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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Make things!

    Whether you’re working on FOSS project or your own personal projects, building cool and diverse stuff that you’re passionate about is the best way to get experience quick.

    Regarding your personal project, starting over is usually not a bad idea. Especially if your own skills have grown a bunch since starting. Make sure you keep old versions around for reference!

    I’ve personally never gotten much out of freelancing or coding challenges. I think it depends on if you see CS more as a career or more as a passion (both of those are perfectly legitimate). I should also mention, a lot of professionals don’t do any programming outside of work. You don’t need to dedicate time outside of work to be good at this job.

    The most important thing is to have fun and not to burn yourself out. Take care of your body and mind!















  • I think you’re attributing waaay too much to evolution.

    About half of all humans are designed to take serious risks to gain status or resources, their bodies aging quicker and doing less to repair itself. The other half gets to live a little longer and be a little healthier…

    You’re describing gender roles, which are very much socially created. This is something we can change and not created by evolution.

    Love often encourages us to enter toxic relationships…

    It’s manipulation not love (or evolution). This feels like you’re blaming the victim.

    Evolution generally wants us to live lives that are as short as possible to allow for more generations in less time.

    This is clearly not true, as evidenced by all the animals that live extremely long lives.

    Evolution doesn’t “want” anything. It’s a very passive process.