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The Swift Programming Language·/u/hieronim_bosch·2 days ago
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TL;DR: 25M from Poland, sociology student with a bachelor's in CS, looking for someone to exchange experiences, learn Swift together, and yap about related tech. Hey, I'm Mateusz – 25, from Poland. Got a bachelor's in CS, wrote my thesis building a 2D tile-based game in C# with MonoGame. Did a couple of internships after that: 9 months of Qt/QtQuick, then about a year with React Native, Flask, Django, Cassandra, Postgres… the whole grab bag. But honestly, by the end of the degree I was completely burnt out. The tech world just started feeling toxic to me – the creepy data harvesting, the dodgy marketing, zero respect for users, and then on top of that the endless AI-will-take-your-job panic and layoffs. I just needed out. So I hard-pivoted into a sociology master's. (Random side tip: read the Frankfurt School people – Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas, also Debord, Ellul. Messes with your head in the best way. I'm writing my thesis right now on property rights vs.…

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