I haven't got a clue to be honest. I believe, at one point, I was unable to log in to my account "jneal" and so I created "jasonneal". I'm not sure when "jtneal" was created. They are all over a few years old.
How could they have gained access to passwords? Do they mean, rather, gained access to your secure password hash, or did they simply store passwords in an unencrypted format? Being a member of PSN, this has me concerned. I'm making it a point to change all of my security questions and passwords all throughout all websites I use.
Thanks for the advice. I think it makes sense, and I agree that I should focus on the job and not the move. I will add, I had a phone interview with a large website/company for finding used/new cars, and it sounded like the perfect opportunity (California), but in the phone interview I was told that they don't offer relocation because there are so many talented people in the area, they have no reason to pay to relocate someone there. This kind of rubbed me the wrong way, mainly because I am very passionate about my work, and I felt this position was perfect for me. I'm hoping this kind of attitude isn't the norm - I equate this to telling a current employee they are "replaceable."
Don't let these guys get to you. Focus on being the best candidate and they'll naturally want you to move (and you'll have the leverage to ask them to pay).
An alternative is that you pay for yourself to move out there prior to the job hunt. :)
I'm hoping this kind of attitude isn't the norm - I equate this to telling a current employee they are "replaceable."
Employees are replaceable; so are jobs. The important thing is to remember where you are in the process.
Take a look at what you wrote: it sounded like the perfect opportunity, I felt this position was perfect for me. Remember that they person on the other end of the phone is not interested in if the position is perfect for you-- he's interested in if you are perfect for the position.
If I were you, I'd make sure that I was sending out a vibe of "this is how I can solve your problems", not "what can you do for me?" If you can convince them you are the best guy for the job, getting the relocation paid won't be a problem-- trust me. I've hired employees from far-off countries, at great expense and hassle with visas, because I felt they were the right person to do the job.
Thanks for pointing that out. I don't want to come off as arrogant. Going forward I will be more constructive as far as explaining what I can do for the company and what problems I could solve, rather than just saying "I feel I'm a perfect fit" like I have been saying. I really appreciate the help.
I haven't checked either of those, so I definitely will now, thanks. SF is on my short list. I really like the idea of going there, but a friend who has worked all over the west coast says I should try outside CA first, and go there if nothing else comes first. I hate just going off one person's opinion which is part of the reason I am asking these questions.
I hate to jump to conclusions without any proof, but it looks a lot like someone trying to "bump" up their own article by upping it and posting fake comments.
We sent out some tweets with links to this hacker news posts. So we are introducing some people to hacker news for the first time.
Notice the names on some of these "fake users" match authors on the slideshow :-). Why is it bad to comment on and be excited about something they've contributed to?
It's not, but when the comments read like they're from impressed third parties, it smells a bit. Imagine if coauthors of a book posted reviews on Amazon along the lines of "Wow! This book is amazing and has a great design" without disclosing their authorship, it looks weird. Instead, they should have gone with something more natural like "Just wanted to say I was involved with one of the slides in this project and I think it's turned out great!" I doubt such comments would have been voted down to oblivion.
Yeah. The comments like that deserve to be voted down for sure. I agree they don't really add anything.
But I do think they are genuine. Since these are all people who just replied to an email that we then compiled into a site, they sorta (kinda) qualify as "impressed 3rd parties".
I got my first "real" full time coding job at the age of 21 (4 years ago). I landed it without any education. Unfortunately, I got crap for pay compared to others...I started at $28,000 a year. The good thing was, I was living with my mom in SC with a very low cost-of-living so it was a lot of money at the time.
Enough about me...for you, all I can tell you is how I personally did it. I created a nice portfolio of all the work I had done over the previous years. I then applied to so many jobs that I became a pro at writing resumes and cover letters custom-tailored to the companies I was applying to. The one's that I heard back from were the small companies, with 5 or less employees on average. The company that hired me was 3 people before I got there. Start small.
I'm not so sure why this even matters. If you search for someone based on their email address within Facebook, it comes up with their name and photo as well. In my case, it's a feature. But true there is no point to it giving this information on the wrong password screen, but if someone wants this information they can still get it using Facebook.
Maybe Google should worry about this too...I usually type unfamiliar email addresses into Google and end up with far more than just a name and a picture.
Creating a PHP application for my employer that will allow us to deploy small 5 page websites for clients quicker than ever. We found we had to turn down a lot of jobs because the money didn't add up to the time required, but this will fix that issue.
This makes no sense to me. Maybe I'm ignorant, but it sounds a lot like going to a mechanic because your car keeps turning off and they offer a new paint job to fix the issue.
I don't know if this is really the case or not, but what Apple is saying is more like going to a mechanic because your gas gauge keeps dropping to E when you hold the steering wheel a certain way, and the mechanic informs you that your gauge has been reporting more gas than you actually had _for several years_.
But its only been reporting more gas than you actually had _for several years_ because Apple chose to lie to you in 2008 to make AT&T's network look better than it is.
Precisely. But to keep the analogy going: because Apple chose to lie to you in 2008 to make that hybrid look like it gets better gas mileage than it actually does.
