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What's a shame is they didn't compare it to far superior devices in the same price range like the Nvidia Shield or the OSMC Vero 4k. The fact that you can't stream all 4k HDR content on a device billed as 4k is pretty unforgivable (you have to create specific files tuned for the AppleTV). Add to that a lack of native support for standard lossless audio formats that have existed for 12 years(DTS-HD/MA) and it just isn't viable for a home theater.

My apologies, and why I linked the other project. README goes a long ways, cause at the end of the day you're trying to release a project in an ecosystem where (for better or worse) that's what gets shown to users looking at your project.

If you can't write data to a file, and then read it back in, it's not valid.

Thank you, yes I did try it, bcp does not escape commas or newlines in a field.

If they can't get a fundamentally simple feature right, why would I give them the benefit of the doubt that other features are thought out? bcp does _not_ escape commas or newlines in a field, you have to write sql to replace() those characters on select.

I can tell you your app would be super useful to airline employees if you could disregard airfare for ranking! Pretty small user subset, but aside from hardcore skiers like yourself I don't know how many people will consider resorts outside their local geographic area due to airfare.

I'm sorry but I just can't take MSSQL Server seriously when it cannot export valid CSV. It does not escape commas for CSV or tabs for TSV, and has no option to. If they had their own flat file export that could be re-imported I could forgive it because I could write my own library for that format, but there simply is no way to cleanly export data from MSSQL. I had to write a SQL query that was ~2000 lines of 80 columns in order to export a database to CSV and properly escape each field manually, and it took FOREVER.

There's a lot of great advice here which can be broken down into two categories: specialist vs generalist. A really important thing to figure out is what kind of developer you are. Which sounds better: a. Constantly being challenged to learn new things, a rapid paced environment where lots of change and challenge are introduced b. Organized environment where work is split up by expertise, groups have a narrow focus where they become experts in their domain and iterate to perfection

Obviously you should have a nice balance of both, but I've found many company cultures to lean more one way or another, and the advice on this post seems to divide similarly. If you like option A I'd recommend getting a good overview of a variety of languages, data stores, and tools/frameworks so you can at least have an idea of which one you'd learn more of for a given problem. If you like option B I'd do a deep dive into algorithms and CS fundamentals with one language (C, Java, etc) and target companies that work with that language. They're also more likely to have a well defined intern/junior dev role than the fast paced shops, but a slower pace of learning/advancement.

At many bay area startups I've worked for we would do whiteboarding sessions but I would stress that the candidate "treat me like google". I would actively encourage them to ask questions of the type they'd look up, to be comfortable being collaborative. This to me showed much more about a candidate's ability to work on a team, learn quickly, and apply what they've learned than any whiteboard session entirely from memory could prove. This becomes even more important the further out of school a candidate is; some of us took algorithm classes decades ago.

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"I'd gladly save fuel and make a 2hr trip in 3hrs if I didn't have to waste my attention on the vehicle."

Isn't that the bus/train?