The last CTO (cheif technology overlord) I had said this. He came from the banking industry and we were working with bank account information.

Left that place fast.

Port sniffer

I wanna say this is a binary joke?

@CrankyOldDev

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

TLDR; people have opinions about trivial things because its easy to understand. Not so with complex things, because they dont understand them.

So, short code reviews get lots of comments because it's easier to pick them apart than longer code needing review

Bikeshedding at its finest

@fluffyhaireddev turns out it meant less white space, lol

Works great so long as you don't have code reviews by the person who 'owns' the code. I use owns loosely, they are just the most experienced with that area of the code

@Qchmqs You're right. If the code was implemented as a class instead of an interface, I could have just updated that instead of adding useless variables in addition to the one spot it was needed.

Friend went to a college in Virginia that "gave" everyone used MacBooks (probs hidden in tuition fees). So everyone had one

Looked through the DB at the last place I was at and some customers thought the first and last name fields were the password fields, so their passwords are stored in plain text next to the hashed pw...

Hackers Delight since theyll know the password and hashed version...

How do you keep people from popping your tires or putting sugar in the gas tank or syphoning out your gas?

coffee

I left the company that had that policy. They had all the wrong reasons for not letting devs remote:
1) lack of trust
2) they spent $$ on office space
3) thought only face to face fostered idea exchange
4) they were too lazy to sum up their questions on paper rather than spout half baked ideas to devs

But basically was lack of trust that the dev would do anything.

My advice: find a new job

@620hun At first I thought this splitting hairs. And then I worked on code that used it interchangeably and we learned real fast that it REALLY matters

Assembly or bust!

@Jrakkez I felt the same about college. While I understood linked lists and concepts well, I had a hard time coding it in interviews. I had to spend time outside of school to learn the application side of develoment. I found that school was good for theory, bringing up topics I wouldn't have thought of and hand holding (started with a cs class knowing only HTML prior)

Depends on your aspirations. Some companies refuse to hire anyone without a degree or refuse to pay what your worth without a degree. Also, your school opens up connections/friends you might not had gotten otherwise. Now the question is: Is going to a $50k/year school worth it over a $10k/year school for CS?

Depends on what you wanna learn. I suggest books like 'the pragmatic programmer' for real world advice, hackerrank.com for algorithm practice and opensource contributions to see other coding styles

Ive had much better response from cancelling services in person. Call centers could care less.

@dontbeevil

Frustrations range from xbox to VS to outlook to reaching the bios to Skype ranging from something as sime as inconsistent password requirements to the workaround for a bug being a restart to a program/system that takes a long time to boot again (xbox/VS)

@ingenioushax

Let me read that article for you:

"Another lingering question is whether the structural differences result in differences in brain function, or whether differences in function result in structural changes."

Your argument is that science proves its nature over nurture. This article does not support either conclusion.

@jckimble there are counter examples. Google is literally made a program that generates art. Also, compilers can optimize your code. So the people who wrote that code wrote code to generate code. This is similar with machine learning. I think the pioneers had to be creative, but thats no different than the artsists and the people ripping off their artworks

@brettmoan How are those solutions solved? By using pre-existing frameworks? Being able to string solutions together requires resourcefulness. Creativity is about original solutions/works. Yes, companies patent original works, but thats on a smaller scale. How many of those same companies rip off ideas from other
companies?

@ingenioushax There are many things wrong with the article you explicitly searched for on the internet to defend your stance. Where's the paper on the findings? Was it a random sampling? Where's the statistical analysis? Was it published in a scientific journal?

While I'd like agree with you, and while I like stackoverflow, I think the rampant use of stackoverflow shows that theres not as much creativity as you'd think.

@ingenioushax The problem is more fundamental than that. Why are women more "creative" and men more "logical"? Because of how they are raised and the impressions people leave on them. I know an 8th grade girl whos math teacher said that girls a fundamentally worse at math which made her believe she couldnt do engineering. That got me so mad. And her response was "Well my teacher said it, so it must be right"

@fuckfuckityfuck I was waiting at an airport and some guy sat down next to me when there were all these open chairs. In case anyone was unsure, that was the wrong way to make conversation

I remember asking my dad that question when I was younger. I wanted to understand what the internet was. Didnt see how I could access pages from another machine through just a wire

Python
C
Java
C++
Ruby
Prolog
Haskell

And now Im learning C#. Can the world just pick a language ready? Lol

Stuff like this makes me sad cause there are so many people who would cherish the opportunity to get a degree in CS/Tech and this guy scooted by waiting for handouts. Gives devs a bad name