Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ...
by Turing_Machine on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @08:37AM
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"Every job I've ever applied to in the tech world asks for a LinkedIn"
I've never seen any job that asked for a LinkedIn account, nor am I acquainted with anyone who ever got a job through a LinkedIn account. While there are undoubtedly exceptions, I don't personally know of any. In fact, that's why I left LinkedIn (long before I left Twitter and GitHub) -- way too much company spam, not enough actual usefulness.
"Realize, too, that the ability to "leave" these services is something of a privilege"
Is there anything that isn't a "privilege" nowadays?
"It's hard to explain your free speech objections on your intro letter."
There's no need to "explain" anything. Just refer them to your own public code repo, which any programmer worth his or her salt should be able to set up in a short time using an Amazon S3 bucket and one of the many utilities that exist for manipulating those buckets. Presumably the company you're applying to just wants to see some code samples. There's nothing magical about GitHub.
I've never seen any job that asked for a LinkedIn account, nor am I acquainted with anyone who ever got a job through a LinkedIn account. While there are undoubtedly exceptions, I don't personally know of any. In fact, that's why I left LinkedIn (long before I left Twitter and GitHub) -- way too much company spam, not enough actual usefulness.
"Realize, too, that the ability to "leave" these services is something of a privilege"
Is there anything that isn't a "privilege" nowadays?
"It's hard to explain your free speech objections on your intro letter."
There's no need to "explain" anything. Just refer them to your own public code repo, which any programmer worth his or her salt should be able to set up in a short time using an Amazon S3 bucket and one of the many utilities that exist for manipulating those buckets. Presumably the company you're applying to just wants to see some code samples. There's nothing magical about GitHub.