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It seems that 90% of the comments have missed the fact that this is obviously hyperbolic satire....
by redfhendrix 13y ago
It seems that 90% of the comments have missed the fact that this is obviously hyperbolic satire....
- riggins 13y agoyep. In light of this being satire, the HN news comments are 10x funnier than the article itself. Some unsolicited advice (you're lucky, you found out it was a crap company in 2 hours) and some PC outrage (why does it have to be an Asian lady).
- infinite8s 13y agoAnd an unnamed Asian lady at that.
- philangist 13y agoIt's not really that hyperbolic. Only thing that clued me in was surprise push to production.
- redfhendrix 13y agoAfter staring at the rabbit, black hole, and troll question for a few seconds and going "WUT?" I started to get the feeling this didn't actually happen.
- arethuza 13y agoA few years back I joined a company that was doing really interesting and very highly technical stuff only to discover that the only bit of that hyperbole that didn't match their antics was the fact by saying "push to production" sort of implies that they are using a revision control system. Which the lot I joined didn't.... I'd also never seen software deployment by RAID before... (or happily since) Mind you, they were bought for a pile of money and the people who thought the above were a good idea made out like bandits.
- badman_ting 13y agoUh, then count me among those who don't get it.
- soneca 13y agoMe too. Just after reading redfhendrix comment that I actually realized "Oh... indeed". I read it first as a description, not satire.
- badman_ting 13y agoNo, I really don't get it. It doesn't seem that unlikely to me that some goofballs somewhere would actually push interview code to production, I have come pretty close to that situation myself. (Not saying it's a good idea, just that it could happen)
- mason55 13y agoI commented elsewhere that I was at a talk last week where they presented pushing interview code to production as a great recruiting tactic.