SpunkyMoney

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by SpunkyMoney 12y ago
"Of all the brilliant people I know, you would have discarded 100% at resume review stage." Not really, because no one would tick all the boxes. If they haven't keyword dropped, then you can't apply that filter. if they
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by SpunkyMoney 12y ago
Haha, you're probably right. If i change it now, the link will break and people who have already read it will likely be really annoyed if they stumbled on it with a different name lol
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by SpunkyMoney 12y ago
Correct, and we also spell things with an s where you use a z and others such as we spell "color" as "colour". The problem is, if I were to correct it for the UK, the US complain, if I correct it for the US, the UK compl
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by SpunkyMoney 12y ago
Think I have sort of replied to your comment in another comment on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7994877
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by SpunkyMoney 12y ago
"but they can be useful to screen out some people." Which is why I wrote that blog post. Just to make sure it stands less of a chance to get screened.
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by SpunkyMoney 12y ago
Think i've already replied to this (sort of) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7994877
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by SpunkyMoney 12y ago
No troll. The typos etc are explained here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/29yq47/how_to_r... Mainly to do with the fact I am from the UK and we spell things differently to people in the US
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by SpunkyMoney 12y ago
That's my blog post! So i'll try justify myself. "True, but they'll be a damn sight quicker at picking it up than anyone else. And they'll write far better code when they're there." Tried that with a few d
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How to rip apart a programmers CV(codercramp.com)
18 points by SpunkyMoney 12y ago|34 comments
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The exceptional programmer(codercramp.com)
3 points by SpunkyMoney 12y ago|0 comments