On: The computers rejecting job applications

[kleiba]

Fun fact: Pymetrics has hired a lot of former C64 game programmers.

[Radim → kleiba]

Is that a reference to the infamous C64 Summer / Winter Games? Where you had to twiddle your joystick as fast as you can?

Fascinating that should carry over into the 21st century hiring process.

[kleiba → Radim]

Yeah, I might have lied when I wrote "fact"...

[jgalt212 → Radim]

Wasn't that the game mechanics for the sprint event in Summer Games? Diving was the best in that.

I did really enjoy surfing in California Games.

[kleiba → jgalt212]

I enjoyed California Games more than the already great Summer/Winter games. For a little boy far, far away from California, somehow they managed to pack a whole lot of California Feelin' into 320x200 pixels... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSp8XHpEKzw&t=0m33s

[itronitron → kleiba]

Also seems biased towards programmers that prefer spaces instead of tabs...

[pdonis → itronitron]

Are they programming in Python?

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces

[abiogenesis → pdonis]

Yes, hence Py-metrics.

[abiogenesis → kleiba]

Good one. C64 games almost always required a joystick though. Maybe ZX Spectrum game programmers?

[kleiba → abiogenesis]

Details... ;-)