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This is a great idea and a good way to help people hit the ground running. One small nit pick, when I have adblock on, the page shows "0 available tech jobs", a

This is a great idea and a good way to help people hit the ground running. One small nit pick, when I have adblock on, the page shows "0 available tech jobs", and your target audience are people who are more likely than average to use adblock.

retrojorgen 5y ago
Fair point! Trying to fix :) In case anyone wants to turn of ad block for the page. we do not run any banner ads on this page or the job board though. so for anyone willing to turn it of, you shouldn't se any wild banner ads.
- danielskogly 5y ago
  I find kode24 practically unreadable without uBlock origin. Loading the frontpage, there are 45 items being hidden, and this is just by the cosmetic filters. In addition there are the third party analytics/ad scripts. Btw, as far as I can tell, you're neither GDPR compliant, nor compliant with ekomloven[0], as you're not mentioning "Cookies" or "Informasjonskapsler" anywhere readily available. All that being said - great initiative :) [0]: https://www.nkom.no/internett/informasjonskapsler-cookies#hvordan_oppfylle_krav_til_informasjon https://www.nkom.no/internett/informasjonskapsler-cookies#hv...
goldfeld 5y ago
I'm sorry to go off on a tangent, but the modern americanisms and other figuratives of english perpetually amuse me. First because people get so used to internet-powered mannerisms that even professional writers feel compelled to use contorted turns of phrase even when it would be easier to just employ an old (tired?) verb, adverb or something. The poor verbs suffer from ageism too and are going jobless! Honestly I feel a cheapening of english language but possibly just me. In this case I should think "war refugee" with "hit the ground running" is a bit of unfortunate phrasing, nothing personal :)
- Etheryte 5y ago
  That's a fair point, I think as a non-native speaker I don't always notice these separate-yet-linked connotations, and pointing them out definitely helps in that regard. What would be a better way to get the same idea across?
  - JumpCrisscross 5y ago
    > What would be a better way to get the same idea across? What you said. They are war refugees in a political context. As hackers, however, they may seek to hit the ground running. This isn’t an Americanism. It isn’t denying reality. It’s acknowledging the slice of reality relevant to this discussion, which exists in the optimistic change-the-world pathos of hacker culture.
  - goldfeld 5y ago
    As the other user replied, only a few people who will read between languages/uses will pick up the nuance or irony, which however was not at all meant by you, that is, you didn't play with multiple meanings but just the "hackerism" at face value, no biggie. I'm possibly just lonely in being tired of hackerspeak or somesuch, and it's on me, with being jaded about english with its context in general as I go to other languages (english not my mother tongue either.)

retrojorgen 5y ago

Fair point! Trying to fix :) In case anyone wants to turn of ad block for the page. we do not run any banner ads on this page or the job board though. so for anyone willing to turn it of, you shouldn't se any wild banner ads.

danielskogly 5y ago
I find kode24 practically unreadable without uBlock origin. Loading the frontpage, there are 45 items being hidden, and this is just by the cosmetic filters. In addition there are the third party analytics/ad scripts. Btw, as far as I can tell, you're neither GDPR compliant, nor compliant with ekomloven[0], as you're not mentioning "Cookies" or "Informasjonskapsler" anywhere readily available. All that being said - great initiative :) [0]: https://www.nkom.no/internett/informasjonskapsler-cookies#hvordan_oppfylle_krav_til_informasjon https://www.nkom.no/internett/informasjonskapsler-cookies#hv...

goldfeld 5y ago

I'm sorry to go off on a tangent, but the modern americanisms and other figuratives of english perpetually amuse me. First because people get so used to internet-powered mannerisms that even professional writers feel compelled to use contorted turns of phrase even when it would be easier to just employ an old (tired?) verb, adverb or something. The poor verbs suffer from ageism too and are going jobless! Honestly I feel a cheapening of english language but possibly just me. In this case I should think "war refugee" with "hit the ground running" is a bit of unfortunate phrasing, nothing personal :)

Etheryte 5y ago
That's a fair point, I think as a non-native speaker I don't always notice these separate-yet-linked connotations, and pointing them out definitely helps in that regard. What would be a better way to get the same idea across?
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago
  > What would be a better way to get the same idea across? What you said. They are war refugees in a political context. As hackers, however, they may seek to hit the ground running. This isn’t an Americanism. It isn’t denying reality. It’s acknowledging the slice of reality relevant to this discussion, which exists in the optimistic change-the-world pathos of hacker culture.
- goldfeld 5y ago
  As the other user replied, only a few people who will read between languages/uses will pick up the nuance or irony, which however was not at all meant by you, that is, you didn't play with multiple meanings but just the "hackerism" at face value, no biggie. I'm possibly just lonely in being tired of hackerspeak or somesuch, and it's on me, with being jaded about english with its context in general as I go to other languages (english not my mother tongue either.)