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Tenured professors who expect to be taken by the hand and told what to do? Bizarre.

As a PhD student, I was told to go think of a dissertation-worthy project and come back with a draft...

Game authors are welcome to do as they please, of course. But as someone who both likes video games and is quite bad at them, I've pretty much stopped buying them. Oh well...

Sorry you're having a bad time. I'm old, but can still relate.

On the codebase, yes, most are horrible, unfortunately. Try to think of it as your opportunity. If you can learn to comprehend and fix code like this, you'll always be in demand, because these messes will never end.

Try to enable more logging and debug info as best as you can, and learn to use the tools available for this.

If you're getting positive feedback, that's good. Most jobs offer little or no feedback until things go bad.

As for weight, you should let yourself up. Nobody who matters cares, and it really doesn't matter in the big scheme of things. You might find intermittent fasting interesting.

Might be useful to find someone to talk to.

Good luck.

I don't think someone that vicious has anything to tell us about the Internet.

"I'm not embarrassed by any of those tweets."

1. Indeed, I'm only talking about is, not ought. Please do complain. Leave Trump out, though. Nothing he can do about it, and if he seriously tried, he'd wake up with a horse's head in his bed.

2. If you truly believe your laptop is clean and encryption sufficiently uncrackable, go ahead. I don't think I'm that smart, myself.

Let's just say I have a lot or respect for the possibilities I'm aware of, together with a general sense that there's a lot that I don't know.

In any case, just because you usually get your laptop handed right back, it doesn't follow that you always will. If it matters to you, buy that burner.

Key takeaway: Over the last five years, hiring of white males for tech roles has declined from 47.5% to 33.3% (of total tech hires). Somewhat surprisingly, hiring of white females and all non-Asian minorities has barely budged. The major increases were in hiring of Asians, with women increasing somewhat faster proportionally.

No data on age at all. I'm guessing it would look pretty bad for those over forty.

Kudos to Google for publishing this in greater detail than ever.

He's saying he was targeted because he's known to disapprove of the Trump administration? Please. If anything, it was considerably worse prior to 2016.

A better question would be why someone technically knowledgeable would be carrying a laptop through airline security at all. As soon as it's out of your hands, you have to assume it's been blown, security-wise. Far better to just buy a burner Chromebook at your destination.

It's arguably unethical.

It's also arguably unethical for you not to host a number of poor people in your house or apartment.

And more fundamentally, it's arguably unethical for your not to spend most of your money trying to support the world's poorest.

Few people manage much in this regard, but that's our situation.

For a detailed explanation, start here: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/05/magazine/the-singer-solut...

It's quite obvious that that's what they're referring to. Article titles necessarily require brevity.

Anyway, flagged in 5, 4, 3, 2, ...

Is there any reason to think desirable men have a differing distribution of libidos (vs the not desirable men)? A simpler explanation would be that they have more sex because they have more opportunity, no?

It would be nice if we could all start laughing about this stuff again.

> if men and women want sex roughly as many times, or if women want more,

In my experience, this is counterfactual.

Also, I have a hottie buddie who has a lot of sex with a lot of women. Suspect he can easily keep ten women satisfied, on average.

If it was an April 1 gag, they'd have included weight verification...

Perhaps a worthy cause, but that website is first-degree eye slaughter.

See sibling replies, if you like.

In my experience, there's no correlation between someone's kindness and their politics.

People are individuals--watch what each individual does.

It's a lot easier to criticize others than to create something yourself.

The censors are ultimately scrubbing history clean. If we can't know the history, how are we supposed to learn from it?

This is awful. But in the end, it takes two, and you can only control your side of the conversation.

I had a similar experience in my last divorce, doing every possible thing to make the negotiations non-confrontational, win/win, etc. My wife's stance was "I get everything", and no amount of kindness, reasoning, or patience could move her. (As you might imagine, the result was a trail of destruction, for me and her both.)

I take some solace in this Buster Scruggs quote: "Misanthrope? I don’t hate my fellow man, even when he’s tiresome and surly and tries to cheat at poker. I figure that’s just a human material, and him that finds in it cause for anger and dismay is just a fool for expecting better."

I don't think that small minority is as small as you might think. Life is full of uninsurable disasters.

The "good" news is that there are only a few years of retirement you really want to hang around for anyway (as opposed to a slow miserable death of dementia and other diseases). Seven years, for example. (67 to 75)

When I run out of money, I'm out.

It's sad, but I've simply accepted that this will be the future. Anyone who has unorthodox opinions on controversial opinions will get this treatment, and we'll slowly rip our society apart.

Hopefully the next one will be better.

I was told that I was rejected at final executive review, supposedly due to a general property of my resume that many might hear as a euphemism for "too old". Particularly annoying, since that property was in plain view from day one.

As I said elsewhere, I can only guess at the true story. And it turned out to be a good thing--I found a better job (for me).

I think my original point stands, though. H-1Bs are almost by definition "diverse", and in the current cultural environment that makes a difference. Unless one is living under a rock, it's impossible to miss the advantage that that gives in the hiring market.

Both I and my wife are second generation immigrants. I have no issues with immigrants at all, and I've worked my entire career besides H-1Bs and other PRs. If you had asked me five years ago, I'd have expressed a (somewhat naive) wish that we just drop national borders altogether, for the purposes of immigration. (I'm a bit more sanguine these days.)

I wasn't aware that Google was still growing that fast. That makes the reduction in the proportion of non-diverse employees a little more credible. On the other hand, it makes the sibling poster's thought (headcount reduction) a little less credible.

Obviously, they didn't hire me, and in the end, I have no idea why. They probably barely know why themselves.

My understanding is that there's a final "executive review", which is almost a rubber stamp, in that only one or a few percent are nixed at this level. In the early days, supposedly it was literally Sergei and Larry. These days, I imagine it's the head of the division in question, or perhaps one of their direct underlings. Or, perhaps, (plot twist), they pump the entire thing through an ML model. :-)

One thing I've learned in my (long) career is that wealthy companies don't really need to care about how much they burn during the hiring process. (For starters, your labor is free to them at this point.) That's just the way it is.

A related effect is that almost all H-1B's count as "diverse" in HR statistics. If so, then currently there would be intense pressure to hire the H-1B candidate over a citizen, even if the former required a higher salary.

I have some skin in this game. I was rejected at Google for mysterious reasons after passing the all-day and hiring committee. No way to know, but I am indeed pale, male, and stale (and a citizen). If you look at Google's own diversity reports, their fraction of people like me has falling like a stone for several years now.