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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by jjgreen »

2143 wrote: post #289
jjgreen wrote: post #227

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The Finnish word kalsarikännit means "that feeling when you are going to get drunk at home, alone, in your underwear — with no intention of going out" (I am given to understand)

I'm confused and curious. Please elaborate if you don't mind. What happens afterwards?

Nordics (in particular the Finns) are renown for their heavy drinking to the extent that their disapproving states try to price them out of the habit. They don't care and get pissed anyway, which I find endearing, and real in a nice way. More details: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/style/pants-drunk-time.ht...

What happens afterwards?

Yeah, just fall asleep (probably in the chair).

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

eesmith wrote: post #309
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #159

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You are correct. What I meant was that - in the time after it was created for sysadmin tasks - but before it found it’s new home in data-science - Python was often used as a beginners’ language as a more modern and expressive alternative to BASIC - which led to its “toy” reputation - an undeserved reputation that it has successfully shed.

It is hard for me to accept that historical interpretation as I started using Python back in the 1990s, when it was already making in-roads in steering high-performance computing codes. NumPy's roots date from that era. In 2002 it seemed that half the attendees of the Python conference were there because of Zope. I was programming full-time by 1999. So for me Python was well-established in several areas far before it…

I never had any exposure to HPC, scientific or numerical computing, even through university and in my career - that world is still comparatively silo'd off from the wider dev ecosystem IME; I know you are correct in what you say, but I imagine Millennials like myself (who were still in middle-school when you were using Python professionally) only ever saw Python in less serious applications.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by Blackstrat »

codeTired wrote: post #6

Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform? Memes and videos are now being posted. I used to get decent use from it but stopped updating my profile because the site is cancer. Full of self patting on the back and people adding me to “grow their network”. Recruiters contacting me with “perfect fit” position in languages not on my profile. Can someone please develop hacker news…

Yes and it was as predictable as sunrise after Microsoft acquired them. Formally, I was a paid subscriber and conducted a good bit of business via LinedIn. After Microsoft acquired them, I canceled and now visit LinkedIn infrequently, and usually then only in response to a direct message. Those on the previous thread cheering the prospects from Microsoft's acquisition of Activision/Blizzard are likely to be disappointed in the outcome as well.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by merlindru »

codeTired wrote: post #6

Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform? Memes and videos are now being posted. I used to get decent use from it but stopped updating my profile because the site is cancer. Full of self patting on the back and people adding me to “grow their network”. Recruiters contacting me with “perfect fit” position in languages not on my profile. Can someone please develop hacker news…

> Can someone please develop hacker news type basic site but for jobs? No memes, no dark patterns, no likes.

I'm building flexible.dev that eventually will be _exactly_ this!

Right now there are no comments, want to add those soon. The job feed is curated (manually, eventually automatically) from Reddit and HN "Who's hiring" posts.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by jldugger »

__loam wrote: post #232
jldugger wrote: post #141

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Plus, 90 percent of what recruiters do on LinkedIn is basically already automated by LLMs.

God please no. I already have to yell talk to a human to get my problem solved with support phone calls. I really would rather not get spammed by AI bullshit. If you're trying recruit me, at least have the respect for my time to get a human to talk to me.

You are already being spammed by AI. You think those well written followups to your non-response were handcrafted?

> Final follow up, I'm excited to hear your thoughts regarding LibertyRock Forest. Any interest in finding out more?

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by codeTired »

merlindru wrote: post #324
codeTired wrote: post #6

Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform? Memes and videos are now being posted. I used to get decent use from it but stopped updating my profile because the site is cancer. Full of self patting on the back and people adding me to “grow their network”. Recruiters contacting me with “perfect fit” position in languages not on my profile. Can someone please develop hacker news…

> Can someone please develop hacker news type basic site but for jobs? No memes, no dark patterns, no likes. I'm building flexible.dev that eventually will be _exactly_ this! Right now there are no comments, want to add those soon. The job feed is curated (manually, eventually automatically) from Reddit and HN "Who's hiring" posts.

Nice! The name implies the jobs will be flexible? I need some more of those.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by 2143 »

jjgreen wrote: post #321
2143 wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm confused and curious. Please elaborate if you don't mind. What happens afterwards?

Nordics (in particular the Finns) are renown for their heavy drinking to the extent that their disapproving states try to price them out of the habit. They don't care and get pissed anyway, which I find endearing, and real in a nice way. More details: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/style/pants-drunk-time.ht... What happens afterwards? Yeah, just fall asleep (probably in the chair).

Huh. Thanks.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

Ms-J wrote: post #287
tombert wrote: post #41

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It's extremely frustrating, because in 2023 you're sort of expected to have a linkedin (some job applications even require it!), but people have started treating it like the next FaceBook. From 2020-2022 I saw a lot of COVID conspiracy theories and political memes being posted, and I wanted to respond to them, but since LinkedIn is basically a resume, I withheld responding, for the same reason that I don't put my vot…

I've never had a Linkedin nor any other type of social media, not even a public Github page, and I've received many simply great job offers, especially in 2022-2023. Putting this out there so people don't think they need to join some absolutely shit random corporate social networks to get a job.

What's your secret?
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