Lying for ratings, though, is also very bad.

Activists lying for both activist causes and ratings is extremely bad.

Will these things stop? Probably not.

I’m not advocating this. Doing this was wrong, and it’s not some black hat exploit. It was a scam; pretending to be someone to make money off of an unwitting victim.

For example, one could argue those that are poor or uneducated are that way because of nature, their IQ, their race or ethnicity, but we know this to be false and immoral.

It’s actually quite an astute observation. I read recently that there are over 600 Linux distros and only about 500 are actively maintained.

> Web developers who use Google Analytics are stupid.

The adjective is wrong, but it’s also fair to say that there are free solutions for analytics, and some may go straight to using GA when they don’t need to.

The pairs were chosen mostly at random from the large development team, except that at least one would be more experienced with the company, typically.

The first team of two would get to know the person.

The second team would do a technical interview.

If the candidate did well by getting four thumbs-ups, they would often be invited to have lunch with members of the team they could be joining. Unless lunch went horribly, they would then meet with a director for the final interview.

Eventually the lunch part was skipped, but it was a helpful way to expose potential culture or tech fit problems that were missed earlier.

This process worked really well, with the exception of the candidate often having to explain some part of their background three times.

I’ve never been part of an interview since that I liked as much, and we didn’t wear out.

Generally true, but it also sounds like you’ve not made big mistakes.

Big mistakes often involve slight twinges of fear and doubt also.

[1]- http://themediocreprogrammer.com/build/html/the_mediocre_pro...

There seemed to be some talk of Linux I noticed in past years, and I’ve been thinking about trying to out again, but I’d feel better if I knew that it was still well-used.

Pandas to me are still big lazy black and white bears eating bamboo, until someone can point me to something more intelligible.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.14383.pdf

I recommend not doing what I did. If it’s a bad fit, get out. It’s damaging.

I think we know that we’re not all going platinum. This article was about just “working on the song(s)” for the enjoyment of it, whatever that may involve, or that’s the way I took it.