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I do get that, and I'll be more sympathetic to hiring managers who want to see open-source code than I have been in other comments.

( Active job hunting tends to make one grumpy. Take home programming assignments are a current sore spot for me. )

It's a recent job posting that said "Requirement: OSS contributions" that seemed over the top. Maybe it's no less troubling than "Requirement: SQL expertise" - after all, we're all 'discriminated' against to some degree by not having experience in everything a future employer might want.

With the SQL requirement, however, there's an obvious drag on a project if they bring in a new hire who has no SQL knowledge. If a team working on OSS hires someone with no OSS experience - is that going to mean they can't contribute right away?

Few managers ask their employees to work long hours. That doesn't mean they don't expect them to work long hours.

"let them continue working on personal projects". How considerate of you to allow them to decide if they want to work long hours on their time or the company's.

People who do a lot of personal projects also tend to be young with minimal outside responsibilities. It is no secret that they are appealing hires - someone who's willing to spend long hours on personal projects is probably also willing to spend long hours on work projects. That's what makes it discrimination.

One frustration I've had recently is the number of companies encouraging or requiring code in the public sphere. They want to see open-source contributions or an active and impressive personal github page. If your employer is protective of their IP ( mine is ) and/or you are not willing to spend evenings and and weekends on pet projects, you are out of the running.

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>But if you think programmers aren't elitist, try wearing a suit and tie to an interview sometime.

If I had my way this would be considered employment discrimination and grounds for a lawsuit. At minimum it blatantly discriminates against national origin, expecting an engineer fresh from Nigeria to understand these secret 'culture' norms. Age? Race? Religion? Is a Muslim woman wearing a hijab going have any chance of making it past the first phone interview? I have my doubts.

`oc` sounds like a thing of great beauty but I'm sure I couldn't convince anyone to pay Red Hat licencing fees.

Our project is a bit unconventional and I'm usually dealing with applications that have been minimally and reluctantly containerized. Pods that crash with no logging and no tracing is probably something I have to deal with more than others.

> poop town SF.

It's frankly going to be hard for me to resist calling it that from now on.

I'd have some trouble deciding between the two but I need to put on an extra layer when the temperature drops below 80F.

Not as far as I can tell, and as far as I'm concerned it is the biggest pain point when debugging k8s problems. If your pods is cycling though CrashLoopBackOff and 'describe' has no useful information and the 'logs' don't give you a clue, you are flat out of luck. That pod is gone before you can extract any useful information from it.

I'd like to see some means of keeping a pod running even if the application is crashing. Sometimes logs are being sent to a file, sometimes running the application manually gives a clue. Lacking that - well I've found various tricks such as changing the image to 'ubuntu' and replacing the command with 'tail -f /dev/null' so a crashing pod will stay alive and I can exec into it and run the real command by hand. But it's a hack and doesn't always get the info you need.

What a mean-spirited article. How dare wealthy Potrero Hill residents act upset just because their Stranger Things backpack was stolen!

( nice username tho )

When I started the "IDE" was vi running on a Solaris mainframe. 'vi' has has never been accused of being user friendly but since this was pre-linux, I'm not sure any of the experienced coders had ever seen either before. In retrospect it was a pretty good equalizer.

> it's really hard for non-POC to understand the more subtle parts of what sucks about interviewing.

I get it. Interviewers still think they should evaluate how a candidate will "fit into our culture" without any examination of what that means. For a lot of teams that still translates to "same shows, same games, same fondness for happy hours, same comfort for vaguely inappropriate jokes". If a candidate doesn't seem to fit into that sort of "culture", it's easy to pass them over for the next one.

It's an interesting insight. When applying to colleges I never considered applying for CS as I (female) had no programming experience whatsoever, and seemed to be surrounded by people (male) who'd been working on computers for years,

( I'll leave speculation on that for another day )

It was only because they forced EE majors to take programming courses that I ended up in the field. I wrote my first "hello world" as an 18 year old freshman, but it never really seemed to matter.

At the risk of sounding overly cynical I'm going to sound overly cynical - I don't think that statement is worth the pixels it's activating. They are going to say whatever they need to say to keep the money rolling in. It could be a lie, it could be something that changes tomorrow without notification. They don't care because why should they?

Though one thing we learned from the last election is that troll farms can push extreme views on both sides of an issue just to encourage division.

If you believe all pro-nuclear-energy people are extremist environmental nuts, or all anti-nuclear-energy are anti-science luddites, then you've got a lot of people who are going to be easy to manipulate, since they won't ever entertain any argument from the other side.

I mean - no one can talk outside anything outside their experiences but I completely, emphatically disagree.

Nothing I've ever experienced can match the pure joy of coming home and having my kid run up to give me a giant hug. Everything else pales next to it. I went though a lot of job angst a couple of years ago but none of it could overshadow the happiness I felt just being able to read my kid to sleep at night. It's incompatible.

I usually stay the heck away from parenting articles but there was a genuine honesty to this one.

> "The women in these groups had bent over backwards to be welcoming"."

People love to believe that mom's groups are full of snotty judgments and anti-vaxx sentimens which is rarely, if ever true

> "My baby alone had the brilliant promise of profound intelligence shining out of his eyes."

Shhh - we're not supposed to admit that!

> "Every story about parenting has to do double duty as a story about how I am such a good parent."

I am pretty impervious to guilt trips, but 90% of parenting articles are just flat out boring. I don't know why it can't be addressed with any sort of intelligence and introspection.

You might find it more informative to look at the last author, who is typically the expert and ( ideally ) is helping to drive the research.

Conversely I find it interesting how quickly discussions of California quickly morph into the implication that there is little worth considering outside of the specific economy of 'silicon valley'.

I can think of no one - from the people I've known since Kindergarten from the people I've met in the last few months at my new job - who can be described as 'super-rich' or living in 'shanty-towns'. There are plenty of working class folk living quite comfortably but their stories don't fit into our 'outrage culture' so they are conveniently ignored.

> People with few publications now working in other fields

I'm surprised this statement passed muster on HN where there must be some number of PhDs now working in other fields. Certainly the ones I know wouldn't take kindly to the idea that somehow, just because they left academia their research can be easily and completely dismissed.

Every year I see what a insurmountable advantage my kid has by having educated, comfortably well off parents. He's in 3rd grade and last week he had a homework assignment that had to be completed on a computer. What, your kid doesn't have their own computer at home? Tough luck!

We're also already into 'projects' - more hours of work, more resources to buy. "oh you can do it with stuff around the house" (no you can't)

No one wants to talk about it and it infuriates me. There are kids who are just out of the running from the moment they enter kindergarten, and everyone is going to blame their parents or their 'culture' and refuse to see what's right in front of them.

There is no more 'public' education, only middle-income private education. It's a disgrace.

edit: raspberry pi

A lot of middle class parents I know would spend 10 minutes trying to understand the raspberry pi site and give up. HN tends to vastly overestimate people's technical skills. For poor parents with no tech background - forget it.

Then imagine that there are some people who can't afford the food they need in the grocery store and are going to die.

Alternatives and transparent pricing isn't going to make brain surgery affordable to the average consumer.

I've used a service like this from my insurer. I sent them a photo of my finger, they prescribed me an antibiotic, and Sunday morning I was on the mend. Beat the heck out of a 2 hour appointment during business hours.

Another frequently overlooked problem with the 'trade school' mantra is that women need jobs too - and I'm willing to wager that the prejudice women are going to face in a welding shop is going to be a lot higher the frequently cited problem of women in engineering.

Never mind if they try to hang out their shingle as a plumber or electrician. It'd be an interesting study to compare the number of calls that Charlie vs Charlene would get in that field, but I think we all know the answer.

I feel like this article conflates 'smart device' with 'phone' in a way that can often happend

My 8 year old has one of our old phones with WiFi only. It's still plenty addictive with with the thrill of games and TV. If you wait to talk about smart phone addiction until your kid gets cell service you're probably going to miss the boat.

As my kid gets older - well the author may sneer at your kid waiting a few minutes to get picked up from soccer practice but that minimizes the issue. When I was a kid it was a collect call from "I'm-at-the-library-pick-me-up-by-5". I think there's a lot to be said for giving a kid flexibility in their movements. That may mean a 'dumb' phone, which I would consider, but it doesn't mean no phones whatsoever.

I think the other counter-point I would make to the author is that the best time to start talking to your kids about smart phones may well be while they're still on premise, and still respect and trust you. I've ( somewhat reluctantly ) setup my kid with ( facebook ) kids messenger and a Roblox account. She only has access on my phone so her time is limited, and it's also led to a lot of good discussions about internet predator and pressure to pay for in-game upsells.

Most importantly ( IMO ) is talking about how easy it is for social interactions to lead to problems - getting bullied, being a bully, the blow to her self esteem if her friends seem to be chatting with each other and leaving her out. It's really hard to navigate, and it doesn't go away if she gets her first smartphone at 18. I don't know if I really can protect her from it but perhaps I can let her know that I understand, and she can talk to me

I hope you don't mind a couple of questions, my daughter(8) has been asking to play Roblox as a lot of her friends are on it.

Being an engineer, I know full well that "filtering and pre-reviewing content" is pure marketing BS. That said, while I'm not delighted with the possiblities of adult content and in-game currency scams, I might not let that stop her from playing.

But predators - I'm planning on 'white listing' her chat options so she can only chat with known friends. Are there any vulnerabilities there?

I also am worried about how obsessed she could get. I'm willing to keep a close eye on it - unfortunately she's probably going to start obsessing about online games sooner or later, and perhaps the best time to start talking about it is now - while she still trusts my judgment - than later when she's ( possibly ) a surly teen.