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by vsareto 4y ago
>If we want to call ourselves software engineers, we need to start holding ourselves and each other to higher standards. We can do better. There's a limit to individual accountability. You need professional accreditation which bring
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>I know people hate to hear this, but having the combination of a short 3-month job on your resume followed by a 5 month gap doesn't look good when compared to the 5 other resumes these companies are going to receive from people who
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If you had bad grades or your parents thought you didn't have a lot of potential, you probably got the "any degree would do" talk over "go into this hard STEM degree"
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None of these downsides are really much different than just being an employee, except without the union, you have lower pay and benefits.
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>It should be structured, tested, malleable, navigable and understandable. People have different thresholds for when their code reaches these states though, especially "understandable". You can meaningfully define these (and te
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Reading this thread, it seems like you just become tainted and no one will ever take a chance on you again if you had this period for whatever reason. This is starting to sound a little cruel.
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Does anyone feel like this model is stretched really thin? Like, tech has a problem of easily identifying who's competent or not and has to do tech interviews to (try to) establish that. I feel like establishing if someone is an expert
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JIT is great if the things happen to interest you. JIT suuuuuucks if you don't like what you're learning and someone is always telling you what to learn. But even the first situation can fail if you are under constant pressure and
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All I remember about Novell is that you could install games on a school network locally, but often couldn't launch them. That was okay because adding a link in Powerpoint to an EXE which would then be executed because Powerpoint could.
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The biggest issue IMO is lack of flexibility. Leetcode is a specific format with specific questions, but is not necessarily the work you'll do day-to-day. What would be great is if companies offered multiple formats including leetcode,
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>What situation are people in that they have to result to this? Widespread interview advice targets the "worst-case technical interview scenario" which is doing leetcode and running a gauntlet of interviews. This casts the wide
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This is true for a lot of low-brow work because companies simply need people to grind through requirements for their bespoke CRUD apps and integrations. There's still a boat load of that kind of work to be done, but it's only a fr
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Most of this comes down to what the team/org wants and who has authority to tell you it’s not defined right or tightly coupled. It definitely is loosely defined and the rules do get stretched to fit opinions though.
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>because they haven't spent a few minutes learning a language Regex is pretty far from an easy-to-learn language and you're going to need more than a few minutes with it. Like, imagine if a standard string library only had func
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>Yet I think it is time to accept that this is a very likely future, and evolve our thinking accordingly, rather than just sit here waiting for the meteor to hit. You know, I would love for all business app development to die in a wretch
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Technically separate? Definitely. But you can't separate exchanges from crypto now. It's how pretty much all mainstream marketing happens for crypto at this point. These kinds of shenanigans have been happening often enough that i
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Pretty sure if you went to school with folks running a country, you're probably in the big club he talks about regular people not being in, so you're unlikely to wake up in terror
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>This is what I fear about AI making our jobs superfluous It's more likely that non-technical people will be pushed out of jobs near software in favor of (former) engineers. Someone non-technical writing prompts for code can't
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>Low or zero emissions concrete Feels like there's already options there. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a4078516... https://cen.acs.org/materials/Chemex-goes-glob
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>I don't feel like leveraging grit works in all situations, though? Do others feel differently? Grit and the Sunk cost fallacy are often at odds with each other. Grit is useful when picking up a skill (programming) and sticking with
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They hire closer to average talent, who will typically wait because they don't have offers swarming in. The places that hire fast and choose good talent often screen those folks out.
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>There is strong evidence that ADHD is overdiagnosed > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8042533/ That's for children and adolescents just fyi
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Could be any craft so long as you're coming up with the requirements yourself
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There's some real value in social circles around games. Even if accomplishing things in game might be seen as a nothing, those social ties can be real.
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https://i.imgur.com/kBGRUqL.jpg
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Really smart people are firefighting adversarial input from the internet? This whole situation seems completely dumb. Nothing will come from this that benefits anyone.
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You could probably message 3 random engineers at random companies and invite them to coffee and it'd be a better return on time invested for your career than writing cover letters. I'm not sure why you'd want to read 500 cove
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They moved on to putting bright LEDs on trucks
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For establishing competence, you still have to dig in to see what caused the slowness. A regular user can't tell you that.
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That's the same for many tech jobs. Competence is often only a local thing, subject to politics, reputation, and appearances. There's also no ground truth because the ground changes so fast. No one knows if the technologies mentio

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