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My First Job Interview was with a Billionaire

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Re: My First Job Interview was with a Billionaire

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Post by jseliger »

Brilliant story.

That being said, Page should learn to be a better writer. Take this, for example:

As for my right ear, I was born deaf in it lol. This was not a fun experience to say the least.

Being born deaf in one ear is rarely a cause for "laughing out loud," and the "lol" adds nothing to the first sentence. "To say the least" is a cliché and should be eliminated.

Anyone could be guilty of these writing sins and in a large enough sample of my own writing I'm sure someone could find clichés. Nonetheless they're pervasive enough to detract from the piece. It wouldn't be a bad idea to get Write Right! (my favorite short, pithy writing book) and William Zissner's On Writing Well.

Re: My First Job Interview was with a Billionaire

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Post by nostromo »

jseliger wrote: post #3

Brilliant story. That being said, Page should learn to be a better writer. Take this, for example: As for my right ear, I was born deaf in it lol. This was not a fun experience to say the least. Being born deaf in one ear is rarely a cause for "laughing out loud," and the "lol" adds nothing to the first sentence. "To say the least" is a cliché and should be eliminated. Anyone could be guilty of these writing sins and…

I think there is a time and a place for formal writing, but I liked the :) and the lols in this case. It feels very informal and personal.

Re: My First Job Interview was with a Billionaire

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Post by steven2012 »

jseliger wrote: post #3

Brilliant story. That being said, Page should learn to be a better writer. Take this, for example: As for my right ear, I was born deaf in it lol. This was not a fun experience to say the least. Being born deaf in one ear is rarely a cause for "laughing out loud," and the "lol" adds nothing to the first sentence. "To say the least" is a cliché and should be eliminated. Anyone could be guilty of these writing sins and…

I agree. I thought the writing was really poor and very hard to follow. One moment he's talking about losing his hearing, then his vision and then having Epstein Barr.

That being said, it seems like a pretty interesting story, good for him for fighting through his problems!

Re: My First Job Interview was with a Billionaire

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Post by adambrod »

johnnyg wrote: post #4

Your sign in/sign up doesn't offer an option to sign up...

Sorry about that. In retrospect I should have hid it until that was ready. In the near future we'll have a desktop site to log into and use as well as mobile.

In the mean time you can also signup in the app.

Thanks for the heads up!

Re: My First Job Interview was with a Billionaire

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Post by logfromblammo »

dublinben wrote: post #2

Your site doesn't show anything without javascript enabled. You might want to have some graceful fallback of some kind.

This is one of my pet peeves. What makes is worse is that if I temporarily enable scripts for the page, there is nothing on it that actually requires scripting. The javascript just displays formatted text. Every HTTP service in existence already does that.
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