I don't know what it is with hiring managers. I've been submitting to jobs that I should be hired for. In one instance in particular, I submitted a job app at Zenimax where they were looking for a DevOps person with a string scripting background. Perl, PHP, Python, JS were all on my resume, even including Python embedding. They said my experience was "thin". I don't know how you an be "thin", when you've embedded Python into C apps, it requires a pretty thorough understanding of Python internals. I've been out of college 13 years now, and I've done everything except GIS, 3D, and mainframe stuff like SAP/PeopleSoft. I've done .NET, Java, C++, full-stack, (Full stack in C++, Python, .NET, Java) I don't consider myself a .NET expert or a Java expert, but I wield these languages without any struggle. Have I done JNI? No. Have I done C++/CLI yes. I've even done project management (in house and international) So I think I'm pretty experienced, but hell if I can get hired. I wonder if all my experience just makes me look "thin". But they passed me over 3 times. Now, they deserve whatever crappy candidate they hire.

These days, I think I need to talk to the actual dev people and not the idiot in HR.

If you're looking for bottom-feeding web work these are fine choices. But if you really want to get your career going in a "real place" move to either .NET or Java. Learn a real database too. To cut your teeth on a good free one, use PostgreSQL, it'll match Oracle well. There are free versions of Oracle and IIS as well.

Or Node.js if you are looking for the NextBigThing.

It seems that it would be fertile territory for genetic algorithms to design the die. Sure, humans need to define the features, but run everything through a genetic algorithm, simulate and let the computer grow its own chips. Perhaps whole chips are not practical, but sub-processing units could do it.

I've driven a BMW 135, X1 with a push button start. And I hate them. Maybe it is different for other manufactures, but here's what happens:
1. I push the fob key into the slot, and I accidentally unlock the trunk.
2. I've got to push some dash start button, which seems to have some kind of timer control. It's not a temporary switch to the starter motor. You can just tap it and it will engage thee stater. I worry what happens when my fuel pump or battery is a few years older and it takes a little longer to start.
3. Turning off the key is another ceremony in hitting a button then pulling the fob out.

If they had it so inserting the fob one click was "acc" a 2nd clock was "on", and pushing it in was "start" for as long as I push it, along with just pulling the whole thing out was "off", where I can start and stop the car in one fluid motion, then we would have something. But I hate this "Japanese tea ceremony" of starting a vehicle. I've got it down to one motion with my tumbler key. I don't want that replaced with an inferior process.

It's the mode created by lawyers to maintain that you are responsible for the vehicle's operation. because if the software fails, it's Volvo's fault. Imagine you drive through a oil slick, the vehicle takes a corner too fast before becoming aware of the reduced traction. In automatic mode, it's the car's fault, in "highly autonomous mode" it's still yours.

Last time

The power company already knows how much I use and when. In fact they send me this energy statement saying I'm using 10% more than my neighbors.

If you had a scanner and printer combined and could just hit a "replicate" button, you'd be on to something.

if you had a way to take the scan data and use that, then you'e really have something. Because then I can make cases for things by putting the thing in and doing a simple subtraction fro an extrusion and I'd get a mating surface. It would provide a pragmatic way to obtain dimensions, rather than busting out rulers and using trial and error.

I used to contribute significantly to my 401k, but what I have learned is that there is no sure thing. One more economic crisis at my retirement age and I am fucked. These days I put more into side entrepreneurial efforts hoping something will pan out. It's higher risk but total reward. You end up running a profitable company and everything clicks then you don't need alt hat retirement. So it comes down to: do you invest in yourself, or in a company managed by some guy who is looking to manipulate the stock price for his gain. Given the shakiness of the economy, it's not a bad idea to have your own business in the wings.

Also, since I am paying on a mortgage, when that is paid off in 17 years, I'll have a crap ton of equity and no mortgage payment. And since money doubles around every 17 years, My mortgage payment gets easier to pay year by year, financial crises excepted.

The stop was based on "anonymous", the odor only was encountered because of the stop, in which the window came down. Neither the odor nor the drugs were perceivable before that. If the police just happened across the vehicle, they would need a suspicion of their own.

I'm all for the guy getting stopped because of his operating a vehicle unsafely.
I'm all for the guy getting busted for pot.
I'm not ok with his accuser being considered "anonymous".

With checkpoints, they have to provide notice, and an alternate route around the checkpoint (which is usually staffed, but that's another issue).

At the check point, you don't have to answer any questions. You just have to stop. IANAL, but you can watch this.

Also, obligatory, Never talk to the police

This is a boon to "parallel construction"

I for one don't think that the accuser should ever be anonymous when it comes to court cases, since we would have a right to face them in a court of law. I think for reporting the guy down the street who keeps violating noise or lawn ordinances is a different story. As those never really go to court.

Well, how much of your phone should be packaging? If you wrap your components in a case (which you have to do) then have a case around the baseboard and those components, you now have two layers of casing, and you're going to be generating millimeters of additional size all around. If you want a drop-survivable shell, you add more millimeters on top of that. Remember, it's still has to fit in your pocket.

The Nexus 5 and iPhone are only so small because it's all permanently fixed together, needing only one casing.

It falls into a dozen parts that I can't recover in the dark. Made harder by the fact that the LED light bounced somewhere and is now under someone's foot.
Right now, I just have 3 parts: phone, battery and back cover to worry about.

He's got one. It's called bitcoin. How'st hat coming along?