Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat

Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat

Rachel Kroll describes a neat hack for companies with an internal LDAP server or similar machine-readable employee directory: run a cron somewhere internal that grabs the latest version and diffs it against the previous to figure out who has joined or left the company.

I suggest using Git for this - a form of Git scraping - as then you get a detailed commit log of changes over time effectively for …

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