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PhazonLink posted:(also phone booths should totally come back, because having a privacy for calls and stuff is nice.) Perhaps you'd like to invest in my new company: Bth! We'll install privacy booths on every corner so you can make your phone calls in peace. The service will be free to use, but of course our booths will include cameras and microphones so that we can collect user data to provide the best experience possible.
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peanut- posted:The millennial spin is stupid, but it is a thing that a lot of services which have become completely ingrained in modern urban life are entirely subsidised by idiot VCs. Yeah, tons of people aren't really engaging with what the lack of profitability in "tech" companies really means or the implications of an economy where customer acquisition costs are unsustainable. edit- It's going to be similarly devastating when/if the house of cards that makes up modern online advertising collapses Paradoxish fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Oct 15, 2019 |
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HootTheOwl posted:How much of the smart board could be replaced with just a normal whiteboard that had a flatscreen embedded in the middle of it? Wasn't that the whole point, a whiteboard where you could also display content on? A whiteboard that you can display content on is just a whiteboard and a projector, though.
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Oct 16, 2019 14:44
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dwarf74 posted:Ah yes, the flexibility inherent in inconsistent hours and the freedom of not having any benefits. To be fair, EMS is a loving shitshow in the United States and EMTs in a lot of areas are primarily volunteer and incredibly underpaid when they aren't. I have a buddy who's been volunteering as an EMT for over two years just to have a chance to apply for a part-time position. A $12/hour part-time position. Obviously Uber for Ambulances is laughably stupid, but we've got problems already.
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Oct 23, 2019 18:21
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Absurd Alhazred posted:https://twitter.com/chetfaliszek/status/1193676509807951874 Step 1. Uh...? Step 2. ...er? Step 3. ???
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i am harry posted:The absolute kicker about my situation was that after I determined that I hadn't passed the test and asked what I should do about it, she suggested I take the test again. This is because no one who wasn't involved in the corporate decision making to implement this poo poo actually thinks that it matters. The typical job posting will get so many applicants that it's not even feasible to have a human actually deal with them, so companies implement systems that "feel" better than just randomly discarding 75% of the resumes that they receive. A lot of these systems (as you've discovered) are specifically designed to prevent human hiring managers from ever accessing rejected applications.
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Nov 15, 2019 16:20
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There Bias Two posted:I've heard this was bad advice. Can anyone weigh in? It's not going to work with all screening systems and there are systems that will try to flag resumes for this kind of stuff. Basically, it's like most resume advice. Might work. Might not. Might be actively harmful. Who knows?
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Nov 15, 2019 22:00
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The super basic advice of parroting back keywords from the listing is really the best, most universally applicable thing that you can do. You won't get flagged by most systems for doing that in the way that you might if you just dump a ton of hidden text into your resume, and if you don't go crazy then it won't make your resume look too weird to actual humans. It just sucks because it means rewriting your resume constantly in a way that's not always easy. There's no "one weird trick" because some companies use software that is set up to be monstrously aggressive and there's just no way to know. Often actual HR dudes won't even know what their own screening is doing.
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Nov 16, 2019 06:10
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How are u posted:What field do you work in that this is a thing? How could you possibly believe this is common? It is super common in tech. I do contract software development, I've literally never held a regular W-2 development position, I maintain almost no social media presence, and I still get contacted by recruiters constantly. Oneiros is right that a lot of companies strongly favor outbound recruiting methods and it's not uncommon even for mid-tier or local companies. My personal opinion is that this is hilariously dumb and not only does it lead to major biases in recruitment, it doesn't even give you good candidates.
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Nov 17, 2019 08:05
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BarbarianElephant posted:My ancient dumb flatscreen suddenly seems worth keeping. If you don't like this stuff then yeah, although it's worth pointing out that you can avoid 99% of it by just not letting the TV connect to the internet. I've helped people set up a bunch of smart TVs from a bunch of different brands and I've never found one that would just refuse to be a TV if you left it without wifi access. If you aren't using the features, then any smart TV without an internet connection is just a dumb TV anyway. It kind of sucks because it's really convenient having a Roku or similar built directly into the TV, but accessing a lot of those features means agreeing to a huge pile of wildly sketchy EULAs.
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Nov 25, 2019 04:01
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It is increasingly clear that in addition to being more or less aligned with the chuds anyway, Facebook is also just cowardly as gently caress.
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Nov 25, 2019 22:40
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:I have tried mushrooms and tofu cooked a variety of ways, and I just can't stand them texturally or the taste in general. My wife is an amazing cook and regularly makes vegetarian dishes, but I just don't like many of them that use those ingredients. I'll go to town on plates of veggies, curries, Quinoa, gnocchi, whatever. I don't think what you're saying here is all that unusual, to be honest. My experience (and I apologize in advance for generalizing a bit) with trying to help some people reduce their meat intake is that vegetarian/vegan alternatives rarely go over well. I've had more luck just getting people to enjoy non-meat based dishes than I have with stuff that's specifically intended to replace some aspect of eating meat. The problem, and this is something that a lot of people with full-on vegetarian diets seem loathe to admit, is that meat tastes really loving good to a lot of people. It's not just the mouth feel or some specific aspect of meat, it's the whole package. Impossible burger and the like are having a moment because they're highly processed foods intended to just straight up copy meat and be as close to indistinguishable from it as possible. I don't really have a larger point here, I've just been frustrated by how often people try to suggest x or y to replicate the texture or some other aspect of meat. It's just not going to work with most people, because no matter how tasty the final product is, it's still not going to be tasty in the same way as the actual meat-based dish you're trying to replicate.
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This was the inevitable consequence of humans being unable to stop Cats from being greenlit.
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luxury handset posted:“It was interesting psychology that we teased out,” Peloton CEO John Foley recalled in an interview last year with Yahoo Finance. “In the very, very early days, we charged $1,200 for the Peloton bike for the first couple of months. And what turned out happening is we heard from customers that the bike must be poorly built if you’re charging $1,200 for it. We charged $2,000 dollars for it, and sales increased, because people said, ‘Oh, it must be a quality bike.’” This is pretty much a Marketing 101-level insight. Price and brand are like the two biggest factors in the perceived quality of an item. Our brains are real bad at stuff.
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Jan 18, 2020 21:10
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Good programmers are insanely valuable and they know it. This isn't a unique problem for programmers or even for technical jobs in general. If being successful at your job requires more skill and educational background than "show up on time," then there's a good chance it's hard as gently caress for an employer to determine if you'll be any good at it. The most reliable indicator of someone's performance is a reference from a previous employer for an almost identical role. Everything else is varying degrees of snake oil and reading tea leaves. The lovely part is that a lot of HR people don't want to admit that their jobs are hard in an unsolvable problem kind of way. You get lots of companies where the hiring process is more about gut instinct or what an interviewer just happens to feel good about, and this kind of stuff is paired with a failure to analyze hiring processes with an eye towards long-term outcomes. To be honest, a lot of this just comes down to employers wanting employees that are ready to go on day one. Hiring wouldn't be nearly as difficult if more employers were willing to invest in training new hires rather than expecting their employees to be fully formed once onboarding is complete.
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luxury handset posted:every restaurant in america already has touch screen ordering and has for decades, they are called POS terminals and only specially trained employees are allowed to use them because the UX on them is generally pretty dogshit. restaurant cashiers and servers serve an interpreter role between the customer and the machine, and the thing that will really replace cashiers/servers is when you have some sort of robotic agent which can comprehend speech as well as a human being can in a noisy environment. simply allowing customers to poke at touch screens is going to be inherently slower than having a specialist touchscreen-toucher on staff, unless you have a LOT of touchscreens to prevent queues I don't really disagree with any of this, but in practice it seemed to take about five years for self checkouts near me to just absolutely take off. They went from something that almost no one seemed to use the busiest lines in any store that I visit. I've been at Target multiple times where an employee has to pull people out of the self checkout line because there are two or three cashiers just sitting idle while the self checkout line is a mile long. The kiosks aren't great, but I think people will get used to them anyway. They're basically just big phone apps and app ordering is super popular.
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luxury handset posted:self checkouts are a different beast because you can kind of take your time at them, and they don't really have a user interface to bother with since so much of what you buy at a grocery store has a UPC on it. would you use the self checkout if you had to key in every single item that you buy instead of scanning them? Personally? No, which is why I don't use them at grocery stores unless I'm only getting a handful of things. That said, the ones at grocery stores are just as popular around here and they require keying in item codes for produce. I still see people with carts full of nothing but fruits and vegetables going through them and keying in each code. It also sucks waiting for those people to finish.
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Mister Facetious posted:Self-checkout only has the advantage of fewer employees per terminal (1 per 4-8 in my experience). I'm not surprised they have shorter lines. I don't think this really works, at least if the self checkout lanes in your area are like the ones I'm picturing. Most self checkouts have 4-12 machines with a single line, so the line tends to move fast even if you've got a few slow people holding things up. At least near here, the shorter lines definitely seem to be due to people gravitating towards the self checkouts and ignoring cashiers.
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Jan 31, 2020 17:08
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Motronic posted:I'd like to know under what statues something like this could be written. It's a dude walking down a street with a wagon and a bunch of completely legal used phones. Seems weird that Google Maps can't easily filter this kind of data out. You can't possibly have that many cars in a space that size, even accounting for absolute worst case GPS accuracy. I'm surprised that it doesn't just trivially discard data like thirty phones in the exact same spot, especially since you can easily have that many people on a bus or whatever.
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Feb 3, 2020 16:59
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uggy posted:Regardless the comment was people don’t use maps on public transit and that’s wrong. Yeah, using Google Maps for public transit is stupidly common. I don't even live in an area well-served by transit and I see it literally every time that I'm on the bus. Why wouldn't you use something that gives you complete end-to-end navigation with walking directions?
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This stuff definitely isn't new. I do primarily remote contract development work and I had to laugh my way out of a client meeting like three years ago after they wanted me to install something like this on my computer.
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Feb 28, 2020 02:16
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Actually, didn't Guru or one of the other penny work freelance platforms literally have something like this built in?
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Feb 28, 2020 02:59
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It's kind of shocking how bad some people are at controlling their impulses. You'd think most people could put on whatever public face is necessary for a thirty-minute interview, but nope, that's completely impossible for some not insignificant segment of the population. It's also funny that interviews have the exact same problem as resuming pre-screening. It's super easy to filter out the people who shouldn't be trusted with any job under any circumstances, and it's borderline impossible to separate exceptional candidates from even just okay ones. And that's without getting into the thornier question of whether "exceptional" candidates really exist in the first place for most jobs.
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May 6, 2020 21:20
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You're way more likely to get more work out of most people by just letting them work at home. You can suck even more You can have a really amazing work/life balance as a fully remote worker, but it's not something that most people fall into naturally without help.
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May 9, 2020 20:24
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I always get a little bit of a shock whenever I realize that the dystopian US work hell-culture doesn't extend everywhere.
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space marine todd posted:Cross-functional brainstorming and user feedback sessions are far more effective in person than online. Without them, the people "who do the work" are going to be building the wrong thing. A greater emphasis on remote work (even if it's only a 3-4 days out of the week) is probably going to end up being a necessary component of any long-term climate solution, so I'm not really sure how you reconcile this.
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