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Does a lawyer turned acupuncturist go straight for the jugular?
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When you are dead you don't know it, it's only difficult for others.
It's the same when you're stupid.
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A raven may be black, but not all things black are a raven.
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The specified raven is black.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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1) Just got this email from someone unknown:
Hi,
Curious if your interested in chatting with me or if you know any rock star developers who would be interested to learn more about a consulting role?
Cheers!
Kon Kruglyak
- "Am I interested in chatting with you???"
- "Rock Star"??
2) Had a pre-interview screening with a "recruiter" last week. When I got on the phone with her She sounded about 12 and first said "Oh my God I'm so excited!!!" in a little girls voice. I thought "You're sooo exited???" - about WHAT? doing your job??
She then proceeds to question me about C# & SQL. The questions she asked were bizarre to say the least. I thought, I've never heard some of this before" so I asked her to send me the questions so I could research. She says, "Well I made up this list based on conversations I've had with developers" - I said "So you have no clue what your asking, and I could probably lose the chance at a job because YOU made up some questions?". She said "Well I think the questions are right" - I hung up.
3) Another little gem.... this woman recruiter puts this line in EVERY job posting:
"You need some serious technical chops for this position"
Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Coder For Hire wrote: Curious if your interested in ...
Avoid any recruiter who doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Right??
The more I look at it, it looks like a phising expedition.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Nine out of ten positions advertised for contain spelling mistakes. And no, they don't like it if you point it out 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: And no, they don't like it if you point it out
Even if they're advertising for a proof-reader? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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DUH! That's why they need the proof reader! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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he just emailed me AGAIN!
"Hi Kevin,
Curious if your interested in chatting with me or if you know any anwesome developers who would be interested to learn more about a consulting role?
Cheers!
Kon Kruglyak
Senior Technical Recruiter"
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Coder For Hire wrote: anwesome
It seems to be a relatively common mistake - Google has nearly 11,000 results for "anwesome".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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if he kuld spel he myte do bedder
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I had to send this to my mom. She'll love it.
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who ceras? accdornig to a sutdy pfroeermd by cmabirgde uirnvetsiy...
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That looked Norwegian to me.
(in my defense, I'm Swedish...)
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How and why???
The n is nowhere near either the a or the w; that makes it learned behaviour!
I dunno. Kids these days...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think the first name is a clue.
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I always LOL at those job titles followed by some unforgivable writing errors... like "Senior technical recruiter" it's like she is saying:
"I have recruited like 100 people for many job positions, and I think I know how to do it. If they rotate a lot, that's not my problem."
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Sometimes they remind me of this[^].
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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I got so sick of that sh*t I went to a direct job.
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Agreed, but these are all for direct jobs, not contract. Many companies are going the route of using recruiters to weed out the bad apples. The only way in is through them.
The problem is the recruiters often time don't know wtf their talking about, and it's like talking to a 3 year old. So you can lose out on a potential job because of an idiot recruiter.
I once had one ask me "How many years of WPF do you have?". I said about 5. He then said, "And how many years of XAML do you have?"
I proceeded to explain that XAML is part of WPF. He said, "No they're different things". I broke it down for him and even after explain it, he said "Um, ok, let's move on".
What an ultra-maroon!
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Coder For Hire wrote: I proceeded to explain that XAML is part of WPF.
It's not quite as stupid as it sounds. XAML is also used in Windows Workflow Foundation, Silverlight, and Windows Store apps; it's not limited to WPF applications.
It's also possible to write WPF applications without using XAML. It's not pretty, easy, or recommended, but it can be done. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Sure, but if you know WPF, the know XAML.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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There's no governing body for that kind of work, so any idiot with a telephone can just pick it up and start talking to companies and candidates.
Even the most useless of them will manage to get some roles filled -- and the rates they charge allow them to live very comfortably with not very many placements.
Yes, they're idiots, otherwise they would be doing something real, but it's a field where the bull-headed idiot is most likely to succeed.
Intelligent people would try to do the job well, and so lose out on a lot of the money-for-nothing aspect of it.
Coder For Hire wrote: "You need some serious technical chops for this position"
If you don't tell me how many letters, I'm not even going to try.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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