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This is what has landed me 3 of my 4 programming jobs.

1. Having a web portfolio which has system designs, images, or gif videos of my apps, and points to my github code which interviewers can view.

2. Then walking interviewers through a project during the interview.

Whereas 3 months ago, I had a call w/ a "Director" of Engineering for a small startup (5-10 engineers, about 10-20 other staff). He wanted me to do a take home project. "it's just a 2 hour project: a CLI tool to lookup data via REST API, based on arguments passed in. And expose a gRPC endpoint, writte in Go or your favorite language, but we want to see it ready for production with tests". Everything except the REST API part was new to me: a CLI framework, gRPC, protobuf typing stuff.

Three hours in, I realized I crossed my self-imposed timebox and that the project would really take about 8 hours (or perhaps 16 if I wanted to polish it and have a higher rate of getting hired). However, I was on my vacation and the purpose was to spend time away from technology.

The whole thing felt a bit silly. Learned a new framework though so that was cool (yargs -- https://www.npmjs.com/package/yargs ).

This is a classic, textbook example of entryism. It's happening to tons of institutions, including science & medical institutions, in the USA.

"Entryism (also called entrism, enterism, or infiltration) is a political strategy in which an organisation or state encourages its members or supporters to join another, usually larger, organization in an attempt to expand influence and expand their ideas and program. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entryism

"It was particularly unfortunate that this was happening to a sector that has historically rejected state interventions of any kind, railing against attempts at heavier regulation and insisting all its problems would be solved if only the government would just back off. "

What an utterly silly claim, demonstrating the author's ignorance. The IT industry, based in Silicon Valley, worked hand-in-hand with governments at all levels from municipal to federal-- taking subsidies and giving innovations in return.

Not only that, but technologists rejecting state intervention?! California is THE nanny state-- California & the Bay Area are hot beds for demands for government intervention-- particularly of the neomarxist variety.

She doesn't bother to state a premise, she just assumes the reader takes it at face value.

why is the term "bro" instead of "hoe"?

Isn't "whore" more demonstrative of lack of morals, compared to "brother"?

It's a silly conversation-- Clearly "tech bro" is misandrist.

It enviously discounts men for success in technology, often while simultaneously expecting something from said men (such as emotional or financial support, again, while simultaneously insulting them... yeah, not productive).

Found the ad-hominem

No, it's the non-Maoist stuff that dang & HN mods censor.

If you call out neon hair safe space ("leftist") hypocrisy... your comment is flagged within minutes.

""Brogrammer" or "tech bro" are slang terms often used to label a stereotypically masculine programmer. "

I've only ever known one masculine programmer, out of dozens I've met.

Programming is a sedentary & solitary activity.

It doesn't seem to attract masculine, sex-god type males. If anything, it's the opposite scenario.

The irony is that the same author, Emma Haslett, recently wrote an article about women facing increasing child-care costs.

https://www.newstatesman.com/business/2023/03/childcare-cost...

In her lefthand (main thread article): Denigrates men interested in technology jobs which pay well and are intellectually arduous to even learn let alone practice.

In her righthand (article I link to above): Complains that women need more money for childcare.

Gee, it's almost as though left-leaning journalists are trying to drive men and women apart.

"Men, as a woman, I tell you: You're terrible! Now go fund women's lifestyles, we need your money!"

What is "tech bro"?

Is that like... denigrating a person based on their gender... ?

"Insulting you helps us recover from your toxicity."

...It's like... What? Are you joking?

This is precisely what I mean. A lack of consistency-- it really betrays the concomitant lack of rational thought.

"I side with Chairman Mao and Wallstreet ESG-metric-driven Bankers! Now Get to work driving our economy, so we can simultaneously complain about you while also taxing you to redistribute your income!"

It would be all so tiresome if it wasn't so tragically entertaining.

The US should stop being saved from banking crises.

Let natural consequences happen. Then adjust based on what is learned from the outcomes-- no pain, no gain.

The society & economy should recognize the pain resulting from irresponsible action,

if only do drive the society & economy to punish those who were so greedily irresponsible.

Stop sheltering the population.

And especially stop sheltering the bankers.

Experiencing consequences is an important part of improvement-- without consequences there is no real impetus to change.

You'd need infinite types of legos, or the ability to slice legos into infinitely tiny pieces... maximum customization essentially.

That's essentially what programming already is though. Especially things like functional programming.

Ok, I agree, Point taken.

However almost certainly ubuitity is one measure or factor in an item's usefulness. I'd also claim Usefulness inversely correlates with miserableness in the mind, but perhaps not in practice :P depending on how boring or miserable useful things are.

In general, I think usefulness overrides miserableness simply because the willingness to do useful things, despite miserableness, is clearly tolerated and performed all across human economies and societies through time. all just depends on definitions

Sounds like a fantastic idea. You could create categories for various industries, contact companies at those industries to have them post their pain points/needs for products. And potentially partner with freelancer sites (and consultancies based in those particular industries).

Excellent point. I fully agree.

It disenfranchises environment/energy/natural resource conservation efforts to associate them with woke topics such as "social equity" and related "governance" efforts.

I am personally a conservative environmentalist. Virtually 100% of "woke" related concepts to me, represent inculcation by foreign governments seeking to destabilize western societies.

The environment must not be politicized. It is the foundation of all biota including humans of course-- it is the matrix we live within.

"the modern webapp experience is so miserable for the average person."

Hyperbole. Web apps would not be so ubiquitous and popular for solving business problems if your claim was true.

I was wondering... Have you lived in Latin America?

I've lived in Mexico, and visited Panama and Colombia.

I met very few educated citizens of those countries. The educated ones I did meet I felt were my equals, in terms of education. It was fantastic. The problem is that they're few and far between.

This article is from 2005, but may highlight the problem:

"Despite having three times the population of Argentina, Mexico produces about 2,000 fewer titles each year.

There are roughly 500 bookstores in Mexico, which translates into one for every 200,000 Mexicans, compared to a ratio of one to 35,000 in the US and one to 12,000 in Spain, according to the Mexican Booksellers Association.

A recent UNESCO study revealed that Mexicans read on average just over two books per year, while Swedes finish that many every month.""

https://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0216/p01s04-woam.html

Google: "roadmap to learning marketing"

simple logic would tell you to use a search engine for the query of "most popular X" where X = programming languages or programming frameworks

also, check out: https://roadmap.sh/

two obvious ideas:

- learn server side language(s) & become backend dev

- get an IT sales job

If it's a person/relationship issue-- distract yourself by dating a new person

In general-- go on a trip

I welcome "The semantic turn of the Left". It shows the emperor has no clothes.

By increasing the silliness, more and more people observe "Wow these folks are ignorant lunatics, unaware that they're driving the perception of themselves as immature, ignorant hypocrites whose identity is built upon political trends."

"There's no proper use case for the term "LatinX" except to normalize the pronoun/trans agenda in the Spanish-speaking world."

This is an excellent summary of the entire discussion on the topic of the silly, childish, politically-motivated concept of "LatinX"

the correct term is no longer "persons of color"

I received a letter in the mail from official sources, ordering me to use:

"skin appropriating mammals & pseudo-mammals of complexions including greyscale shades from #FFFFFE to #000000"

(pseudo-mammals is important so as not to exclude platypus & echidna identifying peoples)

It's ok though-- I will let it slide this time.

Next time though, it will be reported to the Commissar. And they will listen to me-- Because I am half skin appropriating mammals & pseudo-mammals of complexions including greyscale shades from #FFFFFE to #000000 (anything more than a quarter is considered full validated and verified via the official channels)

>Latine and LatinX both originate in (different geographical parts of) the spanish-first-language

I doubt it. Having lived in Latin America, Latin American social norms are influenced by Catholicism and their societies are more conservative & traditionalist than the US and Europe.

The vast majority of people in Latin American countries (outside of Costa Rica & Chile) struggle with academic achievement (including literacy levels), adequate n utrition, enviornmental pollution.

To claim that they would put neo-marxist language changes before actual human needs (literacy, nutrition, environment) is a paltry claim and demonstrates a lack of experience with such societies.

X is pronounces EK-EES in Spanish.

so its "LA-TEEN-EK-EES" if we are respecting the Spanish language.

but in reality such silly butchering of a language isnt respecting the Spanish language in the first place. its merely more communism attempts to disrupt tradition & reform societies towards some immature high school wanna-be communist ends by people who've never lived in communist society.

"Spanish is being obliterated by white people."

Spanish is being obliterated by a very small minority of politically biased and likely neo-marxist-propaganda-influenced young people.

OP: For such questions and discussions, I recommend getting on IRC [0]. The Libera server [1]

IRC is a collection of chatrooms on all kinds of technical topics: programming languages, frameworks, cloud providers, topics

often hundreds of people are in each chat room. You can get live Q&A sessions with veteran and highly respected programmers.

I've chatted with an engineering director of AirBNB on a channel there, and also a security expert who was tracked by the FBI for a bit, for example-- interesting, intelligent people.

Examples of chatrooms ("channels") I am in: #nodejs #python #machinelearning #economics [3]

You'll need to learn how to register and login to IRC -- it's pretty easy, just involves a command. For Mac OS I recommend the LimeChat client.

[0] https://www.online-tech-tips.com/software-reviews/the-11-bes...

[1] https://libera.chat/

[3] https://libera.chat/guides/findingchannels

On the topic of Water Filters, I recommend ClearlyFiltered-- https://www.clearlyfiltered.com/pages/technology

I bought mine because I saw it filters both Fluoride and Chlorine, as well as approximately 360+ other chemicals

Meh... if a dumb robot can do <X> for you, maybe we shouldn't have <X>. <-- This logic doesn't get us far. Robots do many things for people in industrialized societies.

I for one, think training students on how to write is very important. It trains them how to think critically, how to present solid arguments, how to persuade, etc. I certainly don't want my society to have fewer educated people.