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  • I did, the article is wrong. It's another "we need to disarm ourselves cause guns r bad"...just this one uses race to try and push that narrative.

  • The 2nd was written because we just finished fighting and winning a war against a military with private arms. This idea that it was about keeping slavery going is bullshit. It was used against slaves during the civil war, but stop trying to make it into something it wasn't to try and drive a point that the 2nd is somehow a racist idea.

    There is a reason a very large part of 2A supporters want minorities armed. Hell even the shitty NRA recently came out and said they don't support disarming trans people.

  • I know what compsci is, but it's no longer what it was in the past. It's now the catch all for most IT jobs. Dev included. And a ton of software is developed for windows because windows is the most dominant os in the world. This isn't some dig at Linux or macos, it's just the facts.

  • Comp sci is not just dev work, it's literally the catch all for all things that deal with, well computers/tech.

    Takes 2 seconds to google what comp sci majors fall into. It's a broad range of fields.

    https://www.mtu.edu/cs/what/

    These days it might as well be a business degree.

  • Yes because the world is run by devs...

    Companies run windows for 90% of their shit. The rest is linux/macos.

    No where in this entire thread was anyone talking about dev work only.

  • I don't know much about IT (I'm CS), but Ad is very specific to Windows, no? Shouldn't you instead be asking them about higher-level concepts like access controls, networking principles (http vs tcp vs ip, routing, dns, etc), and basics of cybersecurity (attack surface, network segmentation, etc)? It sounds like you're looking for practical knowledge about specific solutions rather than familiarity with concepts.

    CS still operates heavily in the windows environment. The majority of the world and businesses operate in windows. You should know the basics. Asking high level concepts isn't needed if they're unable to answer basic foundational questions which most companies operate in

    Learning our stack when you're comfortable with programming in general isn't all that difficult, learning our stack when you struggle with basic concepts will be a challenge though.

    And you just summarized what I've been saying.

    Also CS is my field as well, and knowing how the basics work inside of a windows environment, is a basic concept.

    I don't know why so many are down voting this idea.

    If you put out a job listing for say splunk, and you show up and don't even know the basics of how DBs work... that's what I'm referring to.

  • At least they apologized, I did that really early into my career, had a friend of mine set me up with what he thought was a good fit, only for me to walk into a senior level position and after 2 questions realize I'm not a good fit at all, tell them that I apologize for wasting their time and that I'm not qualified for what they're looking for.

  • Where are you getting hostility from? I made a comment that suggests that college is not preparing these young adults for their selected careers and is basically dumping them onto the businesses to train. I have also pointed out that a lot of college grads don't start at lower positions, they go for senior level stuff and then write articles like this one suggesting that the 6 figure jobs are gone. They're still plenty of them and they're still around but they're no longer getting handed out to college grads with 0 experience, like back in the early 00s. I also suggested that in this field, you can learn a foundation on your own, which is to be expected. A mechanical engineer should know a good bit of math and shouldn't have the expectation that the company teach them math. That's a foundation they should already have. In the IT world, the foundations of understanding domains, OS's, how firewalls work, etc. Is a foundation you should know already.

    No where did I say that I expect new employees to know everything. I said I expect them to at least have a foundation of what's needed for the job.

  • I seriously don't understand how the dems think that trying to appease fascist by saying shit like this is going to get fascist to magically vote for them....they don't vote for you because you're a dem not because you're not repub enough.

  • What does that matter? The left should be arming itself, not trying to continue down the path it has taken for decades that doesn't have much support.

  • I don't expect you to know everything, but while you're in college you can still learn AD, spin up a server, make a domain. See the basics of a web server, see how HFWs work....the foundation of IT. Companies shouldn't be paying you and paying to train you for learning things that, if you're interested in this career path, you should have learned on your own.

  • The number of times I've had to just say "thank you for your time" and cut a interview shoot is way to much. Shit like this is way way to common.

  • %100 agreed on that. The amount of on the job training I've got to put into fresh college grads is insane.

  • It's a bit more nuanced than that. A lot of college grads I've interviewed come out expecting to be senior level when they don't even have a basic foundation of IT. Don't expect to get paid 6 figures right out of college when you have 0 experience and can't even provide basic answers to questions that help desk people know. Colleges have lied to them that we(the IT industry) needs them and that they're special. Show me you have the foundation before telling me how the industry works.

  • The 2nd isn't what you jump to right away. We're getting there but we're not there yet. It's a last resort. Right now the left needs to be getting real comfortable with owning firearms, because the fascist are already heavily armed and are wanting to be oppressors.

  • Considering that it's starting to sound like this was maga on maga violence...watch it vanish from their mouths real quick.

  • What's even more funny is how the Republicans are the ones that drag out and reject confirmations when it's a dem president.

  • Eye for an eye, only applies if the person taking your eye has empathy. WWII and nazi germany weren't solved with words and discussion.