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by eru 4001 days ago
> Among my objectives is to eliminate the corrupting influence of money from technical hiring.

You know most people make compensation part of their decision on who to work for / who to hire? You can get money out of any kind of hiring..
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MichaelCrawford 4001 days ago
I don't regard that as corruption.

What I do regard as corruption, is when a recruiter convinces a manager that they can find qualified staff, then expect thirty grand in commissions by placing someone whose rigor mortis is not quite started,

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simoncion 4000 days ago
> ...someone whose rigor mortis is not quite started

I'll bite. What the heck does this mean?

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MichaelCrawford 4000 days ago
They are deceased, but not yet cold.

I am good at my work, I take pride in it but recruiters commonly solicit me for perm or contract work for which I am completely unqualified. For example I do osx device drivers and windows gui so on a damn near daily basis I am approached by recruiters who want to submit me for windows device driver work, even at microsoft.

Their applicant tracking systems other do not support exact phrase matching or the recruiters dont know what it is. Neither do they ever attempt to read my resume, not even when they do submit me.

Many of my "colleagues" were obvious imposters who found work through recruiters. The recruiters dont care, they get paid, see.

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simoncion 4000 days ago
sigh This isn't a problem with recruiters [0]. This is a hiring problem. Hiring isn't very easy, and it seems that a huge number of companies don't know how to hire.

You have opinions and your HN profile indicates that you've been programming for a long time, but that doesn't appear to have any relevance to your opinions on hiring.

Oh, BTW, you have some mojibake in the Education section of your online resume.

[0] Numerically, most recruiters suck. This has nothing to do with hiring. :)

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MichaelCrawford 4000 days ago
LOLCats.

Oddly that page has utf-8 encoding. The mojibake were em-dashes in the original OO document, I don't clearly recall but likely copied it to the clipboard, then to textwrangler for OS X than marked up the HTML.

textwrangler can do every text encoding but it is fiddly to actually get it right.

Get A Load of:

http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ya-kazakh/

Russian for "I Am A Cossack!", more or less I have a bad attitude and fear no one.

The mojibake would be trivial to fix but my position is that I should not have to, I leave it there in hopes someone at Apache or Mozilla will clue into it.

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simoncion 4000 days ago
I've seen that very same character sequence whenever a Slashcode site is asked to handle Unicode out of the ASCII range. If I had to bet, I'd say that textwrangler fucked up your document somehow, whether through poor design or improper operation. It's strange that you'd think that someone from Apache or Mozilla would:

a) Be randomly reading your online resume.

b) Think that the mojibake contained within was the fault of some software that they maintained.

Additionally, I've had occasion to work with many, many people. I've found that -regardless of brilliance and competency- folks with bad attitudes almost always make bad coworkers. :)

Anyway. I hope you come to understand why your declarations about your side projects tend to mystify people, and why your strongly held stances tend to not gain traction with others. All the best, man.

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