Comment on: Forcing women into programming is a fucking mistake
0 18 May 2018 19:59 u/markrod420 in v/programmingComment on: Should this even be done? Please vote. · Issue #1 · mlpoll/machinematch
If you wrote one the govt probably has a much better one already. you arent hurting anything. go for it.
Comment on: I realize this might be an obvious question, but is anyone else annoyed by how programming has transformed from an understanding of concepts into blatant marketing speak?
Yeah no while the generlized skills transfer there can be significant differences between languages. Differences which can take weeks or even months to become aclimated with. Weeks and months that can be very expensive for a business. A new employee is already a monetary risk. A new employee that does not actually have the skills you are looking for but has some very similar skills. Thats a more significant monetary risk. Its perfectly understandable that they dont want to waste all that money for you to learn a new language on their bill.
Comment on: These 'women are better programmers than men' articles everywhere aren't necessarily accurate
I mean its not like a woman could never be an amazing programmer. Im sure there are a few out there. But on avg men are far more wired for code than women.
Comment on: These 'women are better programmers than men' articles everywhere aren't necessarily accurate
Yeah it was pretty ridiculous when i took over her position and realized why she was always so busy. Because she had put temporary fixes all over the place and was constantly manually making our system work. In about 6 months i got things back in a normal working order.
Comment on: These 'women are better programmers than men' articles everywhere aren't necessarily accurate
Yeah she was our dba and after she left i ended up becoming the DBA. Her means of fixing things was to just stick a bandaid on. After like 6 years with the company she was spending 90% of her time just maintaining all the terrible bandaids she had put in place and making manual data changes to fix issues... it was pathetic.
Comment on: These 'women are better programmers than men' articles everywhere aren't necessarily accurate
Only met one female programmer and she was avg at best.
i dropped out of college as a computer programming major because i took my own skills beyond what they were trying to teach me before i left highschool. and now i am a computer programmer and so far every newby college guy we have hired has had an utterly embarassing lack of capability.