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What is a “dirty little secret” about an industry, that people ought to know? (reddit.com)
8 points by nonotmeplease on Dec 9, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



I work in software in Sweden. We have this system between high school and college called KY-education (short for Qualified Job education, nothing else...). Some of those are quite all right, but I still haven't met anyone that has gone through a KY-education in software development that has ever been hire-material.

Back when I had another profession and was doing programming just for fun, I still knew more about computers and programming than anyone I have met that has gone through one of those programmes. Yes, you can develop android apps, but why does your eyes go blank when you see pointer arithmetic?


I worked at a Taco Bell. The meat came in a bag and it was grey. Mostly bones I guess.


Meat, especially ground meat, greys pretty quickly. Supermarket meat is typically chemically treated to stay red longer and look attractive on the shelf.


I should have mentioned it had a granular texture. shudder




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