baked_ziti

I actually don't believe this. The idea that the army of webdevs that find employment for the first time were recruited out of school strikes me as silly. In addition, your response directly contradicts the other responses, so someone is definitely exactly wrong. This answer sounds less plausible than the others.

Don't use the web on your phone.

I don't know about google search results, which I wouldn't trust for something like this. But I just logged back into indeed, searched 'new graduate software engineer' and the vast majority, as in nearly every ad, was a thinly veiled recruiter ad, or an internship, or was an irrelevant result; 7+ years experience required in the first 3 results and many more in successive results. This has been my experience on similar job boards.

I have seen nearly zero job postings for positions that could be filled by new college grads.

There are numerous postings seeking interns. There are quite a few require 1-3 years experience. There are many seeking qualified professionals. I have seen almost nothing that would permit a new college grad to gain a position.

This leaves me wondering several things. One, how did business manage to offload the cost of absorbing the educated but inexperienced into the profession back onto the people. You can listen to people in hiring or executive positions bemoan the costs of training new software engineers, but how did we get to a point where literally everyone other than business is expected to bear every cost of doing business.

And two, how do new college graduates find work without either creatively interpreting the meaning of "experience" (that is, lying), or just ignoring the requirements portion of the job postings to which they reply.

> With keto you can have as much fibre as you like as long as it's not paired with carbs.

Plants, which are extremely high in carbs, are where fiber comes from.

High intake of saturated fat is associated with heart disease.

The keto diet is a low fiber high saturated fat intake diet. The effects of low fiber consumption and high intake of saturated fat are well established, and they certainly aren't inflammation reducers. Also, fasting is not without risks.

> women were over-represented in software development compared to men

This is a narrative I see taking hold in the past few years but I'm not convinced that prior to the 1980s women were the majority of software developers. My impression was that this has to do with how a job was defined, and that many data entry type positions were considered to fall beneath the rubric of computer science.

Having no evidence to offer of my own for or against, I wonder if anyone else can link anything germane to the discussion.

> Taking white dudes down a notch, I have no issue with that

Then you should have no problem dismissing the author and the content of his essay.

> There is a real-world danger to this aestheticizing attitude toward linguistic study, this appeal to “beauty” and “pleasure.”

I can't imagine feeling this way and being a classicist. Like, why even bother?

> Brexit

> Trump

> Boris Johnson

> Nazis

Ugh. It's like bingo at this point.

>

Like I said. Needlessly contentious.

I guess you're right, your experience is universal. SystemD really IS where that comes from.

Void Linux is a nice alternative which defaults to runit. I feel like I'll probably end up in the same spot though, switching to BSD.