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UTD forever.

This is a joke, right?

I had a similar experience when I interviewed with LinkedIn almost two years ago.

I remember two rounds of technical interviews with two people in each. In the first I was okay but in the second I did very well.

Then a director came in and interviewed me. After a good chat about technical things and their overall vision for the future he walked me out of the building and mentioned that after what he'd heard from the interviewers, he'd have HR send me an offer on Monday. I was excited!

After nothing happened for a week I emailed my recruiter (in house) and asked what was going on. She said she'd call me the next day but did not. So I decided to drop it for a while.

A month later I sent yet another follow up email and she finally called. Obviously it was rejection.

I felt the whole thing could've been handled better.

I think these problems stem from the job posting. Like the author, I've come to love interviewing and I've conducted a good deal of interviews myself. I've noticed that a job titled "front-end developer" with a poor description casts too wide a net and wastes everyone's time.

If I see that you mentioned design experience and Backbone in your job posting and then you quiz me on Rails and database queries I'm going to feel like I'm attending amateur hour.

However, if you state that data structures, algorithms and all that other great CS stuff is fair game in the job posting or the follow-up emails – then go ahead.

Don't envy the front-end developer. At this point we have to be prepared for anything.

Hi there, I worked at Match for a while and the basic scam pattern I saw was this: a scammer will create an account and send a ton of messages to recently active users, the users that respond will be immediately prompted to take the conversation to email (away from Match's PM system), and once they're off of Match they ask for more personal information.

I never went further down the path than that but I'm sure the scam could evolve along the lines of "I am your one true love please wire me money to buy a plane ticket to come see you."

I think these are outsized reactions to the problems described. I also don't believe there aren't any photos of their child online. As a new parent I can't imagine not using the Internet to share updates with my family whether it's via tumblr or something less public like email or an Apple Photo Stream. Most of these services have facial recognition.

Finding a balance between privacy and ease of sharing is something parents are going to wrestle with from now on. And, In the event you trade in your privacy to Facebook, you don't even get a worthwhile service. Facebook albums aren't designed with children in mind -- they don't care about a child's growth, they makes no notes on a child's milestones.

I've started trying to solve this problem with some fellow parents. At the very least I hope we can give people one less thing to worry about. If you'd like to chat about the possibilities and challenges in this space or what my research has uncovered so far, please find me on Twitter: @conceptualitis

To many of you: are you really letting the fear of a gap in your CV stop you from chasing your happiness? Grow up and take what you want or someone is going to take it from you.

Interesting that so many people are saying, "startups are risky, end of story." What pops out for me is this: "The numbers that were shared were not entirely true. It was kind of half-truth and part of the marketing pitch to VCs."

Just because a company hasn't found product-market fit doesn't mean it's okay to lie when recruiting.

If you're using the jQuery Rails validations I believe you'll have to set the input's "changed" data to true before it'll run the validations again. Something like $(".my-input").data("changed", true);

If not, then good luck :D

A lazy solution is to periodically check for changes to the field, independently of any events. Could also let the user behavior trigger a validation check.

A note to anyone reading this who's living in the red zones, feeling discouraged.

It's going to be hard. You'll have to seize every opportunity and work as hard as you can with each one because you don't have the money to buy second chances. You'll have to work twice as hard to get a quarter of the distance. You'll have to say goodbye to those that stayed behind because almost everyone will stay. You're going to have survivor's guilt. Your religion will evolve so please don't sacrifice any opportunities over the beliefs you hold today.

If you stay strong, work hard and have a lot of luck you can make it out.