One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
I'm Calin Baenen β AKA KattyTheEnby β a programmer born October 30th, 2006.
I love programming, it has been my passion since I was a kid, and will forever be my passion.
Indeed!
We really have come a long way..
This community is what it is because of genuine people trying to genuinely work to better themselves and because they have a passion in what they're doing.
I'm Calin Baenen β AKA KattyTheEnby β a programmer born October 30th, 2006.
I love programming, it has been my passion since I was a kid, and will forever be my passion.
What I find admirable is not that DEV has merely grown Big.
It is that it has grown Big without growing Bad.
Obviously that's always a work in progress.
But still, that's like the quadrature of circle on the modern internet.
So yes, congrats!
Yup no toxicity without much moderation tools or such. Stack for instance has too much priesthood at this point.
Yeah, StackOverflow sucks. That's one of the reasons I originally migrated to DEV.
Unfortunately nowdays it is dead (for me).
Indeed!
We really have come a long way..
This community is what it is because of genuine people trying to genuinely work to better themselves and because they have a passion in what they're doing.
Some people would beg to differ.
While the community isn't toxic I've heard there's a lot of bots and spamstuff.