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Honest question - is this a part of your hiring pitch? "Our engineers don't complain about business constraints" is a red flag if I ever heard one.

You did not do a 'tour of duty', you worked a comfortable, air-conditioned, white collar job for a few years. Co-opting the language of actual military service is downright offensive.

For some reason there's a lot of negativity in this thread. I thought the txt file was really cool, signed up immediately, and have been having a lot of fun with the interface. I don't remember the last time I found registering for a SASS product to be fun.

This sparked a lot of memories. I really enjoyed it.

Why are you blaming the victim? Also, have you ever succeeded in getting clauses added to a megacorp's written offer?

I used Chariot daily for my commute when I lived in the outer richmond (24th ave). Its existential purpose was to ensure you would only travel with fellow commuters, and not the raving lunatics who rode the muni. It was a kind of bridge above the fray.

Are the voices backwards for anyone else? English sentences are read (unintelligibly) in a French voice and vice versa. http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=f727d42f-7649-49b0-b583-99bb9...

I make significantly more at GS than I did at google. The difference is that the majority of my compensation comes from the yearly bonus - a quirk in finance.

These language categorizations are famous and have been around since the 50's - not sure what the colored map really adds. When looking at the suggested number of hours, keep in mind that these measurements are for:

* a Foreign Service Officer (read: elite, meritocratically-selected diplomat, usually with a background in humanities, who is probably in command of another foreign language already).

* 5 hours/day of continuous study, with classroom instruction at the FSI's internal language school (which is considered the gold standard in language education). Don't expect the same results from self-study with a textbook and some subtitled movies.

* Reaching a B2-C1 level of proficiency. That's certainly conversational, but far from fluent. Consider that for Russian, the passive vocabulary of someone with a C2 proficiency is about twice that of someone with a C1.

I would never want to discourage someone from learning a foreign language, but the notion that one could reach professional proficiency in French within ~6 months is unrealistic for 99% of learners. Even if you lived there and devoted your entire days to study, it would be difficult to ramp up that quickly.

As a fun warm up-question, I always ask the candidate what editor and keyboard they use. The candidate who geeks out about their plugins and cherry switches inevitably passes all 5 rounds; the candidate who uses eclipse with maybe a vim plugin will go on to fail about 75% of the time. It's a good filter too; I'd say 1 out of every 20 candidates expresses strong convictions.

I'm seriously considering using it as a dog whistle and skipping the experience deep-dive (which tests if you are a good story teller), the systems design questions (which tests if you can sync to the interviewer's sense of judgement), and the algorithm hazing (which tests social anxiety). But I'm worried there is some kind of discriminatory correlation baked into that metric.

I usually use csvkit (https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.1/index.html). There are commands to list the columns, filter, browse the data in a somewhat formatted way with less. Typing the commands is a huge pain though, and I would be very interested in a tool that could instantly pop open and let me peruse. Excel can take minutes to load and eagerly does a lot of unhelpful formatting on things like dates and decimals.

That being said I would never want to (and often legally cannot) etl my data to some third party. That would be terribly slow. But I would happily pay for a nice desktop tool to do it for me; command line or GUI.

What migration? They really can't be used for anything automated - the tension control of a Passap is notoriously flimsy. I can't tell you how many half finished garments I have lying around because the yarn snapped halfway through.

The knit pattern (tees are not woven) only affects the ratio of stretch per direction. Shrinkage is much more a property of the fiber and fabric processing, like prewashing.

Because the shirt would not stretch to your chest, making it hard to get on/off. Also it would look like a flaccid tube hanging off your body.

Loopwheelers apply even (low) tension on yarn which prevents uneven warping, but that doesn't change the fact that cotton still shrinks as a fiber.

Is this a joke?

Actually, I think those would be acceptable answers. As a young person who works with older coworkers, I'm perfectly willing to talk to you about your kids or buying groceries. I just want to relate to you in a conversation that isn't about work.

I understand not drinking and not playing video games, but saying that you have no hobbies would be pretty weird in an interview. They're just trying to get to know you. Hopefully you follow it up with some personal detail that distinguishes you from a robot.

Though the edges of the language are softened to make it easier to swallow, I think the message is very clear. If your boss "suggests" some changes, he/she means make some changes.

I had trouble parsing this - Could you explain, in a sentence or two, why cmdlets are more than .NET classes? What's the significance of the GetDateCommand class existing?

отлично, большой спасибо!

Well, I was asking if I was wearing the right kind of boots. The conclusion seems to be that while there are many boots to choose from, none will make you walk any faster.

I think your suggestion about history and culture is wise. Sometimes when I get tired of learning the language I'll read Russian politics or recipes, just to remind myself why I'm trying to learn it in the first place.

The time lag bit rings true. I think you're describing a longer term version of the peopleware phenonmenon, where a programmer needs 15 minutes without distraction to "get in the zone".

Unfortunately they don't seem to teach Russian. Is there an advantage to this type of immersion as opposed to just moving to russia for a month?

I don't know where I got the idea that one can reach fluency in a year (especially without living in the country). Perhaps the marketing weasels. Thanks for the perspective.

I don't know exactly what you're referring to (I do read pikabu sometimes). I've always heard writing correctly is less important than writing at all. Do you suggest that this isn't true, that sloppy grammar isn't something that can be improved later?

IYO, what is the best audio to listen to? Tapes for language learners? Radio? Subtitled movies?

I never thought about having a drink before speaking Russian - that probably would help muffle my self consciousness.

Can you talk more about how you learned thousands of words? I've been drilling words with quizlet, and find that it takes ~10 drills to burn a given word into my brain.

So? What prevents any of the other tenants in your apartment from doing that?