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My previous office was in a set of partitions put up in a library 20 years ago as a temporary measure.
My previous office was in a set of partitions put up in a library 20 years ago as a temporary measure.
Oh, me too. Hi young Gen X/old Millenial.
I think I must have accidentally figured this all out in high school. This is good proof that everyone has different experiences.
I am making an assumption that you grew up with something like an iPad. This isn’t your fault, you had no reason to learn it before. Now that you have a need to do these things, you figured it out by accident just through exposure.
I sort of feel like some members of each generation have to learn this sort of lesson the hard way. I’m not sure why, but it’s probably not dissimilar to Sovereign Citizen thinking where they have convinced themselves that they have the freedom to do pretty much anything they want.
It’s basically the new IBM.
But it seems that it’s actually built in to some part of their software so Microsoft is still responsible as a whole.
I don’t get why they don’t propose a fix themselves.
That seems to be the consensus.
I wonder if day length is given separately in a table prior to the question? I’m not sure what they wanted except maybe seconds?
Understanding and producing are very different things.
This is my experience. I can understand the fundamentals without trouble but don’t have the ability to plan out the structure of something and write code to make that work.
I’ve done online courses, tried boot camps. It just doesn’t work for me.
Agreed. Few geniuses, it’s mostly driven people with slightly above average intelligence and a good bit of opportunity.
I work in service design and delivery. It’s my job to understand how devices actually function and interact. Can confirm that dev types can learn the stuff if they want to but most have not. Knowing how to set up your fancy computer with all the IDEs in the world is great but not the same as doing that for 5,000 people at once.
Don’t underestimate what having the necessary intuitions do engage with mathematics does for you. A significant portion of the population is incapable of that, mostly because we have a very poor way of teaching it as a subject.
I think that non-tech people think that tech just goes. Like you pull it out of a box and turn it on and it just works. They have no idea how much jenk is in everything and how much jenk was eradicated before a user came went anywhere near.
Yeah, that’s totally exactly what I was saying, thanks for being charitable in your interpretations.
People who do what I suggest are very interested and driven, and will pursue a career in these fields.
The people who really succeed are the ones so obsessed with tech that they wrote their first app at the age of 10 and were in the high school robotics club.
Honestly? The people who say “learn to code” as the solution to getting a better job. Only some people can do this.
Also the idea that tech “just works”. Have had freshly-minted CS/info types suddenly realize why the phrase “back away slowly” exists.
As someone who has hired lots of CS students, the successful ones tend to:
-Have a public GIT repo where they have all of their personal and class projects publicly available. You put this on your resume and potential employers can browse at leisure.
-Have done a student group like robotics or satellite club.
-Have interned somewhere with a name. Doesn’t matter what the job is, just get that name on your resume. Sadly, what you know and can do is less important than where you interned and overworked or unmotivated hiring managers really need bullet points that they can grab on to and then move on.