• (cs) in reply to Mr Bigot
    Mr Bigot:
    Calling the Protocols a fabrication is the same as calling any fiction book a fabrication. "Those flying dragons and elven princesses are all a dirty lie and fabrication," everyone.
    OK, I tried. Your previous two posts are just evidence of serious Meths Abuse. I strongly suggest that you get on to the ASPoMA - the American Society for the Protection of Methyl Alcohol. It's an innocent little molecule, and you have no right to treat it like that. Particularly not in such genocidal quantities.

    On the other hand: there is a none-too-subtle difference between a self-avowed fabrication -- and almost all fiction I can think of falls into this category -- and a piece of black propaganda written by Russian anti-semites in the 1890s as part of an attempt to justify the pogroms of the times. I would humbly suggest that the mention of dragons, elven princesses (obviously a fabrication: there are twlve) and the like is a category error.

    Never mind. You just get back to those minimalist molecules of carbohydrate. They'll listen to you, even if I can't be bothered to.

  • Mr Bigot (unregistered) in reply to real_aardvark
    real_aardvark:
    Mr Bigot:
    Calling the Protocols a fabrication is the same as calling any fiction book a fabrication. "Those flying dragons and elven princesses are all a dirty lie and fabrication," everyone.
    OK, I tried. Your previous two posts are just evidence of serious Meths Abuse. I strongly suggest that you get on to the ASPoMA - the American Society for the Protection of Methyl Alcohol. It's an innocent little molecule, and you have no right to treat it like that. Particularly not in such genocidal quantities.

    On the other hand: there is a none-too-subtle difference between a self-avowed fabrication -- and almost all fiction I can think of falls into this category -- and a piece of black propaganda written by Russian anti-semites in the 1890s as part of an attempt to justify the pogroms of the times. I would humbly suggest that the mention of dragons, elven princesses (obviously a fabrication: there are twlve) and the like is a category error.

    Never mind. You just get back to those minimalist molecules of carbohydrate. They'll listen to you, even if I can't be bothered to.

    Your (and many Americans') problem is that you're unable to comprehend the point made. The point was, if some work of fiction is "bad" (like, you don't like it), that doesn't mean it's a "fabrication." After all, how many movies about those perfect Jews and the blacks-saving-the-world-from-the-evil-nazi-crackers and some such "non-fabricated" fiction do we have to put up with?

    Also, pray tell, how many people (and Jews) were murdered in the so-called "pogroms?" Then, compare it to the numbers of people murdered by the (mostly Jewish) bolsheviks 10+ years later.

  • Charlie (unregistered)

    I consider myself an ubergeek, I spend every waking hour coding, I managed to be a somewhat legendary figure in the community I belong to (we develop OSS, of course). And yet, I know one end of the razor to the other and use it every day, I am happy to don a clean shirt every day (despite working from home), and I take a shower every day. It's quite an afrontery to presume that geeks are all alike. But yes, I like sandals, what's wrong with it? I never understood that: I wear boots in the snow, shoes most of the time of the year and sandals when it's hot.

  • ulzha (unregistered) in reply to Nate
    Nate:
    Several interviews: one guy with a torn Star Wars t-shirt that looked to be from the movie's original 1977(?) release, another where we went to lunch but got in a tiny fender bender on the way back (no biggie, no one hurt, but HR lady asked me about it worriedly when she led me to the next interview), one guy who had a puzzle question about tree traversal so you can back out easily -- simple, keep a list of left/right moves made, then read that backwards - right? No, he reminded me that absolutely no extra memory could be used, no lists, no nothing. I just couldn't figure out how to do it with *no* extra mem used; he finally gave me the answer: on your way down, repoint the child node ptr back up to the parent where you came from. Ie: alter the tree *as* you traverse it. I asked him "what happens if someone else reads the tree while you've messed with it" He just looked at me funny! Like that couldn't happen! Classic MS - he thought he had the cleverest test but a central flaw would kill the whole thing.

    This is pretty widely known puzzle in narrow audiences: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22link+inversion+traversal%22

  • samer (unregistered) in reply to Sumit
    Sumit:
    This story is a bit too Dilbertian to be true. Lest the Indian name in the story and this comment make it appear like that's a common practice in the East, that's far from the truth. Parents will use their contacts and influence to get their offspring jobs, and nepotism may lead to farcical interviews, but that's another thing and quite universal. If this story is true, it's a wacko story in any culture.
  • amazed by things (unregistered) in reply to Peter Antoine
    Peter Antoine:
    You also used a "red flag" word. Terms like "Jew" and "Jews" (as a plural for Jew) are generally only used by the far-right, so someone using them in conversation may be letting slip far-right leanings.

    Something along the same lines:

    Me at an interview for a small company that develops systems for book libraries. Me and the MD (Managing Director - owns the company) get one really well, we are both sad enough to have written our own OS's, his that are using to base the system on, my for my final year project at uni.

    Ok, I am pretty sure that I have got the job, just doing the walk around the company, showing me the systems they have in development. He asks one of the current devs to do a book look-up to show me how their systems work. We walk off, come back in two minutes, the book that was looked up was "mein Kampt" -- I am black.

    I did not except the job offer.

    CAPTCHA: clueless -- cant say any more.

    One place I worked - a guy had a note on his door - the most beautiful word, the note said, was "Kristallnacht" - which was the night in 1938 when the Nazis had a mass attack on Jews and Jewish businesses, Kristall after the broken glass from broken windows.

    I seriously thought about reporting this anonymously to HR but chickened out.

  • tyrannical (unregistered) in reply to Charlie
    Charlie:
    I consider myself an ubergeek, I spend every waking hour coding, I managed to be a somewhat legendary figure in the community I belong to (we develop OSS, of course). And yet, I know one end of the razor to the other and use it every day, I am happy to don a clean shirt every day (despite working from home), and I take a shower every day. It's quite an afrontery to presume that geeks are all alike. But yes, I like sandals, what's wrong with it? I never understood that: I wear boots in the snow, shoes most of the time of the year and sandals when it's hot.

    Poser

  • (cs) in reply to KattMan
    KattMan:
    Sumit:
    This story is a bit too Dilbertian to be true. Lest the Indian name in the story and this comment make it appear like that's a common practice in the East, that's far from the truth. Parents will use their contacts and influence to get their offspring jobs, and nepotism may lead to farcical interviews, but that's another thing and quite universal. If this story is true, it's a wacko story in any culture.

    Call it western confusion. I've heard of this practice and been told it was common, can't recall by whom. I will however always concede to a native of the culture denying it, since in truth, I really don't know better.

    I think that must have been an overly-possessive pair of parents. At least from Southeast Asia where i am from, parents interviewing on behalf of their child is unheard of. I have numerous colleagues from India as well and they are all here on their own.

  • Kanawa (unregistered) in reply to Ayende Rahien
    Ayende Rahien:
    Ashkelon:
    And I love the requests for "sample code". I answer "I'm not a slut, I don't give it away. Pay me and I'll give you all the sample code you want."

    You do realize that sample code is one of the best ways to judge the skill of a developer, right?

    You do realize you can show it to them from a CD or something, you don't have to actually leave the code behind after the interview?

  • joy (unregistered) in reply to tyrannical

    今天的气温还是很低，坐在那手脚冰冷冰冷的，很部舒服。感觉整个冬天对我来说感觉不到一丝丝的暖意。

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  • pw (unregistered)

    Wow, this is in every respect what I to know.

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