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never was there an industry more ripe for disintermediation.
If anyone were to write a "Tinder for jobs", I think it would really take off.
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They missed one I have experienced a few times, and in fact, just last week. The recruiter that gets you an interview, knowing you're not qualified for the job, simply to gain more information about the job.
In my particular case, the recruiter lined up a phone interview with a company that was doing Ruby on Rails and a bunch of Javascript front-end frameworks that I've never used. That, after telling the recruiter I will never again touch Ruby, my expertise is C#/.NET/Python, and I prefer back-end work.
Amusingly, when I asked the recruiter "is the job you're trying to place me in the one listed on the company's website?" (as described above) the recruiter hemmed and hawed, and said, "well, it would be great if you do the phone interview and then we can talk afterwards because we actually don't know much about the position." [red flag emoticon]
I committed the ultimate sin and am probably black-marked for life. Using that post's lingo, I ghosted the recruiter and company. 
I think it was meant to be. When it was time for the phone call, I discovered my cell phone hadn't been charged and the battery was as flat as steamrolled pancake. 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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An Avast software update pushed out on Wednesday is preventing web access for at least some devices running the firm's freebie anti-malware software. You want security? Here's your security!
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 Idiots. Avast is one of the buggiest pieces of 'security' programs out there. Even Norton does a better job.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: ven Norton does a better job.
Now that's saying something!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I did notice that around midnight EST. It was maxing out my CPU and Memory while I getting a little dose of YouTube before nighty night.
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Boy if it's alarming you'll see it here won't ya. 
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Quote: the bug affects the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine
Phew!
I'm safe, then!
I use Avast, so I don't have to worry about any threats coming across the Interwebs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, because Avast blocks the entire internet.
Avast blocks the entire internet – again
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Hey, if you have to explain a joke...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Hey, if you have to explain a joke...
“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.”
-E.B. White
Yup, fell into that one...
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Build Microsoft will not, after all, restrict its open source, cross-platform web framework ASP.NET Core 2.0 from running on the Windows-only .NET Framework. "You do not abandon your users, you keep compatibility, you do not break them." Amen.
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Seems like a sensible thing to do. Is this really Microsoft?
Wout
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Microsoft is officially unveiling its Fluent Design System today at its Build developers conference, known previously as Project Neon. Blur is the new Aero
Also: "Fluent Design System"? Remember when Microsoft had good product names?
OK, me neither.
Also-also: I guess they felt a little burned after the Metro fiasco, but I don't think the light bulb people would sue them for NEON, would they?
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Fluent Design
I think they meant "Fluid Design", but hey, a mis-heard phrase turns into a new buzzword! 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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"Fluid", as in "runs straight down the drain"?
[edit] and i'll resist the temptation of e-Fluent. [/edit]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: and i'll resist the temptation of e-Fluent.
But you didn't. 
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Old wine, new jars.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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The dev/deploy/debug cycle can now be done without an Apple system. Now what will I do with my beret?
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No matter how you slice it, there's always a trade-off between speedy development and ultrareliable applications. Not with my upcoming, "Visual Assembly" IDE
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That column is a mess of mixing up various topics.
High productivity (the apple) -- why is it assumed that high productivity means a loss in fidelity in (insert orange here)?
What does "code you can maintain" have to do with "ultra-reliability"?
How does any of this have to do with getting code into production, which is a completely separate and often broken process?
Like I said, a mess of a column.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc, Marc, Marc; it's Infoworthless; what do you expect?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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On day 2 of its Build 2017 developers conference, Microsoft announced a name for its fall release of Windows 10 and showed off a few new features that will be in that update. The most eagerly awaited is the return of OneDrive placeholders. Running a little low on ideas are we?
Or: "Those features will really have a dramatic effect on my life style"
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