> Don't glorify urban living to a fault, blowing money at bars for binge drinking well after college, spending too much on rent to be in a "trendy" area. You shouldn't have an iPhone, iPad, and MacBook and spend $1500/mo to live with 4 roommates, latte for breakfast ($4), buy all your lunches ($10), get dinner at the Whole Foods hot bar ($15) when you make $40k, then complain when you're 30 with a negative net worth!
No one making $40k a year is spending $1500 on rent. This is such a yuppie NYC/SF perspective. Try sitting in actual $40k shoes for a second.
(Chuckle) Well seeing as how half the tech managers I talk to at private companies haven't ever heard of it, I think he should be given a little bit of a break.
Don't you know that on Hacker News the answer to every social problem is either make everyone code up a massively-successful website or become an engineer in the bay area?
Sounds like Google noticing people actually read your blog and now playing a game of CYA (cover your ass).
Some tech managers can be horrible people though, because some of them, (definitely not all, or even most) take their promotion to mean they're the next coming of Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg and are now allowed to step all over, manipulate, and lie to whoever works under them to get ahead.
I've worked for guys like this and management turns a blind eye to it because they too start to buy into that manager's fantasy.
Good on you for both pointing this bad guy out and getting a public apology from the company Michael.
Race relations are progressing but by no means fixed, but I'm sure you'd get quite the surprised reaction if you went back and told people the president was black.
Your first point would only elucidate a common misconception that IQ tests adequately measure intelligence. As to your second point, what studies are these? (I'd actually be interested)
Yea what more proof do you need that insurers will screw anyone out of money than an expert in his disease's field being denied a promising attempt to save his own life.
You know, it's funny how ridiculous D-wave sounded when they insinuated they were scaling qubits about as fast as Moore's law, but here they are in 2011 with a 512 qubit chip that clearly works. That's nuts.
It's hard to believe our technology has advanced this far so fast.
Combined with technologies like IBM Watson, at this rate in 10 years we'll have no idea what the fuck our computers are even doing anymore.
After interviewing for months I basically memorized the answers to the main kinds of technical questions. After I started to hear the same sorts of questions asked over and over, I knew the process was completely broken and I would never ask stupid technical riddle questions to gauge someone's competence on the job.
I think a brief conversation about software development and a longer conversation to determine how smart the guy is is what matters. Even someone who barely knows how to code can learn on the fly if he's smart/competent enough.