What I do regard as corruption, is when a recruiter convinces a manager that they can find qualified staff, then expect thirty grand in commissions by placing someone whose rigor mortis is not quite started,
I am good at my work, I take pride in it but recruiters commonly solicit me for perm or contract work for which I am completely unqualified. For example I do osx device drivers and windows gui so on a damn near daily basis I am approached by recruiters who want to submit me for windows device driver work, even at microsoft.
Their applicant tracking systems other do not support exact phrase matching or the recruiters dont know what it is. Neither do they ever attempt to read my resume, not even when they do submit me.
Many of my "colleagues" were obvious imposters who found work through recruiters. The recruiters dont care, they get paid, see.
sigh This isn't a problem with recruiters [0]. This is a hiring problem. Hiring isn't very easy, and it seems that a huge number of companies don't know how to hire.
You have opinions and your HN profile indicates that you've been programming for a long time, but that doesn't appear to have any relevance to your opinions on hiring.
Oh, BTW, you have some mojibake in the Education section of your online resume.
[0] Numerically, most recruiters suck. This has nothing to do with hiring. :)
Oddly that page has utf-8 encoding. The mojibake were em-dashes in the original OO document, I don't clearly recall but likely copied it to the clipboard, then to textwrangler for OS X than marked up the HTML.
textwrangler can do every text encoding but it is fiddly to actually get it right.
Russian for "I Am A Cossack!", more or less I have a bad attitude and fear no one.
The mojibake would be trivial to fix but my position is that I should not have to, I leave it there in hopes someone at Apache or Mozilla will clue into it.
I've seen that very same character sequence whenever a Slashcode site is asked to handle Unicode out of the ASCII range. If I had to bet, I'd say that textwrangler fucked up your document somehow, whether through poor design or improper operation. It's strange that you'd think that someone from Apache or Mozilla would:
a) Be randomly reading your online resume.
b) Think that the mojibake contained within was the fault of some software that they maintained.
Additionally, I've had occasion to work with many, many people. I've found that -regardless of brilliance and competency- folks with bad attitudes almost always make bad coworkers. :)
Anyway. I hope you come to understand why your declarations about your side projects tend to mystify people, and why your strongly held stances tend to not gain traction with others. All the best, man.
People believe all sorts of things that are incorrect.
Carefully inspect -in a good text editor- the files that you have asked your web server to serve. I suspect that you will discover that what is being delivered to the browser is exactly what is in the files on disk. :)
Or, view source on your personal page. (Notice that the page is served up as UTF-8, so that what is served up will be what was on disk.) Here is a snippet of what's served up, verbatim:
<p>Español Mexicano, Español Castellano: "MEE-gə-LEET-oh".</p>
<p>Por Favor? Español Americano Centrale? Español Americano del Sur? "mə-LEET-oh".
"G" Silencio!</p>
<p>Я name is Міша. Я казах!</p>
What I do regard as corruption, is when a recruiter convinces a manager that they can find qualified staff, then expect thirty grand in commissions by placing someone whose rigor mortis is not quite started,