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I hope you take this in the spirit it's intended. There's 5 links on your HN profile: * One to your personal website that is just "work in progress" and nothi
by shalmanese 3y ago
I hope you take this in the spirit it's intended.
There's 5 links on your HN profile:
* One to your personal website that is just "work in progress" and nothing more
* One to your defunct twitter where you didn't appear to have many followers or did much of note
* One that just returns an opaque blob of json which I'm not sure how I'm meant to interpret
* One that seems like an intriguing project that seems pretty trivial on the surface but I'm willing to be convinced is more substantial but with a plus feature "coming soon" for I don't know how long and a twitter account with 12 followers
* One to a github project that you haven't touched in 9 years, also with a bunch of things you've been meaning to work on for a while but clearly haven't.
I'm willing to be disabused of this notion but my instinct via this gestalt is that you're someone who likes to overpromise and underdeliver. My question would be, what have you been doing in the last 9 months if you haven't had time to polish these bits of your public surface area?
That's probably an unfair judgement from me and in a hotter hiring environment, I'd be willing to bring you in so you could disabuse me of my prejudice and I could be pleasantly surprised but it's much easier now to filter based on trivial gut feel like this and you should be more conscious of the digital image you're putting out into the world because HMs won't bother telling you this stuff because it's an awkward conversation with no gain on their end.
- sixtram 3y agotrue, at the same time your bumblebeelabs site is down ...
- upon_drumhead 3y agoI hear this a ton, yet in the past decade, I’ve never looked at more than a resume before filtering into the yay/nay buckets for tech phone screens. Do you all actually dive deep on every resume?
- vunderba 3y agoWhenever I've been on the interviewing side of things if a potential applicant lists their GitHub profile I checked it 100% of the time for interesting side project, open source contributions, etc.
- fy20 3y agoSame here. If you list a GitHub profile in your CV I expect it to show at least one repository with code you have written yourself or meaningful contributions to an open source project. We don't do coding challenges during the interview, so I want to see you can actually write code. But make it something useful, I don't really care to see you know how to press the "Fork" button or +1 a bug report.
- aprdm 3y agoI don't. I usually have ~100s of candidates per role. Is not practical
- idempotent_ 3y agoPresumably one does not apply with their Hacker News profile that's over a decade old but rather a resume / CV
- mortallywounded 3y agoThe jsonip website has some odd behavior, if you add additional characters to the URL it looks like the server tries to run JSON.parse on the extra characters plus a payload. Wonder if there's a way to pollute the server or get remote code execution.
- geuis 3y agoWhat I'm guessing you're describing is the jsonp behavior. For example: `https://jsonip.com/mortalcombat https://jsonip.com/mortalcombat` `mortalcombat({"ip":"2601:645:4001:1b57:5832:dcb9:c236:59e4"});` There's no parsing happening. If you are talking about something else, I'd love to know about whatever it is.