Re: good post on LinkedIn

Dear Don Y:

LinkedIn lies. LinkedIn violates legal duties. Laws permit reactions to illegalities, where such reactions would be otherwise illegal, if such reactions would be unprovoked actions (not reactions).

Don Y snipped-for-privacy@foo.invalid wrote: |---------------------------------------------------------------------| |"Your USE of linkedin coerces you. That is your choice." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

I choose to communicate with persons with whom I must communicate. They insist on using LinkedIn. I prefer non-LinkedIn media.

|---------------------------------------------------------------------| |"Do you imagine spending an hour walking to the post office to | |be of no value?" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

No, as well demonstrated by you.

|---------------------------------------------------------------------| |"I can drive and do the trip in 20 minutes -- assuming I am not | |impeded by any accidents or "road work" along the way. | | | |I can walk and do it in 60 minutes. The first 20 of those would have| |been required had I driven. So, I've "wasted" 40 minutes for the | |"same result". | | | |Yet, in the walking case, I've exercised for 60 minutes at a "cost" | |of only *40* minutes. The "wasteful" option is, in fact, the more | |efficient (given the need for daily exercise). [. . .]" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

I do not walk when I use LinkedIn. I do actually walk when I use setsid & to download a newsgroup.

|---------------------------------------------------------------------| |"How does 1 minute of USENET compare (content wise) to 1 minute | |of LinkedIn? | | | |Apples/Oranges." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

USENET discussions related to my profession are technically much more advanced than LinkedIn discussions. They are the other way around when they are discussions with professionals of more important professions.

LinkedIn is very limited. E.g. it uses buggy text fields restricted to a size of circa 1250 characters (maybe octets).

Many more persons detect LinkedIn publications, before LinkedIn secretly, illegally hides them or destroys them. Thus attempts by me to archive.

LinkedIn does not even offer a way to search thru comments.

Almost all the job advertisements which I post to the USENET are via LinkedIn. (S.

It's an integer that results from a standard IQ test. That is very well defined.

And the integer correlates highly with many measures of productivity and success.

The SAT tests are even better, because they have separate math and verbal scores.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Most youngsters have never heard of usenet, and certainly don't participate. Most ng's are dead.

I posted an ad for an intern on LinkedIn, for something like $45 per day, and got maybe 50 responses per day. It only took a few minutes per day to look at them and reject the 99% that were unsuitable.

LinkedIn looks like a giant waste of time if you use it as a social network and have a couple hundred connections. Like X and Facebook.

The local Maker space is interesting. We have 500 people events with free food and beer. It's much better to meet people physically than remotely.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Don Y wrote: |-----------------------------------------------------------| |"If you are reliant on those interactions, then you have to| |accept them on THEIR terms." | |-----------------------------------------------------------|

Exactly. (S.

According to Bill Sloman snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org:

It's hard to belive that anyone who has used Excel would say that. In my experience, any Excel spreadsheet large enough to be interesting has bugs.

Back in the 1980s I worked on a financial modeling package called Javelin. You could use it for a lot of the financial stuff people do in spreadsheets (Lotus 1-2-3 at the time.) The models were a lot more structured and it was far easier to audit them and check that they did what you expected.

Users didn't care, they loved their spreadsheets. Best quote: "It's up to my boss to check if my speadsheets are right."

Forbes estimates that 88% of spreadsheets contain errors.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

In sci.electronics.design John Levine snipped-for-privacy@taugh.com wrote: |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"[. . .] In my | |experience, any Excel spreadsheet large enough to be interesting has bugs. | | | |Back in the 1980s I worked on a financial modeling package called Javelin. | |You could use it for a lot of the financial stuff people do in spreadsheets | |(Lotus 1-2-3 at the time.) The models were a lot more structured and it | |was far easier to audit them and check that they did what you expected. | | | |Users didn't care, they loved their spreadsheets. Best quote: "It's up to my| |boss to check if my speadsheets are right."" | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Oh dear, another example of ineptness triumphing over technical goodness.

I repeatedly complain to an R user which is an Excel user via quotations like so: "languages like PHP and Mathematica are still heedless to variable misspellings; [. . .] reversing bad design decisions, is often impossible once there is a community of users. The shortcomings of Perl, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, etc, are going to persist [. . .] JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Excel [. . .] having little type safety" says Harold Thimbleby, "Heedless programming: ignoring detectable error is a widespread hazard", "Software: Practice and Experience" and "R crashes" says

What it tests isn't.

For a rather low value of "highly". The correlation between IQ and post-employment success of university graduates is pretty close to zero.

You used to need an IQ score of about 115 to get into university - the average IQ if American university students is now 102. Your chances of actually getting a university degree don't correlated strongly with with you IQ score at university entry.

Difficult courses - mostly STEM subjects do show a stronger correlation, but about 40% students drop out without getting a degree, and it takes a IQ of 130 or better to get this down to 5%.

But they still aren't all that good.

For a linguist, the rule is what people do. When entire populations chose to a use the more regular mode of tense formation, that's language evolution, rather than misuse.

"productivity and success" and "actually getting a university degree" are entirely different things.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

(In LinkedIn terminology, a "post" is the beginning of a thread, whereas LinkedIn calls a follow-up article a "comment".)

I rarely post on LinkedIn (not counting many reposts). LinkedIn frustratingly failed thrice today (before succeeding on this 4th attempt) by making webbrowser tabs say that those webpages were havings problems and to try to refresh or to return later.

All of these lame-LinkedIn failures happened when few programs ran and RAM had free gigabytes and an SSD drive had free gigabytes.

I do not know if this type of LinkedIn lameness is normal.

I do find that LinkedIn is buggy when trying to compose a post (and in other situations). (S.