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No. Hubris is wearing a tshirt to an interview

by artsyca 6y ago

devmunchies 6y ago
you knock the humble tshirt?
- artsyca 6y ago
  An interview is nothing but a glorified prisoners dilemma aka cooperation dilemma. Signalling that you're taking the path of least resistance aka snitching is hardly ingenious. And you call yourself a software professional!
  - runawaybottle 6y ago
    Your goodbye message in your profile made me lol in real life. Nothing is serious, but maybe you already get it and forgot the /sarcasm at the end of the monologue. Don’t leave, stick around.
newshorts 6y ago
I find it’s a good acid test. If that’s not acceptable, I probably don’t want to work there.
- artsyca 6y ago
  Bro, people don't have any opinions of their own they just pick them up along the way. Think about it.
  - tux1968 6y ago
    You're just saying that cuz you heard it somewhere.
  - icebraining 6y ago
    And you've picked the wrong ones.
  - grugagag 6y ago
    > Bro, people don't have any opinions of their own they just pick them up along the way. Think about it. Isn’t that true about what you’re saying here? If you don’t have any why spread it as if it’s yours?
jb775 6y ago
> Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about. In this context, I took hubris as paradoxical since the end result is a good quality (and well maintained) software program.
- artsyca 6y ago
  Exactly bro! Now keep on rocking in the free world and understand that hubris alone does not a good programmer make but a good programmer is hubristic. Therefore hubris is a poor heuristic no matter what any tech bro tells you. Therefore you should at least make an effort to dress up for an interview because you never know if it's your last chance to make any sort of impression. And let your hubris shine that way instead of choosing the casual path that every other one will certainly choose. Edit: of course this argument is lost on all the beautiful minds who spare no effort at shabby chic
  - icebraining 6y ago
    This reminds me of https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Gobble_Gobble_Gobble.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Gobble_Gobble_Go... Relevant quote: "As soon as the guy walked into the room, I knew it was going to be problematic, because he seemed extremely straight-laced and uptight, dressing more like an insurance salesman than a technologist." Jobs was an ass, but Andy had a point: dressing correctly depends on the context. The idea of dressing "up" or "down" as if it was a single axis was never correct, and is even less nowadays.
dang 6y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23826319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23826319 and marked it off topic. I'm not sure what's behind this account's commenting history about dress, but it's repetitive and has frequently violated the site guidelines, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

No. Hubris is wearing a tshirt to an interview

devmunchies 6y ago

you knock the humble tshirt?

artsyca 6y ago
An interview is nothing but a glorified prisoners dilemma aka cooperation dilemma. Signalling that you're taking the path of least resistance aka snitching is hardly ingenious. And you call yourself a software professional!
- runawaybottle 6y ago
  Your goodbye message in your profile made me lol in real life. Nothing is serious, but maybe you already get it and forgot the /sarcasm at the end of the monologue. Don’t leave, stick around.

newshorts 6y ago

I find it’s a good acid test. If that’s not acceptable, I probably don’t want to work there.

artsyca 6y ago
Bro, people don't have any opinions of their own they just pick them up along the way. Think about it.
- tux1968 6y ago
  You're just saying that cuz you heard it somewhere.
- icebraining 6y ago
  And you've picked the wrong ones.
- grugagag 6y ago
  > Bro, people don't have any opinions of their own they just pick them up along the way. Think about it. Isn’t that true about what you’re saying here? If you don’t have any why spread it as if it’s yours?

jb775 6y ago

> Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about. In this context, I took hubris as paradoxical since the end result is a good quality (and well maintained) software program.

artsyca 6y ago
Exactly bro! Now keep on rocking in the free world and understand that hubris alone does not a good programmer make but a good programmer is hubristic. Therefore hubris is a poor heuristic no matter what any tech bro tells you. Therefore you should at least make an effort to dress up for an interview because you never know if it's your last chance to make any sort of impression. And let your hubris shine that way instead of choosing the casual path that every other one will certainly choose. Edit: of course this argument is lost on all the beautiful minds who spare no effort at shabby chic
- icebraining 6y ago
  This reminds me of https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Gobble_Gobble_Gobble.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Gobble_Gobble_Go... Relevant quote: "As soon as the guy walked into the room, I knew it was going to be problematic, because he seemed extremely straight-laced and uptight, dressing more like an insurance salesman than a technologist." Jobs was an ass, but Andy had a point: dressing correctly depends on the context. The idea of dressing "up" or "down" as if it was a single axis was never correct, and is even less nowadays.

dang 6y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23826319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23826319 and marked it off topic. I'm not sure what's behind this account's commenting history about dress, but it's repetitive and has frequently violated the site guidelines, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html