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Re: Have a personal web site

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Post by DonHopkins »

pKaqzd wrote: post #133
zimpenfish wrote: post #125

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_OK_to_be_white > The slogan has been spread by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and racist groups including neo-Nazis and white supremacists. > A report by the ADL states that the phrase itself has a history within the white supremacist movement going back to 2001 when it was used as the title of a song by a white power music group called Aggressive Force as well as fliers with the p…

I'm not from the US, but the Wikipedia article makes me think that some people over there have lost their minds and have too much time on their hands. I recommend studying organizations like the NKWD and Stasi, if completely generic phrases are being eliminated from the allowed speech just because a small group of persons have also used them. So if I'm using the phrase "campus craziness", it now means that it's a "do…

>The Guardian columnist Jason Wilson argued that "It's OK To Be White" was devised by white supremacists in order to stoke overreaction from the left, sow confusion, embed a racist agenda in the mainstream media, and ultimately invite a backlash against anti-racist activism.

If you're actively trying to invite a backlash against anti-racist activation, then you'd better be able to come up with a damn good explanation why you're against anti-racist activism, or just admit you're racist.

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Post by morganvachon »

cirgue wrote: post #343
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> I don't want a personal web site. I've had a handful of them in the past, and I've thrown together a couple shitty blogs over the years, but there are three big reasons why I don't anymore: I'm not that interesting; I don't have anything to show off; and inevitably it'll either become a chore or go out of date. My wife and I are fairly boring people. I'm a sysadmin and fill-in sales rep at work, she works for the l…

I would be stoked to read about your projects with embedded systems or your unpublished short stories. Hell, even if they suck, that’s more authentic and more interesting than 99% of the internet right now.

Check your email :-)

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Post by loup-vaillant »

mturmon wrote: post #311
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> Giving people a link so they can find you online… …does not always work. When I give people a link they can't click on, they type it in the search bar . And not even in full, they tend to strip the http://www and .com ends. And you can't click on a piece of paper, which is where my CV typically ends up on. Last week, I interviewed with someone who said he googled me. All he found was a "little GitHub page". My full…

Your personal website, btw, is really great, and that interviewer missed out. I program mostly Python in scientific contexts, but it's great to have your perspective on some larger questions of programming style and technology.

Thanks. :-)

Re: Have a personal web site

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Post by Matty1992 »

thirdsun wrote: post #93
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I have the opposite problem, I share the name with someone else working in the tech field who is academically and professionally my senior. I frequently get emails and phone calls from recruiters offering positions with a salary up to 200k more than I'm expecting at my level because they think I teach at Stanford

Did you ever try to bullshit your way into one of these positions? Obviously it's a bad idea, but I'm only half joking since it might be an interesting experiment to see how people rate and value you if their mind may have already been made up.

I taken a few phone interviews without realizing that they had the wrong guy.

It's never turned into an awkward situation just yet but its also never gotten further than that.

Re: Have a personal web site

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Post by dorgo »

jartelt wrote: post #282
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> But, some people definitely do not care about "showing-off" when they put something up online. If you don't care about showing off then you won't publish anything. People who are actually altruistic won't tell you about their altruism. This isn't cynicism. The hunger for respect, admiration and recognition is not a bad thing. But it is necessary for people to understand what motivates them. And it is necessary for…

> If you don't care about showing off then you won't publish anything. People who are actually altruistic won't tell you about their altruism. My point is that I think your thesis is too cynical. Many people start out writing their blogs or answer questions on public forums with the intent of trying to help other people out. The motivation can be of the form "I solved this problem and I am going to write about it bec…

In my opinion, you try to make a distinction where is none. What is the difference between showing off and helping others in the context of technical questions on blogs/forums? Yes, you help others by providing solutions/advice for dificult problems. And you get satisfaction from the fact that you succeded where others stumbled and you let everybody know it by posting it online. You prove your value to a group of people, which gives you a feeling of inclusion -> important motivator.

In general, there is no such thing as altruism. You always get something out of helping others that keeps you going. Nobody is truly selfless. Altuists are the species which died out long time ago.

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Post by Matty1992 »

zerr wrote: post #145
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I have the opposite problem, I share the name with someone else working in the tech field who is academically and professionally my senior. I frequently get emails and phone calls from recruiters offering positions with a salary up to 200k more than I'm expecting at my level because they think I teach at Stanford

You're undervaluing yourself.

I'm 26

Re: Have a personal web site

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Post by Matty1992 »

asdff wrote: post #365
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Why is that a bad idea? If you can pass the interview stages and the only difference is perception then I say go for it.

"So tell me about your time lecturing at Stanford" "Well you see uhh thats not me but uhh..." "I think we are done here." And you've just burned a massive bridge.

Haha I think theyd clock I wasnt the guy they thought I was when a tattood kid in his 20s walked in the door

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Post by docker_up »

sosodev wrote: post #351
docker_up wrote: post #344

I have no identity online, except for Facebook and Linkedin. Linkedin is the only one that is public. I don't even have a photo. I've been careful since about 1997 to always ensure that I don't attribute myself to anything I've written. Even accounts like this I'm always careful to write things that won't identify me ever, unless I did it completely on purpose (a blog post for my employer, etc). I learned very early…

I don't think many people will write something that reflects them negatively when it's long form content.

That's why Twitter is such a giant-killer.
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