@retoor Fack. Thanks for your recommendation.

@jestdotty The Grinch.

@jestdotty Yas, pplz hev rolz. Lmao that was hard to type without laughing.

They do, they do.. Business Analyst, Data Engineer, Fullstack Software Developer, Facilitator, Tech Lead, Manager, to name a few.

I'm sorry to hear that jestdotty. You deserve the world. Don't let the others change your thoughts. You are the sunshine of the world!

I hate this role so much I take a shit ton of breaks.

@antigermanist lol

@CoreFusionX And I do.

@int32 Yes, I enjoy those. I had been valedictorian in college.

@retoor For nothing like that. ;o

@jestdotty Ah yes.. getting to know a person, not an easy task. First analyze the Main thread() and.. jk. Yes, indeed. You need to build on them from the start and get to know all their aspects. It's funny how you think you know someone after years but then they reveal something you weren't expecting.

The drama is annoying, which is why I keep to myself. People on Discord are mostly hyper, yes, and sadly sheep-like. I remember voting on music using voting bots (clicking a matching emoji). Interesting. Yes, community is what makes community. : )

@jestdotty Toastieeeeee. Yes, I also switch topics every 10 seconds which annoys the fluck out of pplz.

@MammaNeedHummus Well, I am more academic-steering, so yes. It's not mutually exclusive towards engineering, though. I had a peer review where my colleague says I can grow well in all areas.

I don't like working with people unless I get along with them (which is a rarity in itself). I'm like Alan Turing in the movie: "I'm afraid these people will only slow me down".

@TheBeardedOne Sounds familiar.

@int32 It sucks I find myself taking my free time just to catch up. It will get better.

@retoor Finally a useful application of A.I. jk jk. Yeah, it has nice features. And bot approval, which is great.

@retoor >: D

@BordedDev Sounds like.. JavaScript. lol

@retoor I've been in two projects where I could program things from the ground up, fully from zero. I have to say that was enjoyable, if complex. Importantly, I had full code ownership and I didn't have to incorporate other people's mess into my thinking. lol

@CoreFusionX It'll take a while before I get good enough at those. Sadly the industry wants things right now, not later. Struggles.

@Lensflare There must be some way to resolve it without having everyone muted. lol

@jestdotty Wtf lmao jestdotty. Clever.

I don't those wireless earphones, at least not the buds.

They don't mind me listening to music either, as long as it doesn't play out in the open. lol.

But it's fucking funny when management devices to have a lol and play their music out loud. Suddenly then it's ok.

Face. Palm. Oil. jk

Yes, when you show yourself as human, people can relate to you. I project myself as business as fuck, so people are scared of me, sadly.

Socialize, hm, it depends. Some projects are so fucking busy that I don't find a moment's time to take a break because the fucking PM it always needy. You can see my fucking frustration in my swearing. lol. Thankfully it's not always like that and I take breaks.

@jestdotty Goodness, that is a fucked up situation you described there. Sad people in indeed, but I applaud you for stepping forth in your sense of self. I see that context was needed.

Those people who don't believe in you having a will can go fuck themselves. I have free will and I don't work well in environments that expect me to be a good little robot. I'm a strategist and idea-creator, not a drone. These people are very wrong about you.

Compliance-requirerers are indeed narrow-minded.

@jestdotty We had metaphysics in college and I found it profoundly interesting. We talked about Newton, Leibniz, Pascal, Descartes and how they view reality. Newton would identify as being among the universe and things being physical references, Descartes would identify existence as being a conscious thinker "I think therefore I am". All very interesting.

You refer to 'self', hm, but it can depend on the context, metaphorically or not.

The difficulty with metaphysics is that they build upon tons of abstractions on top of each other and for that you will have to learn every axiom from the ground up. lmao

Oh, the concept of good and bad.. it came back in our Sociology lectures, 'good and bad' being mental safety nets that don't exist. That's also a challenging thought.

@jestdotty You scary girl! I was just browsing that the other day. jk lol. Yes, I know that movie. That other scene with the timed hacking. lol. Yes, that's how dev is supposed to be!

https://youtube.com/watch/...

@jestdotty I can relate to that forum experience. lol. I've been through it a lot. A similar experience is searching chain threads from the 90's for an answer. I had to do this in some instances, even now. lmao

@jestdotty Exciting. I'm curious to see what similar solutions can be found. Let's go to Napster. jk. Hm.. Discord groups?

@jestdotty That's what I see business people do all the time, sadly.

@jestdotty I talk too much, huh? ;p lol

@retoor Examples can be nice to teach you.

Wolfenstein. Fun fun. Sounds like Wolfenstein3Dtripping. lol

200 lines! That's super optimal. I know I wrote with SDL once. I made two little guys in 2D CTF.

Hm, well, I'm learning some backend and Gemini has helped me. Heheh.

@retoor Concentrated working is good.

It's fun to think about how your chatapp will be as good or better than the current ones and perhaps fix flaws others have.

I just don't like it when I'm at the office and if I'm not using headphones, it's eerily quiet, like people aren't people.

I think coding standards have their pros and cons.

pros:

- unified way of working, more maintainable (in theory), fewer headaches trying to figure someone's crap out

cons:

- Get out of the h'way, pal! jk

- when these standards are wrong/incorrect, then you are forced to stick to bad standards and if you dare say a word about it, especially if the company is used to it for 30+ years, you're the bad guy

- having to spend time learning these standards

- possibly adopting bad standards and then having to get used to proper standards again when joining good project