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When I was younger, I was far from the best at interacting with people, but hobbies, and forums and groups surrounding them connected me to people who shared similar interests and helped me interact with them. Through shared passions and enjoyment, I developed better social skills, reduced anxiety, and built life long friendships and relationships.

That said, while it may not be a solution for every case, it's a solution for the common case and a starting point for other cases, and thus pretty nifty and potentially useful.

It's also a fairly good C book in general, though I don't know that I'd want to try to learn a computer language from it.

Or think of it this way, is the ability to negotiate aggressively that much of a value add to a company, and if so, is that worth more then the interpersonal skills that a less conflict prone person might have developed in areas like team work?

Link for those without wsj access.

Algorithms should inform book culling decisions made by the Librarian, but they shouldn't replace the Librarian's knowledge and expertise.

You can potentially pursue them in small claims court (limits may be higher then you think), where the costs are relatively small, or talk to a lawyer, an initial consultation may be free.

You can also send a letter to the company, saying that you relied on that offer of a job for a specific period and suffered financial damage (detailing it) because of there misrepresentation or omission of material facts, and requesting they pay such and such an amount to compensate you.

Finally your state labor relation board or whatever may agree you have some claim on your one day's wages.

It's always been incredibly hackable, in the classic sense. That ability and the legacy of tools built on top of firefox was an important feature that they have largely maintained.

Chrome not only didn't have a legacy but still may break things for developers and sometimes just shrug off their complaints. It's a powerful browser, but it's focused on the needs of the parent company.

That leaves 490k. I'd put 100k into wealthfront, so they will use individual stocks instead of etfs for tax loss harvesting.

I'd take 90k and invest it in AA or A rated municipal bonds, if you are in a state where gains are tax free, creating the beginnings of a bond ladder. We expect the fed to raise interests rates 3 times next year so I'd probably split this 15k for the first raise, 25k for the second raise and 50k for the third raise.

if I have a 401k I'd invest the maximum 18k in 2016 and contribute the 18k in 2016, making purchases immediately after interest rates go up in dividend stock etfs, reit etfs, broad market etfs, and a small cap etf. Likewise 5500 each ear for an ira, or possibly a roth IRA, depending on current income levels.

I'd save 153k in a savings account like synchrony bank with 1.04 apy interest. Part of that should be a year's expenses, the rest used to purchase stock in solid companies if the market crashes. I'd want to adjust this after a market crash year.

Then I'd split 300k into 100k for a broad based index etf, 50k in a small cap etf, 25k in a midcap etf, 75k in a large cap etf, 25 k in a bond etf. I'd spend 5k on individual stocks using a robinhood account, so I could get a feel for the market. The remaining 20k would be for taxes on any dividends, idly playing the market so I wouldn't touch the bigger investments, and an emergency fund, again placed in a synchrony or equivalent savings account.

Restrictions don't just differ state by state, but industry by industry, and age of contestant, method of entry, and value of prize are all relevant.

Further, this expectation of a private quiet clean place to interview for several hours seems rather biased against poor people. Not to mention the test itself sounds like it doesn't account for the possibility of people with motor disabilities, the blind, the deaf and other disabled people.

Honestly, open book tests are a thing that has been extensively studied. Use IRT based adaptive multiple choice tests (like the computerized SAT or GRE where tests adapt to your ability), set a time limit, have a rolling set of questions to prevent knowledge transfer, and have an intern test day every quarter. You can calibrate test responses based on Amazon engineers at their desks.

In any case we are discussing passive job searches. I'm not going to take the time to apply to a great job if I already have a great job, in the hope that they might meet my salary requirements. I might however use salary as a metric in initial search.

The best data from a job seeker's perspective isn't a salary range, which is a signal about what to expect that you chose, it's making public but perhaps anonymous what your developers actually make, which are facts.

It's a market. Efficient markets don't have secrets.

It may be helpful for you to imagine a friend who is in your situation, and to think about what advice you would give them. It's a quick hack to get around the way that depression localizes on the self. So, pretend I had posted this, instead of you, what would you tell me?

Sure you are law abiding, but that doesn't mean every person with this power is.

Perl was also the bioinformatics golden child for a while, and I expect there are still people using it for that purpose in industry.

That said, looking beyond the public sector I'd look at Python as broadening her prospects more then anything else, just because it's more broadly used in a variety of industries, and general understanding of it is more broadly applicable.

I'd suggest she also learn enough R to import stuff and export stuff. If there are R scripts she needs to use, python can be used to script R from the command line, and she can import data, process it, and be able to export the results back into python as an intermediate step.

We need to build more composable machine learning based tools, and then we can use machine learning on their results to determine which serve which purposes best.