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Date: September 27th, 2013 4:56 PM Author: Turquoise galvanic house He seems to megapost over on Hacker News all the time now but seems like he was once a regular here. Did he post a lot of racist and sexist content or was he more of an aspie like doobs?
Is he serious or trolling about "inventing a card game"?
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Date: September 27th, 2013 4:58 PM Author: Seedy nursing home gunner http://www.nuclearphynance.com/Show%20Post.aspx?PostIDKey=166675
the life and times of michael o church:
I'm 29 and I've had a run of pretty terrible luck in choosing jobs (I've had 6 since college). I learn fast and I'm easily in the top 1% of programmers my age, but I've learned the hard way that I'm not a great judge of character, so I've been through (in the past 2 years):
1. A startup that failed in a really ugly way.
2. A big-company job with no room for growth or transfer (left at 6 months).
3. A job offer rescinded post-#2 because ex-boss, pissed that I left, was a personal friend of hiring manager at target company (had no way of knowing that one).
4. Joined a shitty startup in desperation post-#3. Took a management role. Fired after refusing to commit perjury on employer's behalf (left at 3 months).
5. Regular old big-company layoff. Nothing bad about me or company, just business convenience + last-in/first-out (at 10 months).
I can't claim that the problem "isn't me" or that I'm "just unlucky", although that's part of it. #5 was bad luck; #1-4 was terrible judgement of character on my part. Yeah, I've made some awful choices about whom to work for... I've learned a lot, but in painful ways.
I'm starting to get dinged because of my "job hopping" history, and I'm starting to think it might be time for some "creative repair". I don't intend on lying or feigning skills I don't have-- I don't think I need to do that, but here some cover-up options I'm considering:
1. Dressing the short-term gigs up as consulting arrangements, since I'm starting to think project-based work is the way to take my future anyway.
2. Removing the 3-monther entirely and moving related accomplishments (I actually achieved a lot in that time) to other jobs.
3. Moving consulting work around dates-wise to cover up gaps. Again, no material change and no real dishonesty since the dates are irrelevant to the quality of work.
Again, nothing fraudulent or substantively dishonest, since there'll be no inflation of skill set. I'm just talking about fixing some of the cosmetic stuff as the situation may require. I don't consider it unethical since it wouldn't get me any job for which I wouldn't be qualified. Everyone needs to clean up a mess now and then, and it looks like that's where I am now.
Or am I overblowing the whole "job hopper" stigma? Is it better, even with a volatile job history, to tell the truth?
What is the maximum number of jobs that someone at my age can have? And what is the threshold for short-term jobs at which one should just exclude them? |
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Date: September 27th, 2013 5:00 PM Author: Turquoise galvanic house whoa easily in the top 1%????? get this man a medal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24124410) |
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Date: September 27th, 2013 5:04 PM Author: Seedy nursing home gunner there is absolutely no chance that is true
he's a math dork who enjoys theoretical games, not the nitty gritty of coding |
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Date: September 27th, 2013 5:07 PM Author: Turquoise galvanic house so he's the big ideas type who thinks he's too good to do any actual work, yet not experienced enough to lead, so he gets pushed out of every job? lol @ his life.
why does he write so authoritatively though and also does he take a lot of speed or something? |
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Date: September 27th, 2013 5:20 PM Author: Seedy nursing home gunner autism is disease bro, don't make light of it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24124524) |
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Date: September 28th, 2013 11:19 PM Author: Maniacal marketing idea ape (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24132026) |
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Date: September 27th, 2013 5:11 PM Author: bateful useless brakes Damn it Mike, it's been nearly a decade. Can you fucking learn how to obfuscate your identity online? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24124469) |
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Date: September 27th, 2013 5:16 PM Author: Startling market He is a pathological liar.
Small town 'smart kid' who claims he didn't attend Harvard for undergrad because he "blew off the interview." Instead, "chose" to attend close substitute for Harvard, Carleton College in Buttfuck, Minnesota.
While attending prestigious Carelton, he got in trouble for cyber-stalking and harassing girls who rejected his advances, and became legendary for posting bizarre, self-absorbed emo rants on the student OBB. He was a friendless nut who blamed his peers for his social isolation.
Later on, he began a math doctorate at Wisconsin, but dropped out after a year or so. Went to work as a quant for a really minor fund in NYC, was either fired or quit not long afterward. I stopped paying attention after that.
He's borderline mentally ill and used to engage in marathon "flame" sessions on XO where he would transparently spam threads and discuss himself using multiple accounts. Then, after hours of minimal engagement from other posters and absolutely no accumulation of credulity, he would triumphantly reveal his "flame," and then shower himself with self-congratulatory one-way discussion about his own genius. The coup de grace of these little masterpieces would usually be something like his revelation that his moniker was actually an anagram of 'the best pensive flame' the entire time. You fools! This would have been hilarious if he wasn't completely sincere about the whole thing, every time.
He also sort of pioneered something that has become known as the 'pensive maneuver' to a few old-time XO posters. This involves humiliating yourself by accidentally revealing your alternate monikers by not switching accounts (thereby getting caught talking to yourself or about yourself), getting completely dominated on a factual issue, or otherwise blown out of the water on XO. Rather than taking your lumps, the pensive maneuver involves then spending copious amounts of time explaining, with OCD-like levels of repetition, that you actually pwned yourself on purpose in order to lead other, less intelligent posters into your 'rhetorical trap,' or to humanize your intimidating intellect, or any number of other strange and contrived lines of excuse peddling.
Apparently, he's still having extreme difficulty simply getting along with other people in a normal work environment. I won't out his name on here, but if you know it, googling provides some hilarious updates. And his blog is like a case study in budding mental illness and megalomania.
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Date: September 27th, 2013 5:21 PM Author: bateful useless brakes THIS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24124527) |
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Date: September 27th, 2013 5:25 PM Author: ebony big space wagecucks pensive has his problems but jane street is pretty hot shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24124560) |
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Date: September 27th, 2013 5:31 PM Author: Turquoise galvanic house lol since when? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24124608) |
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Date: September 27th, 2013 5:33 PM Author: Startling market Small quant firm. Makes sense that he worked there, but not sure if it's 'hot shit' in the conventional sense. I am law drone and so I only know these places by reputation. I do know that math geeks work at these places doing what he did. He also worked at google but got fired, so I don't doubt he has some legit ability apart from self-promotion. Doesn't change who he is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24124620) |
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Date: February 28th, 2015 5:45 PM Author: greedy aphrodisiac heaven it is hot shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#27407536) |
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Date: September 27th, 2013 5:26 PM Author: Turquoise galvanic house Is he manic or something then? A lot of what he writes makes me think he took a fuckton of speed or blew a half-dozen lines before sitting down at the computer. Guess it could be mania too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24124563) |
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Date: September 27th, 2013 5:34 PM Author: Startling market Pretty likely that he has some form of hypergraphia, on top of his other OCD symptoms.
I didn't even get into the 10K word screeds that he used to pen about women, and specifically how American women are all broken whores not worthy of a man of his caliber. At one point he forced a meme about idealized "heroic women." This idealization was based on female characters from the Final Fantasy role playing games. |
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Date: September 28th, 2013 11:20 PM Author: Maniacal marketing idea ape (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24132036) |
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Date: September 29th, 2013 12:36 PM Author: Razzmatazz Bright Prole Jewess and how somehow he thought black girls weren't sluts. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24134225) |
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Date: May 26th, 2014 10:15 PM Author: diverse deranged brunch water buffalo TBF that forced meme was pretty funny once we found out that it was based on female cartoon characters. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#25634744) |
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Date: May 26th, 2014 11:08 PM Author: flickering twinkling uncleanness dilemma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#25635125) |
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Date: September 27th, 2013 5:33 PM Author: thriller office 180 summary (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24124616) |
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Date: September 28th, 2013 11:17 PM Author: Maniacal marketing idea ape Your synopsis isn't accurate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24132017) |
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Date: September 29th, 2013 12:30 PM Author: Turquoise galvanic house If this is really pensive you sound incredibly unhinged. How seriously would the aspies over at HN take you if they knew you megaposted on a racist chatboard like this?
Why are you still talking about your bad manager at Google like some scorned woman? Maybe you and Quin Woodward Pu should collab on a novel.
How good of a troll can u be when ur so easily goaded into writing a wall of text on Saturday night? |
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Date: September 29th, 2013 12:37 PM Author: Razzmatazz Bright Prole Jewess you're a poor redneck from the midwest who went to the best college you could get into, a shithold in the midwest.
lol at some "google alpha punjabi" ruining your "career." |
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Date: May 26th, 2014 10:12 PM Author: razzle rough-skinned digit ratio keepsake machete U: pathetically following his posting career over a decade and posting 700 word screeds analyzing him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#25634731) |
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Date: May 26th, 2014 10:49 PM Author: green 180 sneaky criminal That's it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#25634996) |
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Date: May 26th, 2014 11:04 PM Author: Cerebral brass yarmulke library if he's borderline mentally ill, what's the term for a guy like you who displays shameless obsession with cataloging said "illness?" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#25635091) |
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Date: May 26th, 2014 11:10 PM Author: harsh silver step-uncle's house cr. he was marginally above average intelligence and imagined himself to be like boondocks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#25635137) |
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Date: January 20th, 2015 4:48 AM Author: fragrant filthpig personal credit line Very creepy and vindictive quotemo style. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#27150636) |
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Date: February 28th, 2015 5:22 PM Author: Contagious friendly grandma so much scholarship about other poasters. thank u fplb (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#27407415) |
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Date: September 29th, 2013 1:03 PM Author: vigorous range lol, pensive. lol.
http://www.seroundtable.com/google-fight-16625.html
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Date: September 29th, 2013 1:14 PM Author: Razzmatazz Bright Prole Jewess lol the most innovative company in the world shit him out after 4 mos!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24134396) |
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Date: May 26th, 2014 10:55 PM Author: flickering twinkling uncleanness dilemma damn i'm not sure i've ever seen someone be so fucking DONE HERE. doubt pensive will even respond. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#25635033) |
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Date: May 27th, 2014 12:32 PM Author: Hairraiser University So DEVASTATING that xo should retire the use of the word. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#25637771) |
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Date: September 29th, 2013 3:00 PM Author: Bearded set black woman what a grim tale (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24134869) |
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Date: May 26th, 2014 6:39 PM Author: vigorous range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#25633313) |
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Date: May 26th, 2014 10:05 PM Author: Hairraiser University Doods: he has a fan club over at his blog. Some quotes:
"You are an amazing writer and thinker"
"Your ideas are well fleshed out and extremely compelling"
"You should feel proud because I bet a lot of people have changed their life decisions based on reading your post"
IN SHORT: maybe we have spurned one of the great thinkers of our generation?
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Date: February 28th, 2015 6:34 PM Author: Rose home Sock puppets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#27407713) |
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Date: May 26th, 2014 10:41 PM Author: ocher flatulent theater stage everyone who compliments pensive is pensive everyone who tries to objectively criticize pensive is pensive everyone who puts pensive in a post title is pensive the guy is a loser. |
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Date: May 26th, 2014 10:55 PM Author: exhilarant hominid dragon Pensive is unquestionably the most Elliot Rodger-like person to ever poast on this board. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#25635031) |
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Date: May 26th, 2014 11:08 PM Author: flickering twinkling uncleanness dilemma cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#25635130) |
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Date: May 27th, 2014 12:26 PM Author: concupiscible iridescent area mediation "If JJC and I bred, our baby would be like Rodger." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#25637739) |
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Date: May 27th, 2014 12:37 PM Author: peach wonderful box office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#25637781) |
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Date: February 28th, 2015 5:20 PM Author: obsidian jap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#27407409) |
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Date: February 28th, 2015 7:24 PM Author: exciting onyx immigrant rehab He likes cats: http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-thumb-2038726-200-wzbsveipkqlgkyiicqovkwyluqysawjf.jpeg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#27407961) |