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by galoisgirl 6y ago
You can get a free account on one, for example in Master the Mainframe. Sure, it's not half as cool as having the machine like that guy, but you don't need to reinforce the floor in your house, so there's that.
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
I'm doing in COBOL: https://github.com/GaloisGirl/Coding/tree/master/AdventOfCod... I'm having a problem with day 7 with the lack of hash tables. Care to share your BASIC solutions?
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
> COBOL jobs are not particularly well-paying, and there are young people learning it, and no, they don't get awesome paychecks. Yup. All the articles on the shortage of COBOL programmers is actually companies whining that they can&
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
Yeah, because men have nothing to do with it, they admire stay-at-home fathers... /s The other comment about society is important too. A full-time job will range from 30 to 60 hours depending on the society. I heard of a Japanese wife
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
We know. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
The same argument was made recently about the reduce function: it's a known pattern for some and a hard to understand trick for others.
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
May I recommend Maria Markstedter? https://azeria-labs.com/the-process-of-mastering-a-skill/ 90% of her content is about ARM exploitation (which I'm personally not interested in). However, she has a couple of post
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
> Rather I'm comparing how well each layer's tools serve the developer and project. CSS and algorithms? Come on. > Just not true. Historically, Web dev meant crazy amounts of code hacks in order to target different browsers.
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
> it's useful to mention the geo-political context of your comment. Really? How so?
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
In my country, you call 112 and they inform you on how to proceed. They decide whether an ambulance is necessary. The decision is made by a trained professional, not a panicked parent. You can call 112 when your cat is stuck on a tree.
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
Why, do you want to travel to a French ski resort to get some stitches done for free?
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
> HTML and CSS are not clean, intuitive, or efficient beyond simple examples. They do have a steep learning curve. The web is polluted with tutorials and StackOverflow answers from people who haven't learned them yet, like this atro
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
> All I really want from the web is You do know there are a few other people in this world, right?
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
Some of you have never had to install Flash in your browser and it shows. (Not you-you, proposal author-you.) Flash was one technology that handled content, presentation and logic.
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
There are other jobs on other stacks out there.
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
Actually, I hate how most recipes are written. I also hate when people make oversimplified analogies about programming.
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
Courage is not the lack of fear, but the conviction that something else is more important than fear.
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
Documenting bugs is providing a lot of value already. It would be also inefficient for you to spend time learning how the tool works, setting up the environment etc. when there are people who know it already.
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
Vegetarians have animal blood on their hands as well: https://theconversation.com/ordering-the-vegetarian-meal-the...
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
> at the ripe old age of 30 Fuck me...
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
> What is to stop someone from borrowing slightly further beyond their means than you? In Europe, banking laws.
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
How are we catching up exactly? We have all the knowledge that men have. Do more athletic mothers give birth to more athletic daughters?
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
So does she: https://twitter.com/elisabethirg/status/1306229215742889987
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
As in doors for employment opportunities?
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
> Women are as a strong as men Are you trolling? Why do you think there are separate sports competitions?
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
I'm writing this as a middle-class person, who has to go into debt if she wants to buy a house. It's not a bad thing - I want the house now but saving up would take too long. It's just a choice. "Repaying" technical
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
Well said. All the smart things I ever read about technical debt basically describe debt and add the word "technical" - because that's what it is. It's not maintenance, it's not refactoring, it's just pure and
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
If it exists only in the heads of the engineers, then it's not technical debt. Don't get me wrong, there are problems that mainly exist "in the heads of the engineers". Many of them want to refactor code or migrate to a
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
You! You're the guy with JavaScript disabled that I have to account for!
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by galoisgirl 6y ago
It's not a space problem if that's all we can teach people in 12 years, it's a teaching problem.

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