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by CM30 2y ago
It's sadly not too surprising because the incentives push for flashy stories and easy to understand narratives, and "studies show that people are selfish monsters that will backstab each other at the drop of a hat" gets a lot
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by CM30 2y ago
Uh, are they? I just checked my LinkedIn feed a few seconds ago, and I didn't see a single person grateful they got laid off. Lots of complaints about the hiring process being broken and people giving meaningless platitudes as generic
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by CM30 2y ago
To be fair, for climate change a technological solution is probably the more practical one, since people are unlikely to go against their own interests for the greater good. Much easier to have renewable energy and electric cars and geoengi
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by CM30 2y ago
Apparently some of the bots and drama might have been caused by the staff of a rival ROM hacking website: https://old.reddit.com/r/romhacking/comments/18xgc3b/romhack... They had quite the falling out, d
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by CM30 2y ago
Hmm, seems like the Astro framework could work well here. Just tested one of the portfolio themes I found for it, and it seems nice and simple to customise. Thanks for the suggestion!
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by CM30 2y ago
I agree it shouldn't be needed, the issue is that I get a bunch of job ads that outright say "provide a link to your portfolio". Which seems to assume that every applicant has a website with info about their work or something
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Ask HN: How to create a portfolio without design skills?
5 points by CM30 2y ago|13 comments
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by CM30 2y ago
It is probably worth noting that great technical employees aren't necessarily obsessed with tech in their day to day life, and don't necessarily follow the community online like a hawk. So while it's definitely worth posting
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by CM30 2y ago
I suspect at least half the problem is that their recruiting and filtering practices are utterly broken. Like, you go for a job that requirements wise you seem like a perfect fit for, then get rejected for seemingly no reason? And then the
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by CM30 2y ago
Yup. Maybe this was true in the days of the 50s or so when the boomers entered the workforce and where "retired at 60 after 40 years working for the same employer" was something of a norm, but it definitely isn't the case now
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by CM30 2y ago
Well, planning is a common one. It's rare that teams actually manage to estimate the time needed properly, so projects end up overrunning like crazy. To some degree this is inevitable (software planning is hard after all), but for the
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by CM30 2y ago
My experience is that it seems like a cycle. People get frustrated with centralised systems and move towards more decentralised ones, and then centralised ones get better at UI/UX design and take traffic from the decentralised ones lat
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by CM30 2y ago
Honestly, regulators should probably step in already when it comes to anti competitive practices on social media sites. It's clear they're doing everything in their power to kill off the open web and stop people using their platfo
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by CM30 2y ago
Depends on what you're building. If it's a marketing/brochure site, then they'll probably work well enough. If you're actually planning to build anything remotely complex (like something that offers a service that u
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by CM30 2y ago
Well, it's certainly creative. Which is probably a good thing if you're running a marketing company like these guys are, especially given how packed the field is right now. But to say it was a risky move would be the understatemen
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by CM30 2y ago
Seems like their gamedev website shows more of their work: https://gamedev.outstandly.com/gamedev/ Feels a lot less boring too.
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by CM30 2y ago
And if that ever feels too corporate/safe, there's also fan game development/modding. The lack of legal ways to monetise your work there means that everyone who'd only be interested in the field for money is quickly filt
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by CM30 2y ago
This brings me back to the olden days of Geocities and other free hosting services, when sites like this were the norm for many people. It's a fun trip down memory lane for sure, and the fact this looks identical to many of those sites
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by CM30 2y ago
It would be interesting to compare the rates of cheating between pro players and amateur players and see which do so more. I know in some scenes (like speedrunning) it's often the pros that end up being exposed as cheaters more than ra
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by CM30 2y ago
Another one for the Google Graveyard I guess. Feels like everything outside of a few core products is either being shut down or abandoned these days...
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by CM30 2y ago
To be fair, the awfulness of job boards and the current hiring system is probably inspiring a lot of the same automation, even without this insanity. When your choices are 'fill in dozens of applications a week and hope one pays off&#x
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by CM30 2y ago
The real issue is that people just aren't thinking through the effects a license brings. They'll release things under open source licenses like the GPL because it's the 'expected' thing to do, or because they want o
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by CM30 2y ago
I suspect the answer is that so many people are looking for work, that these unicorns and incredibly desperate people willing to go through 10+ stages of interviews do actually exist in this market. There are probably at least a few ex seni
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by CM30 2y ago
The big problem is that all the issues in tech hiring have been amplified by a thousand in the last year or so. We previously had problems with unrealistic tech requirements and companies looking for unicorns, now we have almost every compa
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by CM30 2y ago
The big problem seems to be that whatever hiring filters are being used for jobs now are completely broken. You can have a CV and history that exceeds the requirements of the job (based on the description) by miles, yet end up either ghoste
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by CM30 2y ago
This makes me wonder how the stats compare for other forms of media, like TV shows, books, video games, comics, etc. Feels like there's probably more of a mix of attitudes and settings in these mediums, at least from the few I've
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by CM30 2y ago
It's especially bad when the company is based in a remote area with few other opportunities in that industry. Now you're not only selecting for people who can easily come to the office on a moment's notice, but people willing
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by CM30 2y ago
I see this a lot, but it seems hard to verify. Has a scammer actually ever come out and say they deliberately use poor grammar? Would be interesting to compare scam emails/messages from scammers based in the US/UK/Australia w
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by CM30 2y ago
Damn, got 65 and then had no idea which ones I was missing. Turns out I forgot col, colgroup, menu, dfn, and a lot of others like that.
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by CM30 2y ago
Monetisation in general is a double-edged sword for any and all platforms and communities. Letting users make money from their work is great in theory, but the end result is that everyone becomes significantly more greedy and selfish, hucks

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