I thought they were the Africanized ones? Those were the ones I read about as a kid in my school library, and the way they depicted their projected spread across the USA made it look like a pestilence worthy of Revelation. I honestly thought I wasn't going to live to become an adult because we'd all be over taken by super aggressive bees.

They were supposedly spreading north from Mexico if I remember. To kill us all indeed.

Just found these:

https://groovyhistory.com/killer-bees-1970s

https://blue-succubus.livejournal.com/83977.html?

> > is the list sorted

If I were the interviewer, this question would almost make me dock points off of the interviewee

Why? Knowing that can be a useful filter to reduce the search time and space, assuming whole numbers only.

Because the answer should be an obvious "no it is not guaranteed to be sorted".

If the answer is yes the input is sorted, then that context should have been given in the original prompt as it is a completely different question.

It is, but some interviewers can be intentionally vague.

And how much time did you spend updating your new information with the government, your banks, your work, and other services that you interact with?

As someone going through a Master's in CS to get into ML, this makes me a little sad..

(though I do understand what you're getting at)

Not all of us used Android when Flash was available for it

Does $72K go far in Sweden? I would assume not due to taxes...? I'm in a position of ignorance so I'm just looking to get a better idea of what it's like there :)

$72K is about $50K post tax (including one month of paid vacation). $72K is also a lower bound: I often see positions for ~95K-100K. And if you work as a contractor, ~$160K.

The national median wage is ~$35K ($27K post tax) afaik, and people live good lives on that, albeit in smaller towns.

And if you have a mortgage, you can deduct 30% of interest payments.

>The national median wage is ~$35K ($27K post tax) afaik, and people live good lives on that, albeit in smaller towns

That doesn't sound like much help for a single expatriate coming to Sweden for software work. They're going to want to live in a city where there's lots of other people (including other expats) to network with, date, etc.

True. A common starting salary in Stockholm is $50K ($37K), with that you can afford a nice and central apartment (~$20K without a mortgage, otherwise [potentially much, of course] lower).

Note that you don't rent apartments, you buy them. It makes a comparison harder.

My last job in finance(still am in finance fwiw) used much more VBA to price out billion-dollar swaps and swaptions than I was comfortable admitting to...

Reading this thread, with all the Javascript talk, makes me feel like I should be scared of continuing to be a C# developer..

I had to like really think 10 times over, to comment or not, being a PHP dev....

Don't think that'll be an issue. Just sad to not see .NET Core finally get a UI layer added on. They're investing in ASP .NET Core its a nice back-end ecosystem.

I made this change back in 2011 when the Windows 8 developer preview with WinRT single-handedly annihilated all the WPF & Silverlight consulting work. The writing was on the wall for months, but for me the last straw was the JavaScript WinRT apps.

There is still work for COBOL developers. I don't think C/++/#/etc. work will be going away any time soon.

Office client never used .net or C# to begin with

Actually at one point they went very close to replace VBA with .net. It was called VSTA and meant to be a mini visual studio in office apps. I believe one of the office apps shipped with it in Office 2007, then they killed it.

VSTO, right?

Nope. VSTO actually shipped and is used to create office addins. VSTA was an embedded IDE.

I ran into a similar issue myself. Why would PayPal, of all companies, have a problem with this?

Glad I'm not the only one. Now, in the "confirm password" field, I always backspace the last couple of characters and type them in manually, to make sure they match with what was pasted.

I have; it can be tough especially if the client is a demanding one. For me it was more like 10-15 hrs/week, but sometimes it'd easily be 30 hours if things were broken or some new deliverable came up. Luckily my wife had her own thing going on with her Ph.D at the time so she was super supportive and understanding... it also helped that the work covered half the cost of a new car we needed part way through the project.

Thanks! Did you get the work through online sites? Or direct networking?

eg Moonlightwork sounds like it should be for moonlighters like this, but looks to be full time jobs.

I wish I could say I found them remotely, but alas these were literally friend-of-a-friend type deals.

More details: One of them was a bakery that was taking all its orders on paper, so I developed a simple but powerful system for them to track their orders in a database, and other was a small investment shop(read: a pair of people managing a millionaire's money) who were looking for a way to track trades and get on with the important stuff rather than waste two hours a day updating an Excel spreadsheet. My biggest problem I haven't been able to leverage these jobs into continuous passive income.