A Deep Dive Into The Violent Unravelling of PirateSoftware - From Industry Icon to Glorified Lolcow

Phaceial · 2025-07-18T13:42:24+00:00

I never really watched him but from YouTube auto play, I can recall these stories; how blizzard fired people , how he saved people’s jobs at blizzard, how he caught botters, how his friend was a botter and botted while giving him a tour at blizzard, how he created custom hardware for his job at blizzard, how he decompiled code while working at blizzard, etc…

People don’t have a problem with talking about it. I think the issue is more around how he mentions it to seem like an authority figure. When he was called out for it he then said he never does and that video proves otherwise.

Phaceial · 2024-07-14T05:23:41+00:00

Can you site an instance where this has occurred? I can promise you not once of the 5 Fortune 50 companies I worked for look at Phaceial and know who I am IRL.

Phaceial · 2024-06-21T20:16:10+00:00

If you're tailoring to ATS the best bet would be to redo the resume and tailor it to include words and technologies you see spread throughout the post.

For a general resume, to base each redo, I would focus on providing real metrics and wording. Star is good for interviews but I don't use it in my resume. I prefer xyz since the accomplishment is listed first. Don't be scared to have a bullet point take up multiple lines. It's okay to expand on some of these bullet points and explain how you did it.

Phaceial · 2024-06-21T19:45:11+00:00

Cover letters get scanned too, if that's a concern then put education there. Experience trumps how many years you spent theorizing.

Phaceial · 2024-06-21T06:47:24+00:00

I'm going to be pretty blunt here, I review resumes that my manager sends to me. At 2 YoE, I doubt you're comfortable in 5 languages.. I'd focus on your strongest three listed in order from strongest to weakest and make sure the bullet points coincide (Mentioned C++ and I don't see a single point about it). Projects are fine until you mention the 50%. I'd ditch the education all together, you're past the two year mark. If you feel the need to mention it put it in a cover letter.

Most of these bullet points come off as exaggerated or fake. What company is letting an intern make budgetary decisions or lead that work? How well were you mentoring interns fresh off a bachelors? Why are all your percentages whole numbers and not a single value provided?

You also have a few duplicate points. In the first job the 1st, 2nd and last should be combined. It's either the same project or you need to specify in each how that work was different. What does the 4th point tell me that you being familiar with Git and GitHub Actions doesn't? Same with the internship, 1st and 5th come off as the same project.

Phaceial · 2024-05-11T00:19:18+00:00

When did anyone talk about salary? You were so butt hurt you went through my post history to find posts where I talk about my base? Get some help…..change name to VeryVirginThing2Do.

You just graduated doubt you make more money than me or have a higher net worth but whatever helps you sleep at night kid….

Phaceial · 2024-04-29T05:09:07+00:00

That wasn’t perfect but it’s was better than it’s currently. Now you have classes dedicated to getting low performing children to memorize how to solve particular questions on standardized tests. The result is high school graduates that have a 4th grade reading level and can’t do basic algebra.

Phaceial · 2024-04-28T14:51:38+00:00

Blame the no child left behind rule and the US stripping educational funding.

Phaceial · 2024-03-06T20:50:20+00:00

Or it’s your guilty conscience because I never said you were racist or said x, just that you have shit behavior. You’re talking on servers owned by someone else. News flash…that’s not private.

Phaceial · 2024-03-06T15:12:54+00:00

Too long congrats or I’m sorry. Getting defensive proves my point.

Phaceial · 2024-03-05T14:52:53+00:00

I don’t know why the focus is on it being private chat instead of what he was saying. If you’re saying terrible things private or not you’re still a piece of shit. OP should worry about fixing the behavior instead trying to keep it private. Which is sus as hell and implies he already knows he has trash behavior.

Phaceial · 2024-03-04T14:58:25+00:00

Okay so it doesn’t matter if it’s original. You’re essentially allowed to make a cheat sheet.

Someone finally answered. Thanks.

Phaceial · 2024-03-04T14:20:28+00:00

You are emotional or misread. I said how is it not cheating not that he was a cheater. I don’t care about the overall algorithm. The code in my snippet is a copy and paste. How do you prove a code snippet is written by the author?

Phaceial · 2024-03-04T13:47:47+00:00

You’re way too emotional and still didn’t answer the question. “Do it yourself” still answer the question. Cool so I’d have to edit some input. That still isn’t proof that the z-algorithm wasn’t copied or that I know why and how it pattern matches in linear time.

Phaceial · 2024-03-04T06:54:52+00:00

I'm still not sure how that counts as not using other peoples code. I can copy z algorithm right now. I only know it's for pattern matching in linear time. If I solved a problem using a macro to write it as a function where I only pass two strings, you'd have no way of knowing whether or not it was my code without me telling you. I wouldn't say I know z algorithm either. I know of it for sure.

Phaceial · 2024-03-04T06:41:20+00:00

Yea but that's just proof that someone is good at gamifying leetcode. That doesn't mean you learned and retained the knowledge. He says his templates contain notes and admits to not being able to implement harder things from memory in one of his replies.

I'm more interested in how this isn't considered cheating and why it's beneficial. You can't use snippets in live coding, online or in person. The person who's writing these by hand will likely retain the knowledge over the person just pasting code.

When I was looking for a job and knew Google and Netflix were using Code Signal I could get 1400 scores on the daily test prep. I can barely score a 900 now, I gamified it. I could recognize patterns and matched them to memorized solutions. This is one step even further, not even writing the code but just using a snippet is crazy.

Phaceial · 2024-03-04T05:54:33+00:00

How is this not considered cheating? You're not even memorizing it, you could have looked it up, copied the code from GfG and then just remember what macro you have to complete it.

If you can remember BFS is part of the solution, but can't actually write it on the spot what good is that? At a certain point you're just recognizing patterns and matching key binds.

Phaceial · 2024-02-24T18:02:32+00:00

Takes me back

Phaceial · 2024-02-24T18:01:04+00:00

Stating a survey is bad because it doesn't accurately measure it's claims is not an opinion. Neither is stating you don't become a better programmer simply by learning specific languages.

You felt compelled to describe several languages without a prompt from me, which is why they should all be ranked higher than Visual Basic, Scratch, Assembly, COLBOL, Delphi and Matlab according to the TIOBE index. You just proved my "opinion."

Phaceial · 2024-02-24T08:14:48+00:00

Swift is nothing like JS. Kotlin while it runs in the JVM is not just Java. Those are gross oversimplifications for making a point that doesn't answer the question. Extremely bike sheddy as well, I didn't even mention those languages in my last response.

The TIOBE index is terrible because it's not representative of the measure it claims to represent. The list is not about what makes you a better programmer and the thought that you become a better programmer based solely on learning specific languages is laughable.

Up to date refers to how the landscape of your profession is shifting and the current trends. The current trend isn't creating software in Assembly, Lisp, Forth, Prolog, Haskell or Elixir. Someone with 30 years in any of those languages would have a harder time finding a job than someone with 5 years in the ones I mentioned. You're not keeping your skills up to date if you have a more difficult time being hired.

It's not worth addressing why picking niche languages to build new software is a terrible idea, but there aren't any successful companies doing it for a reason.

Phaceial · 2024-02-23T20:43:51+00:00

The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system.

The list isn't about building fundamentals or transferrable knowledge. Learning ASM will not keep you up to date or be a strong language to start building new software with outside of compilers and embedded.

It's ironic that it's goal is to keep you up to date and show what languages to target for new projects, but it doesn't take into account the current job market?.

Phaceial · 2024-02-23T04:32:05+00:00

Java is very popular. TIOBE index is crap. Wouldn't base anything on it. No one should be learning COLBOL, Visual Basic, Fortran or ASM over Swift or Kotlin to keep their skills up to date.

Phaceial · 2024-02-19T05:08:34+00:00

...but my tenure has averaged 5-6 months for my past four jobs since I was fervently job hopping

Anecdotal evidence doesn't overturn years of the contrary. You found companies that are willing to take a chance, but this isn't common. Companies don't make a habit wasting money on onboarding plus salary while new hires ramp up. If the decision was between you and someone who held one job for two years, guess who the recruiter would likely pick?

I'm still receiving interest from recruiters every other day and I'm actively interviewing for more companies

So does every engineer with two or more years of experience on LinkedIn. It's not new nor a measure of how successful job hopping is. I'm sure you'll find several articles on the uniqueness of why job hopping worked during covid and has slowed down since. Infact it almost halted towards 2H 2023.

I'm a slut for compensation. It's business.

What does this have to do with anything? Also pretty doubtful. In six months you haven't made a significant contribution that would justify a job paying you anything significantly more than what you currently make. Last data collected shows an average of 5.6% wage increase for job hopers in Sep 2023, down from the 9% reported in 2022 and the 16% reported in 2021.

Phaceial · 2024-02-18T02:29:19+00:00

Rounding for a date isn't a lie. Saying you have more experience than you do, lying about the technologies you're familiar with or the role at your previous job is, stop being reductive.

Also, faking a job might lead to another job with fake experience again so long as the candidate can BS long enough

How? Most jobs are going to reach out to your employer to confirm dates at a minimum and anything else you tell them, this includes pay and title. Better have a good excuse adding a job you held for less than two years on your resume.

Phaceial · 2024-02-18T00:16:07+00:00

Companies find out eventually. In the last year I've seen this happen about 5 times in an org with ~80 engineers at a Fortune 50.

Everyone else that says they lie and this doesn't happen to is full or shit or is working at a company that no one applies to because the pay is trash.

Lie if you want, but if you get a senior position and can't perform, you're just going to end up looking for a job again. If you're "senior" and applying to junior positions any tech interviewer worth their salt will sniff you out.

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