I don’t go to bars but I vaguely remember seeing bar-top digital games at some point too.

I can’t remember when this was, I just remember being flabbergasted that someone might pay to play a bejeweled knockoff or something.

I too have owned a fractal case and I really liked it! I eventually got rid of it because I moved cross-country and I didn’t have an immediate need for it.

My company is not a place where you learn how to code, it’s a place where you learn all the stuff which you didn’t think you’d have to do as a software engineer.

This to me is actually the “secret” of software engineering: it’s frequently doing the stuff you didn’t think you’d have to do as a software engineer.

The hard part is often finding someone who can do both while also wanting to work at your company.

I believe Tech hiring is more about ego of the hiring managers and team more than it is about hiring qualified people.

I’ve never been on a team or seen a team where this was the case. We just wanted people who could do the job well, and they were hard to find.

I actually don’t understand where manager/team ego ever fits in, as someone who hired a lot of bootcamp grads.

Not in the same way… which is the issue.

It’s a skilled profession, so ideally you want someone who is more skilled, and the person who has interest is more skilled.

It works similarly with other skilled professions like carpenters.

This has been my experience as well, since I started in community college in the early 2000s.

There is an unfortunately large difference in tech between a person who has an innate interest and someone who is checking the boxes to get and keep a job.

The first sentence of the article shows the problem.

For years, we heard about the tech talent shortage — that there were a glut of jobs and not enough bodies to fill them.

I worked in tech for a long time, at a bunch of different companies, and I never once worked anywhere that there was a glut of jobs and “not enough bodies” to fill them.

The problem wasn’t ever “bodies,” which people have always misunderstood. It’s qualified workers.

The people going into these careers includes a large number of people who want the money but aren’t qualified do what we’re looking for.

This is one of the many reasons I didn’t buy a fridge with a screen on it.

It seemed pretty obvious they were going to try and advertise something on it.

nushell seriously looks amazing for working with data. I gotta remember it exists the next time I’m doing stuff like this.

It seems like a nice shell to have around and usable for cases like this regardless!

I use zsh, mainly because I’ve been using it for a really long time and it felt like an upgraded bash.

I also have used fish a tiny amount and like the idea but zsh just works for my purposes and I already know how it works.

nushell looks really cool though!

I don’t have much occasion to use awk any more but it can be really useful!