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  1. Comment on Beware tech career advice from old heads in ~comp

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    When my cousin hit the workforce in the late 90s, it was truly a case of "if you knew which was was up on a keyboard, you could get a job in tech." They could not hire people fast enough. When I...

    When my cousin hit the workforce in the late 90s, it was truly a case of "if you knew which was was up on a keyboard, you could get a job in tech." They could not hire people fast enough.

    When I got into the industry in the mid-2000s, companies would come and conduct interviews at my college campus, and I got a job right out of college.

    Nowadays (based on what new devs have told me), you can barely get a recruiter to respond to you if you're a new grad.

    This article resonated with me because it succinctly states what I've felt internally for a while. When new developers ask me about breaking into the industry, I pretty frankly tell them that I have no advice to give, because what worked for me absolutely won't work for them. It's a totally different environment now, not only in the ratio of supply vs. demand for developers, but also in what sort of expectations we put on new developers (I was way more of a doofus when I first started than people I see now).

    36 votes

  4. Comment on (715) 999-7483 - A phone-powered multiplayer website builder in ~tech

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    715-999-7483 is a phone-powered multiplayer website builder. By calling the phone number, anyone at any time can update the homepage by describing the changes they'd like to make to it. What happens when you give the public the power to change one central website? Will they use the power for good, for stupidity, and will they wait on hold to use it?

    20 votes

  6. Comment on Gene Hackman and his wife found dead at their home in ~movies

  7. Comment on Protesters demonstrate outside Tesla showrooms in US in ~society

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    I work for a "save the world" sort of place already; the fed would kill funding to if they had the choice. Would it be helpful to do a general strike at a place like that? What sort of message...

    I work for a "save the world" sort of place already; the fed would kill funding to if they had the choice. Would it be helpful to do a general strike at a place like that? What sort of message does that send?

    6 votes

  9. Comment on The age of the coward is here, where America’s most powerful corporations, once eager to preach their values, now fold like cheap umbrellas at the first gust of political wind in ~society

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    The Age of the Coward is here, where America’s most powerful corporations, once eager to preach their values, now fold like cheap umbrellas at the first gust of political wind.

    5 votes

  11. Comment on How to lose weight in four easy steps in ~life

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    He's worked with Conan for a long time - he used to cohost the Clueless Gamer segments on his show (among other things). Conan even shows up in the video version of this essay (timestamped to when...

    He's worked with Conan for a long time - he used to cohost the Clueless Gamer segments on his show (among other things).

    Conan even shows up in the video version of this essay (timestamped to when he appears).

    6 votes

  14. Comment on UFO50AndroidUnofficial: A tool to build your own Android version of UFO 50 in ~games

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    A cool project but requiring a controller means it's not really "on the go" for me.

    A cool project but requiring a controller means it's not really "on the go" for me.

    4 votes

  15. Comment on Apple is killing Swift in ~comp

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    Have you worked professionally in Kotlin? I've done years of it professionally and your analysis feels very off the mark. Maybe you worked with people who like to write overly clever code? (Those...

    Kotlin is more of a "write-first" language where it's easy to bang out some code, but reading others' Kotlin can be a pain. When there's too many options for how to write things, people like to try to get clever and play code golf.

    Have you worked professionally in Kotlin? I've done years of it professionally and your analysis feels very off the mark. Maybe you worked with people who like to write overly clever code? (Those people exist in every language).

    I can't speak to Swift vs. Kotlin because I have not developed Swift myself.

    9 votes

  17. Comment on There is no safe word: How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades in ~books