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Having Google on resume != worked at Google.

Don't regret the good times for one second, but do get very jealous of people on HN talking about all the exciting tech they're using and awesome work environment. I am actively taking steps to move to a better company, but my god I'm finding Cracking The Interview Code a slog.

Just sort of fell into it. Did an internship at university in $genericbigcorp and didn't bother looking for other/better jobs at graduation. (To be fair they paid a generous joining bonus - well £2000 "generous" to my broke 21 year old self).

How can I get into this field?

I used to love doing pen-testing when I was a teenager, and paid for my first car out of bug-bounties.

Unfortunately, I got distracted by girls and booze at university and didn't keep it up, now I work in sigh enterprise C#/WPF land.

I manage without a car, I have no intention of getting one again. For the few occasions I need one, I either borrow one from a friend or hire one.

Granted I do live Bristol, a very cycling friendly city.

I'm a liberal/hacker/software-engineer - you know the type, even joined the Pirate Party years ago.

But am I the only one that doesn't have a problem with this. The set of people that visit the dark web intersects with the set of terrorists so obviously they should look into those people.

>their spies are terrorists, wow

Their spies are a special case.

If you don't want to abide by the laws of the UK then nobody is forcing you to live here.

I just played against my housemate who used to be a junior-national level player, he did the same just replying 100% of my returns but not slamming them.

I asked him to play 100% and he won every point first return or serve.

There is a subtle valid use-case.

On "change your password" screens, you don't want the second "confirm password" field to be pastle-able to stop this scenario.

1) User tries to type "mypassword" but enters "mypasswor" instead.

2) User copy-pastes "mypasswor" into "confirm password field"

3) User hits "submit".

Now when the user tries to login with "mypassword" it fails.

You've just cherry-picked companies that have performed well, you could easily have MySpace instead of GOOG.

Have you tried WinForms with touch screen devices? I haven't, but would guess it doesn't cope too well.

My father had a completely different experience. His ancient physics teacher said, "computers my boy...they are the future". This would have been some time in the 1970's.

Of-course dad didn't listen and went on to have a unremarkable career as a Structural Engineer.

A real shame as I'm sure he would have made an excellent programmer. I like to tease him over what-ifs - especially as he shares a birthday with Bill Gates.

Isn't "the magic spells that you can use", exactly how we (programmers) use interfaces.

I trust that the interface, be it the C++ standard, or boost::whatever, is well enough tested that I don't need to know "how it works".

It would be nice to know how everything works but there is only finite time in the working day.

How is that any different from making up that you have another offer?

Reminds me of the grind a professional poker player goes through. Every day, wake up, play poker for 10-15 hours, study for ~5 hours, sleep. There's a reason they call it the grind, and why there are very few overall winning players, despite plenty of smart individuals playing.

Agreed. I'm only 25 with no kids and single. I still don't program in my off time. I do things I vastly prefer like rock-climb, work-out or just get very, very drunk.

I'm not a rock-star programmer but I can definitely hold my own in the office. And guess who the managers prefer to take to meet clients, me or the guys that spend 120 hours plus infront of a screen.

It's better to just revoke and not re-write git history in a public repository. Re-writing history is pointless after the credentials are revoked, and causes a headache to others using your repository.

I'd have 100% more trust in a system written in COBOL than node.js.

Amsterdam. Love the people and the culture, the night-life is great (no, not that sort!), cycle everywhere - never stuck in traffic jams. Reasonably easy to fly back to visit family/friends in London.

Downsides: Expensive, I can't speak Dutch.