homie

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1.
by homie 1y ago
“Sugar is poison” is an absolutely insane claim to make
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by homie 2y ago
Laid off last August. Still actively looking. I have about 4 years of experience. No notable company names on my resume so I suspect that's why I'm still having a hard time.
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by homie 2y ago
try hanging around on irc for a while https://lobste.rs/chat
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Is the Job Market Dying?(rachdele.substack.com)
125 points by homie 2y ago|192 comments
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GPT-4 is leading to whole new levels of regret about my life(twitter.com)
4 points by homie 4y ago|2 comments
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by homie 4y ago
is there any way out if you find yourself stuck with a couple years of wrong experience?
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by homie 5y ago
absolutely not
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by homie 5y ago
Absolutely agree. I’ve found that behavioral interviews are harder than technical interviews at this point. If you don’t have the set of experiences they’re looking for then it’s game over. This can be ameliorated slightly if the interviewe
9.
by homie 5y ago
Not I
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by homie 5y ago
>Classical violinists are already playing at close to a professional level before they start college. At your age (assuming you're older than 8), you don't have a chance at making your hands do those things, or mastering skills
11.
by homie 5y ago
Interesting. Lately it feels like I might as well have thrown my applications into a black hole.
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by homie 5y ago
The analogy here doesn't make sense. It'd be more like the actor mentioning that he doesn't have any experience doing commercial work, but he has acted in a theatrical production before (suggesting that he's adaptable an
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by homie 6y ago
Mostly because it’s impossible to accurately predict the market - and this is just a competition to see who can build the best model.
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by homie 7y ago
a language being a DPL doesn't preclude it from being a DSL
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by homie 7y ago
I’ve never understood the obsession businesses/managers have with specialization in the tech realm. Knowing a lot of different (but related) things doesn’t preclude you from learning something in depth.
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by homie 7y ago
It really depends on the project. A lot of times that modern thing you're working with is just a wrapper around some C/C++ library (unless you're doing web dev - then there's a whole other set of issues).
17.
by homie 7y ago
This person has very strange and misguided idea of what open source software is intended to be.
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by homie 8y ago
My 4 year degree sure doesn’t look like 4 years of experience to any HR staff/hiring managers I’ve ever interacted with.
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How do I find an entry-level software position?
10 points by homie 8y ago|12 comments
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by homie 9y ago
instructors are also better off without computers in the classroom. lecture has been reduced to staring at a projector while each and every students eyes roll to the back of their skull