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[–] 165 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Does it make sense to blur names when they're still relatively easy to decipher, when the project can be found on github and the top committer links to their Twitter account? 🤔

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    It's the whole anti brigading thing. But I think if you're dumb enough to post an ass take in public circles, you deserve the heat. Mods just make it a blanket rule to blur out names so they don't have to actually read anything lol

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    It's a common internet thing that's probably mostly done just out of habit, it doesn't have any purpose like 90% of the time, but is generally the standard just for those few times where it might actually help

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago* (12 children)

    https://twitter.com/tiangolo/status/1281946592459853830

    Sebastián Ramírez

    @tiangolo

    I saw a job post the other day. 👔

    It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI. 🤦

    I couldn't apply as I only have 1.5+ years of experience since > I created that thing. 😅

    Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that "years of experience = skill level". ♻

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Woah, how did you figure out the censored username?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Sorcery, I'm sure. Burn Fog0555 as a witch!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Wait, first we gotta see if they weigh the same as @FuglyDuck@lemmy.world

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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    My friend works as a Unix admin and his older coworker, who is paid way more than he is, is essentially useless and always slowing everyone down. Constantly asking basic questions and getting stuck on simple things for a whole day when he doesn’t ask.

    Same with driving. I don’t care how long you’ve been doing it if you haven’t put any serious effort into learning and improving after passing your pathetic, weak test 38 years ago.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    No shame in asking questions

    Tech fields are always moving forward, if someone has a question they should ask instead of guess

    Further, older entrants with experience in older technologies have value that a company may need that newer entrants may not have really had the opportunity to ever work with. Deprecated technology still runs a lot of systems and companies will drag their feet in moving on because they have these older people working for them that, if a problem comes up they're going to deal with and the company perception is that it's cheaper than updating the entire thing to more modern solutions.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh I should be clear that this person is absolutely a problem. They’re far less effective at their job, don’t learn for long after the question is asked, and the value they bring to the team is, in some ways, less than a fairly young person. And yet they’re paid more because “experience”.

    I have the same thing in my field(architecture and structural engineering firms) as a technologist. People who refuse to learn new skills with the software constantly hold back people willing to put in the effort.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Make no mistake, the career path has no bearing on this experience. It is ubiquitous in the workforce.

    At one point in my life I was pushing carts in a factory, and some times we'd have to prep the material. People refusing to learn any sort of efficient way to prep the material meant they if they walked over to a cart that needed to be prepped I would change my entire workflow to adapt to being down a person

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    I love this post.

    Really encapsulate the idiocy of some HR environments.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Why is this image censored? This is a famous tweet and is easy to find: https://twitter.com/tiangolo/status/1281946592459853830

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As soon as I read it, I thought, who are they protecting. Surely it's not difficult to find whoever created fastAPI.

    Took less than a minute with a single word query on my search engine of choice.

    I just don't understand the internet sometimes.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I have literally 30 years of Visual Basic 3 experience. Somehow, nobody is impressed.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    as a consultant this happens all the time because companies use brokers to find people. the broker only has a vague description of the project to go on, and they are not a domain expert.

    i was once turned down by a broker because i "didn't have experience in C". i had listed all the versions of C i've worked with.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Hope you told them that you were the creator

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    The amount of jpeg is respectable for 5 years

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Sometimes questions like this are tests to see how you'll react when asked to deliver the impossible.

    (I mean, it's not in this case, but if that's totally how I'd answer if I'd posted it and was challenged)

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