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May sound like a cliche but Mahatma Gandhi's "My experiment with Truth." is a good read to get an idea of the philosophy of a major percentage of world population throughout the history.

Funny story:

A person I know who works for Adobe, interviewed a girl for an entry position job. She was asked questions like "What is the size of RAM? etc". She got hired. They are married now. I dont know but I think this could have gone sideways for the interviewer.

> requires a lot of knowledge that most developers do not have

Any resource you would recommend?

I want Udacity to succeed as a business. The amazing course content of Udacity especially in AI and Machine Learning has no parallels when it comes to actually accomplishing something novel(for the student). If you take self driving car nanodegree, you will at the end of course be able to code actual software for the car.

This actually made me laugh.

The CEO of Dow chemicals was escorted off in Indian Prime Minister's official car.

Similar company in India. https://pesto.tech/

> working remote from the companies' Toronto office

Eh. Remote from office? How does that work?

> I was talking to a few international masters students who can't find jobs in the US because increasingly companies can't sponsor H1-B

Which schools did they graduate from? My 9 friends went to do MS in US and all of them got jobs in the valley with H1-B sponsorship. Their success is tempting me also to try the masters. Although fun of studying in a US school and CS again is also very tempting.

And loans. It is impossible to repay a US school loan with an Indian or Chinese salary.

Do you plan to sponsor VISA?

> Seventy-seven percent of millennials say that the workspace is more important than salary

This is border line fake news of bad journalism at its finest.

Not every one is paid in $. There are devs who live in countries with currencies that have lower value when compared to $.

That book is no Introduction. Trust me.

Thanks slap_shot for reaching out to someone. Depression is no joke and the suicide that follows it. I too am depressed since past 10 years and everyday is a struggle. I too get super nervous during interviews. Pain in stomach, laboured breathing, excessive sweating and whatnot. Rejections hit me hard as they make me question the entire premise of my professional life. The only reason I have not killed myself is that I education loan to clear(blessing in disguise ?). It makes me happy when people unknown to each other help each other out.

RIP National Enquirer.

> Life is better here.

But Europe Socialism bad.

I am an atheist and I meditate and practice Yama and Niyamas like hell, because the practice of meditation has helped me in enumerable ways.

Indian here. Its very easy to get a death certificate. Local newspapers do funny stings where they have got birth certificates and death certificates made of international personalities. Most funny was those of Zarqawi and Bin Laden.

The West particularly the US, if it wants to restore its image as a proponent of freedom and democracy and counter the growing geopolitical influence of China at global stage, will have to reconsider its relationship with KSA. There is no way in which West can acclaim its moral policing stature in the global arena if KSA is allowed to continue barbaric customs and practices as rules of law. West has made severe human rights abuse allegations against China. Meanwhile KSA literally chops off heads in public places with a fucking sword, stones women to death in public places for adultery, treats women as second class citizens by compelling them to always be in custody of a male and many other barbaric laws and yet the entire West calls KSA its ally. This kind of double standards makes people question the West's sincerity when dealing with human rights abuse. It makes people think that human rights is just a propaganda tool that the West props up when-ever it wants a regime change and the West doesn't really care about human rights. West already lost its war of ideas in Syria where governments from Brussels to Washington couldn't muster up public support to oust a ruler who was gassing children. People just asked "well if you are so for human rights, then why dont you take action against KSA?." The establishment couldn't muster up a convincing answer to this question and couldn't rally its electorate for a war.

Also KSA's cozy relationship with West and how KSA makes US fight its war signals to other countries that as long as you have pockets big enough to buy politicians, lobbyists, bankers etc, US will be your ally even if pedophilia is legal and practiced in the country. Sickening and damn shame.

The fact that you believe that its shameful for a particular business leader to espouse malpractices is a testament as to why PR agencies who manage perception of individuals as well as institutions charge such hefty money.

I think this is good in a way. Finally people are speaking what has been practiced in business since the dawn of business. I took a business ethics class and I remember the entire course subtly focused on euphemisms for wrongdoings and not arriving at a concrete assertion that whether an action is moral or immoral.

> All you need to do is to un-learn to not be creative

Can you please elaborate on this? What exactly are we trying to unlearn. I have never been able to think creatively and this has cause me self respect issues.

> I have to tamp down on my anger when I hear somebody rabbiting on about the dangers of fat.

Tell me about. Fat fear mongering, fat less skin less chicken. I love myself fat. When I eat fat , I have a stable energy levels all through out the day, but as soon as Carb(bread, grains etc not the veggies) kicks in, I crash.

Here we go again. This bickering is never ending. Personally I have stopped caring.

And to which software sweatshop was the IT out sourced to ?

I have subscriptions for :

1. Netflix,

2. Amazon Prime

3. HotStar

Even with 3 subscriptions one or the other show that I like is not provided by any one of the above. So torrent it is.

> Coding is a challenge for junior developers.

I personally agree. The amount of good ideas and good software I see everyday, makes me wonder how the heck did people design and implement these beauties. I get depressed all the time since I am unable to conjure up such beautiful design and code for a problem. I think this is affecting me mentally. Does anyone have any advice for me?

> The picture he paints of the Times is that they've become much more resilient to political pressure as a result of his ordeal

Not really though. One has to look at the articles and values espoused by the newspaper and not an individual's assertions to determine where the newspaper stands. A news paper that espoused the establishment's line of Saddam Hussien possessing weapons of mass destruction which factually was wrong cannot claim to be resilient to political pressure. Look at its coverage on plethora of issues from labour movements, civil rights, Cuban missile crisis, interventions in South America, financing of Contras , coverage of China, and middle east. It has always supported and validated the establishment's position even though now we know that the establishment was wrong in every single of this.

> So from my point of view its a cultural problem in both countries where the likes of IIT graduates are preferred over a simpleton with great passion, skill and knowledge of the craft.

Oh yeah and when the genius group of "IITians" dont write good code, the definition of good code is changed. I have literally seen this shit. Highly unreadable C++ code from a bunch of IITians went through flawlessly and got merged. The code written had the same readability as the code which you seen in Topcoder or Codechef.