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Comment by pwdisswordfish | Hacker News Reader

> the recruiter had a list of keywords, received a large volume of inbound resumes and filtered for == 'UNIX' and dumped everything else

To be fair, I wouldn't expect this kind of 'recruiting by grep' to happen at Facebook of all places either.

OT, did you actually embed your password in the username to enable random users share it?

Apparently they did...

Yep

Interesting... Is it a social experiment?

Deniability? Make your password public, stop being responsible for your postings.

I, pwdisswordfish, accept all responsibility for all of my posts, past, present, and future.

Ironically, you could always claim that acceptance of responsibility was written by someone else (and perhaps it was).

That's the joke...

I am verbify, this actually works

But can you nounify it?

Initially I actually thought his working directory was swordfish.. I'd make a terrible hacker.

FYI, here is more analysis on the reality of "recruiting by grep". https://fulldecent.blogspot.com/2010/10/classic-and-modern-j...

Under the section Keyword Stuffing.

Can I use your user to upvote all my comments?

That would be an interesting result to the experiment.

Well I see someone already changed your pwd, which is another expected result of the experiment :)

Not a very interesting one though.

We meet again.

To whoever has changed this account's password, can you be nice and change it back? I wanted to play in this experiment too. :(

They are using greedy matching ;)