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As a programmer with a felony (Possession of a controlled substance) I can tell you that by far the greatest hurdle is getting past a background check. I am in the process of finding a new job and I am currently awaiting a decision for the THIRD time on whether my felony will keep me from being hired. In the past month and a half I have been extended offers on two positions only to have them rescinded after they do the background check. I should note I was very honest and upfront about what they would find beforehand. It is starting to become pretty frustrating. I have been clean for 3 years now and have even provided letters of recommendation from rehabilitation program supervisors as well as a letter from my sentencing judge. I have no violent crimes in my background just some possession/drug related charges the most recent of which was in 2013. I paid my debt to society, or so I thought. It appears the worst part of my sentence is having the felony on my record that I cannot have expunged until January of 2024 at the earliest. </rant>


That's really ugly. Are you in the USA or Elsewhere?

There was a thread linked a while back that may be of some relevance to you, let me dig it up.

edit: here you go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6750043


Yes I'm in the USA, specifically Lexington, KY. Thanks for the link.



What about support for VS Code?


Yes hopefully there will be integration for VS Code and Visual Studio. Though Microsoft already has a similar plugin, but this is purdier.


You might like ReSharper from JetBrains. I think it's the best I ever used.


I am reminded of the quote ""Give me liberty, or give me death!" - Patrick Henry


Give me liberty or give them death?


I just got a notification/alert at the top of the site saying something to the effect of "would you like to try out our new layout?" yes please. voila.


My Toshiba Satellite S55t-B has the Toshiba-eco utility that allows me to put it in eco-charge mode which also keeps the battery at a max-charge of 80%.


So I threw this into a website to try and load some data into a table, and get: XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://sheetsu.com/apis/d54d6315?sort=Description&order=asc. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. How do I handle that?


I ran into the same thing. Sheetsu apparently doesn't have CORS (http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/cors/) enabled so it won't work from client-side JS right now.


Already added to the to do list. Thanks for noticing it.


I'd love an invite: [email protected] -- Thanks!


The Polymer project from Google is something I've been following and I feel like it holds a lot of potential... Why hasn't it gained traction? Web components seem to be a great vision of the future of web design/development.


I wonder what sort of magic GitHUb integration http://atom.io has in store for us?


Very cool visualization, I'd like to see how this sort of technique could be applied to other real world problems.


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