mti27

Definitely feels like you're getting locked in. Sort of like buying a combo stereo unit with radio/phono/8 track in to one box instead of buying separate components that could be swapped out.

Got a 2014 Honda and had the same experience, hate to hear they have not improved. It had the same Pandora and aHa radio "features" and the in-car system was terrible in general. It interrupted the music with voice prompts, and randomly wouldn't let you do certain things while the car was in motion. It's like a UX designer threw up... and then that throw up designed a car stereo.

Had a 2 hour technical interview last month where there was a lot of white boarding, but the panel of interviewers understood when I said "Well I don't know the specifics of X but between Google and stack overflow I'll manage." - got the job by the way...

Oh and here's another time when they SUCK: If they're not part of the "office culture" i.e. it's only IT who uses them. So, you have to play by both sets of rules. Get used to continuous interruptions because you'll be branded "not a team player" when you don't remove your headphones to say hi to everyone who comes into your area!

Open offices SUCK SUCK SUCK. The worst thing is when someone wants you to answer a question which requires a few moments of concentrated research. So then they stand there waiting on you but talking to the person in the next cube about their weekend or the weather or whatever. You can't tell them to leave because they are not in your office, but it's majorly distracting.

If GE was the place with that stack ranking madness, then IMHO they definitely needed to change. But an app where you're continuously rated in real time doesn't sound much better! Not a recipe for innovation if everyone has to play enough politics to avoid getting down-voted on the company Reddit. Also, isn't it a bit contradictory that they "embrace decentralization" yet force everyone to move to a specific location? The statement about "cloud connected" trains and everything reminds me of this speech from In Good Company:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGiocp7_jE8

Ah, that song is one of Jack Black's "Top 5 Crimes Perpetrated by Stevie Wonder in the 80s and 90s" -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjRqwUfwp7s

"And then one day you find, ten years got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun..."

To the author: Hang in there, man! You're just feeling the time crunch, now that you have kids and other responsibilities. Based on your age, it would have been the mid-1990s when your professional career started. Back then, the economy was a lot better and outsourcing hadn't yet taken over at large companies. It's a little more dog-eat-dog economically, but your brain probably still works fine. Just take a breath and keep going.

>>There was a 70s movie... Are you talking about the Bourne Identity TV movie from the 80s? He washed up on shore and there was microfilm with the swiss account number in his leg or something

What TV show or movie have you seen that has realistically portrayed advanced computer technology, or is growing into it? In other words, now that we have Amazon Echo is the Forbin Project more realistic?

The pafy python add-in library is good too, although it is command-line it's really easy and well-documented.

http://pythonhosted.org/Pafy/

Yes, absolutely PDF is better, even without someone's malicious intent. Many corporate HR depts use Microsoft Outlook email. Try attaching the resume as both a Word doc and a PDF doc to an Outlook email. Then open by double-clicking in the email message like a typical user. The Word version goes into a double-paned "reading mode" while the PDF will appear as you intended.