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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by pwdisswordfish on Thursday September 07, 2017 @03:08AM (#15189682)
> the recruiter had a list of keywords, received a large volume of inbound resumes and filtered for == 'UNIX' and dumped everything else

To be fair, I wouldn't expect this kind of 'recruiting by grep' to happen at Facebook of all places either.

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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by pwdisswordfish on Thursday September 07, 2017 @03:57AM (#15189884)
OT, did you actually embed your password in the username to enable random users share it?
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by mungoid on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:56AM (#15190950)
Initially I actually thought his working directory was swordfish.. I'd make a terrible hacker.
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by pwdisswordfish on Thursday September 07, 2017 @04:27AM (#15189978)
Apparently they did...
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by provost on Thursday September 07, 2017 @04:33AM (#15190006)
Interesting... Is it a social experiment?
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by pwdisswordfish on Thursday September 07, 2017 @05:27AM (#15190215)
RMS did something similar way back in his days http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch07.html
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by weinzierl on Thursday September 07, 2017 @05:00AM (#15190112)
Deniability? Make your password public, stop being responsible for your postings.
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by pwdisswordfish on Thursday September 07, 2017 @06:07AM (#15190370)
I, pwdisswordfish, accept all responsibility for all of my posts, past, present, and future.
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by verbify on Thursday September 07, 2017 @06:50AM (#15190577)
Ironically, you could always claim that acceptance of responsibility was written by someone else (and perhaps it was).
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by skj on Thursday September 07, 2017 @06:59AM (#15190630)
That's the joke...
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by pwdisswordfish on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:21AM (#15190741)
I am verbify, this actually works
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by Jeremy1026 on Thursday September 07, 2017 @08:26AM (#15191168)
But can you nounify it?
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by pwdisswordfish on Thursday September 07, 2017 @04:29AM (#15189986)
Yep
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by fulldecent on Friday September 08, 2017 @12:24AM (#15197833)
FYI, here is more analysis on the reality of "recruiting by grep". https://fulldecent.blogspot.com/2010/10/classic-and-modern-j...

Under the section Keyword Stuffing.

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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by avip on Thursday September 07, 2017 @04:00AM (#15189893)
Can I use your user to upvote all my comments?
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by pwdisswordfish on Thursday September 07, 2017 @06:22AM (#15190441)
That would be an interesting result to the experiment.
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by avip on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:26AM (#15190773)
Well I see someone already changed your pwd, which is another expected result of the experiment :)
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by pwdisswordfish2 on Thursday September 07, 2017 @12:05PM (#15193082)
Not a very interesting one though.
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by pwdisswordfish on Friday September 08, 2017 @03:53AM (#15198586)
We meet again.
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by exikyut on Thursday September 07, 2017 @11:35PM (#15197722)
To whoever has changed this account's password, can you be nice and change it back? I wanted to play in this experiment too. :(
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Re:Facebook recruiting and Unix systems by subcosmos on Thursday September 07, 2017 @03:24AM (#15189745)
They are using greedy matching ;)
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