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“Sugar is poison” is an absolutely insane claim to make

Laid off last August. Still actively looking. I have about 4 years of experience.

No notable company names on my resume so I suspect that's why I'm still having a hard time.

try hanging around on irc for a while

https://lobste.rs/chat

is there any way out if you find yourself stuck with a couple years of wrong experience?

absolutely not

Absolutely agree. I’ve found that behavioral interviews are harder than technical interviews at this point. If you don’t have the set of experiences they’re looking for then it’s game over.

This can be ameliorated slightly if the interviewer is willing to accept a hypothetical, but this has rarely been the case for me recently.

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Classical violinists are already playing at close to a professional level before they start college. At your age (assuming you're older than 8), you don't have a chance at making your hands do those things, or mastering skills such as sight-reading. I started playing music at age 8.

Sort of bewildered by this statement. You can't learn to sight read after age 8?

Interesting. Lately it feels like I might as well have thrown my applications into a black hole.

The analogy here doesn't make sense. It'd be more like the actor mentioning that he doesn't have any experience doing commercial work, but he has acted in a theatrical production before (suggesting that he's adaptable and willing to do more than just one kind of acting job).

Mostly because it’s impossible to accurately predict the market - and this is just a competition to see who can build the best model.

a language being a DPL doesn't preclude it from being a DSL

I’ve never understood the obsession businesses/managers have with specialization in the tech realm. Knowing a lot of different (but related) things doesn’t preclude you from learning something in depth.

It really depends on the project. A lot of times that modern thing you're working with is just a wrapper around some C/C++ library (unless you're doing web dev - then there's a whole other set of issues).

This person has very strange and misguided idea of what open source software is intended to be.

My 4 year degree sure doesn’t look like 4 years of experience to any HR staff/hiring managers I’ve ever interacted with.

instructors are also better off without computers in the classroom. lecture has been reduced to staring at a projector while each and every students eyes roll to the back of their skull