jtsuken

A couple of maths professors I worked with had very poor spelling, grammar, etc. Good luck with your approach, if you are trying to hire a specialist in an area that is not middle management, HR or marketing. Let alone if you need people do something in the physical world such as building, cleaning or moving things.

Wow! Not using social media and avoiding your photos from being publicly shared is what distinguishes a North Korean hacker?

I see how ex-CIA guys would expect to get a profile on everyone and know what color toothbrush they use.

I am lucky that I can refer to media publications citing my name in a professional context. But it's a creepy world where the employers' expectation is that all your personal information is public.

There was a post on HN some time ago about a candidate for a senior IT role, who wrote code in MS Word.

I can't find it right now. Maybe I should try Bing search

I feel like Elon Musk is about to propose a tech-driven innovative solution to this centuries old problem.

Sorry to disappoint you, mate. Weizsäcker is much more likely to be an equivalent of Wheatbagger.

Weizen - wheat Sack - bag

There is a point in moving the FROM ahead of SELECT and getting sensible auto-complete suggestions from your IDE as you type.

LINQ, however, attempts to solve a much bigger problem: Use consistent code to process data and don't worry whether it is in a remote database or in a local array.

If you manage to do it in a way that

- integrates seamlessly with e.g. Python IDE and I don't have to pass and parse strings

- allows me to access graph, document and relational data

- allows me to pull and process the data from REST APIs, [O/J]DBC and straight from my RAM

- and maybe even includes deductive (PROLOG/DATALOG) features

I will be your most loyal client

Being able to pick the source (i.e. the FROM clause) first is useful in itself, as you then get the benefit of sensible auto-complete suggestions.

Why not call your children John or Maria Smith at birth then? Wouldn't this guarantee almost full anonymity in most contexts?

The typical security precautions are very hard to maintain in real life. e.g. should your child win some spelling context or a regional crosscountry run or whatever, how would you explain to them that their name and photo are not appearing among all the other winners?

Came here to say the same: "wtf how are bananas and pineapples trees? Shall we get him to look up the pictures or ask some AI model to get the images of wikipedia and to classify them?"

There are fern trees (Tree Fern to be precise), but they only grow in tropical regions. Bananas and pineapples are clearly grass with huge leaves.

How nice you brought up the vaccine example.

So would you like to a live in a country where the government can mandate a vaccine and you have no way to find out who owns the VAXXPROD company, whose vaccines are mandated? What if the owner by pure coincidence is the nice of the Vax Minister?

On the other hand, how will John Doe's privacy be affected if it was public information that he owns Flush Pty Ltd, as long as Flush Pty Ltd is not doing anything of public interest?

Obviously, would get into the realm of public interest if John Doe also owned Flush-A, Flush-B, ... Flush-Z Pty Ltds, and these were purportedly competing for the tenders to install toilets in the City Council Building. Or would you rather keep this information private?