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Jacquers wrote: Do you accept or reject requests from strangers? Not even active on this LinkedIn. People calling me during work-hours, when I'm paid to work instead of answering phones for some "opportunity"?
Jacquers wrote: Conversely - do you send out requests to people you don't know? Yes, but never via LinkedIn. It's just that they have to prove who they are, and why they interested. And not during working hours, my boss doesn't pay me to talk to recruiters. It would be theft if I did.
Never, under working time, did I talk to a recruiter. Ever. Only answering my phone for emergencies; and if not someone dying, it is not an emergency.
Jacquers wrote: I get the occasional request from a recruiter, which I'll sometimes accept if I'm in the market for a new job Last I got was someone who wanted my SSN and copy of my passport. Asked here if legit.
And struck out.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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duchy discusses maze barrier (8)
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the duchy of CORNWALL
ma(i)ze - corn
barrier - wall
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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You're up on Monday.
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@GregUtas
Where's the CCC?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I have no idea. I went to CCCC.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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Could have been worse - might have been CCCP.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That version is deprecated.
Crude hardware and buggy software. But quite powerful when it functioned.
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I think it's just been rebranded as Putania
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I believe Italians might read that slightly different.
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My Italian is poor. Very poor. I can order coffee and beer, but after that "Charades" are heavily involved!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Mine as well, but you can't spend time with exchange students without their more colourful expressions sticking in your memory.
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A lot of times I would have just liked to have handed them one of my personal libraries to show that I actually know what I am doing. I do understand the problem with that, they actually cannot know if you were the one who wrote it. Although, if they seen it and were willing to talk about it, they would know instantly who the author was.
About 20 years ago I spent some time fixing and then playing around with a program that I had found on a bulletin board. It was a lot of fun, but I never would have claimed to have created the original.
A couple of weeks latter, a young man comes in for a job interview and he decides it would be a good idea to show us a program he had written. In less than 30 seconds I got up and fired up the same program on my machine. I think the actual code had originally been written before he was born (I could be wrong). Suffice it to say, he did not get the job.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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As a Dutch saying goes: Quote: Beter goed gejat dan slecht bedacht (Better stolen than badly conceived)
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I can't remember a situation in person like the one you are describing.
But I was fooled once the other way around.
I was a team member in a project for a very difficult customer. During the time at their facilities short before the acceptance meeting, one of them came to my place and did some things in the machine triggering a blockade.
I needed to debug online to find out what the problem was and he started "this is not acceptable", "there must be always a way to go out or at least do a reset in the SCADA GUI" and "blah blah blah"...
I knew it was not my error (we had to build up from a basis that they gave us), but theoretically we were hired to deliver a running line so I had a solution a couple of hours later. He tried to repeat the blockade but he couldn't and went away...
A couple of days later I randomly found out that the problem of the blockade had happened to another worker of theirs during the installation of a line in another country. So he triggered it in my station and when I fixed it, he set my solution in a patch that got distributed worldwide.
My boss tried to get some money out of that, but he couldn't.
What pissed the out of me is that I confronted that [censored] and he didn't even apologize or thanked me.
But... I got the respect of all other workers in the customer's automation department. And two of them even came to me to thank me for the patch and to apologize for what that bugger did to me and told that the guy was pretty hated by almost everyone that had the bad luck to work with him.
Quote: Have you ever seen someone claim other peoples code? But this? Yes, at least once a week or several times per month...
if you knew how many plagiarists try it here in the site and get blocked in the S&A Watch[^]...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Ah! The old still the credit for someone elses work ploy. I've ran into that I few times. My reaction, whether it happened to me or one of my colleges, was to go over their head an tell them who actually solved the issue. The worst they could do is fire me, and that is something I never worried about. If they did that, then it would not be a company I wanted to work for anyway.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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Neither do I fear to get fired.
And they actually did know who did the patch.
I was tempted to say "goodbye guys, I go home" but I didn't want to abandon the rest of the team just like that.
In projects were I was alone, I had more liberty for such acts.
I did once walked out from a facility because a mid-low manager was pissing me off, but they called me to please come back before I reached the car.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Check out the regular reports of plagiarism in the Spam & Abuse forum.
I once had it the other way round - I posted a solution on StackOverflow based on a solution I had previously posted in response to a similar question here. Someone then posted another solution on the SO thread, copying my original solution from here, and accusing me of plagiarising my answer from myself.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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An ex co-worker wrote his LinkedIn profile in such a way that made it sound like he almost singlehandedly wrote all the software when he actually barely worked on some of the projects.
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I used to do a lot of tech interviews -- I'd receive resumes where the candidate appeared to have done everything on a project, using a wide range of in-demand technologies. During the interview I'd figure out he had done a trivial part and didn't understand most of the technologies involved, much less use them.
This taught me about reading resumes. These resumes typically stated the technologies used in the project but did not specifically claim the candidate worked with them. Technically, these guys didn't lie, but anyone reading the resume quickly would assume wrongly.
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[this is 40 years ago but ...]
I was coding for a graph plotter (physical pens pushed left / right by server motors, on long rolls of paper driven forwards / backwards on a roller) using a 'backend' driver. The driver was very buggy but we had been sent the source code. I fixed loads of bugs, made some sections more efficient, and added missing features. I then sent it to the supplier as a kind of issues / bug report. There was no acknowledgement from them; but later they issued a new release which only consisted of my fixes (with minor source code layout changes). I do not know whether we were charged for the upgrade or not.
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Well what do you know. An original hacker. That is were the term came from, MIT students (I think) modifying the original code that was supplied with the equipment, a printer as a matter of fact. They would make improvements and send them back to the company. The company would use them in the next release. Latter on the company changed there policy to closed source, so sad.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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I was working for a company where the team lead was very close to the manager. I made a fix to some of his code and got in trouble because of it. It turned out that he had seen my fix and then had gone to the manager and proposed my fix as his solution to the issue. When I later reported my fix in the weekly reports, I was censured for claiming his work as my own! I had only been with the company a short while whereas he had been there for years - therefore...
I left as soon as I could.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Can't blame you, who would want to work with people like that.
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This is among the reasons I like version control. It helps keep people honest. Or it keeps them busy trying to get around revision control ...
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