ElemenoPicuares

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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
You can't just bolt on other theoretical negative factors to change the usefulness of the analysis itself. This conversation is not about bad or irrelevant certificates— it's about certificates in general. The candidate included t
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
I see people argue for the real-world skills gaming affords— but when the biggest risk is embarrassment among people you’ll never meet, and the primary real world reward is inadvertently exercising a few organizational muscles in a vastly d
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
Agreed that it’s kind of ridiculous to assume you can’t rest your arm… people do with phones all the time. To be fair, old lcd displays did have a razor thin viewing angle.
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
All overgeneralizations start out as conclusions based on observation. Having certificates could not possibly decrease someone’s ability to do a job. Assuming that everybody with certificates is a certain type of person and those types of p
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
Yes. I do think it’s important to point out that folks using these “in my experience, people like this tend to be bad” type of hiring metrics probably aren’t deliberately discriminating and often change their approach after realizing it’s p
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
The whole point is that disadvantaged folks are more likely to use certificates to get a foot in the door and economic hardship in the US is not evenly represented among skin colors— not even close. Folks who don’t natively have the right a
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
The problem you describe is a resume design problem rather than a cert problem. Would you know what they could do if they merely left the certs off of the resume? I’d guess not. It sounds like you were looking at a federal resume which are
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
If you've got a few certs and two jobs under your belt that you got because of those certs, how would anyone imagine that those certs would prevent them from getting jobs? For people with traditional industry on-ramping, it might seem
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
I hear you and have been in your shoes. Hiring is hard, and the steps to hire people ethically are pretty nebulous, which makes it much harder. Especially when the outcome would be the same in many cases, it does seem awfully impractical. B
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
We're talking about relevant certs, here.
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
Be careful about the bias in single-metric gatekeeping strategies like this. Contributing to open source projects, having side projects, et al are pursuits of leisure. Certificates are possibly the only foot in the door for folks working mu
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
This is not a 15k employee enterprise riveting features onto a codebase from the 90s— it’s a <10yo company that makes one product. Big difference in approach.
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
Canva gives users without design tools expertise the ability to make fairly polished looking graphics with a super easy and intuitive interface. (As a designer, I can assure you that polished looking is not the same thing as designed.) It’s
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
I was using the word prove colloquially. That many professions are being automated is a given, and with NN people are trying extra hard to automate knowledge work that requires more trade-like knowledge than theoretical knowledge, like pa
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
Downvote all you want but prove me wrong.
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
Engineers usually think so. After spending some time with GitHub Copilot, as annoying as it is, I think we've got a decade, max, before the lower 3/4 of the software development trade is rendered unnecessary.
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
Of course, as far as artistry goes, it really doesn’t matter. When I was first considering getting a BFA (in my late 30s) I thought my inability to photographically reproduce scenes using pencils and other traditional media precluded my goi
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
The gamer nexus guy? He got a 1-on-entire-team-of-PR-and-customer-service-people interview at a deep-discount computer parts company in their own office to discuss known implications of decisions they deliberately made. THAT's your ben
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by ElemenoPicuares 4y ago
> * Somehow with multiple comments about how embarrassing the phones association with republican organizations is, no one seems to be talking about how they backup your messaging data in a possibly insecure way and exposing peoples email
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by ElemenoPicuares 5y ago
> I agree that journalists have little excuse. Except wanting anyone, ever to talk to them again about something controversial.
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by ElemenoPicuares 5y ago
Yes surely most workers the medical industry, most service workers, home health aids, school teachers, retail professionals, etc etc etc would be astonished and disappointed by the degree to which software engineering is trivialized in our
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by ElemenoPicuares 5y ago
Unprompted derision and self-exclusion from some flaw is a common emotional self-defense mechanism. Emotional flaws about intellectual pursuits aren’t excepted.
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by ElemenoPicuares 5y ago
Out of curiosity— can you think of any high-risk ways to learn to write crypto code? Do it while driving? Start throwing untested ideas into production in a large database of personal information? Do it for an international drug cartel?
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by ElemenoPicuares 5y ago
The original paper that inspired this article is a hot mess. It’s just one huge correlation/causation confusion of a political argument posed as research. My freshman expository writing professor tore classmates to shreds over more jus
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by ElemenoPicuares 5y ago
> Adobe is the first one I'm familiar with that does normal monthly billing but forces you to stay a year. Really? The Commitment Subscription payment model is super common and old as time. Oracle. Microsoft for some services. Lots
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by ElemenoPicuares 5y ago
No, that's correct. If you cancel within 7 days you pay nothing. If you cancel after 14 days you have to pay for half the year. I'm not sure what happens between those two points— I'd guess it's a grace period but I&#x27
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by ElemenoPicuares 5y ago
oh yeah well the FBI works for my uncle and he says your comment is a conspiracy
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by ElemenoPicuares 5y ago
Dirtier and Secreter: People's cognitive dissonance would flare way up if you shared convincing evidence that the OECD or the similar bodies fake their self-employment data.