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New comment by bacchus123 in "The worst job interview I ever had"

bacchus123 — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:08:09 +0000

Two years ago I applied for a position in the Swiss Federal Gov's IT departement. The interview rounds went well, I liked the team and the atmosphere was good. They told me that I was the best fit from the people who have applied for the position. Before the last interview, which was with the HR and the "boss" of the departement, i got an email which described how the onboarding happens. So I went there on the next day and they started grilling me. I didn't put my pre University education in the CV and they thought that I'm hiding something from them. They also thought that i'm like 20 years younger than I am, although I told them multiple times how old I am and my age was as well in the CV. It ended without a contract signed. I had to send them all that stuff, like old school certificates (20 years old!) that weren't relevant for that position at all. After a month or so they told me that they do not want to proceed with my application since they found someone who better fits the position. The dude from the team called me and told me that the HR had vetoed me out. Crazy shit. You better don't throw your elementary school grades away!

New comment by bacchus123 in "Getting Started in Common Lisp"

bacchus123 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:40:10 +0000

I'm currently working on a game (SBCL & OpenGL) and Claude had no problems helping me with rendering pipeline issues in SBCL.

New comment by bacchus123 in "U.K. rejoins Horizon Europe research funding scheme"

bacchus123 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:48:14 +0000

Wrong. We paid as much as we got from the program. The collaboration between scientist from across Europe was the more important thing. Sadly science got politicized.

New comment by bacchus123 in "U.K. rejoins Horizon Europe research funding scheme"

bacchus123 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:20:26 +0000

Well it isn't that we wouldn't want to participate but the EU is connecting our Horizon participation with other topics that have nothing to do with it. So I don't really see us rejoining it anytime soon.

New comment by bacchus123 in "Ask HN: What is the most memorable game you played?"

bacchus123 — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:47:50 +0000

World of Warcraft 18 years ago. Running dungeons with my friends after school. It was a great time :)

New comment by bacchus123 in "North Korean market prices suggest serious food shortages"

bacchus123 — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 23:34:00 +0000

They send Super Bigote

New comment by bacchus123 in "Tocharian Languages"

bacchus123 — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:50:52 +0000

Not sure but Confuzius propagated a "sense of community". An individualistic China, where the individual is more important than the unity of the state, would have probably looked more like medieval Europe, splitted into various states competing with each other. China may have never formed an united country.

The "removal" of confuzianism happend within the last 100-150 years. Before that it was the backbone of chinese thinking for ~2500 years.