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@Alex I don't plan on getting one. I'm not an animal person.

@ryo Problem is that I haven't really completed any hobby projects since high school because I was so busy with college and a part-time job (where the managers took advantage of me because I was one of the few reliable employees).

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When you say "I want to land my first coding job".
What applicants often think you need: "I need to show that I know all about OOP(s), MVC, 20 billion different design patterns, frameworks like Laravel, CakePHP, Spring, Django, .NET and the rest of the bloat, polymorphism, abstraction etc".
What you really need: a good portfolio with samples and a Git repository (for backend) or real world web designs (for frontend) so you can actually show what you're capable of.

Yes, you might come over as knowledgeable if you know frameworks and programming theories, but in the world of IT you're valued by your previous works.

And I bet it works like that in many other types of jobs too.
If you studied swimming for 4 years without ever touching a pool, then all of the sudden you dive into a deep pool, sure you might be an expert in swimming, but you'll drown.
Likewise, if you studied Japanese for 10 years and never spoke to a Japanese person, never read any Japanese text, and so on, you will still be unable to understand, speak, read, write etc Japanese.

And the same thing holds true with programming; with theory alone you're basically a researcher, and will never manage to put anything together.
Witnessed it so many times during my career as a programmer, and also how these people effectively get fired for being unable to finishing 1 project in 2 years which I was able to complete by making it from scratch in 3 days.

Sure, theory is comfortable and all that, but never brings you anywhere if you don't have experience.
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@okabe_rintarou @dowodenum
>Tell your family members politely that you refuse to accommodate their pets
I still live with my parents (just graduated college) so I have no say in the matter. But I'm definitely not allowing any pets once I get my own place. Despite my pfp, I've never really been an animal person.

>But in general, cats that I have seen when I visited others knew how to behave themselves.
They stop knowing how to behave when they are in other people's houses. If they are told not to jump onto tables, it's the tables that are in their homes and not your tables. They also instinctively mark their territory when they are in a new place and that includes scratching. I had to spray at my brother's cat and even then he thought that was cruel.

@matana I'd rather have those removed than being castrated (which pet owners are okay with apparently)

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>anti-ancap propaganda games
>free
Makes sense.

@PhenomX6 Honestly not a bad idea, but you will get protein poisoning if you rely on them because they are lacking in fat. But I'm willing to support any alternative meats as opposed to eating bugs or that fake synthetic crap that Bill Gates is pushing.

I heard that raccoons also make good rib meat, but I don't think you can domesticate them. You pretty much have to eat them as road kill.

The bathroom is not your personal phone booth. Stop having phone calls in the bathroom when other people actually need to take a piss.

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@dowodenum Outdoor is fine. Indoor cats on the other hand, they'll get over it. I can't tell you how many things I had that were destroyed because family members brought their pets when they came to visit.

I don't care how cruel you think it is. Declaw your fucking pets!

@icedquinn And how intelligent are most food service workers?

Why is it that every time a store decides to sell rabbit meat, there is a huge protest among pet rabbit owners? People own pigs and chickens as pets and they don't give a shit if people eat them (unless they're vegan).

@icedquinn I don't know what humans you have been hanging around with. Anyone who doesn't wash their hands immediately gets shunned, at least from my experience.

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mfw public school introducing the concept of age groups has no academic benefit it just creates generation divide so people won't talk to old people who have life experience

@ryo I only attended because I wanted to play it safe. I regret it, but thank God I graduated. That shit drained me.

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