It's not just the weather. It's the lack of sun light period. Sure the sun stays up till 10pm in the summer. That doesn't at all make up for it going down at 3pm in the winter. http://www.sunrisesunset.com/

Prime example, and he isn't kidding. They just hate you up here.

Actually this really is true. There is a general dislike of people from Cal. They blame people moving in from Cal for the outrageous cost of housing. And they think of people from Cal as being slackers.

It's kind of different out here. Back in Detroit for interviews, I was normally put in front of a computer and asked to write code. Pretty practical, and I did well. For whatever reason, out here everyone loves the whiteboard, run though a binary tree on a whiteboard, wtf does that have to do what what you are actually going to be doing? Nothing, but Google, Amazon and MS all have you do it, so everyone else copies it. Hard to put you on the spot like that over the phone. Also your timing isn't the best, right before X-mas holidays. PS Why doesn't slashdot like paragraphs?

Its rare we get female candidates. White female candidates, never.

Banks do the exact same crap which is why we are in this mess.

You always have to kiss their butts to do anything. 1/2 the time they are in the server room playing WOW.

Not that I'm saying paying off hackers is ok :)

That's the new line if you do anything that the DOJ doesn't want you to do. OMG wear your seatbelt or the terrorists win!

I did JSF for 5 years, went to an interview and they asked me what I thought of it. Instead of saying what I really thought, (I think its a POS) I answered in the political "Its not right for all situations". This was before Oracle bought Sun. The guy then started telling me how great is was and if it wasn't super nifty for everything why did Sun recommend it, etc. My response, if it was so great, why didn't Sun use it on their own site? Everyone in the room laughed, and I didn't get the job, not that I wanted it after that.

They don't seem to have much for Xbox and the android apps to say where stuff is in stock to not work with video games.

I didn't give up on college because I didn't want to code. I gave up because for some reason the teachers thought knowing that the old woman that was in the navy invented COBOL was somehow important. Tests had nothing to do with ability to code. .. Here is 100 lines of code, whats wrong with it. Oh there is a semi colon missing somewhere. Yea that's a really good test.

Sounds like a perfect fit for Japan.

Here is the solution to your coding problem.. Oh wait no, give us money first.