Re:It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a ...
by skybrian on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @02:55AM
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Looking at your blog, I think you're such a specialist that it's going to be hard to find a good fit. (For example, only being willing to write code in C.) Most people are more flexible.
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Re:It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a ...
by gavinhoward on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:19AM
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Oh, I know. I never wondered why. I merely said that I can't get a job to refute the article.
Re:It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a ...
by pcthrowaway on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:34AM
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You can get a job. You've made it clear that you know what you need to do to get a job (be more flexible with the language you'll work in, remove all non-technical opinions from your blog, and for the love of god stop carrying a fucking gun with you everywhere)
If you don't want to do the things that would qualify you for the available jobs, that's not because your technical posts wculdn't make you stand out, positively, it's because you're choosing not to!
Re:It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a ...
by gavinhoward on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:26AM
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I'm already infamous for my personal opinions in the tech world. Will removing he personal posts and putting them on a separate blog really work? (I do already have a domain.)
I'm not so sure it would work. By the time I thought about it, I had already gone viral on HN and the personal attacks had started.
Re:It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a ...
by pcthrowaway on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:59PM
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Yes, absolutely, it will work fine. People on the Internet don't have that long of a memory and many people will not have seen your articles on HN. No one is going to look your site up on the wayback machine.
You can also ask dang to delete some of your posts on HN if it helps disassociate your name from discussions like these (though I doubt most people would think to look you up on HN based on a name)
Re:It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a ...
by gavinhoward on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:20AM
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Okay, thank you.
But I'm still going to carry when I feel I need to.