I know it's hard, but stay positive here. You just had someone effectively offer to put in a good word for you with several companies in your country.

Instead of 'I ran out of money and will have to move back soon', which reads a little negative, try 'Thanks! I live in São Paulo right now, but I'm willing to move anywhere in Brazil for an opportunity, though my funds are a bit low so traveling will be tough. I'll send you an email/my email is in my profile'

It's because the organisms get trapped between your clothes and skin, and they only cause a problem in large numbers. Bare skin doesn't trap enough to do anything, usually. Also, when you rinse off, rinse off with saltwater. Fresh water kills them, which causes them to sting you.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabather's_eruption

Your rant is quite misguided. In this case, the CEO explicitly asked for people to email him:

"I discovered that Legere put an emphasis on customer service -- listening to calls and even sharing his email address."

From the other article: "had customer complaint emails forwarded to him. He also gave out his email address, ..., for anyone to contact him."

Probably because it's split between everyone renting in the building, and while the tax is higher, it's not so much higher that you end up effectively paying the same amount.

At least, that's my guess.

Assuming a 40% tax rate (overestimating) and the expenses listed here, that leaves 2700/mo spare, still a good bit, but:

That 2k/mo child support payment is what's insanely high(that's rent for an entire family!). Most families don't have to deal with it, and, further, get by with significantly less money spent on their children, assuming they run the numbers and figure out an appropriate budget.

You should check out http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/

It's a blog by Bob Arno, a once stage pickpocket, who now wanders around the world looking for thieves of various sorts (and then interviews them)

Would something like the above code be on your interview? (pow = 1 : [ 2*x | x <- pow])

I'd probably fail it even though I do understand recursion. I don't know Haskell, and the above is rather cryptic to me. I can infer that it raises 2 to a power, but I'm not sure how it works -- both in how it's called (does that define a function? Pow(4) --> 16?) and the why (the last part defines the recursion I assume, but what happens when you need multiple args, and what does it mean?)

If the interviewer is not giving the opportunity that the code is just plain wrong and assures it's correct (which I say upfront) then people can be 'wrong' saying it takes an argument x and get the 2^ or it prints the number of 2^argument or that it will just infinitely loop. All of these are fine with me; you read the code and at least got the gist. It's not brilliant because the list comprehension looks like most list comprehensions in other languages so then you can know pow makes a list which elements are (ordered) 2^[1..n] numbers.

Edit: But to answer your question: yes, I would like to be asked. I did a lot of interviews from the employee side just because I was curious, and, at least in the Netherlands, they never gave me a test. Just looked at my (possibly fake if I wanted) credentials and said yes/no. No tests, at all.

This site is broken on an iPad...scrolling doesn't work at all

That's strange, I'll take a look at that tonight when my wife lets me wrestle the iPad out of her hands.

I think she thinks it's hers... =)

It's also extraordinarily difficult to read in Chrome/Windows. http://i.imgur.com/RL9gB.png

Thanks for pointing that out. We switched over to Middleman from Wordpress and we're slowly building it out custom as we go. We get in a little work here and there in our spare time, but I think you've pointed out that we've got a ways to go before it works well all around.

Thanks for the heads up!

It would also be good to be able to change the 'expenses' field for ownership.

For example, if you live in NYC there's pretty much no chance you'll find a place which doesn't have (at least) a few grand/month in "coop fees" or "condo fees".

Also, there's "how much will you spend on maintenance", which you don't need to worry about when renting. Replacing a roof, hot water heater, etc. I'm sure you built in some numbers for that, but it would be good to be able to set.

And, as other comments have said, the 30 year mark seems to just be broken. I filled in some random numbers (100k, 60k) and I get 339k expenses in year 29, and -125k in year 30.

There is, actually, a loss to the provider. Every person's version of pirated movie X will be unique, which means the provider has to pay for more storage space than they would without encryption. (since without encryption they could compute a hash of the file and point to it on their servers)