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Daniel Campbell posted on Wed, 08 Jun 2016 22:03:51 -0700 as excerpted: |
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> I'm not sure what the problem with IRC is. In the context of your |
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> quizzes, it's important that the interviews take place in real-time. It |
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> allows a quick method of communication. It's informal, aims to be |
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> friendly and helpful, and tests your ability to find answers on your own |
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> in a somewhat quicker fashion. Even if you, as a dev, have little |
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> interest in IRC or helping out in the #gentoo channel, the interview |
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> process is valuable and will help you get faster at finding answers. |
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... For people who work that way. |
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Which becomes a problem for people who don't. |
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Not speaking for James, but addressing this more general point from my |
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own perspective... since long ago I realized IM/IRC don't present the |
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best side of me, and attempting to use them in stressful situations such |
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as job interviews (even for volunteer jobs such as here) isn't likely to |
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result in anything but disaster. |
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Which is a shame in some ways, as I've seen generations of devs come and |
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go in my dozen years using gentoo, and I expect I'll see generations more |
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come and go in the coming dozen, as I don't anticipate leaving gentoo |
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behind any time soon. But I've found other ways to contribute, both to |
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gentoo and to the larger community, and am comfortable now in the niche |
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and role I've created for myself, so perhaps it's for the better. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |