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How do you search and apply for (especially senior or lead) jobs on today's internet?

I've been actively looking for a job for the last 18 months, and having no luck. I've applied for many roles, both directly and, occasionally, through recruiters. All of these roles were very close to my existing…

I ask because I currently don't have a mac and don't want one, but I would like to build a React Native app and publish on the app store.

Do we really need to replace Reddit? Why not just go back to hosting your own forums? Is it hosting costs that prevent this?

Given that these computations are happening on a GPU, can the algorithm be visualized in any meaningful way? I'm not expecting to see a teapot rendered if the word "teapot" is found, but something more abstract - maybe…

As one of the only people left who knows how anything works, I feel like my leverage is very high right now to get paid better. Should I ask for a raise now or just be grateful I still have a job?

1: I was unceremoniously let go today. 2: I posted a farewell in Slack, and my coworkers replied sympathetically. 3: My laptop was remotely logged out. I also use slack from my phone, and 4: saw that someone posted as…

I have this vague unease about computing, that there's far too much mutable state between 'power on' and 'seeing my application window'. This is particularly true with smartphones, where in addition to the mysteries of…

Is it possible for two devices A & B, like smartphones, to come into contact using any combination of sensors, to "know" each other, such that A can recognize B again with virtually no chance of false positive?

When the worlds photos are concentrated and searchable in Google Photos, Facebook, Instagram, why is any child still missing? It would be one significant upside to the panopticon: no more missing children!

Hi. I was having fun speculating about the (physical and software) modifications Trump or anyone he gave access to the White House, and how you might go about finding them. (Obligatory Dune reference: its a bit like…

Was just reading the "pimutils" article, and realizing that it's python dependent gave me a sudden pang of doubt, because I've always had an uneasy relationship with my python installations. Then I realized that you…

Given the openness of communication with any elected official in the USA (see https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials/) what does Congress do, if anything, to verify the legitimacy of calls, letters, emails, etc that they…