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  • MajorHavoc@programming.devtoCasual UK@feddit.uk•"Wow! They put a man in a dress right on the box!"English
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    5 months ago

    I feel that Kilts are genuinely (an early kind of) progressive.

    It takes a person secure in their gender identity to dress against cultural norm, even with the weight of heritage behind them.

    Scottmen have been dressing against everyone else’s norm, because it’s their heritage, and telling the rest of us we can fuck off if we don’t approve.

    That’s a kind of progress.

    I’m not saying Kilts are a huge progressive victory, but I think they’re a milestone along the journey in the right direction.

    I’ll admit that my LGBTQ framework is simplistic, in that I feel that “go fuck yourself” is a complete and valid and socially acceptable answer to anything I may ever ask someone else about their identity.

    The Scotts Scots have been answering me “go fuck yourself” longer than others, and I feel they helped pave the way for more important cases.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devtoCSCareerQuestions@programming.dev•What's your opinion on balancing ethicality and salary for a CS job?
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    5 months ago

    My approach to ethicality so far was basically, I need to start somewhere before I can be picky.

    Yep. Gotta eat.

    But right now I’m looking at job offers, and it seems like if I move to a tech, medical, or financial company, I could likely see a salary increase of 30-50%,

    These probably won’t get sainthood, but generally do more good than evil in the world. Except finance obviously. (I’m kidding…sort of. I consider myself allowed to be mean to finance tech bros, as I was one. We sucked to work with. There are good financial products that make people better off but there’s a lot more predatory ones.

    I worked for a place that did a shitty job providing good products, mostly. Getting up for work felt ambivalent, most days.

    It’s hard to feel good about working in an overpriced building when some customers are struggling.)

    at least work for an industry I don’t think is evil

    It’s hard to put a price on this. It feels great to get up in the morning and know that all of my efforts are making people better off. (I’m no longer a finance tech bro.)

    Keep an eye on local government and education positions. It’s easy to feel good about keeping roads cleared and classrooms up and running.

    They do always pay less, but they don’t have to be a drop in pay, particularly for someone just starting out.

    Don’t be afraid to take the interview and tell them they’re not paying enough. They need told a couple times, then they go do the paperwork to correct their pay range. So I consider the occasional “wasted” interview an investement in the future chance that I can work with them.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•AI in reality
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    6 months ago

    Lol. Even among those less stupid, most didn’t hire junior developers for the last three years, to hedge their bets.

    Well, it’s three years later, AI didn’t solve shit, and we are facing an entire missing cohort of senior developers.

    We’ve seen this before - back when web frameworks “made all of us obsolete” back in 2003.-

    Here’s what comes next:

    Everyone who needs a senior developer gets to start bidding up the prices of the missing senior developers. Since there simply aren’t enough to go around, the “find out” phase will be punctuated.

    Losing bidders get to pay 4x rates for 1/3 the output from consulting companies.

    Cheers!

    Source: I was made obsolete by web frameworks so hard that I entered a delusion where working with web frameworks just let us produce bigger buggier websites even faster - and where the demand for web developers skyrocketed and I made some seriously respectable money while helping train up junior developers to help address the severe shortage.