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I interviewed there a few years back. I bailed on the interview within the first fifteen minutes, the first time I’ve ever done that. I told them they’d given m
by sandcat_ 1y ago
I interviewed there a few years back. I bailed on the interview within the first fifteen minutes, the first time I’ve ever done that. I told them they’d given me the ick — not my most professional moment, admittedly! But it was an awkward and unpleasant interview.
They spent the first ten minutes of the call predicting the death of software engineering (this was a software engineering interview) and complaining about expensive devs (ahem). I wouldn’t have minded so much if the only demo apps they had on their website weren’t some of the worst, non-native iOS apps I’ve ever seen. Truly awful.
A month or two later I noticed on LinkedIn that a dodgy CTO I’d worked with, who had attempted to avoid paying me (and did avoid paying several colleagues of mine), had joined there too. It felt like a good fit.
Yeah, I have to say, none of this is a surprise to me.
- pyman 1y ago[flagged]
- einsteinx2 1y agoOr they just typed it on an Apple device…
- dchest 1y agoProper typography ≠ AI generated, this meme needs to stop. Feel free to stop reading anything with emdashes, but don’t accuse people of being AI for this reason. (Also, ChatGPT usually uses emdashes without spaces.)
- pyman 1y ago[flagged]
- muglug 1y agoUsing better punctuation is not exactly rocket science — it’s just a matter of using memorising keyboard shortcuts, which is something the HN crowd is pretty good at.
- sandcat_ 1y agoI used iOS to write my comment. It adds curved apostrophes automatically. macOS does too. The em-dash was me — you can long press on the dash button and you get the choice. Also, next time? Maybe consider that you might be wrong, and you’re responding to an actual human. Who spent half an hour or so writing a comment to share what they thought was an interesting anecdote. And who is now feeling a bit rubbish.
- pyman 1y ago[flagged]
- fragmede 1y ago[flagged]
- pyman 1y agoThere's nothing wrong with asking in which country the interview took place. It's funny that (1) you quickly assumed I was white, with a negative connotation, and (2) you implied that mentioning the name of a country that's not yours is a bad thing. You have issues
- einsteinx2 1y agoYour racism is unnecessary and uncalled for.
- einsteinx2 1y ago> The em-dash was me — you can long press on the dash button and you get the choice. Also iOS and macOS will “autocorrect” two regular dashes into an em-dash. I use them all the time that way. I really hate this new trend of using that as a “gotcha” for calling out AI stuff, it’s really stupid.
- pyman 1y agoI think you may have misunderstood my point. I was calling out a possible conspiracy theory. Going back to your comment about AI, teachers have seen a huge increase in the use of em dashes over the past year, so they have been forced to become computer language forensics experts (unfortunately). Just to clarify, I'm not against AI or people using it, I'm against conspiracy theories.
- eadmund 1y ago> ChatGPT uses a combination of characters to fingerprint its output. Does it, or are you inferring a fingerprint based on your own experiences? > Most humans type straight quotes instead of using shortcuts like Alt+0146 or Option + Shift + ] Well, I use X11, and ’ is an easy Compose ' >. Most humans do all sorts of foolish stuff. Modern computers are not typewriters; we have the full panoply of Unicode at our literal fingertips!
- ramoz 1y agodidyouemdash.com
- sandcat_ 1y agoCan assure you it wasn’t AI generated, and considering the time I spent writing the post, it’s a little upsetting to be accused of it. That said, I do get it. Especially as I’m on a new account. I’ve always used em-dashes (mild typography nerd) but recently have been considering stopping, for exactly this reason. They always flew under the radar a little, but I’d always notice when others used them, so it’s a shame and I’ll miss them. fyi, I was based in London at the time. This was for a position helping to build the supposed AI.
- eadmund 1y ago> I’ve always used em-dashes (mild typography nerd) but recently have been considering stopping, for exactly this reason. They always flew under the radar a little, but I’d always notice when others used them, so it’s a shame and I’ll miss them. Please don’t stop using them. Keep on doing the right thing, no matter what! (I love em dashes too!)
- tomhow 1y agoPlease don't do this here. If a comment seems unfit for HN, please flag it and email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can have a look.
- pyman 1y agoNo problem at all. I just wanted to confirm where the interview had taken place. I assumed it was in India.