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871.
by tombert 7mo ago
I think most people generally like me well enough, I just have a low tolerance for certain bits of corporate hypocrisy.
872.
by tombert 7mo ago
“Tit for tat” and “spite” feel like they are very strong words for what amounted to a justified smartass comment. If I had shown up fifteen minutes late for the interview I wouldn’t have gotten an offer and the interviewer might have made a
873.
by tombert 7mo ago
If I had shown up fifteen minutes late for the interview then they likely wouldn’t make an offer and they likely would have called it out during the interview. No one seems to call out companies when they do this shit. They wouldn’t care
874.
by tombert 7mo ago
No, it really isn’t inappropriate. The listing that the recruiter sent me said that they “value directness”. If I had shown up fifteen minutes late for the interview they would likely not make an offer, and if they had called me out for be
875.
by tombert 7mo ago
If I showed up late halfway through the interview, I would almost certainly not get an offer, and if the hiring manager called me out on that fact then no one would call that manager an asshole. I am not “nitpicking every little thing” and
876.
by tombert 7mo ago
Every time I see those I just think of Anchor Arms from SpongeBob. https://youtu.be/aDKkyM34e_k?feature=shared
877.
by tombert 7mo ago
Oh I have. I find the homebrew and demo scene for the Atari to be extremely impressive. I don’t think it works on real hardware but I’m quite partial to Bad Apple : https://youtu.be/Ko9ZA50X71s?si=Ds7WuMgPHeubBNNz
878.
by tombert 7mo ago
It’s actually not “inappropriate”. Are you saying that instead of directly pointing out something that really bothered me, I should instead of reported him to someone higher up? Should I have bitched on Glassdoor? Oh, I guess I could have c
879.
by tombert 7mo ago
I do not concede that what I did was “wrong”. Pointing out something that was objectively douchy isn’t “wrong”. Yes I was a little snarky, and maybe I am a “jerk”, but considering that this person was happy to just waste my time like it wa
880.
by tombert 7mo ago
I am afraid I don’t see how that is significantly different than what I said.
881.
by tombert 7mo ago
He actually did not! He just proceeded like it was nothing.
882.
by tombert 7mo ago
I will be honest and admit that I don’t find most Atari 2600 games to actually be fun; there’s a few gems like Warlords and and Pitfall and Pitfall 2, but I don’t think that home console games started getting really good until the Colecovis
883.
by tombert 7mo ago
Being annoyed is fine but I would argue that they should deal with it if they’re going to make me waste half the interview time sitting around. I’ll admit to a bit of douchiness on my end but I think they should have understood the snarkine
884.
by tombert 7mo ago
Probably. I would argue that showing up extremely late for an interview that you scheduled is considerably more jerk-ish. It also wasn’t passive aggressive, or at least it wasn’t intended to be. I actually wanted to know if that was just a
885.
by tombert 7mo ago
> That's what you had decided/wanted though right? I can't imagine you hoping for any other outcome with that kind of question and follow up? The job paid really well so a small part of me still wanted to move forward, but
886.
by tombert 7mo ago
I'm not sure that I'm a "culture fit" for most companies. I should probably start buying lottery tickets instead.
887.
by tombert 7mo ago
Everyone says that they value directness, and from what I can tell the vast majority of people actually don't. For example, I had a job interview a couple years ago where the interviewer showed up fifteen minutes late for a thirty minu
888.
by tombert 7mo ago
If I release something as MIT or Apache, all I want is some credit, either for my own self-satisfaction or for resume fuel. If a library I wrote was used by BigCo, then I could point to their license file and mention that in a job interview
889.
by tombert 7mo ago
I'm pretty sure that all these acquisitions have been glorified accounting tricks in order to undo the damage that Musk did when he bought Twitter at an obscenely overvalued price in 2022. Clearly he didn't actually want Twitter
890.
by tombert 7mo ago
I mean, even Google Home and Alexa could handle playing a song on Spotify by me asking for it a decade ago . It's baffling that wasn't one of the first things implemented in Grok for Tesla.
891.
by tombert 7mo ago
Sorry you saw that. I have tried a bunch of numbers and everything I saw was pretty innocuous, but I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that there’s gross or disturbing stuff.
892.
by tombert 7mo ago
You are right. My comprehension of words isn’t always the best :)
893.
by tombert 7mo ago
I read this article when it was new and I've shared it with a bunch of people because it it unbelievably fascinating to me. There's something borderline "voyeuristic" (for want of a better term) about it. There are all t
894.
by tombert 7mo ago
It was iTerm, and yeah I it did require a modifier key. I had gotten it in my head that the way that you highlight a line in iTerm (and I have no idea where I heard this or why I thought it) was holding command and clicking on the line. It
895.
by tombert 7mo ago
Queue obligatory Weird Al: https://youtu.be/SMhwddNQSWQ I'm human so I'm certainly not immune to social anxiety or embarrassment from looking stupid, but I have been trying to do a manual override that for the las
896.
by tombert 7mo ago
On my second day when I worked at Reddit, I learned by accident that I do not want my terminal to have clickable links. I was working on image compression, and we had a script where we would render a column with the original image link, and
897.
by tombert 7mo ago
Oh no argument on that. I have a typical yuppie software job with decent pay, so generally I will buy the right tools for a job now instead of trying to make due with whatever I can scrap together. I'm not that busy of a person, but
898.
by tombert 7mo ago
When I was sixteen I got one of the earlier digital HD cameras (Canon VIXIA HF100) and Sony Vegas Movie Studio for my birthday. It was a neat camera and I liked Vegas, and I was grateful that my parents got them for me, but an issue that I
899.
by tombert 7mo ago
At a job interview in 2016, I was given a fairly typical "design Twitter" whiteboard problem, so I started doing a fairly typical thing involving load balancers and Nginx and the like. The topic of the database came up, and I aske
900.
by tombert 7mo ago
I was really hoping that this was just a service that would literally clean my room.

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