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She’s a project manager. It’s tough to do remotely so not many jobs available. That said, she did a couple of freelancing gigs for foreign companies last year. Not very steady or stable though and they don’t help her with the “Canadian experience” requirement.

She’s now learning to code to try and get a job in that. Coding is very in demand here (which explains how I got my first job here within a week of arriving)

I see you’re getting downvoted but it’s unfortunatedly a relevant question. In her case, however, that’s not the issue. She’s white with an “European-sounding name” so that’s not it.

I don’t think it’s racism or even xenophobia per se. It’s just companies want the “Canadian experience” on your resume. I hear similar stories from other immigrants here. After the first job, everything goes well. It’s just that getting that foot in the door is really difficult.

I did this recently. I removed the details of older experience and replaced them with a section “Other projects” where I quickly listed interesting and relevant things I did before but with no dates. I also removed the dates of my degrees.

Coincidence or not, I started receiving more contacts from recruiters and recently got a great new job.

That’s exactly what happened to my wife. She’s highly qualified and had a lot of international experience in large, well-known companies (HP, Intel, HSBC). Here in Canada, she’s rarely been able to even get to an interview these past couple of years, and when she did, she was “over qualified.”

She now makes sandwiches at a local supermarket for minimal wage and all but lost all hope. Breaks my heart.

I was lucky to get a job pretty quickly though so there’s that.

Wrt fear of sending signals, I feel the same.

Also, I have a young daughter who often asks me to play music in the car or Google Home and those affect my recommendations. I wish Spotify had some switch I could turn on to temporarily ignore anything I did until I switched it back off.

Use of the site they created to check if your data was leaked may contain terms and conditions that waive your rights to sue.

[1] https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/906178254331142144

Coding is a very particular case, though. You can't self-study your way to becoming a lawyer or a doctor.

And even in coding, more companies are slowly requiring formal education as a prerequisite for even applying for jobs. We know someone like you can be just as productive as someone from a great school, but that won't matter if you're cut from the selection process.

I'm not the parent but I'm sure they mean Accelerated Mobile Pages[0]

[0] https://www.ampproject.org/

To be honest, I don't either. But the data is still there. You don't know if in ten years Google is going to start losing money and is forced (by its shareholders) to find alternative means of monetization.

You can't really say Google is perfectly secure and will never ever ever be hacked and leak your data either. Maybe it will never happen, maybe it will.

Therefore I believe I should have the right to say "hey, I don't want this private corporation to have my credit info".

> They know how to get attention on the internet, what their peers are interested in and how to get as many likes as possible.

Is it specific to an age group, though? My mother is in her 60s and she seems to have no problem getting 100+ likes on FB every time she posts a pic of her grandkids. She knows what _her_ peers want to see.

> Everyone keeps mistaking my meaning.

This should tell you to stop and think about what you’re really saying.

I wonder how much the effects vary between different professions.

I'm in my 40s. Incredibly old for HN standards. And yet, I feel no nostalgia for the "good ol' times." I mean, don't get me wrong I'm sure there's a lot of things that set me apart from newer generations -- I don't get Snapchat at all ;) -- but I don't see me being happier by being put in a house set up to look and feel like the 90s/80s.

Is it maybe because we as programmers tend to be less prone to be stuck to the past? Just wondering

The old adage of not comparing your life to somebody else's highlight reel is valid for HN as well.

You'll never master everything. No one does. Take it easy. You say you've become an integral part of your team and that you're constantly learning. You seem to be on the right path.

> Choi sent a series of individualized emails to WrkRiot’s employees stating that salary payments were forthcoming, and attaching documents purporting to confirm wire transfers from a U.S.-based bank to the bank accounts of the recipient WrkRiot employees. In reality, as alleged in the indictment, Choi sent forged wire transfer confirmations in order to induce WrkRiot employees to continue working for the company without being paid.

I don't get it. How long can you fool anyone with this? A couple of days at most? And after that you're irrevocably and unquestionably revealed to have lied? How does that help you in any way?

I don't know if that's your case or not, but I feel like English-speakers living in English-speaking countries dealing with only other English-speakers may never experience the misery of using Siri in other languages.

If I set it to, say, Portuguese or French, its capabilities are greatly diminished. Even simple tasks as "play a song by Pearl Jam" are impossible because Siri will try to find some Portuguese phrase that sounds remotely like "pearl jam". If I set it to English, then I can't use it to send a text to my wife (in Portuguese) or get directions to local streets (named in French). Also people's names.

Google Assistant at least allows me to tell it that I speak those other languages so if I speak in any of them, it will understand as such. I can say "play Pearl Jam" in English, "envie uma mensagem para minha esposa" in Portuguese or "trouve-moi le boulevard laurier" in French and Google Assistant will get what language I'm using. It's a big help. Not perfect, but at least it's usable.

EDITED: grammar

I'm surprised both "NSA" and "surveillance" are two of the fastest shrinking words. I thought we saw more now than ever. Shows how perception doesn't always match reality.

MP3 is now free of patent issues. It is exactly the inverse of dying. The whole story line about MP3 dying is a PR push by Fraunhofer now that they will not longer make money by licencing their patents.

"The plans will allow Britain to become 'the global leader in the regulation of the use of personal data and the internet', the manifesto claims."

It is so sad that a government thinks this is something to be proud of.

What makes you think China's growth is fake?

But from the company's perspective, all that matters is that it _can_ and _does_ happen.

I don't believe anyone is saying every single person coming into the US will get searched. We _know_ they are not. But searches _do_ happen and _are_ legal, and that alone justifies preparing for the eventuality.

My employer has always had rules about how to take care of data on your devices. They tell you to enable encryption and to never leave your company laptop alone and stuff like that. The vast majority of employees will never have their devices stolen, but the fact that some might is enough justification to make sure everyone does their best to protect their data. It's the same thing.

That you always had very easy experiences with immigration _is_ the anecdote here, because it does nothing to change the fact that _some_ people will get their devices searched (and data potentially copied) by Immigration agents.

I'm guessing the number of people who haven't yet signed up for Netflix _and_ who will download the pirate episodes _and_ were going to sign up were it not for the leak is rather small

> Are you telling me the countries that could care less about spamming elegant PR pieces every other day about women in technology, have more women engineers?

Wouldn't that be natural though? If there was no issue of lack of diversity, there would not be a need for PR pieces on the subject, right? So the fact that PR pieces about women in technology exist may very well be a good indicator that there is a lack of women in tech.

You'd also have to factor in the times the human operator has to take over for the autopilot to prevent accidents.

Many articles and press releases make it look like self-driving is "already here" when it's actually still very much a work in progress and not at all a solved problem

The title is wrong as it includes a piece of the abstract. The original title is "The Most Desirable Passports On Earth Don’t Include America’s."

Please someone remove the "visa" at the end as it makes no sense

As a young nerdy kid, this movie had such an impact on my at the time I saw it. I pretended I was a robot for months afterwards :)

I am the same. I curse a lot in English and French (I live in Quebec) but I can't stand cursing in my native language. I always shared your theory too. I think we are somehow shielded from the cultural baggage of foreign swear words. They're just "funny" instead of offensive.

I'm curious, what was the question?

It used to be much more relaxed. After 9/11 things changed and the US started paying more attention to border crossings.

In the early 2000s, I was at a friend's place with John "maddog" Hall, who was talking to a group of us about the future of software and the promises of quantum computing.

He said something that I always found interesting. He was talking about how in a decade or so we would probably be using software and tools that would be unrecognizable to us at that moment, but after a pause he added: "but we'll still be writing code with vi." :)

More often than not I read _only_ the comments and don't even bother to click the link unless one of the comments raises my curiosity.

The comments are what make HN good.