littleninja

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by littleninja 5y ago
And yet this is exactly sexism. Even if men statistically have larger bodies, can you correlate that to military success? Are you ignoring qualities like grit, confidence, strength, courage, strategy, and leadership which are not “male qual
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by littleninja 5y ago
> Does anyone know a community where one can find people to help individually ? Yes! https://codingcoach.io/ I enlisted to be a mentor but found I wasn’t prepared or ready for the time commitment quite yet. The folks who
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by littleninja 5y ago
> promotes really crappy "Look at me! I just learned a thing and wrote a 300 word blog doing a crappy job explaining it because I don't really get it but want to pad my CV..." This is a broad brush, are you sure the intent
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by littleninja 6y ago
As someone who came into software dev without a degree and started in QA, this is correct. Some shops are setup with QA as a separate function on separate teams. If development tickles your fancy, starting on one of those QA teams may limit
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by littleninja 6y ago
Coding Coach [1] makes this simple: folks who want to be a mentor have posted their contact details, you reach out and see if it’s a match. Do read their mentorship guidelines [2]. [1] https://mentors.codingcoach.io/ [2] h
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by littleninja 6y ago
Depends. Pre-COVID I was running 4-5x per week, was training up to a half marathon distance. I thought having a dog would help pass the time, motivate me to keep the habit, maybe keep me safe. The dog we adopted loves running, but play spri
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by littleninja 6y ago
Thank you for sharing! Hadn’t heard of Effective Altruism or 80,000 Hours before. This takes a tangent from the article, but it surprised me “Privacy” was absent from the primary paths[1], though the inverse “Surveillance” made the list and
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by littleninja 6y ago
Buy Nothing Project. If you want to practice opening your heart and focusing on what you have to give, I recommend this so much. (I lost touch when I deactivated my Facebook account but I’m happy to see they’re trying open source and a crow
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by littleninja 6y ago
> He has some points, but maybe he didn’t... Host site is Valley Girl Newsletter, author Apoorva Govind with feminine avatar. Why the assumption this is a male engineer and author?