Tom Powell

@zifnab06
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Computer booper. @LineageOS cofounder. possibly 3 possums in a trench coat.
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Oh fuck, google took down never gonna give you up :(
@seabikeblog do you happen to know why we require projects over a certain size to go to private contracting companies? It seems sdot should be able to hire enough people to keep their costs down, given the amount of ongoing work they have
Of all the orgs to make a Dad-a-base, I did not expect it to be the US Government! https://www.fatherhood.gov/for-dads/dad-jokes
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First real interview tomorrow in a bit over 4y. It'll either go great or I'll make a fool of myself (maybe both!). This should be fun.
@Popehat the earth is just trying to shake the water onto the fire.

"what did you do at work today"

"i wrote classes for all the basic python types so the stupid grader could understand True was "true" and [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] was "["1", "2", "3", "4", "5"]""

like we've really hit the point where companies don't do phone screens anymore, they'd rather hand you something from codesignal and have you spend the majority of the time trying to overwrite __repr__?
easily 90% of the phone screen replacement / "coding test" i just did for an interview was "can you format the output in the esoteric way we want it formatted, because our vscode knockoff can't figure out python object returns"
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Performance Monitoring

"This job is remote. We require you to relocate to Columbus, Ohio. You will be required to be in the office 3 days per week".

Recruiter flat out said they could not get candidates to apply if they didn't call this "remote".