@helloworld everything like this was analog 6 years ago too when I had my first kid and they sent me a card. Pretty sure this is an effect of COVID and everyone remote.

@helloworld it was actually a kudoboard so I exported it as a jpg and saved it. I have the option to buy a book of the messages for $40ish. I’m considering it.

That’s a good learning moment for you, at least. Make sure you and the PO, are on the same page before you get started.

At least your project is agile and it was only 2 days. Back in the waterfall days I’ve seen weeks and sometimes months wasted.

@TYML I mean you see my username. If the tests fail, it’s a feature.

And any test that doesn’t pass just @ignore! Genius!

@p100sch to be fair, no exceptions were thrown. BUT there were no instructions to check if peanut butter, jelly, knife and bread exists. That’s a null pointer waiting to happen.

Forget timezones- what’s DST rules there? Argh...

@fullsack there was one a year or two ago where I met @trogus and @dfox, among others. I think we are due for another one!

@calmyourtities your profile says 15... happy belated birthday :-)

And twins? sleep... now...

Wait till you have a kid. I used to be the same exact way. Now it’s 11pm and I’m exhausted.

I’d be nervous to visit Atlassian. I’d be so disillusioned if I saw that they used bugzilla and Jenkins for Jira and Bamboo.

And btw if anyone thinks I’m wrong and this is legit how all interviews are please tell me. I would actually appreciate knowing so I can mentally prepare for this. All I know is I give interviews in my role and we purposely shape them where the questions and tasks we ask are specific to the role.

@Devnergy honestly just seemed like a stupid interviewer. I didn’t ask anything about salary yet- all I knew was the scale was above what I currently make. This was through a recruiter and it seemed potentially like an improved opportunity.

I’m not even upset that I probably won’t get the role. I’m more upset about the two hours wasted on this.

@Devnergy if that was the case it wouldn’t be a primitive array. It would be a List (this happened to be in Java). And I could show that I’m keeping up with coding standards and streams, lambdas etc.

but no. This was a primitive 2d array and looping through it trying to calculate the longest chain of like values both horizontally and vertically. Which I get is a semi challenging algorithm question and for a job that requires extremely efficient algorithms for complicated use cases, I get. But for a job that is designing and architecting microservices that are part of a supply chain? You aren’t doing anything close to that. I’m sorry.

It’s not that it’s an unfair or impossible problem (though using a web api with no debug is BS). It’s that it is testing the wrong skill sets. Especially when writing it while being watched over. No one works that way.

@Devnergy yep! Cause we ALL use that every day in our jobs! The perfect way to spec people 🤦🏻‍♂️. Forget about what you will ACTUALLY do at work.

Yeah I always got confused by this ad. I kind of WANT one size fits all unlimited! Wtf is this different kind of unlimited shit?

I’m a programmer and love thinking about border cases and this just confuses the hell out of me.

@gathurian and that’s why we give stupid simple algorithms. And we help them through it if needed. At some point enough is enough

Technically I did around then too- Logo was the best- making that little turtle design a Spirograph

Now, I got my then 4 year old nephew a code-a-pillar which is a (very basic) programming toy

Google and frameworks scare me. They tend to work on one and then randomly drop support or remove backwards compatibility way too fast.

See:

GWT: Dev Mode Support removed, needed to upgrade to support Super Dev Mode

Angular: 1.0 and 1.5 is not compatible with 2.0 which came out soon after. They are up to something like 5 now, less than 2 years after 1.5.

@f0cus10 it’s closer to 15% after taxes on that $0. Sorry.

@Charon92 ha I get to keep my same crappy cube that happens to have a gorgeous view of the park outside the office and skyline.

This game is not available in the App Store anymore, at least in the US. If this is because of Chad... ouch.

I guess he didn't realize. Just shake it off, shake it off.

@runfrodorun exactly. I figure if I can't find it, and it passes the "repost filter" that was implemented, enough people haven't seen it that it's okay.

Sorry if this is a repost. It passed the DevRant duplicate image check so that's a good sign!

I think a better one for a client is (s)he puts a diaper on the baby's head and then complains about the shoddy development and demands a refund when they get peed on.

That totally explains the orange hues in the center of the original apple logo also!

@dfox it's been 22 hours and this hasn't been fixed and deployed yet?? What the hell?? I'm waiting...

@ninjatini that changes as you get older. I have a kid now and way more important than the money is the fact that I can work from home 3 days a week and take unlimited sick days in case he is sick. Don't get me wrong, I make good money, but I should be making more... but I don't care since home-life is respected.

I grew up in Brooklyn, NY and when I travelled to North Holland it was so shocking how much it felt like home. I mean, I know Manhattan was once New Amsterdam, but there's a difference between reading about it and then flying thousands of miles away and seeing that.