tsmith

The cities the parent comment mentioned (Ann Arbor, Boulder, Toronto, Tel Aviv, Boston, Seattle) are all cities where Google has offices. So, the folks they mention weren't working remotely, but rather working locally in remote offices.

Source: Google San Diego employee

The market is closed today (Presidents Day). We won't find out the effect until tomorrow.

*Edit: or, as cbhl points out below, OP is married filing separately, in which case the deduction limit is $1500/year (multiplied by marginal tax rate to yield actual tax savings).

Currently you can deduct up to $3000 of short term capital losses per year against other types of income (e.g. regular employment income), and any remaining balance can be carried forward indefinitely.

Well tickle me Elmo, and here I thought we'd just gone through two terms with a non-White president.

Assessing for ability is extremely difficult - in the case of programming positions, technical interview processes either suffer from a large number of false negatives (e.g. the "Google filter") or a large number of false positives (e.g. "this person doesn't know how to write a for loop; how did they get hired?").

Per the article, most interviewers interpret "cultural fit" as "personal fit" - how well do you like the interviewee? The example heuristics (going out for a beer with the candidate, spending a snowy night in an airport together, etc) have very little to do with company culture and very much to do with answering the question: "Do I like this person?".

Any 4 year old can tell when they like somebody. It's one of the easiest things in the world for a human being to assess.

Technical ability, on the other hand, is one of the hardest things in the world for human beings to asses, at least in the context of an interview. Assessing for "cultural fit" - which on the face of it makes perfect sense as a hiring metric - devolves into a way to avoid doing something difficult (assess technical ability) by doing something easy (assess personal affinity).

The answers to the "greatest satisfaction" question are also telling. They are all job/business related. There's not even a single "spend time with my friends and family" catch-all.

I since realized that I had no idea what to do with a 1Gbps residential pipe, other than "download things really, really fast."

So, I Ask HN: does anyone have any ideas for interesting use cases for Gigabit home Internet?

Folks, the software industry is cyclical, and we are currently in the "good times" phase. Non-software people in other industries are seeing their occupations become obsolete while we we are getting increasingly higher wages, shuttle busses, and microkitchens.

If you are not happy working in software now, you probably won't ever be.

This is cute, but as others have pointed out it, it isn't really a correct implementation of a hash table. Also, it wouldn't pass a code review anywhere I've ever worked.

> todo

> files, procs, tcp/ip, usb, ..

Oh.