Concise, you say

It’s a bit of an odd photo to use as the main image!

That’s the woman that got punched by a cop, apparently it required surgery.

That is really interesting I did not know David Bowie did that!

I too have owned a fractal case and I really liked it! I eventually got rid of it because I moved cross-country and I didn’t have an immediate need for it.

I really don’t mind! Downvote away

I don’t mind!

And yet, saying it was indeed mildly interesting received a downvote.

That’s the idiot I’m calling out.

Might be why it’s in “mildly interesting.”

I have always found this mildly interesting!

Go ahead and downvote, I’m not the idiot here

Seriously, how sad is it that it’s happening now that it’s almost destroyed?

Cool thanks buddy, no time like the present I guess.

My company is not a place where you learn how to code, it’s a place where you learn all the stuff which you didn’t think you’d have to do as a software engineer.

This to me is actually the “secret” of software engineering: it’s frequently doing the stuff you didn’t think you’d have to do as a software engineer.

The hard part is often finding someone who can do both while also wanting to work at your company.

My lemmy client lets me filter out posts based on words or phrases.

I found my mood improving when I started filtering out the clickbait and doom.

It’s both! Though Lay’s came first. I looked it up because I couldn’t remember.

Pringles is “once you pop, you can’t stop,” in the mid 1990s.

Lay’s is “betcha can’t eat just one,” starting in the early 1960s!

Now I want chips.

It appears to be the latter.

Being aggressive is not the way to ask for help. You just end up looking… aggressive.

If it’s not the DEA it’s the CIA. If it’s not the CIA it’s the FBI.

I think they thought it meant “veiled compliments” and not “veiled insults.”

Which isn’t hard to confuse really.

I believe Tech hiring is more about ego of the hiring managers and team more than it is about hiring qualified people.

I’ve never been on a team or seen a team where this was the case. We just wanted people who could do the job well, and they were hard to find.

I actually don’t understand where manager/team ego ever fits in, as someone who hired a lot of bootcamp grads.

Not in the same way… which is the issue.

It’s a skilled profession, so ideally you want someone who is more skilled, and the person who has interest is more skilled.

It works similarly with other skilled professions like carpenters.

This has been my experience as well, since I started in community college in the early 2000s.

There is an unfortunately large difference in tech between a person who has an innate interest and someone who is checking the boxes to get and keep a job.

The first sentence of the article shows the problem.

For years, we heard about the tech talent shortage — that there were a glut of jobs and not enough bodies to fill them.

The problem wasn’t ever “bodies,” which people have always misunderstood. It’s qualified workers.

I worked in tech for a long time, at a bunch of different companies, and I never once worked anywhere that there was a glut of jobs and “not enough bodies” to fill them.

The people going into these careers includes a large number of people who want the money but aren’t qualified do what we’re looking for.

Because a non-negligible number of your neighbors are voting for populist and far-right candidates. These people have support.

100,000 people showed up for a far-right rally in London last week. Bolsonaro is just now seeing some kind of punishment for his actions in Brazil.

It’s never really been a U.S.-only thing, sadly, the U.S. has just captured the zeitgeist for the past several years.