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As a general rule, if someone ever posts any kind of career troubles on any platform, the only correct responses should contain sympathy or a relevant career opportunity. Anything else is so callous. Hang in there Ilia, you're not the only one hurting, and don't apologize for venting. Most of us in the HN community are far more supportive.
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Maybe a bit of fear of rejection is nice on second thought. Particularly if you're being rejected due to being an asshole.
Hilarious that you are the one calling me an asshole.
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> I really wish some of them had an email only option. But why? If they need to convince someone you're a good hire, they will want to talk to you.
I don't mind having a phone call, it's the multiple layers of screening interviews with ill prepared questions that feels like a giant waste of time. I'd rather answer all those questions in an email and have the phone call as a formality. I do recognize the need to confirm that the person writing is indeed the person you are speaking to but I should at least be able to get a straight answer on salary and comp before…
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yeah; just that we'll get 5x of these now that it's even easier to generate more "real-human-sounding" ones. IMO, the best way to deal with these, if using gMail, is not marking them as spam. Instead, I drag them into the Promotions tab, answer "yes" to classify all emails from the subject as such, and that's it. Promotions == Trash. I don't open/read such emails (I scan the first few words shown in the Inbox line, t…
Why not mark them as spam?
It's also slightly easier to drag and drop them into Promotions than mark them as spam.
I could of course do both but that's just more work
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> For one, the choice of child, is already creepy even if you refer to a pet as a child, but a software system as a substitute for childbearing, it reminds me of the claw cult, you can call it a company, a system, a project. On the other hand, I feel like the obsession with childbearing (constant fear about birth rates, pressure on women to become mothers, etc.) to be a lot more creepy than someone having wholesome p…
http://www.art.net/studios/hackers/hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-d... >" Following your example, I might send the list an announcement whenever a new GNU program is written. That happens less often than babies are born, it does the world a lot more good, it reflects more conscious creativity and hard work, and some of the readers might actually find the information useful. Even so, I think most of the readers would conside…
Recently he was campaigning against being banned (or not accepted as a speaker) from schools. At age 70 something it must be quite hard not to have children or grandkids, but for parents to block you from their kids is even harder. At least that's how I understood his focus on clearing his name and being accepted as a speaker in highschools.
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> I really wish some of them had an email only option. But why? If they need to convince someone you're a good hire, they will want to talk to you.
I don't mind having a phone call, it's the multiple layers of screening interviews with ill prepared questions that feels like a giant waste of time. I'd rather answer all those questions in an email and have the phone call as a formality. I do recognize the need to confirm that the person writing is indeed the person you are speaking to but I should at least be able to get a straight answer on salary and comp before…
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http://www.art.net/studios/hackers/hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-d... >" Following your example, I might send the list an announcement whenever a new GNU program is written. That happens less often than babies are born, it does the world a lot more good, it reflects more conscious creativity and hard work, and some of the readers might actually find the information useful. Even so, I think most of the readers would conside…
With all respect for Mr. Stallman, he has faced consequences of his choice of being childless, and it has been quite distressing for him. Recently he was campaigning against being banned (or not accepted as a speaker) from schools. At age 70 something it must be quite hard not to have children or grandkids, but for parents to block you from their kids is even harder. At least that's how I understood his focus on clea…
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I think you need to give them your identity/bank account to route the payments. Otherwise, 50% is too high for a laptop placement + vpn.
So in my case this is partially correct, yes. They did not want access to the actual accounts but it was heavily implied that they would be using my personality, my identity, my Upwork profile (and my PayPal to receive payment). I would do it all for the most part. I think the Upwork jobs were just a front but I can only suspect. They explained it as wanting an endpoint while I did the client facing stuff. It was all…
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I used to use em dashes with spaces. I started using them without when I was more into reading style guides and it was—if I recall correctly—the Chicago Manual of Style which doesn’t use spaces. This was way before LLMs came onto the scene as a consumer technology.
The Chicago Manual indeed advises against spaces, but it’s written for books. AP Stylebook — that recommends spaces — is for papers. Comments are an even shorter form, so they’re closer to AP than to Chicago. When I go to print, I use hairspace, but it’s not worth the trouble in comments.
I’m not sure I agree with using length as the metric to decide which style guide is more appropriate for comments. I’d rather follow one consistent style in general than change it depending on the type of content I’m writing.
Still, good point on the style guides targeting specific usages.
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With all respect for Mr. Stallman, he has faced consequences of his choice of being childless, and it has been quite distressing for him. Recently he was campaigning against being banned (or not accepted as a speaker) from schools. At age 70 something it must be quite hard not to have children or grandkids, but for parents to block you from their kids is even harder. At least that's how I understood his focus on clea…
Uh, I think it has a lot more to do with the sexual harassment than being childless. Plenty of people without kids don't have this problem, and it's kind of silly to frame it as "well if he only had kids then he'd be fine..."
The childless issue is what makes this so important for him personally, otherwise I believe it wouldn't have been so pressing a matter for him to engage in a crusade. It's his chosen way to engage with the new generation, and he has lost access to it.