Suggestion for roasts on team lead (former mentor)?

It'll be a 10-15 min long presentation. :P

What will be the biggest issue for you while working in office?

Mine would be - if I'm listening to music while coding I often end up singing xD
Which I had better control on before covid saga

If I create a library in Java, that is cache but auto-refreshes your data on regular intervals, totally configurable in terms of frequency of auto refresh and number of background threads used so as to reduce latency when you actually need data; will it be useful?

So currently, Guava cache has the feature to refresh only after you actually try to read data, which can actually be troublesome for a high QPS system.

I personally had this use-case, and wondered if there's anything existing (couldn't find, so wrote for my personal use case) and if it is an actual use case worth a library.

How to kill monotonicity?

Like, I like my work... I enjoy my work. I'm building things from scratch.

But the monotonicity is really making me bored and demotivated.

IMO no matter how clean the code is, there should ALWAYS be SOME COMMENTS to anything that might seem not very obvious.

Reading the whole business logic to understand the point to why the piece of code was written seems stupid.

These codes get merged because everyone is lazy to review 2k lines of code for a new feature (including me) lol

Question: Devs with 3+ years of exp.
Do you like coding? Or do you like HLD/LLD or general tech solutioning more?

The saddest and funniest side of our industry is (atleast in India): someone works hard and makes it to the best colleges, do great projects on AI, ML; get a good score on Leetcode, codechef; gets a job in FAANG-like companies...

Changes colors in CSS and texts in HTML.

And, why is there so much emphasis on Data Structures and Algorithms? I mean, a little bit is fine, but why get obsessed with it when you never write algorithms in production code?

Now, don't tell me that, we use libraries and we should know what we are doing, no, we don't use algorithms even in libraries.

Now, before you tell me that MySQL uses B-tree for maintaining indexes, you really don't need to solve tricky questions to be able to understand how a B-tree works.

It's just absurd.

I know how to little bit on how design scalable systems.
I know how to write good code that is both modular and extensible.
I know how to mentor interns and turn them into employees.
I know how to mentor junior engineers (freshers) and help them get started.
Heck I can even invert a binary tree.

But some FAANG company would reject me because I cannot solve a very tricky dynamic programming question.

Don't use my idea.

Interesting plug-in (Intellij)

What percentage of your time is spent actuslly coding?

In a week, I spend not more than 1 full working day writing codes. The rest is spent doing PoCs, designing (LLD and rarely HLD), solutioning and deployment.

Why is Java goto language for most backend systems, distributed and scalable, specially in big organizations like Amazon?

When I joined devRant 4 years ago, still in University, every other rant here seemed so high level.

Now that I'm in the industry for a little more tha. 2 years, every other rant seems University level xD

WFH vs Office, what will be your preference in a post covid world?

I'm sure after the covid saga ends, there will be a plethora of remote and WFH opportunities since businesses are now ready for it. Most big companies in our place (Like Microsoft, Google, Amazon) have extended WFH till June/July, and Microsoft even said it's gonna be way more flexible in letting ppl WFH

Anyone knows how a wildly cluster works with TCPPING
https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

Hey, anyone ever worked on Avro or Serialization?
Please have a look.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

I don't know why whenever I ask a decent question on StackOverflow it gets ignored. :/
And a stupid ones gets downvoted lol

Don't kill me.

Covid rant
I had my last day at previous job in mid Jan, and 1st day at new job, thousands of km accross the country, in another city, in Feb.

I had great difficulty in finding an apartment that's decent and close to my office. Finally got one with a hefty rent for 1BHK, hefty brokerage and a hefty sum as security deposit; in March. Within a week, I spent shit load of money buying things, like a new fridge, washing machine, chair, table etc...

Didn't live there for 7 days, as soon as the lockdown started.
Every month my heart shatters paying the rent :(
17.5k INR :(

Agree?

How do I get ideas of side projects to help my growth?
2 yrs of exp as backend developer.

Who are these people?
Who have side projects?
Where do they find the time?
Where do they get the motivation from?
Where do they get ideas from?

My manager recently created an android game as a side project... He also suggested me to have side projects if I wanna grow fast :/

I, wake up, pick up some motivation to finish office work (which I actually like) and it's already evening!

Is something wrong with me?

What would be the Rule 34 of programming?

Six ch

Exceptions are always there in any society.
A good society is the one that treats them well.

When you do a microproject on some framework, make sure you know how it works, as in, know what you've written rather than blindly copying from tutorials, stackoverflow or documentations.

After working on Python (Flask and alembic) I switched jobs. Now I'm on Java (DropWizard and Hibernate)... Now I realise how easy Python was.

Manager in stand-up: So what's the update?
Me: Quack quack.

Mandatory WFH for everyone for the next 3 days.

I have just this weekend moved to a new apartment and haven't got WiFi yet. :/

I graduated from a non elite institute, from non CS branch. I was working in a not so know startup. It was so difficult to get referrals at big orgs like Amazon, Flipkart...

Now that I'm already in Flipkart, atleast 1 recruiter contacts me each day with openings in the best companies in India... Seriously wth, I made a switch a month ago!

Pro tip by a Noobie: Whenever you use an open sourced software, and set it up using some tutorial, make sure you download the latest distribution.

Wasted 2 days fixing something while setting up KeyCloak, eventually downloaded the latest version and worked fine. There was a bug in KeyCloak apparently.

Happened the same 2 and a half years ago trying to write node scripts for ElasticSearch, using an older ES library -_-

Indian housing market literally exploits bachelors who look to take a house on rent. Motherfucking retards!