Notices by T Alex Beamish (talexb@fosstodon.org)

@inthehands I saw the '*' -- for a country that styles itself as a democracy, it's shameful that voting is so challenging. Gerrymandering, purging voter rolls, weird campaign finance rules and all sorts of shenanigans. It's so odd.

@inthehands I'm reminded of an episode of All In The Family, where Mike was a Democrat, and his FIL Archie was a die-hard Republican. Except Mike discovered that Archie hadn't voted in ages (I don't remember exactly). So Mike's question was, "How can you criticize the government when you didn't even vote?"

It's stunning that 28% of voters just didn't vote. Why not?

@nixCraft
"We're really short-staffed right now."
"A new person is going to have to hit the ground running."
"A couple of key people have left recently, so we have to hire replacements fast."
"We've been too busy shipping code to worry too much about documentation."
"Sorry, we're in the middle of an incident right now."
"The code's self-documenting."

@nixCraft I once heard back from one company about 4-5 months after interviewing and getting no response. I had been at my current contract at least two months. "Yeah, we've heard that our hiring process is slow." No .. kidding.