That is normal. I can't think of any company that has called back and said I didn't get the position.

There are real jobs on Craigslist? I think I would immediately be suspicious of any job posting I found there.

I think the "what suck why" phrasing goes an extra step into emphasizing the dismissive attitude. His objections are so far beneath you that he does not even deserve the time it takes to create a properly formatted sentence with all of those useless articles.

So how can one pass the HR screen and get an interview with "programming knowledge", and even a CompEng degree, but with otherwise no experience? The few times I did make it past HR, nobody ever really tried to figure out what I could do practically. It was all questions about academics.

At the University of Florida (a "best value" school), graduate tuition is $524.56 / credit hour for a resident. Undergrad is $204 / credit hour. Non-resident undergrad courses are....$947 / credit hour. Where did you go to school?

You will end up with easy-if you do this. Beneficiaries can probably think of it Nigerian spam message.

Sake...no accent. If you're going to be pretentious and pedantic, then at least do it right.*

*Not typed in Kanji or Hiragana for those more pedantic than I because I am lazy

In a recent online poll, nearly 20% of computer freedom privacy experts agreed that government cctv cameras provide safety and security.

Is $150k in San Francisco really that great though? Using two different cost of living calculators to translate San Francisco to Raleigh, NC (which is close to average), $150k turns into either $74k or $86k. How accurate is that? Are people living around San Francisco that underpaid for where they live compared to workers someplace that isn't insanely expensive? Even using the high $86k number, that sounds more like a good side of average programmer with 5 years experience. $150k is what good programmers I know in central FL with ~5 years experience are making, and cost of living there is under the national average.

I could care less about that.

XFCE? ....
Actually looking for the option, I did not find it...google gave me this page though, http://askubuntu.com/questions/15971/getting-visual-feedback-of-workspace-switch-in-xfce

I know one of the window managers I've used frequently in the past would do that...I thought XFCE, but maybe it was a *box or Enlightenment. Middle click in xfce will show you workspace names, and you can change them.

This was the first thing that came to mind. You don't need to go reading barcodes. Getting one of those tickets is like finding a dead and cooked in a box of cereal that you've already mostly eaten.

Is he able to configure the network? Setup some DNS entries, routes, proxies, wireless, etc. Install/uninstall software, maybe some user management? I'm sure it is really easy to turn it on and open a browser, but that isn't really accomplishing much. Yeah, I only read the summary...this is /.

The biggest hurdle I've noticed with most users (well, ok, my parents) is "I don't want to break something", and that thought seems to paralyze them as soon as something unexpected pops up. A 3-year-old is probably not thinking about that.

$128,336 in San Francisco equates to about $65k when cost of living is adjusted to the US average (specifically Raleigh, NC...it was the most average I could think of and is pretty close). I'm sure there is some flexibility in those numbers, but I don't know of anywhere in the bay area that isn't well above the national average.