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Re:TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in co... by eCa on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:19PM (#34914325)
> i’m

The issue with critizising someones grammer are that it always slips in an error or two.

Re:TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in co... by ChicagoBoy11 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:22PM (#34914372)
I see what you did there. Well played.
Re:TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in co... by onlyrealcuzzo on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:52PM (#34914727)
I will never understand why some people are so quick to dismiss everything because they spot a grammar mistake.

Nothing is perfect. Get over it.

Re:TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in co... by _gabe_ on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:41PM (#34915389)
I typically don't mind if there's a small grammatical errors every few pages. But if the sentence structure is consistently confusing, and there are several glaring mistakes, it usually signals to me that the author didn't care enough to proofread/edit their own writing. If the author doesn't care why should I?
Re:TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in co... by skeeter2020 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:33PM (#34915263)
The human mind is engineered to be lazy though; we're hard-wired to look for short cuts and proof reading === quality isn't a terrible one. Why do you think we still have resumes, or equate a university degree with ability to program computers?
Re:TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in co... by onlyrealcuzzo on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:38PM (#34915333)
> Why do you think we still have resumes

As opposed to what? People just showing up to interviews unannounced?

> or equate a university degree with ability to program computers?

Most of the really successful tech companies are doing this to a small degree. You're at a pretty big advantage if you try to get an early internship at FAANG if you went to Harvard or Stanford or whatnot - and you probably should be (and this is coming from someone who believes strongly those universities are mostly a waste).

The unis already did the hard work of sifting through students to find ones who are willing to work 100x more than necessary just to get into a slightly better school. If you're FAANG, that's sort of who you want to hire for a tech internship, and eventually take advantage of with an underpaying salary for namebrand recognition upon graduation.

Re:TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in co... by infamouscow on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:29PM (#34915207)
Stupidity.* It takes far less energy to dismiss something for a cosmetic, surface level error, than to engage in the merits of the discussion.

*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc

Re:TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in co... by Taywee on Thursday February 23, 2023 @03:04PM (#34915733)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

> Muphry's law is an adage that states: "If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written."[1] The name is a deliberate misspelling of "Murphy's law".