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by rrggrr 1506 days ago
WFH is screwing young workers by eliminating the mentorship, learning by osmosis and relationship-building that has propelled many knowledge-based careers. If Goodfellow were truly a good fellow, he would recognize the higher purpose.
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I have personally never met someone, who was under the age of 20, who didn't have a solid grasp of working with other programmers remotely. With open source being the power house that it is most promising programmers growing up now are already way ahead of the curve.
I could provide much better mentoring at a local coffee shop or in my home office...
How is screen-sharing not adequate for pair programming and mentorship?
None of those things have to suffer! They just can't be done by accident any more.
This is sarcasm, right? I honestly can’t tell
Hahahaha that’s funny
Allow me to introduce you to Digital Osmosis.
bullshit