That's a lot of jumping to conclusions. A simple "Hey guys, the server seems to be down, not sure if you're aware. Can you let me know when it's back up so I can submit my request, as intended?"
Shows understanding, shows willingness to reach out and solve problems, shows ability to delegate responsibility.
My approach is merely a reverse take on "it is better to pass up a good candidate than to hire a bad one" that most companies seem to utilize. I'd rather refrain from continuing the interview (even if the company wouldn't end up being that bad) than wasting several months in a bad place.
What am I missing? I have Windows 10 Pro on 2 computers I use daily, I have no crap games auto installing, I have no restarts other than when I select to, my computer never slows down "because windows things".
> If the formatting of a docx looks wrong in LibreOffice that's not really a big deal if you can still read the content, which is usually the case.
You sound like someone who never collaborated on an Office file with someone from another company.
If a company wants to be taken seriously, and some of their work involves exchanging and collaborating on presentations, text documents or tabular files, you cannot not use MS Office.
Even Mac Office used to be really bad here, although I think the newest versions are significantly closer to the real thing.
I feel like this is kind of an extreme example of something I see a lot on HN: hackers who literally cannot imagine ways of using a computer that are outside of their experience.
No. The Federal Reserve was created by Congress in 1913 [1]. Part of its complexity arises from its need to integrate public monetary policy with private capital markets.
It's quasi-governmental, in that it is chartered and overseen by the federal government, but largely executes policy without the influence of the executive or legislative branches.
Please do so. Logging in with username (which has to be different than email) is sooooo 10 years ago. I can't remember all the usernames on all the hundreds of pages I visit. But I know which email I used to create every one of them!
You're being completely disingenuous, that's absolutely terrible.
My use case for Paint is highlighting one off screenshots for clients and the like. Nobody is going to send your sort of screenshot in a professional environment, it looks like it was marked up by a kindergartner.
My workflow: I open up snipping tool, take a screenshot, copy it, paste it in Paint, mark it up quickly (arrow tool or circle/rounded corners tool usually), and either save it or (usually) copy it and paste it into an email or Word Doc. Super easy and quick, I can do this in the time it takes GIMP to load or another program to download, its also always there. I do this on a monthly basis at least.
Why though? Paint is already perfect. It's ubiquitous, doesn't require a download and install (there's locked down machines), loads instantly, and the UI is incredibly simple and intuitive.
Though if I ever need "advanced" screenshotting I'll keep this in mind.
Snipping tool doesn't have shapes or text input, all the tools are freehand. I don't want to email a client with chicken scratch that looks like a child's doodle, that's unprofessional.
The top 'arrow' looks like a sideways J, I assume it's an arrow based on context, but it's not that clear. Which is why it's nice to have a good tool for the job.
PS: If you actually do the same thing in paint they have a lot of useful shapes and you get a preview of how they look. Which is nice if you don't want the chicken scratch look.
You can rotate them 90 degrees which is good enough for what I need.
Workflow is generally Screenshot, crop, highlight with text / arrow / circle past into email. Paint.net is useful, but not on every windows box and often not worth the download when I 90% of the time I just want to send something to a coworker who might email it to a customer.
It's too sloppy even if I could draw that well with my mouse or highlight in a somewhat straight line. Nevermind the regular employee, sometimes I'm sending it to Directors and C-levels, etc.
That's a fair point -- I think a lot of it too was that some of the default bindings just felt awkward for me to reach/would break the flow of my typing, so I never bothered with it. Again, though, I know I could've just remapped them to something I felt more comfortable. I take the point that the touch bar probably just provided that nudge for me to invest some time into this, but I suspect that the experience that I have with it would not quite have been the same. YMMV, of course.
Shows understanding, shows willingness to reach out and solve problems, shows ability to delegate responsibility.