neil

Knock off the childish fucking gatekeeping and go back to reddit. It’s what the wider industry uses.

python is usually the next step up in admin land

python is a pretty standard install on linux systems since so many things like you’re talking about use it

You missed one:

• To let others at least have some insight into what you’re doing so you can take a freakin’ vacation every once in a while

Technical videos have helped me perfect my pronunciation of “umm” and “uhh.”

throw yourself to the wolves

embrace the wolves

From a historical standpoint, there is also the bad blood of ActiveX, Flash, Silverlight and early Java applets that still leaves a bad taste in people’s mouths. It has a slightly steeper uphill battle to fight.

Generally the most supported language on the tool/platform you want to target is the best one. Like SQL on databases, JS/ES in browsers, python in data science related stuff, etc. If multiple are heavily supported then just pick the one that’s the most comfortable.

I can think of surgeon examples but I’ve never heard of Recruiters Without Borders. Unless it’s just CapGemini

Fintech is easy to deal with in this regard.

“do you have code samples you can share?”

“would you be happy if an employee interviewed elsewhere and used your codebase for work samples?”

How to make lots of friends and enrich the lives of everyone around you:

1. Play Kenya
2. Lock screen
3. Go to lunch

It’s likely not the full story, but there were some crazy export restrictions in the 90s. Apple made a commercial poking at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjkoYlpf3EA

BBSs had fidonet in 1993, if email, usenet and irc don’t count

They use Atlanta Metro, AWS and GCP as far as I know. I want to say they own the Oregon DC but can’t remember.

A more honest code test:

interviewer: “see if you can get this project my nephew made in high school to run”

job: getting the next project their nephew made in high school to run

PREFERRED:

• PhD in quantum cryptography
• 3 years of janitorial services experience
• Proof of current therapist

Historical note: the golden age of crazy uncle email forwards made me completely reject capitalized sql statements

[init]
defaultBranch = chaos

Nope, it’s all light theme with comic sans and small caps for me

It’s on my radar and I’m sure it’s on a number of other people’s as well. It just takes a little onboarding time like all good projects.

Worth noting: the ui is in inferno js