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Re:The computers rejecting job applications by kleiba on Monday February 08, 2021 @10:44AM (#26066001)
Fun fact: Pymetrics has hired a lot of former C64 game programmers.
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Re:The computers rejecting job applications by Radim on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:54AM (#26067007)
Is that a reference to the infamous C64 Summer / Winter Games? Where you had to twiddle your joystick as fast as you can?

Fascinating that should carry over into the 21st century hiring process.

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Re:The computers rejecting job applications by kleiba on Monday February 08, 2021 @12:00PM (#26067084)
Yeah, I might have lied when I wrote "fact"...
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Re:The computers rejecting job applications by jgalt212 on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:58PM (#26072949)
Wasn't that the game mechanics for the sprint event in Summer Games? Diving was the best in that.

I did really enjoy surfing in California Games.

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Re:The computers rejecting job applications by kleiba on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @04:46AM (#26075594)
I enjoyed California Games more than the already great Summer/Winter games. For a little boy far, far away from California, somehow they managed to pack a whole lot of California Feelin' into 320x200 pixels... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSp8XHpEKzw&t=0m33s
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Re:The computers rejecting job applications by itronitron on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:27AM (#26066578)
Also seems biased towards programmers that prefer spaces instead of tabs...
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Re:The computers rejecting job applications by pdonis on Monday February 08, 2021 @06:17PM (#26071679)
Are they programming in Python?

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces

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Re:The computers rejecting job applications by abiogenesis on Monday February 08, 2021 @10:07PM (#26073391)
Yes, hence Py-metrics.
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Re:The computers rejecting job applications by abiogenesis on Monday February 08, 2021 @10:06PM (#26073390)
Good one. C64 games almost always required a joystick though. Maybe ZX Spectrum game programmers?
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Re:The computers rejecting job applications by kleiba on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @04:47AM (#26075602)
Details... ;-)
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