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No, Excel is not relevant to the conversation. Excel is a standalone desktop application. No, Excel is not an example of a "no-code" webapp. Do you seriously need another adult to tell you these things?
> There are still PHPBB forums which "look like dog shit" but host vibrant communities
There are small communities that predate modern web/Facebook, which is irrelevant. There is also craigslist, and its shitty design is remarked upon constantly. It's frequented by the elderly so falls outside the scope of discussion.
You're married to the idea that design standards haven't changed, or that the web as a platform hasn't become much more sophisticated over the last ~decade.
It's mostly due to this principle actually that Facebook usurped Myspace despite having far fewer features.
One exception to the rule lately is Roam Research, which looks like dog shit but is apparently popular.
The reality here is that if you're a leftist, you may well be under the impression that people are in fact overcommunicating ever minor, pointless, faux-activist idea that pops into their head. If you're not a leftist, of course you're self-censoring constantly, despite how bold and idiotic the mob's ideas may be.
Compiling var my__thing = 10 yields:
Error: invalid token: trailing underscore
Which is actually my biggest complaint about Nim. The error messaging is terrible, as are some of the decisions around the standard library. There's a good amount of bad and Windows-centric language there, unfortunately. Functions in the standard library like "setCtrlCHook" https://nim-lang.org/docs/system.html#setControlCHook%2Cproc...
Overall still a fan of Nim. Unlike many of the people in this thread, "marketing" is not a concern to me. I don't expect to ever program with Nim at my day job because "marketing" programmers are too dogmatic these days. Day-job languages are always going to be hypelang_2020 + dogma_patterns_v3. I very much like that the Nim community feels underground, is small and active. I hope it never suffers from the influence of modern dayjob programmers, but this is because I've seen the fun sapped out of other communities. A selfish desire, if I may.
Actually, it seems to be leftists who are under the impression that their actions should have no consequences.
https://news.yahoo.com/harvard-grad-says-she-fired-125450691...
You're conflating passive judgement with active harassment, witch hunts, for "having the wrong opinion." In fact you don't even have to voice an opinion to be the subject of modern leftist witch hunts. Today, being white and smirking is enough to provoke the mania that has consumed the western world. If you're caught in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and covered by leftist media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2019_Lincoln_Memorial_...
In general, fascism distinguishes itself for its intolerance of political opponents, suppression of freedom of speech, and lack of respect for the democratic principles of a majority vote as well as exclusion or isolation of other democratic parties and the use of violence
Nope. As the OP suggested, lots of people aren't being open & honest about their opinions. Media, tech companies, etc. are overrun by deluded leftists. People are losing their jobs for defending their property. Current western culture is promoting witch hunts against anyone who opposes ideas like "there are 46 genders" or "systemic racism."
This is the modern, western, leftist suppression complex.
If you think that it is not the case that a lot of people are staying silent for fear of mob retribution, you are wrong.
It's the same really as not questioning things in the soviet union. See the fine HBO program "Chernobyl" for details on what happens when truths are avoided in favor of bullshit.
The danger with the new leftist fascism we see in the US is that people are afraid of saying the truth. Eventually this will be a problem.
They're really going to eliminate racism then!
I would argue that candidates should absolutely be judged on whether they have significant portfolio work available to view publicly. Of course, this is dependent on the hiring managers' being competent.
Candidates shouldn't necessarily be judged on not having any public portfolio work though. I'm an advocate for take-home challenges. I think these give the best representation of actual work.
That's a valid argument and response to the OP in particular re: principal/senior positions.
> Github profiles aren't really a place I've seen used to showcase architecture and design skills, nor how candidates work with others, and those things matter significantly more than a 20 line patch in an open source library
You're underestimating how much work is actually hosted on Github these days. For example, what if one of the major contributors to an open source framework like Serverless, or a programming language like Swift, applied to your company? You're convinced Github doesn't matter, even though your default job application site probably requests a github link. In terms of documentation, formalized APIs, project management, github actually could still be a great source of information on advanced candidates and junior.
I'm more inclined to believe the industry has been inundated by hiring managers who aren't qualified to evaluate anything technical, so fall back on canned questions which are of absolutely no value. "Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with a coworker" is not going to give you useful information. Everyone knows these questions exist, and everyone prepares some bullshit answer to them. What you are selecting for is "How rehearsed is this candidate." Wow, it turns out 90% of candidates had identical "challenges" and "learned" from their "experience" and are "growing as an engineer!"
It does make interviewing easier, and certainly helps with demographic hiring quotas if you don't actually care about a person's technical history - when you are hiring computer programmers.
Edit: Another point I'd make is that, as a candidate, when I find out who I'm interviewing with I always search their github. Most github profiles actually suck and are negative signals.
Me. A pack of Pokemon cards is a tangible investment. As are, as far as I understand them, "loot boxes." The trading value may be probabilistic, but it's not quite the same as making a financial bet as in the stock market, lottery, traditional casino "gambling"
It used to be that you'd get toys with McDonald's happy meals. I believe the toy you'd end up with was also a matter of probability. There was also a candy phenomenon in the late 90s/early 00s called the "Wonder Ball." The commercials, imploring you to consider "What's in the Wonder Ball?" Also probabilistic. I wouldn't say either of these examples is gambling.
At this point it seems appropriate to mention that it actually doesn't matter whether something qualifies is "gambling" or not. It matters only to the extent that in 2020 people are fixated on labeling things, as if the word we've crafted to describe something is itself meaningful. These words tend to be trendy and suitable for e-propagation on Twitter words like "incel" or "autistic." Or "That's gambling! #gambling-bad"
There are lots of dumb things people can invest in. And investing in dumb things has gotten easier. That doesn't mean every purchase with a probabilistic value on the market is gambling, or that "gambling bad" and "not-gambling good."
I think this sentiment may be unfortunately common. It used to be that having a good github profile was golden. I got my first two jobs probably as a result of my github activity. Lately I get the sense that no one even bothers to look. To me this signals that the company itself doesn't value technical matters as much as how good the candidate is at answering canned behavioral questions.
For example, if as a hiring manager you are convined that "Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with a coworker" is more valuable than a decade of open source contributions to relevant projects, that's a problem IMO.
Fix what? Slavery (including the enslavement of whites) is not legal, at least not in the US. Everything is de-segregated and we have laws to protect certain classes of minorities. Beyond legalities I see black-promotion constantly in media. Everything looks perfectly fine from my perspective (I could do without the propaganda though). As a reminder our last president was (half) black.
You're imagining that the US is not beneficial historically to everyone. There's a reason people from Europe, Asia, latin america, etc. immigrated to America. They didn't come because "America is only benefits white slave-owners!" The entire point of the "american dream" is that people without power can find a way to prosper. Are we supposed to pretend none of that ever happened?
So what is this injustice du jour that suddenly, over the last few weeks, has become so pressing? Policing? I don't think there's evidence to support that blacks are targetted by cops because they're black. Poor neighborhoods probably do require more policing than non-poor neighborhoods as, naturally, criminal activity is more prevalent amongst the poor. Relative to other minorities my understanding is that blacks are underperforming in various ways. Surely you can't be so easily deluded into believing statements like "our black kids are being killed by cops every minute!" More whites are killed by cops. Blacks are overrepresented in proportion to their population. That blacks are overrepresented in certain figures does not support a radical claim like "systemic racism," contrary to Twitter logic.
Is it some other "injustice" you're so worked up about? Is it some imaginary injustice that is not even possible to resolve? Why don't you be specific about your radical claims; your statements are empty Twitter platitudes as far as I'm concerned.
Frankly, I resent the implication that I, as a white, am somehow benefiting from "injustice."