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Got knocked back on a coding test

Calling something that fetches something from an external API ThingFetcher and something that stores info to match what the user wants WassnameMatcher (names changed slightly) is somehow a poor choice of names ...

And apparently linting with standardrb and RubyMine's built in layout manager isn't linty enough.

Think I dodged a bullet.

RT @speakoutsister
Depiction of trans people as sexual predators is identical to similar attacks on LGB people. Some people from any group, including cis women, are sexual abusers. Claiming all trans people are dangerous is transphobia.

RT @zarahsultana
Migrants don't rob the public purse of billions of pounds.

That's tax dodgers.

Migrants don't drive down wages and exploit workers.

That's greedy bosses.

And migrants don't underfund our schools and hospitals.

That's a Tory government working for the 1%, not the 99%.

RT @JolyonMaugham
The only countries ever to leave the European Convention on Human Rights are Greece, temporarily, after a military coup, and Russia, after invading Ukraine. In case you were wondering what kind of company we'd be in if we left.

RT @SqueakinglyJen
I myself have wondered why refugees didn't stay in European countries and have travelled on. So I asked them.

If you're the sort of person who cares about benchmarking or colour calibration, it turns out Samsung has been cheating on the tests. flatpanelshd.com/news.php?suba

We've started referring to this "cheating when you detect benchmarking processes" as "volkswagening", at work.

RT @PaulbernalUK
Of course the best way to avoid having your evil, immoral, appalling, human-rights-abusing plans halted by judges…

…is not to have evil, immoral, human-rights-abusing plans.

RT @WalkerBragman
Instead of trying to convince everyone that a runaway pandemic, low wages, unsafe workplaces, and high costs of living are actually good, why not, you know, do something to improve their lives?

Stop calling me boring, Keir Starmer tells shadow cabinet theguardian.com/politics/2022/

Yeah, and 2019 wasn’t the rout they like to say it is, either. Plus that new book on Starmer lays a good chunk of the blame on his intransigence. But that all gets out of sight is out of mind

RT @Rachael_Swindon
I’ll never forget the Tory MPs laughing at Jeremy Corbyn for wearing a green tie in solidarity with

Theresa May was on the backbenches lambasting her colleagues.

“It’s for Grenfell”, she said angrily.

Victims families were in the Commons that day.

Never forget.

Whenever you see some corp article saying "x uses AI to do y"

"X uses machine learning to identify patterns that mean a machine can do Y"

Simple application of an algorithm that lets you separate things out quickly and easily.

Self driving cars? Machine learning that avoids stuff and keeps to a route.

The intelligence is in the people that wrote the algorithms & worked out how to encode things so it became tractable.

More powerful processors means this happens more often.

That's it.

RT @AfroriBooks
Why do the BBC keep saying illegal asylum seekers. If you're seeking asylum what's illegal? The world refugee council say the illegals in this scenario are the government.

RT @AllyFogg
Some people could probably do with learning that there’s now a legal precedent to say that suggesting a trans person is a paedophile & making degrading comments about their genitals on Twitter crosses the criminal threshold metro.co.uk/2022/06/13/woman-o via @MetroUK

RT @LondonEconomic
Jonathan Ashworth said work should be the best defence from the rising cost of living, "yet millions in work are in poverty".

thelondoneconomic.com/business

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