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Writing well is underrated. Too many people think they do it well. Kind of like Dutch people and their command of the English language.

I like Sentry. I don’t like boasting about virtuous deeds.

155k is nice, could be more.

Whenever I've interviewed people I've always made sure to them feel comfortable, so any anxiety does not get in their way.

Then, we talk and I look for all the qualities they /do/ have.

Sadly, lots of interviewers get a kick out of finding out what the interviewee does not know, so they can feel superior.

Coding challenges should be: -1. take-home -2. concise -3. relevant to the job -4. take no more than 4 hours

One example of such a decent test that I came across involved having to read a file, parsing it and turning its contents into some basic HTML. During the interview we talked about things like "what if the file were really big", e.g. let the candidate reflect on the limitations of their implementation. This was enough to suss out where somebody is, professionally. And nobody had to have a bad day.

AKA "rush to keyboard" syndrome.

Indeed! This cultural / historical angle of looking at the issue hits the nail on the head.

Remote work ftw.

One reason to complain is that these interview-questions usually bare so little relevance to the actual job.

Haha yes, at that point, nailing the interview will just come down to how well you are able to gauge what the person at the other side of the table wants to hear. "Hmm, is this a tabs or a spaces guy?"

Clojure just seems "too weird" to too many people, albeit for all the wrong reasons. Its syntax looks like a 6ft hurdle to newcomers, especially if they have lots of experience in C-synthax-languages. But anyone who just /tries/ to jump it finds out the hurdle really isn't that high at all.

This dynamic will probably never change. Clojure will remain an acquired taste, which is fine, I guess. Those 'in the know' will happily continue to develop effectively with it.

We also don't absolutely _need_ good health to somehow still enjoy success but it certainly helps, doesn't it?

It's quite the same with education.

Ah, so /this/ is where these Googlers draw the line?

Clearly nobody lives in a legal vacuum. Those days have been gone for a couple of millennia.

All the tech aside (because I suppose they'll kind of get it done sooner or later), what I really want to know on this subject is: who's legally responsible in the case of an accident?

Your argument sounds a lot like an argument that excludes the middle. It is perfectly reasonable to work for a government or a company while at the same time demanding that decision-takers within that organization do not completely disregard morals, or the general well-being of society.

This sort of thing is not a matter of binary choices.

AirBnb have their own issues, and plenty of bad press about cities popular with tourists crumbling under the load AirBnB are causing on their communities.

I think that something like Stack's Blackbox is the best idea. This ansible-based setup also explains the concepts pretty well: http://ansiblecookbook.com/html/en.html#how-do-i-store-priva...

That article is really good.

What, so only $2.5M for that wreck?:)

I've speed-read the nytimes article for you: the author is right.

That article reads identical to the first few chapers of The Circle by Dave Eggers.

What I worry about is the the hybris that is prevalent in the tech industry.

LOL @ calling Uber one of the "greatest businesses of recent times".

Still, he was totalitarian and Singapore as a city feels like Disneyland. Phrases like "Move along citizen" and the work of Aldous Huxley came to mind when I visited. So only if you view the world in monetary terms only does this guy earn admiration.

'credit card acquiring' :)

You mean black-hat hacking?

There's no disputing that. I'm just voicing the sentiment of main street hoping that we techies take it to heart.

Exactly. The tech-industry is horribly naive. It operates based on the idea that the general public perceives them as those friendly shy nerdy guys from school.

Wake up, guys. People have had tech giants invade their life way too much and they've all seen in The Social Network what kind of person a poster boy like Mark Zuckerberg really is.

Yeah those poor high-tech workers have a really rough life indeed, it's time someone did something about it!

Some light: http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/28/the-gox-crater-crowd-detecti...