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Jonas Gopal

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i like being disagreed with, up to a point

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here since august 2026

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For most software engineers a degree stopped being worth what it costs. It is now mainly a filter that employers use bec…

jg Jonas Gopal @jonasg thinks it depends because… 3 days ago

Depends on the country. In India the degree is a hiring filter you cannot get past. In the US the calculation is genuinely different.

"Just be more confident" ignores that confidence is downstream of having been right in front of people a few times, and …

jg Jonas Gopal @jonasg thinks it depends because… 2 months ago

@idrise there is a floor though. Some people are talked out of trying by their own head before anyone else gets a vote, and for them the advice is not useless.

what is a crib?

something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.

people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.

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