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I end up subscribed to things to the point where I give up trying to unsubscribe.
I get Medium. i unsubscribe. a week later i get Medium again. I give up.
It's full of "think pieces" about coding, often in bucket list form ("5 habits of inexperienced programmers") that sort of thing. Boring.
Anyway, the headline of this article caught my attention but I'll edit for the forum. My kid-sister* keeps it less kid-sister safe than I do, but out of respect for other peoples' kid-sisters i'll edit the title for the forum
*(okay so she has a kid of her own now but she's 14 years younger than I so she'll always be my kid-sister. what?)
A Programmer Explained to me why I'm a <know-nothing> and a <doody head> in the same sentence: tests rule out the people that think outside the box[^]
The real secret to hiring amazing engineers is to have an already excellent engineer, who can think outside of the box, do the interview.
Talented engineers attract talented engineers. These engineers then breed while on a project together and allow the process of mitosis to occur and create new teams that spawn off the original project. A code test on its own is useless — and biased.
Yes to this. So much this.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: I get Medium. i unsubscribe. a week later i get Medium again. I give up.
I've had this totally solved for years.
I own a number of domains - and one of my criteria is that they include (free) email forwards, and in particular, a catchall. All my "subscriptions", orders, and anything else are email address made up uniquely for that party. If I tell them to stop I change it from a catch-all handler to an actual email forward. The remap is either back to them or, if possible, a company officer who's email address was available.
Then I don't have to worry about it anymore.
As for the main topic of the actual link: if this had been taken into account by HR and other such people over the years my career would have been much more lucrative and job searches much less agonizing.
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modified 7-Jan-21 10:47am.
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I used to do things like that, but then I realized maintaining it, at least for me, was more hassle than it was worth. my mail client has a handy unsubscribe feature so I can just click it again if i want, or flag it as spam and never get again. I don't like too many spam filters though, because that can get troublesome too (trying to remember who i blocked two years later for example)
So I live with it. It's not really that big of a deal. More I'm just remarking on the tenacity of some of these websites.
Real programmers use butterflies
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If there's a way to email them back - anyone at that place - that's why I built my SMTP 'bomber'. I send them an extra 100 request to remove me from their list and point out that I could just as easily send 1000. It has some bells and whistles, too, like slight variations in the subject and body text so they're not filtered out to quickly and, if I'm really feeling mean, random email FROM's. That may or may not defeat the purpose.
It worked on some Pakistani spammers - although include a rather obscene and insulting image was required to really get their attention. Isn't that what tag is for?
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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honey the codewitch wrote: I get Medium. i unsubscribe. a week later i get Medium again. I give up.
I have a couple good reasons for still using good old Thunderbird as my mail client. One of them is the easy and quite flexible editing of filters for automatically sorting incoming mails into different folders. "Thrash" usually have 3 to 10 times as many new entries than the sum of new entries in other folders 
I have given up trying to stop spam, invitations, "special offer" and whathaveyou. Maybe once a week or two weeks, my Inbox receives another spam, and I have to look for some characteristic for identifying this message, and whatever follows from the same source, as garbage. It is usually quite easy, done in thirty seconds.
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 for thunderbird
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I agree with the uselessness of code tests.
I wrote up an article that suggested you take the following snippet to all tech interviews:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Then, when they interviewer gives you the esoteric code item that you are supposed to know, pull this sheet of paper out and ask...
Question the questioner Which warning(s) and/or error(s) (if any) will the W3C Validator display for this HTML sample?
The W3C Markup Validation Service[^]
Drop the code snippet in and see the answers.
When the interviewer says it's ridiculous, just say, "So I'm hired then, right?" 
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My guess is you weren't
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I like that article.
I use an on line mail washer ($35 a year for 4 email addresses) and I can blacklist addresses and the emails don't make it me. I can look at the quarantine report and see if there is anything that should not have gotten blocked. I then use a mail sorter/spam filter (popfile) for downloaded mail and then on to Thunderbid. I have 6 email addresses (4 domains). I guess that it is now 7, I am looking into one in Switzerland.
A client of mine has same online washer and for a long time, some 80% of email was quarantined, some for malware, some for spam. I think it has dropped into the 50's. Only 20 some email addresses.
Luckily, they were still able to apply for $6 million from Nigeria.
Thanks for the link to that article. Good one.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Actually, they serve a minor purpose - while drinking my tea and talking to my mother-in-law (tax deduction) (I am learning street Spanish) I can delete or unsubscribe them
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Has a certain ring to it.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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The latter are drawn to the former, like moths to a flame.
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You misspelled that, it must be sick-of-elephants 
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Oh, sometimes, just sometimes, I wish we still had the SoapBox! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It would likely have been a very place over the last few months, especially this week.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Forogar wrote: Oh, sometimes, just sometimes, I wish we still had the SoapBox!
Don't reject the idea that some may think: Thank heavens!
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Got to go see why the images didn't show. If anyone is interested, I put it on line. If it hasn't been hit by ransomestuff, it is at:
href="http://lousraspberrypi.landmpro.net:5000/" [^]
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
modified 7-Jan-21 8:10am.
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Why not just post a clickable link?
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Is stupidity a valid reason for such? Or maybe senility?
edited.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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theoldfool wrote: senility?
In my case, definitely.
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Linky no worky
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Worky now. Some idiot turned the power off last night. I can't imagine who, of course. <whistling>
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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24C? It is way off. No more than 15 we have now... 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Water freezes at 20 here.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Neat, my questions are what is programmed in Python3? what Pi are you running it on, does it have an inbuilt temperature senor?
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