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Journal by MichaelDavidCrawford
Specifically, the AC who claims that all job posts are works of fiction and that Soggy Jobs is a fraud.
It is specifically for people like him that I built it. I want to facilitate the employment of those who find it difficult to find work.
However, I am forced to concede that I'm stymied by this particular AC. I expect he has some manner of mental illness whose paranoia leads him to be completely convinced that _nobody_ actually works as a coder.
The booming Portland economy is centered around the Pearl District and its Downtown. Locate your startup there and you'll get VC like there's no tomorrow.
But you won't hire any coders.
Have you any advice as to how I can help him? Help me out here, I'm begging you!
Here's the Problem I've Got With AC
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else
follows in the same way.
-- Alan J. Perlis
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @03:14AM (5 children)
Gee whiz by golly jolly good sir genius jackass. I want a job. Why the fuck else would I fucking waste my fucking time applying for fucking jobs every fucking day.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @03:24AM (4 children)
-ss?
I too was unable to get a job, either perm or doing business as my previous consultancy. So I registered a new domain, the website upon which discusses nothing other than drivers, embedded with some coding tips articles to draw organic links.
There is _no_ doubt in my mind that you really _are_ a good coder, likely even an excellent one. Why don't you hang out your own shingle like I did?
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @04:12AM (3 children)
Because I'm not you. I'm not interested in selling a product to customers. I'm not interested in sales pitches or maintaining relationships with clients or advertising or marketing or search engine optimization. I refuse to blog and I don't use Facebook, and I scorn GitHub and I despise Stack Overflow.
I'm interested in coding and it's abundantly clear to me that coding jobs don't actually exist, despite the blatant lies being told everywhere about lucrative coding jobs.
I code alone in the darkness and my code works. Idiot coder bros hate me whenever I send code samples because I don't follow their social groups and I don't care about their idiot coding patterns. They don't actually understand the languages they use so reading my code is too difficult for their incompetent minds. Especially since I don't comment anything because I can fucking read code.
There's a verse from Baba O'Riley which I live by:
"I don't need to fight to prove I'm right
"I don't need to be forgiven"
I know what I'm capable of and I don't need praise from you.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @07:44AM
I fear to think what you would be like to your coworkers were you ever able to actually land a job.
You remind me a great deal of my dear friend Robert. The man is a great genius, and a linguist. He writes chatbots [subbot.org] for fun, then sets his bots to chatting with each other. There is also an IRC channel where anyone can chat with his bots.
When I pointed out to him that he could easily get a quarter million starting salary were he to write Natural Language AI for Google, he replied that "I don't like office politics".
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @08:38AM
- to _write_ code.
Well-written code needs very few if any comments.
I used to be quite verbose about my comments but Scott Lydiard, at the time my boss at Geonex Verde, an aerial photography firm - pointed out that "comments are rarely maintained in parallel with the code".
I think it was Bjarne Stroustrup who pointed out that "The implementation is the documentation" but maybe it was someone else.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @12:00PM
Just for shits and giggles, read what you wrote aloud ... but pretend someone else is saying that to you. Because of your great talent you would think they are completely full of themselves when telling you what you do or don't understand. Then try to remember than everyone who knows something usually thinks they know a lot about it, so their reaction to you will be similar to your reaction to them saying that to you.
First, I love that song. Second, "I don't need to fight to prove I'm right" is very fitting considering you seem to want to pick a fight in every one of your posts. Since your claims of "there are no tech jobs and the industry is only set up to stymie me!" are so wrong you really can't prove anything right (except that you seem to turn off interviewers en mass).
Don't worry, you won't get any praise from me. But you may want to read about the Dunning–Kruger effect [wikipedia.org] to see if you are really capable of what you think. And if you are, maybe understanding DK will help you better deal with those you have such utter contempt for when asking them for a job.