@adiabatic this is my theory too. I think that the environment sets the expectations surrounding achievement and one's degree of agency, but type-A personality is the primary ingredient. Of course, ambition ≠ achievement
@33MHz Italy is very laidback and my parents are some of the least ambitious people I've ever met, but I am almost neurotic when it comes to most of my ambitions
@Kabuku I mean the naming merely describes behavioral differences that we observe regardless of nomenclature. Even before I knew of generations, I identified many patterns common to how certain cohorts think and live
@Kabuku As an elder zoomer, I rolled my eyes when I saw a Hacker News comment say that "gen z is approaching driving age now". Old people also talk about millennials in college when the only millennials in college are profs
@33MHz Hi! I still lurk on here every now and then. I've been really busy with my internship (where I write Haskell, of all things) and school. I'm trying to slowly cut down my social media use to zero, but I think pnut is still good
@33MHz In the end I managed to get some solid internship offers, including from a YC startup, a research lab at [MIT/CMU/Stanford], and a unicorn, but it was an insane grind. My grades took a hit as a direct result. I don't see the market improving either
@33MHz I think the problem is entry-level oversaturation. The CS major may be too popular these days. A lot of SWE internship listings on LinkedIn show over 1000 applicants, sometimes more than 2000 for big tech
I'm trying to parse 1000s of HTML files in Python, run data analysis, then save the results to a database for API queries. I have no exp designing larger Python projects/breaking down responsibilities between scripts. If anyone here does, I'd love to chat!