I didn't see any point in doing so. I'm sure I could solve those codility problems in 30 min. each if I practiced similar problems for a couple of weeks, but why should I?

I told them this, and their condescending response to me is why I called them stupid. Programming is a vast field, and not every programmer is going to find such puzzles "interesting and challenging".

Same as me. They asked me to do 3 challenges in 90 minutes on codility. The problems seemed like nothing I had ever encountered in my 5+ years as a web + backend developer. I told them so. They then proceeded to send me a long email telling me that how as an engineer I should delight in solving those kinds of problems. Clearly, I can train myself on codility to tackle those kinds of problems, but why should I just to pass an interview? Those are not the kinds of problems I'm interested in. Such a stupid company with a stupid mentality.

I have android :(

There's a difference between prodding your brain or prodding a brain modeled after your brain, which doesn't have a way to sense things prodding it.

let me help you take your example further:

"These humans, they might have agency and free will, but they don't have fuqismatk and missildrigg, so us gakimiking and monikiking their brain should be ok."

Thanks for this :) A slightly tangential question: at what point does using ORM become painful? When would you recommend going back to sprocs?

I'm also a long time C# developer and I would love to try out F#. what types of projects is F# really good for? Any cool open source projects that you'd recommend?

What would be more thoughtful is for the researchers to plan this better. I think calling the police was the right action in this case. Why do researchers get a free pass? If it were some pranksters publishing the exact same thing on youtube, would you still consider it unacceptable behaviour? No, what I find unacceptable is your hypocrisy in trying to shame the guy who did the right thing.

Not sure. Although I have seen many sites and companies have contests where it's not applicable to certain provinces or states. Also I think states vs countries is a bit different. Why not then just apply the saudi standards to our content as well?

the problem though is that they use strict Saudi Wahabi standards for relatively liberal countries like Lebanon and Egypt.

Microsoft is going above and beyond what is required of them in terms of censorship.