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halo-and-talon | 4 years ago | on: After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)

Imagine waking up in a forest with your tribe. One of your cousins has an infected foot after stepping on a branch a few days before and it is known that he will soon die in agony. Everyone is hungry and there is nothing to eat, so you prepare hunting and foraging parties and hope that you will find food before starving to death.

That's the default state.

halo-and-talon | 4 years ago | on: After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)

Do you know how many babies used to die before they were a year old?

It sounds like you saw real poverty and it woke you up to your immense wealth and comfortable existence, so kudos on that. You took the wrong leap though and decided that your life is the default state, when in fact it is in an incredible aberration of history. For millions of years every person was poor, then a few were rich, then more were rich, and now you're one of them.

halo-and-talon | 4 years ago | on: Why nobody hires junior developers and what happens next

Appreciate the heads up. I assume it's because I'm on a VPN.

halo-and-talon | 4 years ago | on: Why nobody hires junior developers and what happens next

If somebody funded this, I would love to teach it. One reason I haven't looked for a job teaching bootcamps (despite wanting to be a teacher in a previous life) is because 3 months seems like way too short of a time to impart meaningful skills. I do think it's better than nothing, but if I were going to devote a non-trivial portion of my career to teaching, I'd like to do it confident in the knowledge that I had a real impact on the students.