isthisnagee

It's perfectly fine to critique without contributing. You'll also notice this:

> I can’t open issues myself because I’ve been banned from the V issue tracker, or I would have already.

Also this from their previous article on V:

> I hope this feedback can help make V a productive tool for programming. It’s a shame it seems to have been hyped so much for comparatively so little as a result. The developer has been hyping and selling this language like it’s the new sliced bread. It is not. This is a very alpha product. I bet you could use it for productive development as is if you really stuck your head into it, but as it stands I recommend against using it for anything.

Also a huge fan of keyvalues.com. Found the company I'm currently working at through there.

I'd like to ad that As a new grad, the website helped me a lot: it gave names to ideas I had floating in my head about what I was looking for, and it made me more confident in telling companies what I wanted.

I know some developers with less than 5 years experience earning more than CAD90k/year in Toronto, but they're not the majority of developers I know.

Those jobs do exist, but they're hard to get and hard to find.

I use Things on my phone. I love the app, but the price of the full suite (iPhone, Mac, iPad -- even though I don't have an iPad) is too high for me so I don't use it often enough :(

I’m addressing the part of the comment that holds merit to me, specifically the part about diversity problems and a lack of applicants from underrepresented groups.

I don’t believe that people in tech aren’t represented because of some biological difference. That might not be what the commenter was implying, but that’s how I read it.

I don't think your example applies in the context of a tech company, so I'm going to comment ignoring it.

If it boils down to who applies, then we need to make sure that we're reaching out to communities that are not well represented in our field. It's not about waiting for them to come to us.

Thanks. I didn’t know that.

Hi Hacker news!

So yea ... hug of death. Wasn't expecting it to get any attention at all (but that begs the question, why did I submit??).

Anyway, this is an idea I've been sitting on for a while and finally got around to doing something with it. Nothing fancy (this is the first personal project that I've "deployed", and would really appreciate any sort of feedback).

I think it's interesting to look at how companies write rejection letters. It's also a bit cathartic -- I'm finishing up uni and starting to look for work, having a collection of rejection letters makes me feel better about receiving them.

Unfortunately, that is true :(