In the Netherlands by law you have the right to retrieve any written internal correspondence regarding your interviews as to ascertain it was a fair decision and decision making process.
Side effect of this is also to keep any bias out of the equation and, being on the other side, easier to call out colleagues making inappropriate or downright discriminating comments (which in my experience unfortunately happens everywhere still)
The unintended side effect of this is that HR coaches you to be as vague as possible in responses. I can’t give real feedback because some feedback may seem dissimilar to other feedback and look like discrimination if you blur your eyes.
Isn't the side effect also giving incentive to those companies to just not be honest in internal communication? But do the real conversation via call or different channel?
Unfortunately, many companies have chosen to comply with anti-discrimination laws by not giving any feedback. Nothing is less discriminatory than an empty string.
If you make such request, how can you enforce to get all of the comms? I'm curious, would some government institution step in and audit their mail servers, slack channels, google hangouts and all other channels to obtain all of the information?
The next stage of complaint is actually the local Information Commissioner.
Companies will usually comply with this, because it's very difficult to instruct staff to not comply with the law without leaving any records or risking one of them leaking it. However they will check what the legal minimum is and do that.
Interesting, I'll give this a try. I'm hoping one day to retire my subscription/cloud-based back-ups with something docker based that still back-ups to multiple instances (local and remote).
True. I think extreme circumstances might also lead to extreme motivation (obsession) and possibly achievements, skill or knowledge. Whether self-inflicted or caused by surroundings.
This case clearly the iceman is at the center of it all and the article was a tough read to me. With the grinding downwards spiral so clearly summed up in all the events I'm sure the interviewed people are now seeing all the red flags in hindsight.
I'm a parent and we are feeding our second child from glass bottles because of microwave+micro-plastic concerns. So far no bottle throwing, so we'll just see how far we get with these until the throwing starts. We'll probably also switch to glass food-containers for daycare once he starts going there.
My guess is it's meant as a hint at the misunderstanding from OSS-users with how open source developers benefit and contribute, which is unlike a commercial product or company
I don't know how it is for other countries outside the US, but in the Netherlands it doesn't add up at all. E.g. Russian social media site VK.com ranks #4 and another 5 Russian sites (in Cyrillic, which most Dutch people can't even read) decorate the top 20:
I remember working with QuArK to build Half-Life levels which must have been somewhere in `98-`00. I loved building the levels and triggers for opening doors and moving elevators. I remember at the time being impressed with the sculpting from UnrealEd when it was introduced, but I don't recall it being more intuitive. Anyone else who used QuArK who has an opinion?
This brings back so many sweet memories. I started with QuArK, then I was introduced to UnrealEd. I remember finding UnrealEd to be more clunky than QuArK. It also took some time for me to get used to the 'inverse' editing in UnrealEd (in uED you basically start with a solid block of infinite size, and then cut out the parts you want accessible by the player).
I then went on to make multiplayer maps for half-life (can't remember which editor I used), I still play those maps with friends.
After HL1 I went to college and couldn't afford a PC capable of running the newer games/engines, and that's where my map building hobby stopped, unfortunately. Nowadays the engines and tools are so complex, that it just takes too much time to build maps for a hobby IMO.
>Nowadays the engines and tools are so complex, that it just takes too much time to build maps for a hobby IMO.
What tools? I can't think of a single recent AAA game that actually has an editor besides Unreal and Unity and those are, IMO, just as easy to use now as they were back then. The processes are a little different but the basics are still pretty similar.
Side effect of this is also to keep any bias out of the equation and, being on the other side, easier to call out colleagues making inappropriate or downright discriminating comments (which in my experience unfortunately happens everywhere still)