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Hacker News is _very_ full of over-confident people, believe me.

During a discussion of 'whether open source contributions were being overly important to job seekers' a while back, a surprising number of HN commenters automatically put themselves in the role of employer, peering dubiously over their glasses at me. Many of these commenters were hilariously under-qualified to be taking on that kind of role with respect to anyone.

I don't think SAT verbal is nearly as intensely focused on obscure vocab. I didn't do it, but did do a GRE verbal back in 1994 to get into grad school. For what it's worth, my score on this and my GRE verbal were quite consistent.



> Hacker News is _very_ full of over-confident people, believe me.

Heh.


"Many of these commenters were hilariously under-qualified to be taking on that kind of role with respect to anyone."

You inferred this based on user profiles?


Correct. Most of the folks in question had filled in enough to be able to be straightforwardly findable in terms of linkedin, blogs, etc. It wasn't rocket science.




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