there is a recent 5-part documentary about berlin, its unique history since the fall of the wall, especially the nightlife, culture, investments and projects, housing etc
Readit Newszuzu89 commented on The black market in GitHub stars wired.com/story/github-st... · Posted by u/bluish29
I had a friend working with a well known startup founder. The founder was interested in me from what my friend told him, all he wanted to see was my github profile. All of my github projects are private. That was the end of that, even after he already knew that my experience was perfect for their company. So ya, some people definitely put too much emphasis on the github profile.
this is a perfectly reasonable decision when hiring for a startup, why waste hours, that you don't have, on interviews testing the candidate when you can lookup their past work
zuzu89 commented on The black market in GitHub stars wired.com/story/github-st... · Posted by u/bluish29
Is this really a thing or just some local phenomena? I can't remember that the github profile played a role in any hiring committee i've been part of (western europe) as people understood that most of the experienced software developers aren't active open source contributors.
> (western europe) as people understood that most of the experienced software developers aren't active open source contributors.
that's probably true for western europe. compared to the US there is significant less open source projects,businesses and developers.
What makes these new projections different from those of recent decades?
zuzu89 commented on Germans shrug off economic gloom at booming Oktoberfest ft.com/content/c251bdfe-9... · Posted by u/pg_1234
"Look, you're just FORCING me to become a 'neo-nazi follower' by helping these people too much!"
This is what happens when the established parties refuse to do anything about it and don't even address the issue seriously, instead immediately labeling people who see the problem as "Nazis." The obvious conclusion from this is that these people are inevitably supporting parties that see this is an issue.
zuzu89 commented on Germans shrug off economic gloom at booming Oktoberfest ft.com/content/c251bdfe-9... · Posted by u/pg_1234
zuzu89 commented on Germans shrug off economic gloom at booming Oktoberfest ft.com/content/c251bdfe-9... · Posted by u/pg_1234
If the profits would stay in the local economies, maybe I'd not be so pissed about it. But a huge chunk of the profits ends up at international hotel conglomerates and beer breweries - the only one still independent is Augustiner, everyone else got bought up - and their shareholders.
Thanks but no thanks.
all the breweries that operate tents are local breweries.
other operators are local clubs, or local (family) businesses.
The end of both legacy admissions and race-based admissions makes me feel hopeful that we're finally pivoting to a productive, merit-based approach.
this decision is not motivated by merit, it's entirely motivated by race.
and they have no intentions of using a merit based approach for applicants because that would result in an even more white and asian dominant student pool.
without the legacy pool they now have more wiggle room to juice their "merit-based" approach so that they can admit more blacks without getting busted for illegal affirmative action.
I've known some of them since I was little and practically grew up with a few of their children. I am still in close contact with some of them and they are definitely my childhood friends.
But are his former coworkers his friends? I don't know, but I know that I want the same for me and my kids.