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I'll take Volkerding's memory of history at this point, and his interest in not fixing things that aren't broken. Turns out you don't need to hire all that many people with that approach, AND you end up with a better product.
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Canonical's model is to copy Debian testing, change the branding and apply some set of patches to it, then ship it. Every six months or so they pick up the new Debian testing and repeat. Debian is solid. Ubuntu's layer on top is a bit ymmv.
Question: Would I regret switching from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to Debian Bullseye 11.X (and would I have to use Debian 10 to use an LTS version [0])? How many creature comforts does Ubuntu add onto the Debian base? Just based on the vibe I get from debian.org, I feel like my life would involve a lot more yak shaving (which I don't necessarily mind if it teaches me something that will negate future yak shaves). Context: In…
For a long time Debian refused to bundle closed source firmware with the installer but they've relented on that now.
The holdout I know of is Ubuntu have zfs in the kernel and Debian as a package. That seems to make no difference in practice.
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And grades or university name makes it easy to rank candidates to present a short list to the actual recruiter.
A short but highly unrepresantative list at that. Too many counter examples irl who had shit grades but were geniuses at actual work to discount.
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"I got kicked out of English for insubordination" oh, and the blogger gave a smarta* answer to a free-form text question? Yep, insubordination is still there. I'd pass on this candidate too.
Considering he also wrote a blog post criticizing this question, I feel comfortable saying that he already passed on this job. So saying you'd pass on him has "you can't quit, you're fired!" energy to it. Also, I don't agree that this demonstrates insubordination. There can't be insubordination without a subordinate-supervisor relationship. I also don't think this is a "smartass" answer: > This is an irrelevant quest…
If he doesnt want the job, why waste eveyones time with this childishness? If he does want the job, why not play ball?
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A larger company would likely separate out "new grads" and give them the stupid high school questions.
Actually it's the opposite in my experience: Small companies don't care because they want someone who can do the work. Large companies' decision makers are much more risk averse. They're looking for a reason not to hire you. If you're a poor employee that makes no difference to the,, they are fine, if they take a risk by hiring you despite you once getting a B in high school spanish in 1837, they're the ones that wil…
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Considering he also wrote a blog post criticizing this question, I feel comfortable saying that he already passed on this job. So saying you'd pass on him has "you can't quit, you're fired!" energy to it. Also, I don't agree that this demonstrates insubordination. There can't be insubordination without a subordinate-supervisor relationship. I also don't think this is a "smartass" answer: > This is an irrelevant quest…
I am not questioning his right to not answer, just the wisdom of it. If he doesnt want the job, why waste eveyones time with this childishness? If he does want the job, why not play ball?
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Sure. I'll give it a couple hundred years.
Can you define a couple of hundred? Just to be clear I am a language descriptivist, and am looking for a timeline I can hang you on for being wrong. Also to preface, if you pick a timeline older then the phrase “the bees knees”I will think you are irrelevant, and if you can pick a younger phrase but I can show language evolution on top of that, I will also consider you irrelevant.
Shopify has an initial round with recruiter called "Life Story interview". You basically start from the beginning, talking about your high school experience, what did you like there and what did you study, your childhood hobbies ...
I wouldn't be too upset with that if it was time bounded to 2 minutes within a standard 30 min recruiter call.