What do you think of the Screen Actors Guild? That seems to have been a huge win for workers in the industry, seemingly without the negatives you describe.
In general the Hollywood unions are very good for their members.
If there's a downside, it's that they used to act as a bit of a moat for the incumbent studios. Studios have entire departments devoted to processing issues raised by union members, which is of course expensive to do. And union members can only work on union productions, which meant tiny indie films could have problems getting talented people budget-wise. It's not just pay, it's meeting the requirements of the dictionary-sized "Basic Agreement" in terms of other aspects of production. That said, SAG has led the way to finding ways to accommodate smaller budgets and it's not as difficult as it once was.
There might be a difference. Studios must first look for actors in the actors guild. That said, a studio has freedom not to use an actor. Similar, a studio does not need to use a bad script, and the studio does not need to pay a writer if it doesn't use the writer's work. In contrast, a factory has to pay for a worker, or even assign some work to the worker, no matter how bad this worker performs.
If you're willing to associate your username with your personal identity, you could link to your projects/CV in your profile. Other commenters may be able to identify what recruiters are looking for and why your resume was dismissed.
Also, to the point of the post, do you consider whiteboard interviews to be good or bad for your situation? With covid it's harder for companies to find which applicants should be interviewed in the first place, and short questions are helpful for filtering out people who can't code at all.
About the leetcode thing, yes, I used to be pretty code. If you send me a link right now, I might not be able to do it, since I am living under huge stress right now, but with 1 week or 2 training I can get 80-90% in the coding challenge easily.
I'm not in a position to help get you an interview at the moment, so I'd feel uncomfortable asking for your resume. Participating on Hacker News and GitHub is an avenue for networking. Without linking to information about yourself you may not be able to take full advantage of that.
I'm sorry to hear about your stress. The worst part about the recruitment process is that it doesn't put folks in a typical development situation. I hope you're about to find something!
Python runs the gamut. You can make small scripts that automate simple tasks and you can make huge websites that service millions of people a day. As projects get bigger, they can adopt tools to help them manage the complexity of the project.
These tools make complex projects simpler without complicating simple things. Personally, I wouldn't want to use Python on a large project without these tools.
Just so it's clear, the definition of "malware" used here is in-browser crypto mining and obfuscation. Only 1 in 600 of the top 1 million sites use WebAssembly. WebAssembly doesn't actually provide a new vector for malware.
Honestly, given the lack of tooling they have now, it is pretty much perfect from a user's perspective. You are only going to use WASM if you absolutely need the performance. It's just too painful otherwise.
Your link basically says that less than 0.01 _percent_ of the top one million websites have webasm cryptocurrency mining. There is no mention of any security flaws. A webasm miner would just eat up a single core while the page is open.
This doesn't seem like much of a red flag to me. If one out of every ten thousand unique sites I visit uses one hypercore while it is opened that isn't going to keep anyone up at night.
On the other hand full video editors, image editors, CAD, 3D content creation programs, silky smooth 3D games, custom video codecs and more have already been made possible due to webasm. Not bad huh?
Not bad at all, for something that has been possible in Java, Flash, ActiveX, PNaCL before.
Thanks to service workers, the miner won't go away when you close the browser, as by default settings (which normal users don't even know they exist) service workers run on their own processes.
You say possible, but where were they? Actionscript never ran at native speeds or even close to them. These things were never seen in Java applets either.
Webasm + webgl is a potent combination. C and C++ libraries can be used directly instead of trying to squeeze fast matrix and vector math out of a Java JIT that needs special wizardry just to avoid heap allocating everything.
And let's not forget that you implied that someone had to be careful of what sites they visited when it is actually a case of 1 in 10,000 sites carrying mild consequences and not security exploits.
I get that you love Java and don't know modern C++, but denying reality doesn't change reality.
The ranking shown on the linked article shows a weighting that's deemed to be relevant to IEEE Spectrum readers, which have a focus on Electrical Engineering.
Setting the weighting to be 100% Hacker News, Ladder Logic ends up in the middle and JavaScript is nearly at the bottom. Like most other Top X programming articles, this one should be treated as a bit of fun and shouldn't heavily inform your choice of language.
One issue that isn't capture by that quote is that an escalator cannot be used while being repaired. If the maintenance person is away while the escalator is part-way through being repaired it's very reasonable to see a "Temporarily Out of Order" sign.
Also escalators tend to be pretty bad at being stairs if you're not fit and healthy (and even then…), they usually have much higher steps and sharper edges than normal stairs, and are thus significantly less accessible when they're not operating.
Automated fuel stations are always the cheapest. The only reason to go to a manned station is for the shop or cafeteria and you're paying 5-10 cents more per litre for the privilege.
So there's a handy table in that document that shows all the rankings and notes that the US position hasn't moved in the past year, how is this article even a thing?
You’re not wrong that the chart shows that rank didn’t change for some reason, but if you look at the 2017 report you’ll see the US was number 2 last year.
