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typo in Why Do You Need CodeInterview: "How do you know his is a ninja?". I'm assuming this wasn't as intentional as blag may have been ;)

I imagine they probably could have, but even looking at it from a strictly utilitarian point of view, both me and her are now American citizens producing a fair amount of value by plying our trade. I suppose you could debate whether or not skilled workers like ourselves were truly needed, but I think being able to find employment is a good enough proxy for being a productive member of society, so I would say the American people as a whole are 'better' than they would have been without us - although clearly this hinges on the actual criteria you choose.

my mom won the green card lottery 10 years ago, when I was still young and surely wouldn't have been very useful or profitable. 10 years later, I'm getting my master's at one of the best universities I could've hoped for, and a pretty good chance of being able to do interesting work with competitive pay. I'm extremely grateful for the lottery, which is the one thing that made all of this possible.

my mom also got a chance to actually apply her computer science degree (which she couldn't do before because of the explicit sexism which meant women were generally employed as, perhaps glorified, receptionists), and now works as a senior software engineer at a large company. I imagine her true potential would also have been difficult to estimate prior to the move, as she'd done very little actual programming after college - but she effectively got a fresh start here, and was able to quickly advance in an environment which allowed her to be judged solely on technical competency.

I pretty much do the same - mostly since I decided to typeset my resume a while ago, and converting it to anything, particularly MS Word, just feels like a travesty.

i had an identical experience just a month ago - took 2 months to hear feedback on the technical interviews, followed by a whole bunch of nothing. compared to other offers i had, google moved by far the slowest

C# (and the rest of the .NET paradigm along with it). once i got the taste of command-line + gcc in my first Computer Science courses, I never really looked back ..

at least the alphabet is right :) the rest looks pretty believable though, makes me wonder what that text is supposed to represent

Learning about the fractional dimension of the coast of Britain was one of the most interesting discoveries I've had. :(

I, too, would be interested.

I actually had a bit of fun doing a challenge problem for Bump (although I was in school at the time and admittedly had a bit more time to spend).. It felt like a more sensible assessment than a resume or some simple fizzbuzz problem would provide, as well.

You know Arsenal, they always try to walk it in

this is awesome! this'll save me much time (cumulatively) that i would've spent going to the HN front page and seeing that I've read all the articles anyway .. great idea making it top-like.

having finished undergrad this June, I completely agree

Used to do jujitsu, now I mostly play soccer as my physical outlet .. Also regularly play some chess to keep my skills honed, and sometimes play some (mostly soccer) video games when I just want to unwind

as a UC Davis student, I can say it's a much better change than what we had before (and my on-campus work switched to Gmail from OWA as well). definitely will hate to see it go ..

I had a URL about Prop 8 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008)... out from facebook chat with a message that it was possibly 'offensive' about a year ago or so .. nothing new

Paying for graduate school, mostly, as well as vague concerns about finding a job when I actually have to.