// , “It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness... but the monkey is serious because he itches."(No/No)
// , “It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness... but the monkey is serious because he itches."(No/No)
There's an overall tragedy of the commons going on there way beyond onboarding programs or mentorship.
San Jose State University, a paltry few miles from the campus of Cisco, Zoom, and soon Google, barely has funding to keep the lights on for its Computer Science program, and has relatively large class sizes.
These big companies are reluctant to "water the tree that feeds them," for fear that it'll feed someone else instead.
The control button placement on a ThinkPad laptop. It has happened to me a million times that I wanted to press control but ended up pressing the fn key on a ThinkPad. It's an abomination. Especially since ThinkPad has one of the best keyboards on a laptop
Others also have mentioned, content quality on dev.to is really really degraded over the time. There are more posts written by wanna-be-coders (who uses no-code/low-code tools to build projects) rather than "experienced" programmers. And when you put a question in front of those wanna-be-coders they can't answer with confidence, why? because they followed another tutorial to write this tutorial.
I was happy when I found out about this dedicated platform for devs because medium was too generic but now I regret that. Let's put it this way, dev.to instead of becoming more like reddit became like Quora.
Maybe listen more to users instead of investors.
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Women developers not being treated seriously. The field is already bad enough for them as it is. My graduating class saw many girls changing majors from CS/ Applied Computational Math majors. At work, women were mostly in non-technical positions and even the ones in software teams were mostly expected to be good at design and aesthetics.
The ones who did survive the entire brutal ecosystem from day 0 way back in Uni all the way to being a mature developers capable of building mission critical systems would still not easily get opportunities to lead their teams as the architect/senior devs. It was easier for a new guy like me to surpass them as opposed to other guy tech dinosaurs at work. It was not the case everywhere I worked though and I certainly don't want to point out which ones were different. Some teams just were total sausage fests. As is the norm.
After having left full time employment, I was recently talking to a female friend who is an Ionic dev but always interested in reading/learning other tech stacks. She is also not finding a level playing field because of gender biases and is likely to be relegated as a UI developer as opposed to other more technical things she is passionate about. Best thing possible would be her getting promoted to a semi-technical project manager instead of a technical lead despite her years of experience.
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My own sheer stupidity and apparent unwillingness to learn.
There's an overall tragedy of the commons going on there way beyond onboarding programs or mentorship.
San Jose State University, a paltry few miles from the campus of Cisco, Zoom, and soon Google, barely has funding to keep the lights on for its Computer Science program, and has relatively large class sizes.
These big companies are reluctant to "water the tree that feeds them," for fear that it'll feed someone else instead.
The control button placement on a ThinkPad laptop. It has happened to me a million times that I wanted to press control but ended up pressing the
fnkey on a ThinkPad. It's an abomination. Especially since ThinkPad has one of the best keyboards on a laptopApple "Books" update on macOS and iPad suddenly no longer render code blocks in ePubs.
same.
suggestions?
Others also have mentioned, content quality on dev.to is really really degraded over the time. There are more posts written by wanna-be-coders (who uses no-code/low-code tools to build projects) rather than "experienced" programmers. And when you put a question in front of those wanna-be-coders they can't answer with confidence, why? because they followed another tutorial to write this tutorial.
I was happy when I found out about this dedicated platform for devs because medium was too generic but now I regret that. Let's put it this way, dev.to instead of becoming more like reddit became like Quora.
Maybe listen more to users instead of investors.
Women developers not being treated seriously. The field is already bad enough for them as it is. My graduating class saw many girls changing majors from CS/ Applied Computational Math majors. At work, women were mostly in non-technical positions and even the ones in software teams were mostly expected to be good at design and aesthetics.
The ones who did survive the entire brutal ecosystem from day 0 way back in Uni all the way to being a mature developers capable of building mission critical systems would still not easily get opportunities to lead their teams as the architect/senior devs. It was easier for a new guy like me to surpass them as opposed to other guy tech dinosaurs at work. It was not the case everywhere I worked though and I certainly don't want to point out which ones were different. Some teams just were total sausage fests. As is the norm.
After having left full time employment, I was recently talking to a female friend who is an Ionic dev but always interested in reading/learning other tech stacks. She is also not finding a level playing field because of gender biases and is likely to be relegated as a UI developer as opposed to other more technical things she is passionate about. Best thing possible would be her getting promoted to a semi-technical project manager instead of a technical lead despite her years of experience.
Huh. I've never hit it. All I ever get is the "Pardon the interruption, but we've seen you before. Get an account." screen that can be closed.
Medium has a paywall?
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