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Why are Progressives so good at fighting amongst themselves, and totally missing the mark at what they should be fighting against?

@freemo Yep, something like that lol, I know it's not everyone, but sometimes...let's just put our shit aside to avoid Hitler Jr

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I don't think that the toxicity drives anyone to be conservative, but may throw their hands up and give up on everything.

I agree with you that there should be tolerance for nuance, since reflexive abrasiveness is very off-putting and counter productive if we need as many people as possible to win elections.

@freemo that makes sense hiring at a junior level, but if you are hiring at a senior level, I think you need to be really careful that the toy project has adequate complexity to show the skills and experience you are looking for.

@realcaseyrollins

How is that a see-saw? Seems same-sex marriage has been across the board seen more acceptance and I havent seen this backtrack much.

@NBC

@realcaseyrollins

The first link is literally about a small minority passing a **proposed** bill through a rather minor part of the govt process. There is no indication it has majority support or any hope to pass.

The second link is 4 years old, and since then same-sex marriage has gotten partial recognition (same-sex marriages conducted outside the country are recognized and honored), so it has literally moved towards accepting same-sex marriage in both cases not against.

I highly advise against using the news to inform you, fact check this stuff.

@NBC

@freemo First off, a caveat. my role is VERY strange. My title is Enterprise Architect, and I have seen my fair share of code, but I have *never* had a purely programming position, so I might not understand how hiring works.

In any case, my thought...

this seems very fair, but wonder if u might just send everyone the bounty route. If they don't have at least passing familiarity with the codebase, how likely are they to get the job? The toy project seems like it might give a false sense of hope

Me and the other directors at my new company have been toying with a new idea, paying people for the work they do on interviews (well sorta).

Basically the idea we are toying with is when we give a programming test as part of the interview we basically offer them the choice of either doing a toy project that has no value to us as a company, or giving them the option to fix any outstanding tickets on one of our open-source projects with a bounty attached to it. This way if your programming test gets accepted you stand a good chance of getting the job AND get paid the bounty.

Programming tests never sat right with me because it seems like a huge time investment to ask of someone who might not get a job. So I wanted to make the process more fair and beneficial to applicants.

Would love to hear what thinks about this.

🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱  
Please reboost! Trying something new, everyone is guaranteed an interview! Open interviews! For a limited time no one will be skipped (except for c...

Not sure if I should cry or laugh.

In all seriousness though the idea that the past was better financially is objectively false. If you are willing to live by older safety standards and quality then you can live as affordably as you could in the past. Most of us dont want to live like we did in the 1920s though.

While its very unlikely (but very possible) my dream in life would be to witness a supernova.

Last time one was bright enough to see with the naked eye was about 400 years ago. So my chances are slim.

Interesting side note, a supernova is the fastest moving stellar event we can see with our naked eye that we know of. It starts and ends (usually resulting in a nebula) over the course of just weeks to months. Could you imagine seeing a bright light form in the sky out of nowhere, last for months, and then in the end have a beautiful new nebula in its place... my god that would be so cool!

@freemo No, no "naval" means warships. I wonder how big a stethoscope he needs to check a battleship's pulse...

Me: What do you do for a living?

Someone: I am a Naval doctor.

Me: Oh wow, I didnt know belly buttons had their own doctors!

@freemo tell me you like blood without telling me you like blood

@freemo so the question is, can you sustain this reaction, or why can't you sustain this reaction ?

So apparently Biden is Putin's choice for president over Trump...

> "For us, who's better, Biden or Trump?" Russian TV correspondent Pavel Zarubin asked President Putin.
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> "Biden," Vladimir Putin replied in a flash. "He's more experienced, he's predictable, he's an old-style politician."

Interesting fact of the day. Water will "catch fire" when used on anything over about 2,200 C.

You can observe this if you take red hot metal and dip it in water, you will see flames produced and even explosions.

The reason is because at those temperatures the water disassociates and hydrogen and oxygen is produced that then reignites turning back into water and producing flame.

In fact particularly hot fires can not be extinguished with water as the water will convert into hydrogen so quickly it will literally just cause an explosion.

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