morgtheborg

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by morgtheborg 9y ago
> Compared to a parent who has to work 2 jobs, or who has a job that requires long shifts, or who has to be away from home for weeks or months Yea, those are shitty for family life too.
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by morgtheborg 9y ago
I think it makes quite a bit of sense if you're at all interested in having children and staying home with them for any amount of years to worry about the income of your partner. That description tends to apply more to females than mal
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by morgtheborg 9y ago
What dietary changes did you make to get rid of your acne? I've experimented with a few things and have had relatively good success, but a purely dietary method seems healthier.
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by morgtheborg 9y ago
Agreed. I learned a lot there.
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by morgtheborg 9y ago
I think most people hear "Learn to be a computer programmer in 6 months!" and think "get a job coding" which was pretty accurate in my experience (and those of my friends who attended a bootcamp). Now, of course, being a
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by morgtheborg 9y ago
Huh. I went through devbootcamp 3 years ago and stay in touch with a fair amount of people who did bootcamps. Haven't really heard this one before. The anecdotes I've heard are actually the opposite direction; that the bootcamp gr
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by morgtheborg 9y ago
Not in my experience.
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by morgtheborg 9y ago
> take one of the most personally rewarding and edifying experiences and completely formalize one of the most exciting parts of it (if not the most). what becomes the point of your life??? Yea, so the early part of dating may be the most
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by morgtheborg 9y ago
Huh, I suppose it depends on what you're looking for. Getting in depth about politics, religion, attitudes towards rearing children, commitment to finding a partner, etc. doesn't tend to be appropriate at parties (since most peopl
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by morgtheborg 9y ago
Eh, if you're one of the few devs at a startup it's easy to get a "senior" title. It comes down to responsibility. Now whether any sane startup should be HIRING as one of their primary devs a recent grad is another quest
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by morgtheborg 9y ago
> I've had people who didn't know the difference between an object and an array, and people who had to comment their way through implementing a function that replicates "filter" in javascript. I don't know a sing
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by morgtheborg 9y ago
Or they did their 12 weeks and then studied on their own time.
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by morgtheborg 9y ago
I mean, I should not be senior. I should not have been the only web dev as my first job out of a bootcamp. That is insane. But, bizarrely, in this world of start-ups and feature pushing, shit has yet to hit the fan. I think it helps I routi
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by morgtheborg 9y ago
I took on a position as the sole web dev as my first position, with promises that a senior dev would be onboarded within 3 months. Instead, the company paid for me to pair program with experts in different areas (security, devops, general f
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by morgtheborg 10y ago
That's unfair. It's as likely that she was uncomfortable and this was a way to mitigate her concerns. I was very uncomfortable going to my first meetups around tech and most of those concerns turned out to be valid, so I can'
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by morgtheborg 10y ago
Interesting. I assumed that this > chatting with other women about coding in Swift. meant that it wasn't just a matter of learning Swift (I honestly don't know why anyone would learn a language via a meetup rather than using on
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by morgtheborg 10y ago
Super curious what that short list is, care to share?
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by morgtheborg 10y ago
Depends on your degree. I have a MA in Global Affairs and Management and getting a job in DC meant pulling all sorts of connections, being willing to do internships that paid close to nothing, and networking my rear off. I once sent out ove
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by morgtheborg 10y ago
I did three years ago. Basically spent three weeks reading books and doing exercises available online for about 3-5 hours a day and then nine weeks of M-F 9 AM - 11 pm and probably 4-9 hours each day of the weekend doing curated exercises i
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by morgtheborg 10y ago
Your argument is that it would "stressful and hostile to everyone equally" to casually use sexist language or not provide maternity leave? I'm not suggesting an "all women" situation here, but I am claiming all thre
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by morgtheborg 10y ago
> There are plenty of pejoratives for men too, they are likely using those to refer to each other. The words I listed were the ones they were primarily using to put down one another. I cannot even imagine the man who would use those term
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by morgtheborg 10y ago
> It can be stressful and hostel to everyone equally. I believe that is the case. Eh, none of the men seem particularly perturbed by the term bitch, slut, whore, etc until I point out it makes me uncomfortable. None of them seem particul
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by morgtheborg 10y ago
> I've been working on an initiative to encourage more of my male peers to do more to make their organisations more diverse and was recently criticised by a female software engineer who told me that I shouldn't "come into
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by morgtheborg 10y ago
> Also - I am not totally convinced it is because of the rhetoric we as females are exposed to. A lot of the guys I know seem to have gotten into tech while modding their computer games. I myself got into it while creating websites for c
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by morgtheborg 10y ago
1. Did you have [what shouldn't be] atypical interests as a girl? Sort of? I read a LOT as a kid. I bought a book randomly as a third grader on interesting sites for kids on the net; this led to my Dad teaching me how to get on the net
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by morgtheborg 10y ago
1) do you think there are more men in engineering exclusively as a result of men being prejudiced against women? Definitely not. Humans are complicated beasts, so it'd be pretty impressive if there was an exclusive reason. I do think,
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by morgtheborg 10y ago
As a women who would love to have my future husband raise the kids, let me tell you it's not easy to find an intelligent man in a big city who is willing to stay home and raise children.
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by morgtheborg 10y ago
100% agree. At the start-up I work at when I brought up we needed to set a maternity leave policy, I made a point of saying we should match it with a paternity leave policy. I'm a woman, but if I was hiring and it came down to someone
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by morgtheborg 10y ago
> Small parties with friends who are verifiably not loud and obnoxious are good, and so are dinner parties. Seems reasonable. I'm all about being as committed to my personal life as my work and I make those dating apps WORK for me.