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But it didn't stop being your personal life.

And? The word "personal" is pretty subjective. It's a personal detail that I know the words to several Death Cab For Cutie songs. An embarassing personal detail, at that. But it is not unlawful for a company to not hire me over it.

Dude, you have your ethics, I'll have mine. Let's not split hairs. If a company wants to hire or not hire you as a programmer over the type of music you like, I don't want to work there and I don't care how they found out.

Can I be any more clear than that?

Hey, raganwald, you jumped on my comment, not the other way around. I said, "it's not public if you publish it". You said, "it's personal, though". I'm not sure the hair-splitting card is in your hand to play.

Triple negation in the last sentence really helps with understanding. That being said, you should probably keep embarrassing personal details to yourself (and maybe your friends). Why would you want the company to know the embarrassing thing (since it doesn't affect work performance significantly)?

I agree with you completely. If I wanted to get self-righteous about being passed over for a job for knowing the words to "Title and Registration", I lost my leg to stand on when I posted it here.

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