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someone needs to post to glassdoor about their experience

I have been fired from a few jobs - some of them because I was experiencing an undiagnosed medical issue.

Don't over think this.

Don't use coy words to hide this. It just invites interviewers to drill down into the "why did you leave?" question.

Be boldly honest if asked: "I was having difficulties in believing in the new direction of the company."

"I was experiencing the stress of a new baby keeping me up at night."

As an interviewer, the things I care about are:

1. Is the same issue likely to repeat itself if I hire you;

2. Was the situation a sign of anything that is going to cause a lawsuit ( i.e. sexual harassment )?

3. Do you have anger management issues?

4. Do you have the ability to recognize and correct your own bad behavior? Or do you blame others?

Did you notice that the recyclers are saying that the new macbooks are difficult to recycle.

If Apple wants to continue to do this then they should be force to pay for the cost of recycling their product.

The non-repairability is imposing a real pollution cost on the rest of the world. In recent news China has decided to stop taking in the rest of the world's garbage. The toxic metals are now going to be leaching in to US water supply not just China's. Recycling/reuse/repairability has a positive economic benefit.

Every other phone manufacturer is starting down this path of gluing things down.

Part of the value of ownership is being able to repair your own purchases.

Let me help you:

> If you want to change your own car battery, you are free to buy a car from a manufacturer other than Ford.

Really. Enabling consumers repair/hack their own electronics is great.

Evernote has gives $1000 for taking a vacation at least 5 days off.

Irregardless of vacation policy, the manager or CEO sets the tone about work/life balance with vacation just being a part of the conversation.

Home ownership causes the same problem.

So does:

* good quality schools, rather commute long distances than change schools;

* a really good city with a nice downtown;

* a spouse's job location;

* friends' location;

* ... point is there are many reasons for someone to not want move closer to the current job.

Food is not just for humans. Bees pollinate plants that other animals consume. Animals that help the ecosystems that we as animals depend on ourselves.

Problem with economics is that not everything can be easily priced. Economics has an inherent flaw where anything that can't be priced is assumed to be $0

Bees are vital to our food production. Is that a big enough positive externality?

It doesn't matter if this is done for profit, for charity or just to irritate the neighbors. Bees are a vital pollinator.

> There is always the wildcard of 'culture fit'.

Which is the universal way to discriminate against others based on race, gender, country of origin ...

all "technically" illegal in the US. (under Trump, nothing is "illegal" )

To anyone who thinks this action is o.k. - just remember you will end up older and discriminated against, rich and discriminating, or dead at an early age.

1 and 3 are much more likely than 2.

Simple: a flashing red light means stop, and proceed if safe.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/hdbk/traff_lgt...

I like the iPhone for 1 reason: Long-term support with software upgrades.

Dan Luu's post highlights the issue: https://danluu.com/android-updates/

For me this means that over the course of my ownership,

* it is possible that Apple will correct some of these issues.

* Apple will add new features that will continue to be pushed out to older iphones.

* 2018+ Android devices will get new software features that this Pixel 2 will not.

I have an older iPhone and it is still getting updates whereas my spouse's phone isn't.

and this is why i don't like to deal with police. They can't control their weapons

I would like you to reconsider this point.

Specifically,

1. driving causes pollution

2. people local to the freeway are heavily impacted by the pollution,

3. global warming is a real issue - solo drivers are a heavy contributor.

4. the freeway cost money and should have to pay its costs same as transit systems are made to pay their costs.

fyi - i carpool to work / take transit. I would rather see free buses and heavily charged car usage.

What does this say?

Do not interconnect services

Specifically, I:

1. don't use iCloud backup.

2. Backup to my own computer

3. Have a backup program to a different provider than Apple

4. Do not interconnect accounts with iPhone/Mac.

Only annoying thing is the iphone telling me that iCloud backup is full because I haven't upgraded.

I would go even further. Too often devs overvalue RSUs / options, etc. Such things are great - but even at Apple, the return on RSUs is going to level off or become less reliable.

RSU / options are lottery tickets not a reliable income stream.

> While in school I was working as a delivery driver and never resorted to shit like that.

How long ago was that? Maybe the service has gotten worse because the pay/reward system has gotten worse.

What is old is new again. This is the original "portal" idea that was used back in the 1996-2000 days of Yahoo.

This is also the same technique I have used at companies that need to present an "integrated" view.

For example, an internal HR web site that presents a single page of all things related to an employee benefits.

The information would come from multiple different services:

* ADP for payroll

* Fidelity for 401k

* An interval vacation tracker

* etc.

Each service would be given their own iframe that they control. No needs to worry about anything outside the iframe.

This is a time-proven way to do an integrated presentation of independent systems.

To clean up the look and feel - use basic html transformations and inject the site css.

It may seem "hacky" - but it works well in many many real world circumstances.

Thanks for giving me another reason to buy only used cars!

I have personally experienced it. I had happen when interviewing - the person very explicitly said that he didn't think I could do the job because I was older than 35.

This was the most explicit, but not the only example.

This is why I am so happy about the recent turn against sexism in the bro-workforce. Bros are ageist not just sexist.

I write them down. A note with a mysterious sequence of letters is not generally a theft target.

As technologists we have to be aware of how our ideas and products will be abused.

Sounds like Facebook is finally becoming aware of this.

Just proves ... its not the company: it is the job that counts.

My suggestion for "normal" users.

Create a new "Advanced Protection"account.

Use this new account only for: * password recovery * backup account * banking credentials (maybe?)

This backup account can then be used to protect against any password recovery attack against any other site that you rely on.

Your normal day to day email can stay with the regular security.

> But it won't, the US investment dollars will simply be spent in the entrepreneur's home country, which won't create any US jobs and in fact will help dilute the power and influence of Silicon Valley.

This is a benefit. It would spread wealth and enable more people to be tech/entrepreneurial.

> in my case it is a quality of life sacrifice to work in the US in exchange for significantly more interesting work environment

... which should not be exclusive to silicon valley.

Contracting as a sw engineer is one thing.. contracting as a warehouse worker is the real problem

I didn't think of that ... but not surprising. The cuts in my state started in the Bush era under a Democratic governor.

Very sad that a Dem aided and abetted this.

> most universities have moved to act more and more like for-profit entities.

At my alum mater, the state cut support to the state universities to practically nothing. Voters saw how much money the big universities were making on college football. They consistently voted to cut the money to the university system.

Only problem? Most state supported universities did not have a football program.

My university:

* turned to Chinese/Indian nationals (no financial aid/full price)

* raised everyone's tuition (went from low-cost school to higher-end)

* raised other fees

My university is in a part of the US that has low cost of living. So at the very least, the profs are unlikely to be homeless - yes even at the wages specified.

... yet all of these concerns have been addressed by every other nation doing single-payer...

Your own research might be the best way to go - that way you can get the answer to your exact question.

People: We Americans think we are special - really we are just isolated and not exposed to other ideas directly.

There is a world of difference between reading about an idea, visiting a country's hotels, and really talking to the locals.

I see discussion time and time again:

* Healthcare * High-Speed Rail * Renewable Energy * Cities built for walking/biking instead of driving

All the above are solved problems for a generation in other parts of the world.

At some point, we owe it to ourselves to find out directly from the locals how things work.