Do it anyway. What are they going to do, fire you?

Fine. Get a job elsewhere if that happens. You're a developer. It's fine.

@FuckJava Haha. Is "are you capable" the right question?

@FuckJava Are you interested in being a Scala (don't need to know the language going in, need to be willing to learn) in DC, Minneapolis, SF, Denver, or Chicago?

No lie, I've been trying to figure out who this woman is, so I can befriend her. Gonna be in Seattle next week, would love to catch up with her.

If anyone knows who she is, please help me link up with her :)

Totally agree.

Let popularity be determined by content. Not existing popularity/punny names/gender

I don't want my coworkers questioning my skills by thinking, "if the company pays more to recruit women, do they lower interview standards as well?"

Because I'm damn clever and I've earned this. Obviously everyone needs to prove themselves at a new company, but I'd rather be starting from the default of "a bit of trust, with the rest pending" instead of "negative trust, final decision TBD, with the difficulty of overcoming a biased first impression"

@ganjaman Are you a Scala dev? Starting a new job on Monday, where they use Scala. I'm coming from a C# background so I'm a bit intimidated 😂 Thoughts on working with it? Do you like it?

@ganjaman Funny, I was going to say exactly that about Spain

@ganjaman lol, if I accept the job, send me your resume, and I'll get a referral bonus if you work there :p

If I don't accept, I'll put you in touch with my recruiter if you'd like. They've got offices in Chicago (where I am), DC, and I think SF

Also probably a, "we spend a few minutes comparing notes and figuring out if spending time on the second half of the interview is worth it" period.

"I need to go to the store to get some milk... actually I need to change my tires, watch store ads, keep track of my home milk inventory, and buy milk whenever it's on sale, keeping in mind special high-volume milk drinking times, like when I make cookies."

I'm thinking they might be HR?

"Guys" is mostly gender neutral.

If someone tried to dissuade me from using it, I'd probably have a private chat about how they were mansplsining, and I felt unsafe with them policing my words. Not true, but sometimes you gotta tailor your language towards what the audience understands. And it's a whole heck of a lot more appropriate than giving into the impulse to cut them.

And he got an offer! Wooo!

@Yamakuzure They moved across the country for a while, so fortunately he doesn't work there any more! Hopefully his most recent workplace had some sort of "real" version control :) They moved again, so crossing my fingers that his next gig is something that deserves him!

@skprog It's tough to know! I won't bore you with my credentials, but I feel pretty confident us having a conversation would be valuable.

If you want to know about the experience my brother-in-law has gotten, this perhaps tells you a lot: https://devrant.com/rants/1131358/...

But even if I knew less, giving him a chance to practice working through questions with someone technical would be valuable.

It's almost like a rant is written in a biased way, and hubris is one of the three virtues of a developer ;)

Part of it is, well, a lot of complicated family stuff. Long, long story. The result of it being, I would actually enjoy getting an opportunity to assess his skills. Thanks to geography, we only see each other at holidays, and thanks to my sister's limited vacation time, we don't see each other much.

I was also excited to be able to potentially help him! And now I can't. Alas. Though I suppose the making-a-connection is help, so I can content myself with that :)

@Floydian Best friend is Chinese, I've spent time with her family in China, etc.

Beautiful Chinese women are NOT forced into "inferior", beauty-based jobs. If anything, this woman simply has more options; she has all the options available to 'normal' women, plus the option of this. Because grandparents do most of the heavy lifting of child rearing, it's expected that a woman will have a good education and a good job (not just be a stay at home mom).

I 100% want this at my job (but by a dude)

@Yamemori Haha, we've been together almost 8 years. It's the codependency, not fears of abandonment, that bring the challenge :)

@nightowl Right! How did I not think SO = stack overflow? I blame no coffee or something.

@jhh2450 Totally related to dev rant since we are both in tech?

And good news, my roommate just texted me about going to the gym so I'm feeling a bit less blah and was finally able to summon the energy to get out of bed. Co-living wins again.

I think the best way to deal with all of this is to set up my tea maker on weekends to run automatically, so I don't want to just wallow alone in bed forever

In freedom units: he's going from about $5.30 an hour to $7.65 an hour.

That will make quite the difference for you, congrats, and good luck getting future bumps (you'll probably have to switch companies at some point)

And the only place where it's acceptable for children to have "masters" 😬

@irene I mean, I am nice. And I wasn't being sarcastic, my relationship is great, and my wonderful roommate has expressed envy, especially since she recently got out of a doomed long distance relationship and her other ex is a bit of an asshole :/ It's kinda sad, she deserves every happiness in the world, relationship-wise and otherwise.

And as for the office stuff, shrug, nothing wrong with making my relationship status concretely clear in a male dominanted workplace. I haven't been hit on much at work, but it was awkward, and I seek to avoid it.

Update: I did get valentine's flowers, but they were at home. Which is sweet and pretty and all but doesn't establish my dominance over other female workers (actually, it kinda rubs my great relationship in the face of my wonderful roommate who has said a few comments that suggest she's quite envious 😪) or demonstrate my relationship status to male coworkers.

But I've got a certification exam coming up so fingers crossed for after that :p

I mean I they are incapable of doing magic so 🤷‍♀️

Are shitty developers squibs?

I did grey crackle over red once.

I looked like a burn victim, with ash on her burnt up, bloody fingers.

Would have been good for Halloween. Not really a good spring look, though

I tried to do red polish the other day, it came out shitty so I took it off, but couldn't get it all. Then I found out that the new polish I bought wasn't opaque, and it looks like I have semi bloody nails 🙃 At least most of the red has flaked off at this point. I'm trying some new light pink over the weekend, fingers crossed it works out.

@Root Cute! I don't think the bubbles will be noticeable at a distance