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  • seth@lemmy.worldtoUplifting News@lemmy.world•Boy Scouts of America changing name to more inclusive Scouting America after years of woesEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You can’t possibly know if people who don’t support the BSA have experience with it or not if they don’t mention it, what a wild assumption. I was in scouts and enjoyed the outdoor activities and merit badge system, but it was definitely not an inclusive troop by any means. I didn’t notice until my teens, but anyone who was even a little bit different was bullied not just by the other scouts but also the adult leaders. It made me not want to continue past Star. And it’s so weird that they taught the concept of exclusive secret societies for the elite (Order of the Arrow).

  • seth@lemmy.worldtoProgramming@programming.dev•Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference | TechCrunch
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    2 months ago

    Laying people off instead of offering to move them to the now-more-important projects has to be one of the dumbest management moves that tech companies repeatedly do. These are people already trained on all the policies and procedures and tooling and “culture” specific to your company.

    It’s going to be more expensive to hire and train new people when the dumdums in upper management finally figure out the mistakes they made that got them to a point where they decided they need to cut jobs and projects, and the ramp-up time before you actually start seeing progress on those priorities is going to be seriously lengthened. Of course they won’t acknowledge it was their fault in the first place, and again the heads roll on the wrong end of the corporate ladder.

  • seth@lemmy.worldOPtoProgramming@programming.dev•C++ creator rebuts White House warning
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    4 months ago

    I think it’s a good first language to learn. Because it’s a lower level language than most of the popular ones these days, you will learn a lot of interesting concepts and problems you wouldn’t otherwise get or even need for higher level stuff - like memory management, allocation, garbage collection and cleanup, and pointer references - but which give you a better understanding and appreciation for what’s in the black box.

    But you also learn a lot of transferable concepts like typing, mutability, objects and object oriented design, polymorphism, etc. And there are still a ton of jobs where C++ knowledge is required or at least useful.

    I have barely touched it over the years since first using it, but patterns and approaches I learned in C++ have come in handy for me a lot when troubleshooting and when reading other people’s code, and being able to recognize who is going to be a helpful person to talk to when I run into problems I can’t quickly figure out.