Which is a longwinded way of saying that I'm sensitive to the risk of reinventing the wheel (...constantly, cyclically, via trends) but also there are advantages of the freeform path which we'd lose if we had a way to ensure certain standardization, and we might not come out ahead. /fin

I kind of love that software devs don't necessarily come from CS undergrad -- there's a wide range of backgrounds among my dev colleagues. And of course even if they DID, as noted elsewhere in replies, CS != programming, and CS profs are often remarkably out of touch with programmer tools. 3/

This is definitely something I think has pros and cons! I mean on the one hand I like having those touchstones, and a sense that there IS some kind of professional ethics even if sometimes it's observed more in the breach. But on the other hand, it's hella exclusionary. 2/

It's definitely a very different feel from e.g. librarianship (I have a library science degree and ended up coding sorta by accident). There's a very strong sense of being a profession over there, with shared values & knowledge inculcated through formal education. 1/

I think there are fairly strong cases to be made that programming is neither a profession nor a science, yes, but I also think people doing stuff is pretty great

I would be *all in* for a talk on version control history (I'm 100% that kind of nerd) but is it for historical interest and/or because knowing alternatives can make people better devs (yay!) or just "in my day we walked uphill both ways three miles through the snow" (we don't have to still do that)

I mean, on the one hand, I know there was software before git, but on the other hand, I've never done software dev without git, and I've been doing this for like 15 years now. It's not at all strange that they wouldn't know! I'm quite fuzzy on the details myself, and I'm gen X!

That's a QUILT?!?

Small and negative like the candy, but can be used in an ironically or humorously positive way. (I’m not short, I’m fun-size!)

the husband honestly just threw some chickpeas into his version because what the hell, why not, this is not a *precision* recipe, and they were a very strong component

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's constantly getting MTG and M:tG swirled up in my head 😂

….omg so my husband made that today as his Experimental Sunday Cooking and it’s SO GOOD

Why, I myself tend to watch Netflix when I could be going for a run. We’re basically the same.

Love that stripe. NJT has such an incredibly consistent & distinctive color story.

we also span the full range of "grew up working class" to "so your parents were also academics huh" and my goodness but yes this is correlated

lol, my manager has an art history PhD, his manager has an MFA, some of my team members don't have college degrees at all, and it matters NOT AT ALL except that it's cool to be in a team where people have a variety of backgrounds and and interests and talents

I had the same question and then realized I absolutely did not under any circumstances want to know the answer