I had $4k charged fraudulently on my credit card recently. Hmmm...

Internships if you're in school or startups if you're not are good ways to get your foot in the door. Probably not quality experience, but that comes with time anyway.

Also if you have no experience, that qualifies you for anything requiring 2 years lmao. Job postings always exaggerate what they're willing to take.

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Sounds like an excuse to be a dick with extra steps. Like Neil DeGrass Tyson! That guy thinks he's the best thing since sliced bread. Those guys needed more hugs as kids. Always something to prove, but too callous to connect with anyone to prove it.

@Lensflare It's typescript, used with angular + redux. If you would like to complain about comedy integrity, I suggest you fill out a form ABC-1234, promptly address it to the office of internal humors, fold it, and shove it squarely up your ass.

@Crismon I am using typescript. I got an error, but it wasn't useful (expected ',' or something like that) because I used a reserved keyword so it just threw the whole file syntax off. This was also very early in the morning and before coffee lol

I particularly like how they habe LESS and SASS, Gulp and Grunt, and a sticker that just says "CODE"

Like do you get a free sticker whenever you install a package or something?

Freshman CS student: turns in first hello world assignment

Their laptop:

Damn yall got your own dev team 😂

Those courses are ridiculous. I love how they advertise like a 95% job placement rate too. When in reality what happens is:

"Give us $10k in 3 months and then teach our classes for $12/hr because nobody will hire you and we want to boast job placement"

@uyouthe don't need it don't sweat it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Eh depends on the application. 480mb/s is plenty for a lot of things.

@Fast-Nop I consider doctor, programmer, lawyer and businessman when I was growing up. Mostly just things that pay well. Nursing pays well, but I didn't consider it. I didn't know how difficult it was or the downsides, I didn't know much about it at all. But all the same it didn't cross my mind.

Wasn't intentional, just didn't happen.

At the end of the day there's less women in tech than men. I think it has a lot to do with how the field is viewed in the US. It's not that women can't view the field differently or something, but unless someone sets out to actively challenge a view then tech is seen as a male dominated career, just like nursing is seen as a female dominated career. As such I think a lot women don't consider tech and men don't consider nursing.

@Fast-Nop and that's probably because I'm a guy. I didn't grow up seeing male nurses, when I thought of a medical career as a kid my mind would go to doctor or EMT. So I was never positioned to consider nursing. It's just the perspective we're conditioned to follow without realizing it. Has nothing to do with me or my capabilities or my capacity or the career. It's a sociological problem.

@Fast-Nop It doesn't mean that. It means people in general are exposed to views and beliefs that permeate society. Nobody "has" to do anything, and nobody "can't" do anything. When speaking about perspective and subconscious bias it's meaningless to talk in terms of absolutes like that.

Sure, women CAN go into tech like men CAN go into nursing. And many do. But clearly less than the opposite. I believe this has to do with a perception of those fields.

It has nothing to do with men or women not being "able to make their own decisions". They CAN, but that doesn't mean they'll be posed to challenge a norm or common perception.

It's a matter of subconscious vs conscious. Not considering CS as a career doesn't mean you're incapable of it, it just means you didn't. And I'm confident there's a subconscious bias about the career based on how it's perceived that leads to that.

I didn't consider nursing as a career. I could have, I'm sure it'd be great. But I didn't. Never crossed my mind

@Fast-Nop I'd say it's more a matter of perception. Tech careers are perceived as male roles because it's mostly men working them. I imagine that would reduces overall interest from would-be women lead roles. It's a feedback loop.

The same could be said about men in nursing. I don't think there's any actual differences, it's just how the industry is perceived by society and the effect that has on the perception of people considering career options.

But what others are saying is true. Many off my companies offshore tech roles are women, at least a similar proportion as men. I think it's more of a US thing. There's actually more women in my team than men believe it or not.

The fact that there are so many gender locked opportunities and pushes to diversify the field indicate a desire to introduce women into tech.

In fact I would say the opposite, that being female is an advantage in the CS job market, provided you take upon the opportunities available.

Anecdotal but I know someone who got hired to a fairly competitive dev role who was NOT good at coding. They nearly flunked college and had their boyfriend help or do a large amount of many of their assignments. Yet they still got the job. And they've been promoted since.

There's no difference in gender when it comes to capability, talent, or potential. But there is a difference in opportunity. It's a bit of a catch-22, women in general are less likely to be involved in tech and that makes it a less desirable field, but I wouldn't say there's net unfair disadvantage.

@DocFlow Anytime. If you're up for a real challenge that will prove beneficial to any framework, I'd recommend the book series "You Don't Know JS" and the book "Eloquent Javascript". Both are free online.

If you're more receptive to videos, the video series on Udemy titled "JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts" is really good.

@DocFlow I'm an angular dev, went into front right as an intern right out of college and went to junior then mid level. I like Angular, though I can understand why some might not lol.

Also don't worry, everyone has trouble positioning things with CSS. After 5 years doing CSS through various internships, jobs, and projects, I still sometimes just scroll through properties and values to "see what works" haha

@JhonDoe Ironically I found backend to be harder lol. Maybe just because I started by learning html/css and got all the way into JS frameworks before I started learning backend development, and maybe also because my work uses Springboot, but I find UI work to be far less challenging.

I've been playing guitar (electric and acoustic) on and off for 10 years. No idea how to read or write music but I can pay covers.

It's a hobby like any other, but yeah progressing a skill can be therapeutic.

@LesMore I think it's a false sense of superiority. Producing outcomes isn't a justification for being rude and hateful. If being rude and hateful was a necessary byproduct of producing outcomes then perhaps it would be different, but we know it's not because there's lots of successful and capable developers who aren't dicks.

It's just a superiority complex. It's thinking you're above being kind to people because you brought value to the world. You're not. Doing a good thing doesn't cancel out the bad you do, it's not a zero sum game. If you cure cancer and kick a homeless man you're still a dick for kicking the homeless man. Maybe people will overlook it because of the good you provided but it doesn't make you less of a dick and it doesn't remove the negative morality.

You don't have to do a bad thing to do good, you just choose to because you can get away with it. It's still immoral and worthy of criticism.

@OmerFlame Had an account long ago with a couple thousand but forgot the credentials so I made this one :P but thanks! Best wishes

@OmerFlame down the dark water of energy and push through, always a sunrise and fresh cup waiting tomorrow 😊

@LesMore That seems like a cop out. Decency towards others isn't hard and egotistical jargon like that makes it seem like kindness and good development are mutually exclusive. They're not.

I don't subscribe to this whole "I'm so good at what I do it outweighs how much of an ass I am" idea. I don't care what real world impacts you and your efforts have, your attitude towards others is independent from your good deeds and is not morally untouchable.

If you "Don't have the patience for these peasants and their antics" then that's a you problem. No high horses or ivory towers here. You're a person just like me and I hold you to the standard of decency.

Shitty coffee makes shitty code, don't let your code be shitty!

@Jilano Unfortunately the people I'd be standing up to outrank me and have much more seniority by quite a bit 😅 It's not an enigma, people know this person as the asshole that getaway away with being an asshole because of his skill.

Not worth the energy and risk to call them out, so for now I'll just stick with eyerolls when meetings end lol

@EmberQuill The issue is more that I've taken on (unofficially) a lead-esque role despite the scope of my knowledge being mostly limited to one part of my project

But since I have a lot of seniority on my team through other members moving to different roles and companies, people turn to me for answers pretty often

The problem there being that there's a good bit I've never been exposed to and don't have familiarity with because of the type of work I do.

So when shit does hit the fan and people ask me all kinds of questions to figure out a solution, I often don't have answers because I -also- don't know wtf is wrong. I can hypothesize a little but what I can derive ideas from is ultimately limited.

Would ${parent project}'s configuration and routing to our own and their interaction with ${external project} cause ${specific failure}? I have no idea, half of that sentence is still foreign to me

Every time we upgrade our framework and need to maintain the old version for use in upper environments I make this mistake. I have 2 repositories and often make changes in the wrong one.

"How is it possible to change this and it's not even showing? Is the compiler busted? Am I on the wrong url? What the fuck is g-

God dammit wrong folder"