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Ha! People who wear power suits, makeup, expensive haircuts and shoes are already doing all this. Technology just means you don't have to spend time in the stylist's chair to accomplish it any more!



Until you have to, you know, actually meet someone in person.


I've done entire contracts without ever meeting in person.


And what percentage of the population do you believe that is true for? Remember, we're talking about people interviewing in general here, not the small percentage of software devs who work 100% remotely on contract.

Not to mention you'll just come off as a huge weirdo as soon as you're found out.


So, it works for those that do long-distance negotiation. So what? Finding a case that doesn't work so good, is just straw-man stuff.


It's not a straw man when your case applies to a tiny fraction of the human population and mine applies to the rest. Context matters, I was responding to this:

>Ha! People who wear power suits, makeup, expensive haircuts and shoes are already doing all this. Technology just means you don't have to spend time in the stylist's chair to accomplish it any more!

Did you forget what you wrote?


Did you forget the entire topic? What other uses for this technology. Which online representation modification is.




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