MajorHavoc @ MajorHavoc @programming.dev

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Yeah. It'll be a huge time saver. I understand they think they can have it having whole technology holy wars with itself soon, while the rest of us relax.

I too am in favor of these two completely separate events. But I would settle for tax reform and repealing citizens United.

A haiku for you:

Tabs or four spaces

Never a semicolon

Broken in spirit

Luanti, of course!

I need to figure out just one more way to make a compact item sorter, then I'll be satisfied. (Narrator: They were not.)

I have many communities blocked because I simply don't have any interest in them.

Lol. Yeah. I'm glad that perhaps every local sports team has a dedicated feed, but I still block them so I can browse all for interesting stuff more easily.

That would save a lot of time...

There's better answers, and I've used some of them.

But I always return to just keeping a text file open with the Unicode symbols I need.

A step up from there is setting up text macros in my text editor. When I was favoring VSCodium, I pretty much copied my text file into the JSON config, added some shortcut names, and started using it.

I'm learning more about custom keyboard firmware now, and hope to have a dedicated virtual keyboard layer for fancy symbols and ASCII art, at some point in the future.

But in a pinch, I just end up with a text file to copy and paste from.

Yeah. People hear the word "billionaire", but cannot fathom how much their own life would improve if the billionaires captured wealth was out in the world working for them, instead of working against them.

If they remembered when Amazon was still courting new users, because it still had competition, well it's like that.

Another word is needed

The target is well regulated free trade.

It's good to be angry at capitalism, because capitalism holds unchecked capital acquisition as a foundational right. We know that doesn't work in a globally connected world, if it ever worked.

Notice that there's no right to accommodate infinite capital in the phrase I used. And there's also no complete ban on private property.

The things that work are usually not any of the crap spouted by vocal greedy world leaders.

We need to clip the right that capitalism gives to become billionaire, and then see where we stand on the rest of the rules, and decide together what we want to change.

We're likely to find a lot more confortable compromises, after the billionaires thumbs are off the scales.

Open source projects aren't doomed to lousy UX forever.

Shoves GNUImp behind a desk with a foot.

Just look at recent releases of Gnome and KDE. We can have nice things, it just takes time.

You've nailed it. That's the key bit that organizations of all kinds are going to figure out.

Any profit goes back to employees and paying users.

You just described a normal non-profit, but doomed. Lol.

Organizational committment to remaining non-profit seems to be critical to the recipe.

I mean, not quite every project. Some of my projects have been turned off for not being useful enough before they had time to get that bad. Lol.

I suppose you covered that with given time, though.

But that’s still pretty damn impressive for a machine.

Yeah. I'm so dang cranky about all the overselling, that how cool I think this stuff is often gets lost.

300 lines of boring code from thin air is genuinely cool, and gives me more time to tear my hair out over deployment problems.

without exposing your entire database to the open web until well after your payment to us has cleared, so it's fine.

Lol.

Let the record so reflect!

I think the algorithm shit is why we have this right wing surge.

Yep. Billionaires have always had their thumb on the scale, but they've now found a particularly effective scale to tip.

Yeah. As Dave Ramsey says "If they've wiped your butt, you're probably not going to change their mind." Lol.

As a hiring manager who receives these kinds of introductions, here's my thoughts (largely confirming what you've already read here.):

• These introductions are great. Keep it up.
• Bob is probably more sensitive about it than Bob's boss. To Bob, this was uncomfortable. To Bob's boss, it was just a normal Monday.
• It's a good idea to buy Bob lunch or dinner to say thanks, and get a tip or two on refining your approach.

But don't take any of it too seriously. As hiring manager, I see this a lot, and I enjoy it.

It feels great that people want my time.

And I've been the job searcher myself plenty of times.

You did a good thing. You can probably refine your technique, but don't sweat it.

Unless someone is vocally racist during the intro, making any connection at all is a better impression than not doing so.

I let them know and will hunt down the hiring manager once my friend applies.

As a hiring manager who has experienced this kind of introduction or "name drop", I want to add my perspective:

It's great. Keep it up.

I got introduced to one of my best team leads that way. (To be very clear, I didn't know the colleague making the introduction. We worked together but had never quite crossed paths. I still buy them a thank-you lunch occasionally as a thank you for their bravery, and selfishly in case they or another peer of theirs is job searching.)

Disclaimer: As a manager, it's my job to apply fair hiring practices, and I'm committed to that. I don't have many great answers, but I know today's computerized HR filters aren't fair to anyone, anyway. We need to do better, and personal references are probably the best tool for candidates, right now.