@kcnickerson 🤣🤣🤣

@tytho Yeah, I've heard of that. I try to preemptively let employees know what kind of work I'm doing rather than letting them jump to their own media-fueled conclusions. 😅

@RazorSh4rk I know, it's so awful. But that's the kind of thing my husband thinks we do. It's one of his favorite shows.

There are other phone options in China, but iPhones have been incredibly popular. Some Chinese companies have tried to discourage their workers from owning iPhones, and getting national brands instead, because of political reasons and patriotism.

@orijin We get a lot of reconstructed names around here, especially on the Eastern side of town.

@xroad Oh, yeah, I know it's not exactly the same way the Note was. Supposedly in this case something came loose inside the device and punctured the battery.

That was just the first thought that went through my head as I saw it in my local news.

Congrats! 🎉🍾

Ugh...Mine did that and added Cortana back after I went through the trouble of disabling it in the first place.

@trip1 Thanks! I didn't expect this area to have much either, and I wasn't hunting for work. All I can say is try to have your work up where people can see it, and maybe you'll get lucky. LinkedIn and GitHub seemed to do a lot for me while I was busy learning and building.

@Dev-3 Awesome! Congrats, and I hope you like the job!

I love to cook and have fresh meals. The texture and taste of the highly processed stuff can't compete. But I'm not good enough at it to be an efficient cook, so when time is scarce, frozen food and microwave it is.

Plus it takes a good amount of planning to keep from creating waste when using fresh foods.

@nblackburn Thanks, and I'm sorry to hear that you've been doubted so much.

Thankfully I'm old enough now to realize that your advice is very true, and I absolutely agree that overprotecting comes from the same patronizing place as the "Women aren't as good at __" arguments and "Math is hard" Barbies.

@nblackburn I don't think anyone is treating female devs like gods. The industry as a whole is just realizing that they've been heavily discouraging women from being a part or pushing them to content/management roles instead of tech roles.

Personally, I would've been involved with programming a decade ago. I was toying with HTML and basic inline css while majoring in math, but I got enough assumptions that I wouldn't be able to handle "real" programming code that I eventually believed it and swapped to sociology. Now that I'm learning it in earnest, I'm picking it up more quickly than those detractors years ago, and I absolutely love writing code.

Part of why it's nice to see people of different backgrounds take part is that if you haven't experienced something, it's hard to see it happening to someone else. We're equal, but our experiences aren't.

Good luck!

I can't speak for the market in India, but in the US, we had the same attitude for a while: if (student.collegeDegrees > 0) { student.defineProperties (obj, { "goodJob": { value: true }, "highSalary": { value: true } }); }

A lot of those graduates are working at or just above minimum wage, so it's flawed thinking. However, college really isn't designed for job preparation. The experiences and viewpoints you're exposed to while obtaining a college degree help you grow as a person.

If your parents are helping you while you finish school, I strongly suggest finishing, even though it may be optional in this field. During any spare time you have, practice self-study and work on projects to build your portfolio. Then when you graduate, you have a degree AND a portfolio, and while nothing is a guarantee, anything that makes you look more qualified is generally a good thing.

The exception case being if you've already received a great job offer or if you hadn't started college at all.