You can get a feel for it... ask about personal projects, then follow-up on why. The best candidates will cop to "I wanted to check out the new tech (curiosity)", "I wanted to learn the new programming language (learning)".
How do you deal with "I don't want to learn new language X"?
I do investigate some time with new languages/tech to a degree, but to the extent I have time to learn, I tend to want to go deeper in the things I have competence in already. There's generally always more to learn (between the language itself evolving and the ecosystem developing) such that taking time away from those areas to 'explore' some hot new thing tends to not have very useful ROI.
I've done 'learn new language X' for... way too many years already, and prefer to get better at what I know. That doesn't mean I never learn new things or new tech, but it's generally in service of a defined goal as opposed to "oooh that looks neat...".
I've been doing this as a hobby for 40 years, and professionally for around 26. I have the feeling some places would look at 'the old guy' (like me) as 'the stick in the mud who never learns the new tech', yet in some cases I've been 'learning new tech' since before they were born.
Some of the original question was rhetorical - I already know how some places react to the "I don't spend time learning multiple new languages/stacks every few months" line. But... keep it in mind that there may be other ways to measure that curiosity besides just looking at 'time with new language'. ;)
This comes up a lot on HN and the common objection is that the criteria you listed discriminates against talented people who have families (for example) and therefore no spare time to indulge their curiosities by learning new languages or whatever.
Wanting to learn something is fine, being curious about a new technology is fine. It's the people who don't want to learn anything and have no curiosity about new technology. I spent 30 minutes talking to someone about their plan to build a machine learning machine and try to learn some machine learning in python.
This is exactly what I have been looking for, few questions
- why does it need login?
- what does it do with my data?
- does the data live on phone or on your servers?
- is it possible to export all the data somewhere?
Thank you. Requires login since data is backed up on the server. Export is a good idea and something I've been planning to add - perhaps Google Drive or a simple file to download.
Being liberal doesn't mean that you block everything that the other side is doing. It's also about being open and accepting to others and their views. Shopify did the right thing here.
Being liberal does not require accepting Nazis. I will defend their right to hold their views and say what they want, but they have no right to do business with a particular e-commerce site.
The US eagle has its wings going up, not straight sideways. And the head is pointed to the eagle's right, not the left. (This is also the difference between the reichsadler, which is a more generic symbol of Germany, and the parteiadler, which is a Nazi symbol: the riechsadler's head points to the eagle's right, while the parteiadler's head points left.)
I think the shape is quite dissimilar to either (e.g. the Nazi one has legs and no tail). I wanted to agree with you on the head thing, but it seems that Nazis used both directions... I'm not sure I'd call the Reichsadler a "generic symbol of Germany" if it was used during the Third Reich...
The reichsadler goes back a long way and has been used in other times. That particular style appears to be used in the third reich, but the distinction remains: the right-pointing head signifies "Germany," and the left-pointing head signifies "NSDAP."
In any case, that shirt design screamed "Nazi!" to me the moment I saw it. I didn't set out looking for Nazi symbols, either, I was just browsing to see if there was anything that might be considered offensive. I was rather surprised that they would be so brazen. I can understand if you don't think it's sufficient, but I do.
"If for no other reasons than manners and aesthetics, we ought to think about shoving the next generation [of gays] back into Narnia."
Yes, I know Milo is gay, doesn't mean this isn't advocating violence against a group of people, fitting most definitions of hate speech. I feel dirty linking to the article but you can google it for the source.
This [1] is a pretty tongue-in-cheek article (the quip about anal sex was particularly funny), but given that his main point seems to be that gays are smarter than average, so they should have more kids, I just cannot possibly interpret the above quote (or any other part of the article) as advocating violence...
While this sounds like a good idea and will probably do well, it also centralizes more critical information and access to one for-profit company and product.
I really wish that we as a community would spend more effort towards better, decentralized systems.
If anyone has a good background, what exactly does Joyent have that is so valuable?
It seems that NodeJS has moved out of Joyent. They have hosted container support that seems to run on solaris, which seems interesting, but a bit too much of buzz-wordy from their website.
I am not very familiar with this, so will be great if someone can explain a little bit. I read the comments around orchestration, but am more interested in Joyent's value proposition.
It has somewhat more restrictive CORS requirements than other browsers which not every 360 player has addressed. There's also the issue that Safari on iPhone can't play 360 videos because of the media player taking over fullscreen playback.
I've been an AMEX user since 2002. I have a MasterCard also, and use it where AMEX is not accepted. However, I prefer using AMEX because:
1. It has a rock solid dispute system. I've disputed charges where the merchant didn't deliver on promise and AMEX took really good care of it. Same thing with a Visa card didn't go very well. You can do everything off the AMEX website and over email. With others, you have to call them and deal with lousy customer support.
2. They have a really good website and overall user experience. Its a pleasure to go to the website to see the charges, or to get a well laid out annual spending report. Their mobile app is also the best as compared to others.
3. They have stellar customer service. I rarely need to call them, but when I do, the wait times are in seconds.
4. They support mobile payments - Its the first one to be on Samsung Pay and I happen to have a Note 5.
FWIW, I just have the "American Express Blue Cashback" card, which no annual fees.
I agree with the overall sentiment of your post, but unlike Amex, Visa does not issue credit cards, and relies on banks ("Issuing Banks") to deal with disputes. So if you had a bad experience with your Visa card, you should consider switching to a different issuer, vs. just assuming that all banks that issue Visa cards will act the same.
Your experience point by point matches my own, the customer service feels exactly how it should. The premium product I need from Amex isn't the lounges and the prestige, just a credit card company that has my back and isn't trying to avoid me when I need to contact them.
Let me also note that since Amex has become a commercial bank, they offer a FDIC insured savings account[1] at an extremely competitive .9% APY. That was the highest I could find a couple years ago when I started looking. That product too, to me, feels very premium.
I agree with the sentiment, but how's he going to pay the bills for rent, school, car, etc? A lot of people work on jobs they don't like to pay bills. Is he not going to have a place to stay? May be his girlfriend has enough income that he can pursue hobbies while she works A 'proper' job? There is a minimum you need to make to live a comfortable life and not rely on government to help ends meet.
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