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The most important thing is just to apply because unless you're connected, the job search process is much like a lottery.

Establishing the habit of regularly checking your schedule and thus being aware of any upcoming events would mostly solve this.

You'd think that, wouldn't you? Yet here I am, someone who grew up thinking computers were obtuse and boring because getting the computer to do anything interesting seemed like it …

I get the feeling that the world was significantly more open to kids growing up with access to computers in the 80s and 90s, because as someone whose formative years were the 00s a…

And they did that because it makes sense from a military perspective, not because they were aping go strategies. Are you being obtuse on purpose? You're taking two radically differ…

I would argue that this is ridiculously reductionist and probably has nothing to do with the actual decision making process on either side.

I said nothing of qualia. Science has no tools to even begin trying to model, describe or explain them. All I am saying is that from a physical perspective, a mind is just as deter…

Getting it out there. If your goal is just to ensure that a well supported open source solution exists and people can use it instead of having nothing at all or only paid proprieta…

>You can show all sorts of chemical and biological explanations for the behavior, but it is still "behavior." It can be predictable, but it is not deterministic. What makes it non-…

>Like, if someone thinks what I does suck I always invite people to tell me so. That's you. Plenty of other people will defend whatever they come up with regardless and need to pro…

I'm not sure misogyny is the only possible explanation here, and I am almost certain it doesn't account for the entire gap.

> Though I think that's mostly on Google "optimizing" my queries by dumbing them down. I'd say it's become a lot worse than it was just a couple years ago when you could massage th…

I don't think derisive attitudes in the workplace adequately explain it, because there are a lot fewer women in CS/engineering school too.

>There are lots of actual engineers being outearned by boot camp grads with two years experience. Hasn't that been the case for decades now?

You can't demand more when plenty of others will do it for far cheaper.

In house there's less incentive to underbid and overpromise

>hey intern, here's the topic, here's some buzzwords, here's the word and slide count, you have 3 hours

Yes, usually that reason is that once you are unemployed you fall to the bottom of any hiring manager's list of eligible applicants.

Because you are already stuck on the path you picked and have no choice

That would be true if said intelligent people were optimizing exclusively for the metric you're looking at right now. In reality they usually are not, as they are themselves stuck …

>You can argue that your processor's clock speed hasn't changed, the program has just memoized some intermediate results and no longer has to actively compute them, but that seems …

Engaging in political activity would require leaving my room.

Power lines are not put under ground in most of the world. Nobody wants to pay an order of magnitude more to hedge against occasional downsides in reality.

The number of people who need cars to survive is far greater than the number of people who can afford to fix every nuisance fault. So long as it can keep rolling and comply with wh…

The first is an example of default argument syntax, it doesn't mean you can call functions with extra arguments, only that a value will be provided from the declaration if the call…