Wew lads

Similar happened to me. Still get asked by people when I'm going to get a job. They can't understand that I have a job on the Internet, working remotely, where I make more money than they ever have at any local company, engineering or not!

If I insist on this, then they ask why I'm not dropping money on them if I have some. And then criticize me for buying things for myself. Just can't win. People aren't rational.

Wew lad

Kids should learn to use a variety of machines, because this is what the real world is going to be like. I meet too many stunted devs who find it impossible to develop in the environment that they're supposed to be making software for.

I'm sorry that EA was your motivation.

Too bad that it's not only like this in the office. Anywhere that I'm working, guys want to get my attention or interject into something that's not their business or that they know nothing about. Then get upset that I don't like their suggestions or that I'm not happy to have an interruption. "You weren't smiling so I wanted to talk to make you smile." Like do those fools seriously smile all the time either? I was concentrating, and now I'm angry.

Pixel XL is my new daily phone. Have others for development/testing.

Following because I'm working with node currently.

@elisa In primary school, computer/programming classes were not open to anyone, and I was denied although I already had experience making websites by that time. I don't know why. Teachers told me that I couldn't do it, although I was doing it and could prove it. I always just learned on my own through the internet as a result.

Good name

Here's an oddity... Two that were #666 by default

@Coffeeboy They're different. Here's a ss with both the green cat and #3

@LucaScorpion Android Nougat Easter Egg (what it's called)

Lowest number I have is 3, highest is 981

So probably cats <= 1000

1. Is Starbucks employing children?
2. Remembers you because you're there often
3. Do you tip a lot?

I used to go to a coffee shop almost every day for a year (had a year membership), and everyone there knew me and what I liked. They often had a coffee waiting for me when I came in. They asked about what I was working on today. I didn't take it to mean anything special. They're doing their job and probably don't want extra bother from customers.

Now I go to Starbucks and almost never see the same person working again because they have so many employees. 😿

Several online schools have free Git classes.

That's really cool. Some communities have tried so hard to be welcoming, in opposition to others. You can read my rant where I briefly mention being discouraged and verbally abused for wanting to learn, denied signing up for classes, and having to come to terms with that being how programming was going to be, and having to keep going despite that, mostly on my own.

You could always form a conspiracy ring.

Currently, I work with ~50% women. Big change from most previous jobs where there were very few women (maybe 10:1 if I wasn't the only one), and none stayed. You can tell the culture of a place from that.

More home automation.

Well? What happens when you do that? Something should. ;)

Favorited.

@dfox Great, fast reply!

Maybe this is a suggestion for @dfox (with no offense meant)

When I see that picture...

And here we see why people complain about the lack of interdisciplinary minds in tech, and reinforcement of the stereotype that all a techie can aspire to be is a code monkey. Conveniently, these are also class issues. ;)

I've seen startups get praised for the ability to "pivot," which in their case meant, "completely change directions and start over after getting investors and free labor on board." Yeah, it's cool if it works, but in their case it didn't, and alienated their supporters.

@divil More just odd that guys think it's rare?

I was wondering why there were memes about you. Great reason!

Has happened to me, including doing a week of free work for the company as a "challenge" — first red flag, but kept going because "friends" in company assured me it was fine. Been rejected a couple of times at the final stage because "not a cultural fit for the team," even though we did the same work and had the same interests. I've since learned that "cultural fit" is likely a code for "wrong demographic" as no women worked at these companies.

I now don't put so much effort into interviews, if this is going to be how it ends anyway. They can see that I can program, that I have the skills to work at their company, and that should be enough. Big companies that are worth your time will pay you for a technical interview or trial work, and I'll put effort into that, but no more unpaid work.