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I don't do homework for free. My wife had an interview like this, got hired, and the hiring manager used her fake project for a real assignment. He was using the interviews to mine his own work. I assume this happens a lot. She no longer works there. I'm late to the party here but I second all the frustrations with interviews. It's so bad that I don't even bother anymore and just opt to stay put. I'm not doing a phone screen with HR, a phone screen with a manager and then 2 on-sites. You're not that special guys. You don't get 6 un-billed hours of my time. As soon as they mention multiple stages I just decline the whole thing and get off the phone. I realize if you're unemployed you don't have that luxury though. I guess it depends on how important the job is. There are so many candidates that don't really have the right qualifications that you need time vetting them out. We do a recruiter screen (30 min), first interview with me (hiring manager - 60 min), second interviews with engineers on the same team (120 min) and that is it. If you can't handle 3.5 hours "unpaid" in an effort to get a job, I probably don't want you on the team anyway. Also realize that at least 25% of that time is spent answer the candidates questions and/or "selling" our company and the job to him/her. If you aren't interviewing me for the position, I'm concerned about why you want the job.
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Sling will also have a free trial. I normally turn it on for a month (Bucks playoffs, Brewers playoffs) and turn it back off. Restarting it costs $10 for the first month. But I should try YouTube TV also... I haven't burnt that free trial.
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2022 MLB Draft Thread (Pre-Draft Discussion)
CheezWizHed replied to Eye Black's topic in MLB Draft & International Signings
[sarcasm]Exactly! How can we build a WS team without high draft picks??? We keep running out scrub SPs drafted in the 4th, 11th, and a DR signee. Then close it with a 19th rounder! How can we win this way???[/sarcasm] -
Is bat guano the new rotten tomatoes?
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I'm jealous... the rest of us had to watch that game without any grilled goose...
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For my kids' 14th birthdays, we would get them their "adult" bike (~$400-500 entry level bike shop bike) that they shouldn't outgrow anymore. I have a daughter that is completely blind and we have done biking with tag-alongs and similar things, but it normally worked REALLY bad. Her balance as she grew older was terrible and normally made it frustrating to counterbalance her while pulling her. But we had the opportunity to try a tandem bike and to my surprise it worked really well. There are a few times I have to overcompensate, but since the bike doesn't have any pivot points, it is much easier to manage than the tag-along that pivoted on my bike seat. So for her 14th birthday, we bought a Schwinn Twinn and took it out. I'll probably tweak the bike a bit (upgrade the tires mainly), but overall a very nice and lower cost ($700) tandem bike. It needs some shifting adjustments, but otherwise worked well right out of the box from Amazon. She loves to bike, but our old setup just caused frustration. Hopefully with this setup, we can get a regular riding rhythm now.
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I would say you need to know yourself. If you grammer good, then maybe hire someone. . But that probably isn't why you are missing any call-backs on jobs either. A couple thoughts: 1) Call the HR department of the company of one job you missed and ask. Just tell them you are looking for feedback. Sometimes you resume just came in late or got "lost" in the system - not all recruiters are good. 2) Write a resume and cover letter for each job. That takes some time and effort, but I can normally tell as a hiring manager when someone looked at my company and figured out what we do, then wrote their resume. When I get two resumes and one is specific to our company and the other has a purpose statement like, "I want a job in engineering", I'll take the specific one every. single. time. 3) Knock on the door. I had one guy show up one day with his resume. I was called by the front desk to come meet the guy. Ultimately, it was a terrible idea to hire the guy (for other reasons), but he got a "free" 5 min discussion with me and made a good first impression. Kind of odd this day and age and some companies might not like it. But you can probably always apologize you're way out if they don't like your initiative. BTW, if there are any embedded software engineers out there looking for a job, please let me know. I'm hiring.
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Weirdly... when I refinanced, I couldn't quite get to a 15-year loan, but the 20 year wasn't a better rate than the 30-year. So I just took the 30-year and paid the 20-year equivalent payment. If you plan to stay in your house for a while, take a look at paying points. I paid the max points they would let me, added the amount to what I financed and took my rate down to 2.25%. Payoff will take 39 months, but since I plan on being here for a while, I wasn't worried about that. Saved thousands over the life of the loan.
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Just thought of another impact. When I spoke to my mortgage broker about cashing some money out of my house, she said that typically that is seen as a higher risk and I wouldn't get as low as a rate as a straight refinance.
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Well, if the housing bubble bursts and you get upside down on your mortgage, you'd be stuck in the house and not able to sell it. Probably a pretty small risk and a zero risk if you don't want to move in the next 3-5 years. That is about all I could see as a drawback. I've heard people do an interest-only loan where they plan to pay off the mortgage with their investments. That has a bunch more risk to it, but that doesn't sound like what you are doing.
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Excellent! Do you need to change your bf.net name now?
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Sounds nice!
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I was just looking into that this yesterday, but I'm not close enough to the 5G towers to be able to use it. Ironically, my local township just paid for the infrastructure to add a little satellite dish-looking device on your house and get internet access (http://www.netwavebroadband.net/), but I'm guessing it will be overcome by 5G shortly...
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Goodbye binary! Hello tertiary or quaternary! One of my engineering professors told us that the person that could invent a computer that ran on more than two states would be very rich! I visited the four corners with my cel phone, does that count? Did it make you rich? No...probably not.
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How much do you pay per month for Spectrum cable service, if you don't mind me asking? $180 plus change. Includes internet and a landline. This is easily over double the cost I pay for my steaming, internet, and phone. That is why people cut the cord. Maybe a bit more hassle but much cheaper. You are paying for the convenience. If you are so happy about your service, it makes me wonder why you are posting in the cutting the cord thread.
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Goodbye binary! Hello tertiary or quaternary! One of my engineering professors told us that the person that could invent a computer that ran on more than two states would be very rich!
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People still do hire COBOL programmers... (a language that was stopped being used on new products in the 80s) Python is a good general purpose language. Anyone using a computer daily should probably learn a little bit - even just to understand it. But you might be surprised how you can automate stuff. I'd say coding a ML algorithm can be rather tricky...training one is much easier. I've never done either myself, but have told my kids that AI/ML/CV are huge and growing fields and I'd probably go that direction if I were in college. Going to tour a factory with a friend of mine that does factory automation and Computer Vision. Very cool stuff.
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Another idea is to get an ARDUINO or a raspberry pi if you haven't gotten one already. There are a lot of cool things you can do with both of them and even some of the basic younger kids stuff are rather fun to do. Google does have a summer camp for coding that is geared more towards high school aged people. https://buildyourfuture.withgoogle.com/programs/computer-science-summer-institute/ Thanks for the Google idea. I've not seen that one. We do have a Pi - part of the electronics/python course they did. He generally runs Minecraft on it...
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While a degree in computer science would be good he should also do hackathons and other events depending on what he is interested in. A coding boot camp would also be beneficial if he hasn't had much in terms of coding experience. I've looked at a couple coding boot camps, but they tend to be for younger kids (he is 15). I've introduced him to Python in a home electronics/robotics/coding course and he will probably take Java next year in PSEO. I'm mainly trying to show him and his older brother (17 - looking more at engineering) the breadth of options in the field. I was completely lost when I started out going to college....
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So very close, but not quite the right experience. But maybe I'll show this to my HS son. He is looking to go this direction (Computer Science) and it is always interesting to look at job options.
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All I can think of when reading these posts is, "Your Nobody called today... She hung up when I asked her name. Well, I wonder if she thinks she's being clever? Oooo Oooo" This earworm provided to you today by Sylvia
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Oh, I knew they'd get their cut as an investment. I was just wondering if they taxed it differently or more heavily than the standard short-term (<1 year) and long-term tax rates. Along those lines, do these currencies have any interest or dividends? Or is it just the value of the holding only?
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I was helping my son do his taxes last night (his first time) and I noticed that TurboTax had a special question specifically asking if he invested in BitCoin (which he hadn't). Beyond normal investment rules, does anyone know if there is something unique about Bitcoin and taxes?
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I used to live in Winona, MN (small college town with 30k residents including college students - less than 20k without). I was flying home one time and talking to the guy next to me. He said that he was a salesman for a flour company. Their biggest customer was Little Caesar's pizza. Odd facts that you find about your community without knowing... I have no point, except that it was my convergence of flour and pizza story. .
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When did "proofing" become a US English term? I was watching a British cooking when I first heard it then suddenly it pops up everywhere.
