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rprouse

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rprouse··on Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?
400 applications in two years is less than one application a day. The last time I was unemployed I was applying to five to ten companies a day all with targeted cover letters. I kept track of every application and followed up. I made it an eight hour a day job to find a job.
rprouse··on Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app
The app is full screen on my Samsung mobile so your bottom navigation is underneath the onscreen Android navigation and unusable. Happy to submit an issue and screenshots if you have a GitHub repo.

Other than that, it is working nicely so far.

rprouse··on Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs
This is still in early preview. They acknowledged the startup speed in several presentations I saw and said that they are working on speeding it up.
rprouse··on Ask HN: Hiring scam?
A probationary period is common in Canada too, but it is always mentioned up-front and I have never heard of a company trying out several potential employees in a series of probationary periods.

Maybe they weren't happy with her at the end of her probationary period, but are too weak to outright fire her?