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  • I am not at your level so take it with a grain of salt:

    A lot of the fundamentals remain the same. Every new feature is just syntactic sugar on top of fundamental building blocks. You only need to read about new fundamental concepts… which I think you can take in as they trickle in and based on whether you need to apply said new concept (highly unlikely)

    If you want to keep your coding muscle memory trained… just participate in code competitions like the upcoming advent of code. Or contribute to open source. These two are the best at letting you pick the latest technology and play with it. Anything else might restrict you.

    Edit: on the concern about interview preparedness.

    Its ok to forget. Tryimg to remember everything is a fools errand. Instead focus on useful methods of thinking like divide and conquer, dynamic programming, which data structures you would use, trees, graphs, string apgorithms. Abstraction is helpful to preserve your sanity.







  • There is an aspect of wanting to dump manufacturing to labour violating/lax labour countries without transfering some knowledge that I don’t like about this kind of “decoupling”. Laundering it as a solely national security issue/CCP/slave labour I feel lets cheapskate industrialists who hate paying livable wages off the hook. I mean these were the same industrialists that laid off their own country workers to setup industry in China in the first place. I feel like the national security angle is just a happy coincidence. For goodness sake it’s Foxconn. There is no guarantee that the conditions of labour in their factories is going to change because they moved out of China.

    I am predicting that news headlines 10-20 years from now will read similar to “Mexico decoupling” or wherever else dared to benefit off outsourcing.

    The whole national security posturing is not entirely honest.


  • MadhuGururajantoScience Memes@mander.xyzYou have 8 seconds.
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    20 days ago

    You know what I figured out as a man? Just listen to the other party in this order of increasing priority: body language, facial expression, their words. MAIN THING TO AVOID: Never assume they are/will be comfortable with you. Never assume consent with body language or facial expression. If they want to be romantically involved THEY will approach you.

    Before I was married my mind was on alert talking women in order not to come off as creepy. This was with women whom I had purely platonic relationships like my coworkers or college mates. I am aware the effect men have with their staring. To this day when I am walking on the street I make sure to not walk behind women. If I can i overtake them. If not I just change directions even if my destination is straight ahead. Treating the nonfamily women in my life like I would treat men should be the right thing to do… but its not easy with the reputation that men have among women.

    So my point effectively is just don’t be creepy and pushy. Just be polite and reciprocate interest. Otherwise just treat them like your sister or guy friend.