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> Then I see these people’s follower count, and I sob > harder. I can’t help but think of potential future > employers that are no longer potential. My name
by jmillikin 14y ago
> Then I see these people’s follower count, and I sob
> harder. I can’t help but think of potential future
> employers that are no longer potential. My name and
> avatar are part of its identity, and it’s just one step
> for a slightly curious person to see the idiot behind
> this code.
Oh come on now. Potential employers are not going to be crawling through your github on the off chance they can find a hastily-written script to laugh at. If they do claim that they won't hire you because you wrote this tool, they are lying to cover for some less socially-acceptable rejection cause.
As for why people are laughing at this project, it's likely because you reimplemented a time-tested tool (sed) in a flavor-of-the-week platform (node-js) without any obvious awareness of how silly that looks. If you put a quick explanation in the README, like "I wanted a 'sed' that used Javascript regex syntax", then I doubt anyone would make any such fuss.
- protomyth 14y ago> Oh come on now. Potential employers are not going to > be crawling through your github on the off chance they > can find a hastily-written script to laugh at No, they won't, but they do sometimes hire something new and worse than Checklist HR folks, Social Media for HR Researchers. At some point someone is going to hit an automated connection between "Heroes" and negative comments on other's work. It actually sounds like a "good" startup idea. Klout for hiring.
- jmillikin 14y agoThe funny thing about companies with arbitrary automated no-hire filters in their hiring pipeline is that they tend to be places such a programmer wouldn't want to work at anyway. Say there's some HR department out there silently dropping any candidate that doesn't have a LiveJournal account. Would you worry? Would you even care?
- protomyth 14y agoDon't really know. I did get turned down for an internship because my high school was in the same area code as the college I went to (whole state is one area code). I really did want to work there.
- readme 14y agoI hope the keyword is 'did' -- if the hiring process is that robotic and stupid imagine the rest.
- mrgoldenbrown 14y agoIt's not always that simple. In a big enough organization, there can easily be good parts and bad parts, with the bad parts worth tolerating, especially if the bad part is just an upfront cost like a dumb hiring process. I might put up with some annoying corporate HR crap if it meant I could work at someplace like Xerox PARC in its heyday.
- protomyth 14y agoIt was a DOE national lab, so it still stings a bit. It is probably why I absolutely hate the phrase "fly-over state" and tend to think less of people using it. It is probably also why I have such a visceral reaction to this article http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5069195 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5069195 and its author.
- readme 14y agoNo one worth working for who's technical is going to not hire you because someone heckled your script on twitter. A recruiter isn't going to pass you up either. Recruiters will spam the fuck out of anyone with a github follower.
- paulgb 14y ago> If you put a quick explanation in the README, like "I wanted a 'sed' that used Javascript regex syntax", then I doubt anyone would make any such fuss. The second sentence of the readme is "It's similar to sed but there are a few differences"