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p0sixlang

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Thank you! My point exactly. This is ugly as hell. So many brilliant developers and tech minds congregating to judge someone going through a sad time in their life based on an emotional post to some web forum.

Calm down, I know plenty of talented developers at FAANGxyz companies who are less articulate and have weaker writing skills compared to OP (at least in the post you're replying to, I do agree the original post was a bit off, but clearly it was written in some type of emotional state.. you know with his calling himself unhirable and all.)

It seems that a lot of people replying here never understood the phrase "don't just a book by its cover". So many people are opining about OPs character in definite, and it's just unpleasant to witness. Sure, the whole calling VPs directly thing is a bad idea, and definitely inappropriate, but I can understand someone feeling like they're doing the right thing to advocate for an issue they see to be impactful. I wish I could CC this to all the people postulating OPs universal lack of empathy. I agree that he could benefit from therapy, because honestly we all can benefit from therapy; but all the posts implying he needs to be medicated or psychoanalyzed are reprehensible. I see someone who is upset with where they are, so they wrote a post conveying that in a slightly conceited way, yet so many talented minds in the field of tech are coming to this post to say that he has delusions of grandeur.

He is the book, and this post along with the comments he's making are the cover. You can give advice on what's presented without insulting his character.

Holy shit, you're incredibly talented, I just checked out your website.

Get some therapy for your obsession with bitcoin though; it's unhealthy. It's like telling someone to refuse to work for a company that only does direct deposit because you love checks.

I mean, if his goal was to solicit a bunch of advice and (with the attention this post has received, perhaps even a job) from people hooked by the idea of someone being unhirable, and then motivated to correct him.. it worked pretty well.

I went ahead and signed myself up to your website. The application made me feel like I wasn't supposed to, considering I've never done any of the things it asked if I did, and am just a lowly CS student who doesn't even have a great GPA, and is about to graduate jobless... so I figured I'd take a shot. Very nice signup process. Smooth as butter.

Completely understand if you can't help me, but would love some feedback on my resume at least.

Who do you recruit for? I'm soon to be a new grad, looking for a job, and if you reject me.. you could literally berate me for things I didn't actually do and I wouldn't find it appropriate or productive to argue with you about it. Let's set up an interview, you can record my reaction to the rejection and send it to those who argue for reference on how not to be a moron.

Hey Blatoni, big fan, and software engineer here. Any way you could add Rochester, NY (Monroe County Sheriff, and RPD) to the list of supported calls? I have an RTL SDR, but haven't been able to spend the time figuring out how to decrypt the Phase II trunking.

Saying Uber is simply a tech company is basically doublespeak. Uber doesn't sell their app.. Uber maintains partnership with businesses, and managers their business using technology. Why shouldn't Uber employ their drivers, who power their app just as much as the developers who created it.

This probably comes down to narrowing the number of people who can take action on these requests, as per the potential abuse that could come from taking action on invalid requests.

Some companies, this doesn't work at all. EG: Postmates. Emailed pretty much every one of their executive/management team about a literally brand damaging issue, and received zero bounces, but also zero replies. Some companies have a policy to ignore unsolicited emails, no matter how serious the issue, as to not fuel the idea that doing so will get results in the future.

I find this whole infrastructure, despite my taking advantage of it, to be very flawed. There're many customers who might have alarming issues, who never get attention because they're fearful to be perceived as a "Karen" for bitching on Twitter.

I'll just steal one of the comments from the article. "It isn't new, and it's just as overstated as previous studies. The 80% accurate identification rate applies only within the 5,000 subjects. The identification rate will plummet when the pool of writers expands to everyone who can write in English" Like I said, if you can narrow the pool to a small amount of people, than you probably could accomplish this (but even then, there's always the chance two people have similar writing styles.)