Federated DMOZ or bust

It’s anyone surprised by this?

I’ve done it for 4 different organisations now, so I guess not 🤷

Maybe a better question: how many of your applicants do you think are hiding their obsession with aliens from you? 😂

I … honestly have no idea how to tell how serious or sarcastic those questions are…

How often do you get an answer with aliens in it?

That sounds fucking shit, my sympathies.

To be clear, I wasn’t trying to provide THE answer to your question, just a possible answer (that’s not necessarily applicable in all contexts). But also, I suspect my answer might still be applicable in your context from the perspective of your boss/hirer.

This comment will be amusing whenever it gets implemented.

Not if the code is not copyrightable, and it may not be

The votes on your comment are enough to tell that your blanket “Nobody” is not a valid statement. It’s generally a smart idea to accept that there are diverse perspectives that exist, and not everyone who disagrees with you is wrong.

Is that question at the end of your comment actually curiousity, or just a boring rhetorical?

I agree with that. What makes you assume my work is my entire life? I only work 4 days, and I have a solid community outside work and various hobbies.

Enlighten me?

I can’t speak to dyslexia (but in would guess that 4 spaces is easier than 2?).

At my last job we had a default linter policy of 4 spaces across all languages (python, JS, rust, mostly). We also had a blind coder. He never mentioned it. I’d guess screen readers are capable of dealing with it these days?

I doubt that I’m the only person here who has good friendships that started as co-workers…

If you think your only value as a human being is your capacity to produce, then I don’t know what to say to you?

Yes, capitalism sucks, but also, humans aren’t all just out here blindly doing capitalism and not thinking about anything else. Every person working a job has to interact with coworkers, and those interactions are not mediated solely through a lens of productivity.

OK, but consider this: I do have fun at work. And most of my friends do to, at least some of the time. I know that this is a privileged position to be in.

I’m sorry that you don’t. And I agree that lots of people don’t, and that that sucks. But that’s not a universal truth.

And for the hirer, there’s a choice between working with someone who might see work as at least tolerable and maybe even an enjoyable and fiendly place to be, or working with someone who hates every minute of being there. If you were in their shoes, which would you pick?

In part, because it forces 2-space tab users to confront the indentation issue above

Also there are no drawbacks… I still hit the tab key to indent (and shift tab to dedent). My editor does the rest.

Haha. Joke’s on us now though, because these days internet searches suck universally regardless of punctuation.

It’s not about prediction, it’s about desires, interests, and goals

I’ve interviewed people before, and am doing so again next week. I often ask why a candidate is interested in working for my org, because I want to known that their personal goals/ambitions are at least somewhat aligned with the org. Hiring someone and then finding out that they don’t fit sucks.

Many job ads receive tens or hundreds of applications. They want the best candidate. If you’re not specifically keen, they’ll probably go for someone who shows some interest. I know I have picked people who are interested over more qualified but disinterested people before.