Just saw someone advertising a "hacker house" flat share where you apply for a room by sending your linkedin.
Nothing else. Just your linkedin. Imagine the housemates.
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@jonty
Surely a "hacker house" would/should vett based on Git contributions or something?
@jonty Imagine entering a room at 8am for some cereal and being met by 4 guys talking really earnestly about b2b sales.
@jonty Hopefully it is a decoy to work out which applicants to cut.
@jonty where do I apply? I like simple application process...
@jonty this is “hacker” as in corporate “hackathon” then, rather than the “apply by whistling 2600Hz down the phone at us” the term might imply
@jonty It is nice that these business types think that being a hacker is now "cool". It is also a very scary prospect that you would end up in digs with one of these business types that think being a hacker is "cool"
@jonty the house probably has really messed up hands with 4-8 fingers for some reason
@jonathanhogg @jonty hacker as in Growth Hacker. Or as I sometimes like to call them, sociopaths.
@jon @jonathanhogg They have a room with a 3D printer and whiteboards in it!
@jonty @jon @jonathanhogg (showing prospective housemates around) "The tetrapod area is on your left. Inflatable tentacles are mainly on the right, although some have escaped. And now we come to the LED room..."
NGL ... whiteboards and a 3D printer are quite an attraction in a flat share.
@interstar @jonathanhogg @jon The 3D printer will be broken and you can't wipe the whiteboards because "I'm still working on that!"
The voice of bitter experience with flat-shares :-D
@jonty @interstar @jon I always used to operate on the principle that whiteboards left with stuff on them will be photographed and uploaded to the wiki and then wiped clean
3D printers are absolutely machines for turning money into tears though…