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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
But is also flawed, because its premise is flawed.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
The future is computers, Let's rather hope they're a passing phase, please.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Oh it's an interesting story, but (like you were saying) the title was a bit misleading. That's all.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Yeah but quite often people are thrown off balance when encountering other native speakers of a shared, large language group (but speaking a different accent or dialect) for the first time. That's all I'm saying.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Clickbait.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Just that when he starts off his post by saying "I do lie..." then the question becomes "so what is he not lying about?"
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
mommie's special little snowflake Aww.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
...and it isn't 2000 again, and it isn't newsworthy. Well to the extent that a great many people seem to believe that this current boom is nothing like the dot-com era boom, perhaps it is.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Hmm, what would be a typical experienced, successful programmer's response to this kind of a question if it were asked in, you know, a real-life setting? "Look at bit-shift operators, and how they work on unsigned integers. Then think &#38
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
do they roll up their sleeves and get to work, or do they stammer and freeze up under the pressure? Which, BTW, correlates more with whether they had seen that particular problem or not before ( i.e. had subjected themselves to the tedio
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
The point of such questions is to test the person's problem-solving skills. As if you're qualified to tell one way or another.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
We probably would have interviewed him if he had said "some knowledge of"... But as everyone "knows", you just can't use weak language on your resume. And if it just so happens that you were let go of from your last job for some petty,
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
I have never been turned away. I don't believe you.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Because clearly input matters, not output !
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Oh I agree, "honesty is the best policy." Thing is, it'd be nice if it were something more of a two-way street. The same companies that would be incensed at the slightest fib on a resume will quite often lie to the candidate, at some stage
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
I guess he had a couple of courses at school and called himself "fluent". Umm, another possibility is that he learned Castilian, and the people in your office grew up speaking some Latin American version. Just the other day a native spea
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
"Why don’t you make something up." Aren't recruiters precious.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Oh, there are plenty of other options on the table, my friend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitdown_strike
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
...or quote more money for putting up with his childishness. Basically, yeah, that's usually how I end up handling these situations when quitting seems less than convenient.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
if your personal cook doesn't want to cook how you tell him to, he can leave. Great retention strategy there, Chief. Try telling professional, well-established cook how to hold a pairing knife -- when you can barely make scrambled eggs yo
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
It's that Groupons have nonsolicits in their contracts. It isn't that, either. It's that Groupon is rather fancifully implying that, beyond being merely unseemly or in bad form, it is somehow "tantamount to contractual interference" for
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Right, but what it amounts to is a bald attempt at intimidation with no legal standing. What they're saying, basically, is "we don't like that you're doing this, and if you don't stop, you're going get whacked."
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
then Marissa went really crazy and made their homepage into a Pinterest-like site. Heck, nothing's too crazy for a company in free fall.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
A covert, indirect bias is one thing; an explicit codified bias, quite another.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
What if Yahoo went back to its vision for media and entertainment, i.e. what a lot of people think has been wrong with Yahoo for a long, long time now.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
3D printing may well end up being a game changer to some extent, but "ending any effective gun control" is a bit of a stretch.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
How is the CEO affecting your work? By driving you crazy, and making it sometimes literally impossible to get anything done for him.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Agreed: what to cook, not how .
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
As long as he's the whole owner, you should act like you're being paid to paint his house. Bad analogy. It's more like you thought you were hired to paint his house, but the way things ended up he was telling you how to match colors an
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In Job Hunting, the Pas de Deux of Seeker and Offerer(nytimes.com)
13 points by toomuchcoffee 14y ago|3 comments

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