socializing sounds like you have to go outside, doesnt sound like somethong id enjoy

a company where people avoid me instead of the other way around? where is this holy place??

in all seriousness tho, good for you!! :)

@Prans Cool! JS is a great language to start off with, and will give you a lot of possibilities to do stuff with.
Never heard of freeCodeCamp, but looks like they're doing some good stuff. If you want to game-ify your learning experience, i can also suggest codingame, great site to solve puzzles in any programming language once you get accustomed to the possibilities of JS!

Good luck and keep us posted! :)

welcome! what language are you learning and how is it going? :)

welcome! what language are you learning and how is it going? :)

I usually keep en "examples" folder around somewhere on my machine. if i do something which i think is interesting, useful, and probably wont be doing again soon, its getting documented and archvied somewhere in that folder.

Google is your friend, buy having selfdocumented examples works better imo.

@kalippu PHP7 is a lot faster than 5, but can still be considered slow in comparison to C++.

Im a PHP dev myself and now starting to regret the joke i was trying to make >.<

@Artemix havent heard of it yet, but will check it out later, thanks! :)

@Artemix while juniors do have a tendency to make non-optimal code, PHP itself is quite a bit further awatly from machine code than something like C++ and therefore is 'slow' in comparison.

@tild3 Well i tried it, and it worked for me, so extra like just for that. Im leaving it tho, you deserve it :')

slow; yup.
bad; blame the juniors.
hated; ^
complicated; waitwutnow..?

how to get a lot of likes on a rant 101 :)

super dark. i like it!

@iwakirinko ah, so YOU made the ransomware

May your code be blessed and free of bugs!

I'm not going to give advice, since I don't know your specific situation.

That said, I haven't finished my uni degree because of reasons out of my control. I started working as a Babyor-dev (about one or two degrees below junior according to my ex-coworkers) and havent missed my degree so far. Most of my skills come from on-the-job experience or certificates I got after I started working full-time.

In most fields, I probably wont have any trouble finding a new job. Things like machine-learning and Big data are things I do feel im lacking, but im not searching for a career in those fields anyway.

Programming is kind of an science-art. You definitely need to grasp the concepts wich are very science-y, but making *good* code and programs is something you either get after a lot of experience, or something you probably will never learn.

College was fun, mainly. Didn't really learn me anything that helped me in my professional life.

Cognizant should also be looking for experiences Java recruiters.. :')

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@SirusAmory have you tried flushing the cache? its nearly always the cache, and if it isnt the cache, its probably still the cache xD

i also agree with @psion1369. Had a comparable talk with my (amazing) granddad lately. he made it clear to me that as soon as you have no value to a company, they should and will fie you. the same logic applies to your employer.

Dont get me wrong. Loyalty is a good thing, but in the end you sell your time for money. If somebody else offers you more value for your time (note the "value", it should be a nice place to work etc ofc), you should go for it.

Might be nice to openly talk about it with your current employer tho, to give them a last chance to increase your salary by that 80% to match your offer. Most employers will understand that you go for more money, since that is how companies operate themselves.

and right after the demo everything works perfectly again.

@SoNiKBooM im not entirely sure i get your question, but the voice in the back of my head tells me youre looking for "prepared statements" try googling that, hope it helps you out! :)

@Jumpshot44 thats because of reasons. The community is whats keeping it alive, and the community is there because customers want it. the system itself is buggy, hardly secure, and a lot of shitty extensions that customers insist on having in their store

What customer wants a .png of the database?

"why should we use git, we've always done it this way"

This is too true :')

Ever thought of creating your own framework? Nearly every PHP dev (myself included) has one. Great practice and helps you understand design decisions in other frameworks a lot better.

Meetings.. Meetings everywhere!

Debugging for an hour to find out your code does exactly what it needs to do. Been there, done that.

@SirusAmory Worked with that as well.
Design is worse, reliability that stuff wont break on you or do a lot of unexpected things you did not ask for makes it for me a better choice than 2.X. With the exception of 1.7.0.1 of course