The dirty secret: Unlike sports where the best player is sought after, or music and art where you can judge someone's skill, most HR firms have no way of telling if you can do the job. So it doesn't matter if you're really good or just beginning, if you can sell the interview you can probably get a job. Some of the most talented people never get a chance to ever start, and a lot of nearly incompetent people get luxurious positions. Someday you might get good after decades of experience, but there's no reason not to apply to any job if you can write the most basic cell phone ap. Another dirty secret: A great majority of jobs ask for so many techs, there may be one or two people on the planet that qualify. So instead of looking for having all the techs, apply if you have one or two. Its a giant 'or' list, not an 'and'.

I say this reality situation as a guy on the outside looking in. I've done everything in my power since a young age to become the best software engineer I could. I code in my free time. I went to a #1 college for computers. Yet, couldn't even break into the industry in the past 11 years. The road goes both ways. I'm good at programming, and I'm not good at job searching.

There's no way to disable Twitter pictures in your feed, searches or @history.

The most common use of a Twitpic is to post a meme. And if that isn't bad enough, the second most common use of Twitpic is to post a shock picture. It is unacceptable that we can't have them disabled in the options.

For the most part homework isn't done by the parents. He needs to know what he's instructed to do. We encourage him in the thinking skills encouraged. You know how it is with math, there's a zillion ways to do a problem, but you teach the kid the most basic version first, then give him new tools in the arsenal.

I just remember when I was in first grade kids didn't get homework. I actually had to ask my teacher for homework because I was stoked for school, but maybe it's not best for every kid coming out of kindergarten.

Well the stuff they send home my nephew has word problems. How is a dude supposed to do word problems when he hasn't learned to read yet? And some of the words they use confuses even his family trying to help him.

They send kids home with homework in first grade nowadays. A lot of the instructions for the homework is hard for an adult to read. There's no way kids can even know what they're doing unless an adult instructs them.

I like how Bill Nye did it though. Bill Nye debated Ken Ham's Creationism which most Christians don't espouse. Ken Ham lost the debate because he said the flood deposited all the fossils which was disproven by Christian geologists of the 1800s. The way Bill Nye put it is that there are billions of others who hold their beliefs but don't claim the earth was 6000 years old.

Two weeks before the debate I asked the guy on twitter if he'd isolate Ken Ham's version of YEC away from the other actually possible theologies out there. I'm not sure if he got my message, but he did make the distinction that it isn't religion vs science. Because of this, I feel Bill Nye addressed the debate with a good degree of respect for other's beliefs. It is just that Ken Ham's YEC got proven false. I was very pleased with how the debate went. I knew Ken Ham was going to lose, but Bill Nye made it happen with class.

I went 11 years coming out of Carnegie Mellon without being able to score a serious software engineer position. Thankfully I make video games on my own to prove I have experience. I'm thinking of looking for a job if my latest game www.throneandcrown.com has failure to get popular. The fresh guy out of college is passed up because he has no experience. I was hoping I'd get a chance at finally getting my career started after I had a decade of experience I got on my own. I thought the decade of working on personal projects before that would help to get me a job coming out of Carnegie Mellon(which is supposed to be a good school for computers). But hey, not everyone gets a job, no matter how good they are at what they did. I'm not here to boast, but just to explain I'm competent, I've never ran into a bug in 22 years that I couldn't debug. My software runs fine and is complex (hundreds of thousands of lines of code). But will anyone even give me an interview for a junior position, nope. Things can't possibly get worse for me in terms of career as I get older because my career never started. I guess it sucks to graduate after the dot com bust.

Well that's not going to happen. So long as there are greedy politicians, they're going to funnel the money to their own pockets and their campaign contributors thus setting the nation up to fail through massive debt.

The least we can ask is for a pittance for science sake before they sink the boat completely. The whole problem as I see it is we let corporations legally buy off politicians via campaign contributions. They feel no loyalty to the American people, but lots of loyalty to the people giving them all the money. So when they're in office they want to serve whatever entity sponsored them. It should be illegal to do campaign contributions just like it is illegal to buy someone's vote. And buying a vote is many orders of magnitude less bad as what we have going on now legally.

I'd love it if the government threw an extra 10-50 bil into researching diseases, working on stem cells.

I'd love if if they raised NASA's budget.

The only reason there's STEM problems is that the government is too busy paying off themselves: the corporations and senators.

Now would be the perfect time in our jobless economy. There's *TONS* of talented folk who don't even get a chance to work. These are the minds that could find the cures for diseases, or invent new materials for the future.

I was thinking this would make a great tool for an lawyer who might want to make a quick getaway. Too bad Linoel Hutz is no longer with us.

I think wearing laser range finders around, and having pressure around your body depending on how close it is to objects could be more information too. I could be wrong, but I would like some feedback on this reddit post I made a day or two ago. Can't hurt to discuss this stuff.

Was the threat of lawsuits from what people did on your connection enough to abandon the thought of everyone being cool to each other?

I know you joke, but that is actually something to explain when you evangelize. Getting to Heaven faster is not the plan. Maximizing your time on Earth of loving people and serving the poor is more important. Sure getting to Heaven is good for oneself, but helping others out more is better for their well being. Paul talks about this in his letters.

There are many aps that show where your phone is located. Cops could go retrieve your phone for you. I bet they even find more criminal activities nearby. Win win.

Scite is my favorite now.