oh yeah I finally had time to look it up. it was on "casual conversation" back before lemm.ee died, but you can see an archive of it here: https://lemmy.world/post/23527561 The replacement community is: !casualconversation@piefed.social
Sergio
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those at a loose end could at least have each other for company throughout the Christmas period.
Hey, last year on Christmas Day we had a "chat" post here on Lemmy... I think it was one of the "casual conversation" communities, and we all just talked, maybe we could do it again this year?!
Yeah, Jane Austen's easily one of the top 20 English novelists of all time, and one of my personal favorites. She gets kind of a mixed appreciation these days bc the movies made from her novels usually focus on the romance (often in a way that would have scandalized her) and skimp on her commentary about human nature and society's pressures. And plus her prose is just gorgeous and that is difficult to adapt to film. Probably the best adaptation is the BBC 1980 Pride and Prejudice miniseries ( wikipedia , tubi ) which was adapted by Fay Weldon, who was a novelist in her own right. That miniseries turns a lot of Austen's prose into dialogue, which is beautiful to hear in that context, though as a consequence the series is a little slow for a wide modern audience. Really you have to read the books themselves.
Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. Middlemarch is imho one of the best novels ever written in the English language.
So you're saying "No TRUE fascist", huh?
ojala escribes un cancion de metal despues de hacerlo.
check out these feeds of Lemmy communities:
- memes and humor (not focused on politics or tech): https://piefed.social/f/highmemecontent
- general (not focused on memes, politics, or tech): https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
seguro esta protegido por el Diablo, quien le dice: "I like your style!"
Over my career I've applied for several faculty, research faculty, and research scientist positions, and they always asked for a presentation. I would consider it a red flag if they did not ask for a presentation. I always had 4+ interview sessions with individuals or in groups.
Earlier in my career I interviewed for programmer positions and it was just interviews and "solve this problem on the board". I always figured the more interviews the better; it gave me a chance to figure out if I myself wanted to be at the place.
Respectfully, I think it was OK for them to ask for that kind of presentation. They probably wanted to see how well you are at communicating technical ideas. It shouldn't have been that hard anyway. Just think of the hardest problems you had to solve. The structure of your talk could be: Problem, Solution, Details. First just say here's the problem and why it was important and why it was difficult. Then say: here's the solution that I applied and why it was clever, or elegant, or hard-won. Then provide all the details, including how you collaborated with people. Really, you should have several examples like that in mind every time you go into an interview, and make sure to insert them in the conversation. So the slides are just reminders to yourself about the details. Try to throw in some graphs and pictures if you can. You can put that in your portfolio or online presence or something.
Maybe you should draw the line at solving THEIR problems for free. A little bit of that is OK bc it introduces you to what their work is like, but obviously if they want you to work for them for free all day, then that's different.