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It’s interesting how on r/itcareerquestions people actually talk about the job while on r/cscareerquestions it’s… (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by buh@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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…all humble bragging, condescending to people who arent grindset sigmas making 500k/yr, and racism (mostly against Indians but sometimes people grumbling that the job market would be better if it weren’t for the 10% of non-white/asian people who are universally “diversity hires”)

not to say I haven’t seen the above in the IT sub, but the difference is staggering…

Someone’s gotta do an ethnological study on why between two different career fields that on the surface would seem to attract similar types of people, one has like 10x as many psychos

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[–] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my favorite genre of online rants to read is when a CS person experiences mild trouble figuring out a user interface. They then declare something like "imagine how much difficulty the general public must have when even I, an Incredibly Technical Person, have trouble with this!" Often people will have no real difficulty with it at all, and the CS person has simply massively overestimated the technical abilities gifted to them by their ability to search stackoverflow posts.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I love the "PC power user" not understanding and complaining about Mac controls even though it takes like 5 minutes to figure out and it's mostly having to fight against muscle memory rather than any form of complexity. Honestly, the vast majority of PC g*mers are just as tech semi-literate. If anything, they're even worse because at least developers can code.