I graduated in 2009 in the middle of the Great Recession. I lived in a basement after graduation and did odd jobs for 9 months while learning how to build web apps. Then I took a job teaching English in South Korea.
After I got back from Korea 2 years later I faced a similar situation. Be flexible, take odd jobs, don't be afraid to work in the trades and use your free time to build durable economic skills for a job that you really want. Conditions will change (and they do so unevenly throughout the economy).
Get by and get ready. They can't repossess your brain. If you're from a financially unstable background - live cheap and be creative until you've built the stability you want.
Sentera builds an in-season field analysis platform called FieldAgent®. Growers, agronomists, seed retailers, and supply chain managers use the FieldAgent® platform to understand the story of a field from planting to harvest. Working for Sentera means tackling some of the most advanced problems in computing to improve the sustainability and efficiency of the food supply. We’re not selling ads or building marketing tools. We work at ground level and need people ready to get their hands dirty.
We just raised a 25m series C and we're hiring engineers to help us define and scale the platform. Our tech stack is Ruby on Rails (heavy use of graphql-ruby), React, and lots of Python and Node microservices.
I stopped flossing for a while (forget why) right before a check-up. The "gum quality" numbers (scale of 1-5) that the hygienist called out for each tooth gap were conspicuously worse than usual. I hadn't told them I hadn't been flossing. After that feedback, I regained flossing religion. Come next check-up, the numbers were back in the normal range.
Feel free to file this anecdata as appropriate to your needs.
I absolutely hate flossing and never do it. I bought one of those dental pressure washer things to compensate, and I love it. It blasts piles of food gunk out from between your teeth, way better than flossing will ever hope to accomplish, as well as flushes under the gumline. Plus, it takes less time than flossing. The dental workers have commented that I floss very well, joke's on them. ;-)
Electric toothbrushes are also great for keeping your teeth very clean, and can penetrate between your teeth depending on the design.
Just because there is no medical evidence, it doesn't mean that you don't benefit from flossing, it just means nobody has spent the money to prove the benefits of flossing.
Yes. People might balk at your Vox link, but I'd advise anyone to look into it themselves. There's little good research about flossing: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/9611
My personal belief is that flossing does something since you can clearly see food bits or whatever on used floss, but that's different from believing those food bits wouldn't be removed by normal brushing anyway or that they even cause harm.
I love this site. I went through every lesson like 6 months ago because, although I could type prose very quickly, I had not mastered the programmer typing that it takes to quickly experiment on the unix shell or hit opening braces and parens with consistency.
Although typing certainly isn't a big development bottleneck, being able to type fast lowers your overall cognitive load and lets you stay in the problem domain you're working on.
It's not like loud noises are a programming bottleneck either -- but it's certainly nice to eliminate a nuisance.
