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if youre gonna do 'funny names' you have to do it as the name of the year people do and spin it as 'this name is awesome i love it'
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May 11, 2021 00:58
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no, but they did just launch their own cryptocurrency
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drat ive been running a Best Names roundup at my work for the last 2 years i hope i dont get discovered and fired and publicly sexually humiliated in the street for all to see like a filthy pig
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RZA Encryption posted:no, but they did just launch their own cryptocurrency goddamn this hell reality where this was a plausible thing that could have happened
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May 11, 2021 01:52
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RZA Encryption posted:no, but they did just launch their own cryptocurrency you got me. hook line and sinker
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Zamujasa posted:also just remembering that jeffatwood showed up on something awful to espouse the values of ~gamification~ was he the one who yelled about the avatar changes here being "monetized bullying" on his way out the door?
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akadajet posted:you got me. hook line and sinker
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akadajet posted:you got me. hook line and sinker same Farmer Crack-rear end posted:was he the one who yelled about the avatar changes here being "monetized bullying" on his way out the door? very possible. I found a link to the threads: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3470954 and https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3471311 been awhile but there's some insightful commentary in there from people who are not jeff atwood
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RZA Encryption posted:no, but they did just launch their own cryptocurrency it's gotten to the point where when i see this behind a link like you did i'm relieved
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RZA Encryption posted:no, but they did just launch their own cryptocurrency 
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RZA Encryption posted:no, but they did just launch their own cryptocurrency
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idk how to close a thread on mobile so just pretend I empty quoted that and closed this
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Bloody posted:idk how to close a thread on mobile so just pretend I empty quoted that and closed this stop trying to stifle progressive politics chat in yospos
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May 13, 2021 13:00
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get a load of this guy tim just shitcanned https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/12/22432909/apple-petition-hiring-antonio-garcia-martinez-chaos-monkeys-facebook
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“Most of the things the Apple employees have expressed concern about come from Chaos Monkeys itself. (The book is dedicated to “all my enemies.”)” lol what a douche
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May 13, 2021 13:08
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if apple wants the best people from advertising this is what the "best" looks like, that whole industry is run by psychopaths top to bottom
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May 13, 2021 17:53
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How the hell did a guy like that ever get through the HR filter in the first place? Someone must have at least thumbed through MyBigottedViews.txt
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May 13, 2021 17:55
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what makes you think executive hires need more than a quick handshake after a power lunch and a rubber stamp?
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May 13, 2021 18:09
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In my experience the higher up in a corporation the hire is the less vetting they go through.
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May 13, 2021 18:32
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i assume he was recruited and shepherded through the process by a pal/bro/former colleague working at apple, and that person is right now updating their resume
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this is where I get confused with pinboard. he retweets this https://twitter.com/jonst0kes/status/1392879799727796229 but it seemed, from the outside, like there was a sizeable outcry from employees who do not want to work with this new hire? why is that bad but other worker solidarity is good? what was supposed to happen here?
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May 13, 2021 18:50
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pinboard is the Matt Taibbi of tech and should be treated similarly
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May 13, 2021 19:17
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Zaxxon posted:In my experience the higher up in a corporation the hire is the less vetting they go through. well obviously. if they’re the kind of person who needs vetting, why are you even considering them for the job?
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So a while back at an old job we were interviewing for new engineering managers who'd oversee all devs (around 40-50 at the time). So they had various leads come in to interview him, and i was one of them. The guy was probably 32? Real handsome and tanned with shoulder-length hair. Gave me his card, he had some ridiculous east coast wealth name like Westerbrooke or something. I decided to ask him about a 2 year gap on his resume. He told me he'd taken the time to backpack around India and that it really "opened his eyes to a lot of things" and recommended I give it a try someday. I went through his list of jobs. None were longer than two years. There were i think 8-10 of them. Every one of them was either "founder" or "cto" or "VP of Engineering" and, as it turns out, each was either one he'd started himself or one that his friends had started. They all failed due to some variation of running out of money. Every single one of them. So a couple days later we all got together for a debrief. Everyone in the room loved him, praised his extensive experience as a high powered engineering leader and noting his extensive industry experience. Other than myself, a total of zero people noted that his resume was a litany of failure and all his experience was at being a massive failson money pit. Exec hiring is a farce.
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rotor posted:Every one of them was either "founder" or "cto" or "VP of Engineering" and, as it turns out, each was either one he'd started himself or one that his friends had started. They all failed due to some variation of running out of money. Every single one of them. god i hate this. buncha dipshit failbros cosplaying as businessmen. if your company is four people making a phone app then you are not a CEO and i'm going to laugh at you
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pokeyman posted:this is where I get confused with pinboard. he retweets this https://twitter.com/jonst0kes/status/1392879799727796229 them framing it as "being mad at a metaphor in a bestselling book" is a hell of a tell on themselves. I read the extended excerpt in the Verge's article, and my takeaway was that this isn't just about that one bad line about Silicon Valley women being weak, it's an entire book where he proves he's like every other 2000/2010s-era libertarian-adjacent, casually-misogynistic young male internet rear end in a top hat who never grew out of their Hunter S. Thompson phase. nrook posted:pinboard is the Matt Taibbi of tech and should be treated similarly it is a touch strange that pinboard went all out in the 2018 midterms on fundraising for progressive candidates, almost all of whom then lost, and his reaction to that defeat was... to let 2020 go (relatively) unremarked in comparison, and roll into 2021 as a defender of dudes being dudes while tossing a few occasional hints in the direction of "I don't get why everyone is still so worked up about the trump thing"
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May 13, 2021 20:04
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this dipshit wanted to be the Big Tech Michael Lewis so badly
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May 13, 2021 20:23
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i am saddened to hear about the pinboard dude
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FMguru posted:i assume he was recruited and shepherded through the process by a pal/bro/former colleague working at apple, and that person is right now updating their resume Yeah I get that there was probably a lot of friend nepotism going on, but I would have thought that person at least looked into it a bit, just so a bad hire doesn’t come back in them like this. Then again I suppose event that is pretty naive. I remember a bunch of university heads, politicians, and media people only getting caught years later for poo poo that should have been easily checked. e.g. they didn’t have the degrees/military experience they said they had. The elite live in a truly different world.
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May 13, 2021 21:16
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the nice thing is that the dude or dudes responsible for bringing that guy in have probably limited their career growth significantly
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background checks are more: did you graduate from college when you say you did with the degree you claim, did you work at all the places you listed on your application (and the dates and titles are correct), do you have an arrest record or any outstanding warrants not sure how reasonable it would be to add "did you publish any books? please provide us with a copy so we can scan all 200+ pages for anything problematic" to the process (although I know that some places will scan your social media for problematic content as part of their background check)
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May 13, 2021 21:33
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I mean retweets aren't always endorsements, but pinboard will almost always quote with comment. idk.
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FMguru posted:not sure how reasonable it would be to add "did you publish any books? please provide us with a copy so we can scan all 200+ pages for anything problematic" to the process (although I know that some places will scan your social media for problematic content as part of their background check)
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mystes posted:Oh come on, it's not like they didn't know he had written the book. yeah but how likely is it that they actually read it
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like i mean i've interviewed plenty of people that have written books I've never read, and the idea that its some kind of wild oversight that no one sat down and read this novel a dude wrote seems weird
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Chris Knight posted:I mean retweets aren't always endorsements, but pinboard will almost always quote with comment. idk. he has much more sympathy for “people getting run outta town by the twitter mob” than I do, I think that specific retweet is an endorsement. but your general point is taken
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rotor posted:like i mean i've interviewed plenty of people that have written books I've never read, and the idea that its some kind of wild oversight that no one sat down and read this novel a dude wrote seems weird googling a review of it doesn't seem like too much of an ask though
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qirex posted:googling a review of it doesn't seem like too much of an ask though idk, i guess. I know i never bothered.
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