My hope is that your resume never crosses my desk. All the time and hassle to hire someone, get them trained, get them integrated into the workplace and then they quit because of some woolly-headed platform issue? I very much never want to hire someone like you.

-B

Regarding searches, I've long since switched over to Google, but for me, mail will always be on Yahoo!, even though I don't use anything else from the company any more.

Given this knowledge, how much longer do you believe it is that Yahoo will still be able to provide you with free email?

-B

Or some equally inane marketing bullshit

I interviewed a half dozen Yahoo employees while I worked for "another" search engine company. I asked them why they were leaving. Four of them said (basically) that it was because Yahoo doesn't care about engineers or ideas, just eyeballs and money. If your project doesn't show good numbers, no matter how much better the user experience might be if it was adopted, your project will languish or be canceled. One guy mentioned that his group's hardware was cast-off servers from around the dotcom era, and they couldn't get new hardware because they were infrastructure or something. The marketing types handled the budget.

Contrast this with that other search engine company, which once gave an engineer a 5-day paid Hawaii vacation because he figured out how to make searches a tenth of a second faster.

Anyway, I don't know if what the interviewees said was true, but it made sense. They wanted to work at a place that was driven by ideas and technology, not marketing.

-B

What are we willing to risk to defend our Rights?

This is a good question, and it' s a harder one to answer now than it was 200+ years ago. Back then a fellow could go find a place to be left alone if he liked without his license plates being automatically tracked and his movements stored and retained in databases unknown for durations unknown. He could publish "subversive" literature without the PATRIOT ACT causing his ISP to give him up involuntarily. He could start a religious movement without getting on an FBI list. And so on.

Your livelihood requires that you fly, but you still like the 4th Amendment? Well, sorry. That's really too bad. You have the choice to retain and fight for your rights from the welfare line. You a fan of the 2nd Amendment, whether for sport, defense, hunting, or otherwise? That's not going to go so well for you in California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, et al. Like "alternative" literature? Don't check those books out of a public library too often (for any possible value of "often"). Because if you do that enough, you will be placed on a list the entrance requirements for which you can never know, the contents you can never see, and which has a removal process you will never participate in.

Is an over-reaching, NKVD-style TSA policy of harassing regular citizens on subways in the name of security theater the hill upon which you want to make your stand? Could be for some, might not be for others. I suspect it depends quite a lot on perspective, political/power connections, and money. For the average Joe, there's no real effective solution except to submit, or be branded a criminal. Remember, the US has become a country where 18-man SWAT teams can beat down your door in the middle of the night, Brazil-like, after having obtained a warrant on merely the flimsiest of anonymous tips.

-B

There's no point in asking what rights you have, because you have none. You can't even photograph public buildings with that iPhone, much less prevent a goon too dumb to get a job as a mall security guard from seizing it, no matter how much or how loudly you protest. And if you cause enough stink, the TSA meatheads will get an actual cop to come over and give you grief. If they want to badly enough, they can now, thanks to President Obama, detain you indefinitely if they so choose. Even confessing to whatever they think you might well do at some point in the future may not get your released. You won't be allowed to talk to anyone about it, either -- not even a lawyer. And even when (if) you are let go, don't talk about it or they can jug your once again.

For those not counting, the Federal government has in this one encounter wiped its collective ass with the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and (probably) 9th Amendments, as well as pissing on the grave of habeas corpus.

Have a nice day.

-B

But in this case, what he'll show people will be the same ubiquitous Drupal site, with the same theme everyone uses, over and over.

-B

Though .223 works too.

-B

We're in the same boat. It's been a challenge to fill a couple positions. And we've been absolutely bombarded by resumes from people who are spouses of H1Bs. "Must be eligible to work in the U.S." doesn't mean a lot I guess.

But overall I'm surprised at the amount of fluff and outright fabrication in about 7/8 of the resumes that come in. If we want someone with python and MongoDB experience, don't spend 15 minutes googling and then feel qualified to add those to your resume. It annoys me to no end that I have to waste time just making sure that an item on a resume wasn't put there because it's in the job posting. I don't know if people think that initial phone call is a "foot in the door" or what, but when I find out that what you say your skills are were listed falsely, I'm not inclined to think of you in a positive light.

-B

That blog post was epic fail.

-B

I typically don't run the media PC hooked up to my TV unless I'm actually watching a movie or listening to music. Because of a hardware peculiarity, the power button won't put it into standby like my desktop PC. So I just leave it shut off unless I'm using it. It's got 10.04 on it now and boot time is about 30 seconds (never timed it, I usually turn it on and head to he kitchen for a drink). I'd love a fast boot time.

-B