So, you're telling me that watchdogs users (on a payroll I'll add) roam this site and flag anything that they don't like and that is OK for you. Super.
The post on front page was focusing on what a single scientist was saying. This particular scientist has been attacked and defamed repeatedly which in effect rendered _that_ post ineffective to base a serious conversation for that issue. TLDR, people (and keen watchdogs alike) were focusing on _him_ rather than the issue at hand. Which is why I posted the appeal, signed by numerous other scientists, so that the discussion won't focus on the strawman scientist and focus on what might be a hugely important public health issue.
Of course the watchdogs on duty flagged it immediately because it was much harder to attack and defame.
I've said it again. You have a problem in HN. Mobs and lone rangers and downvote armies. You might be innocent (as an admin) and try to let everyone speak but it is evident to me that nothing that _really_ matters can be discussed in this community. That is because things that _really_ matter hurt some big pockets or a few cretins stuck in their adolescent rigid worldviews. In any case the gist of it is that the rules of the site allow them to drown any voice they don't like in a form of public opinion manipulation.
So, thanks for the hospitality all these months. I think I've no business here.
I don't understand why such an important appeal/topic touching on public health was flagged the previous time I tried to post it here. Gagging views/research does not put this community in a very good light and it is something way beneath the standards I've seen in the few years I've been participating here.
Now - there was another similar topic a few days ago that was focusing though on the views of a single scientist that has been painted by many as a crook. This topic is about an appeal that has a lot more signatories to be dismissed lightly.
Thanks
PS: Flagged again. OK - seems that the admins here are on somebody's payroll.
Kudos for landing a better job. I guess you were quite young at the time and I hope you matured more than to put yourself in such a harmful situation again.
If you deem that something is senseless, impossible or on the verge of abusing you must say so and stand your ground. It is the right thing to do not just for you but for your coworkers and the larger ecosystem you are moving about. It's what that general said about 'The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept' only this time it was about the standard you put up with.
"..chip companies are definitely in a whole different world when it comes to documentation, compared to the software world I'm now in!"
Makes sense though. SW is a much more agile/faster iterations artifact than HW. Documentation is very hard to keep pace in this env, so much so that people are actually trying to infer it automatically from the -ever changing- code.
Hundreds of them. A 20x60cm nest inside the window case. After bitten for about 10 times and trying every household spray I could fit in the opening of the case with zero results I called professional exterminators. For a hefty price they nuked the room (no idea what kind of poison they used but 4 days afterwards and it still stinks) and killed them all. My most hated thing in insect kingdom rubbing shoulders with mosquitos.
That is a naive opinion IMHO. In all but the core SW roles you would merely be a simple cog being told what to do. If for example you'd be coding for an archaelogy department you would be the code monkey of the professor heads. Even worse you would have to battle their ignorant views on SW. My guess is that you'd hate playing that role and that you would run as fast as you could back to a SW house doing fragmented work with people that at least understand a bit of software.
At least that's my experience of venturing into a non-hardcore SW field (health sector).
PS2: Haven't used C/C++ in our tech stack for quite a while now but from what I see it should work if you provide the relevant switch '-fsanitize=undefined' plus a gcc version that supports Undefined Behavior Sanitizer (gcc 4.9 and later).
It was not an entry level. There was no designation to the role actually.
But what does that question mean anyway? Say I've been working in java stack for 10 years but for whatever reason I want to move to js/frontend. What else is there than entry level to begin with? Tech careers (at least honest ones) are rarely linear and there are hundreds of reasons for that.
I've already said way more than I should considering I need to stay in this business for a good few more years. Communication was fine if that's what you're asking.
Great to hear that. I went through that hell (of course fell into the 80%) a few moths ago. Needless to say I was in total awe by the whole process. Awe as in, what the heck did I waste whole weeks for? How can the -seemingly best IT company- hire like that? Funniest part was that the recruiter giving me the bad news was assuming that I'd spent some more time in the future trying again to get in g. Like this is a life purpose or sth and she actually mentioned exactly that. Most people don't get in at first attempt. Which is like saying "we know we do it wrong because we hire the same people the second time around" so what the heck is all that supposed to test? Perseverance? Anyway - after that I had serious doubts that I'd ever be happy working there anyway so I was pretty confident that there wouldn't be no second time.
cheers