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nnnnni | 11 years ago | on: Resumes suck for hiring engineers

This was a state government position where the "hiring manager" is "the person who looks at resumes and decides who to call to be interviewed" rather than the direct supervisor of the new hire.

Maybe I used the wrong phrase or maybe it just means different things in different places.

nnnnni | 11 years ago | on: Resumes suck for hiring engineers

You know what's frustrating? When you don't even make it to the interview stage because hiring managers think that "Red Hat" and "Linux" are two different things.

I was recently passed over because my 15 years' of experience with Linux has been with multiple distributions (including RPM-based ones) and my resume didn't have a line that just said "Red Hat" on it.

Them: "Oh, I'm sorry, we can't hire you because you don't have any JavaScript experience..."

Candidate: "What do you think all of this stuff with JS in the name on my resume means?!"

nnnnni | 11 years ago | on: 24/192 music downloads are silly

There's also the fact that you can FEEL some sounds that you can't hear.

Chris Randall of Sister Machine Gun (at least used to?) use a low-frequency generator at live shows to produce a sound that the audience could feel but not hear in order to make the music more intense. I suspect that you'd gain some of that effect with a larger bit size.

...or I could be completely wrong. Whatever.

nnnnni | 11 years ago | on: Fix a page in Barbie's book

Let's hope that it stays that way!

Anyway, the whole point of my comment was to (try to) convince people to NOT go that route.

nnnnni | 11 years ago | on: Fix a page in Barbie's book

I wonder how the original "Barbie" lady would feel about how negatively-stereotypical and cliche these books are...

nnnnni | 11 years ago | on: Fix a page in Barbie's book

SJWs are just like militant vegans who would destroy a fur article of clothing even though it was made from a bear that died naturally in the wild solely because it's fur.

SJW != progressive. SJWs are the ones who ruin it for normal people who want to make things better. They're like boneheads in relation to skinheads. Skinheads were blue collar, pro-average-person advocates. Boneheads then co-opted the style but replaced the peaceful intent with neo-nazi diatribe and conflict.

By suggesting that people should stop being the bully or victim, I'm saying that they should be conscious of their own misogyny (or similar thoughts/actions) or learn how to make positive changes rather than being angry and mob-like all the time.

Extremism is a dangerous thing.

nnnnni | 11 years ago | on: Fix a page in Barbie's book

I re-read it, and you're right about the misogyny. I edited my reply to hopefully better match my original intent.

nnnnni | 11 years ago | on: Fix a page in Barbie's book

Can we make this about the factual and technological errors in the book rather than rally around it as Social Justice Warriors?

Maybe Barbie's team's organization was agreed upon by all members and she WANTED to do the design work while the two guys did the actual coding. Maybe she plans to do the coding for the next project. A better name would have been Coder Team Barbie. Let's start there.

When you make a big deal out of stuff like this, you're turning it into the thing against which you are claiming to fight.

Stop "playing the victim" and make a better version without the elitist SJW attitude. The first step toward equality is to stop being the bully or the victim, whichever one applies.

nnnnni | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

The ability to block a company is great!

I've seen too many cases where a "job posting" on somewhere like dice.com is really a meta-posting by a recruiter that is looking to fill a position in the actual company and collect a royalty (or whatever it's called) for doing it.

I don't want to apply for Recruiters, LLC. I want to apply for RealCompany, Inc.

Another reason why blocking is great is because sometimes you'll find have a bad experience with Scummyco and never want to see anything from them again.

nnnnni | 11 years ago | on: Let's Encrypt: How It Works

The problem with their "howto" is that it completely ignores the fact that things like NAT and PAT need to be set up. Sure, the public IP's port 80 could be PAT-ed to the internal IP's port 80, but running "lets-encrypt example.com" can't magically PAT port 443 straight out of the package manager like that.

Still, this is a great idea...

nnnnni | 11 years ago | on: Say No

It's not even company dependent.

Where I work, the entire culture changed from "let's work together to make everything better" to "you drop everything RIGHT NOW if the boss decides that they have a personal project" when a new one took over.

...and so I will be starting my new job in a couple of weeks.

nnnnni | 11 years ago | on: VR Coaster: The Discoveries we made

That is insanely cool... which means that the amusement park owners will want to shut this thing down =-(

Being a life-long rollercoaster enthusiast, I would love to try this thing!

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