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I just don't believe this. It's fake news. This line made it clear to me: "He said the officer appeared to be mid to senior level, and there’s no chance the co

I just don't believe this. It's fake news. This line made it clear to me: "He said the officer appeared to be mid to senior level, and there’s no chance the conversation would have been overheard by anyone else in line." So basically there is no one who can corroborate with his story. This trash should not be allowed into any publication which calls itself 'news'. I'm surprised that people actually believe that stuff by default. In this new world, the default should be to distrust the media and that line I quoted above gives a very good reason to distrust it.

curryhowardiso 10y ago
I was the person in the story and I'm pretty sure this person could! https://twitter.com/cyberomin/status/835888786462625792 https://twitter.com/cyberomin/status/835888786462625792
- jondubois 10y ago
  I don't believe that either. It's such a specific question - I don't know if even Facebook or Google would ask such a question in their interviews. This guy you just linked to has posted 11K tweets in the past; obviously an attention/status seeker. Also his follow-up tweet gave it away: "So @Twitter I can now get the blue tick, yes?" He almost didn't get any retweets before his 5 minutes of fame. Wow people on HN can be so gullible.
  - curryhowardiso 10y ago
    Out of curiosity, what threshold of evidence would you accept that I provide to verify that I was indeed asked to write code at the US border? I'm almost certainly not going to provide it, but I'm still curious if you're willing to elaborate.
vacri 10y ago
Passing through customs, there's rarely anyone else around to corroborate if you're taken aside.
- jondubois 10y ago
  So it shouldn't be news unless hundreds of other engineers also report it. You can't take a couple of isolated instances of attention-seeking hearsay and call it facts.
eps 10y ago
Sarcasm doesn't do well on HN. You must hint the crowds by including a smiley. Though it ruins the joke, of course.

curryhowardiso 10y ago

I was the person in the story and I'm pretty sure this person could! https://twitter.com/cyberomin/status/835888786462625792 https://twitter.com/cyberomin/status/835888786462625792

jondubois 10y ago
I don't believe that either. It's such a specific question - I don't know if even Facebook or Google would ask such a question in their interviews. This guy you just linked to has posted 11K tweets in the past; obviously an attention/status seeker. Also his follow-up tweet gave it away: "So @Twitter I can now get the blue tick, yes?" He almost didn't get any retweets before his 5 minutes of fame. Wow people on HN can be so gullible.
- curryhowardiso 10y ago
  Out of curiosity, what threshold of evidence would you accept that I provide to verify that I was indeed asked to write code at the US border? I'm almost certainly not going to provide it, but I'm still curious if you're willing to elaborate.

vacri 10y ago

Passing through customs, there's rarely anyone else around to corroborate if you're taken aside.

jondubois 10y ago
So it shouldn't be news unless hundreds of other engineers also report it. You can't take a couple of isolated instances of attention-seeking hearsay and call it facts.

eps 10y ago

Sarcasm doesn't do well on HN. You must hint the crowds by including a smiley. Though it ruins the joke, of course.