wjertyj

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by wjertyj 5y ago
There literally is no ruse. The "test" is "are you shitty toward women". Making assumptions and then acting on those assumptions (particularly in a hiring scenario) is, indeed, shitty shithead behavior.
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by wjertyj 5y ago
In 15 years of interviewing (both sides of the table) at FAANGs, universities, startups, hedge funds, and the us federal government, I can think of exactly one time I was given an itinerary outlining who I'd speak with, and zero when o
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by wjertyj 5y ago
What is the stupid game, exactly? Filtering if the candidate is an asshat towards women?
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by wjertyj 5y ago
Yes, and wealthy people are in the position to plunk down that money up front. People who are less privileged frequently have to take advantage of that form of "financing" offered by the carrier. Remember, by being wealthy, we fre
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by wjertyj 5y ago
You're basically describing WebOS and FirefoxOS. WebOS lives on as LuneOS (and runs on the pinephone), but FirefoxOS effectively went closed source and became KaiOS.
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by wjertyj 5y ago
Most people you know are wealthy then.
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by wjertyj 5y ago
Not only were the Maemo/Meego devices based on Linux, but they embraced a lot of desktop standards. Telephony/messaging all went through Telepathy, UI was GTK under Maemo, then QT under Meego. The app store was just an apt/dp
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by wjertyj 5y ago
The lack of a self-hosted push notification system is a massive hole in the user privacy story for users of all phones. I dream of being able to configure my phone (be it android, linux, or ios) to proxy all communication with push servic
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by wjertyj 5y ago
> But your signed-off-by was a correct email address with your real identity, as per Maybe? My point with the above comment was more to point out that there is no special '"presumptive good faith" pass' that comes alo
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by wjertyj 5y ago
They do if the patch "looks good" to the right people. In late January I submitted a patch with no prior contributions, and it was pushed to drm-misc-next within an hour. It's now filtered it's way through drm-next and w
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by wjertyj 5y ago
But how will you ever succeed if you don't outsource all but your core competencies while your core competencies simultaneously converge on banking/investment/midde-manning?
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by wjertyj 5y ago
Yeah, they definitely should have bailed on the acquisition when the acquiring company asked for proof they weren't using code they didn't have a license to....
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by wjertyj 5y ago
I use this method as well, but instead of force adding files, I use an inverted .gitinore. * !/.bashrc !/.config/ !/.config/monitors.xml This lets me quickly quickly detect changes in my working