I saw a hackerrank for PL/SQL once, it was in the necrinomicon, right between the implementing the game of life in Brainf*** and a PERL regex that was sed to summon Codethulu.

And I can appropriately handle an error in none of them. F***ing JS lacking proper try catch blocks.

It all depends on why you are doing it.

If you are doing it to learn you'll get farther by buying Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming and working through that.

If you are doing it because you think it will make you more employable, years of experience is looked at more than credentials.

Also the only reason to get a PhD is if you like setting money on fire, and like spending years kissing wrinkled pruny professor butt.

In fact the only reason to get a masters is if you work for a large company that has rigid rules around promotion and hiring, and then only do it if you are going to earn more with the promotion than you'd spend on tuition.

I speak all this as having been someone who got a masters degree, ended up spending around $12,000 for it , and then after I finished got a promotion that came with a $20,000 raise so it was barely worth it in my case.

But really I wouldn't generally recommend it unless you have a really good reason.

Windows Defender is sufficient.

But really you should switch to Linux.

Starting salary $40,000 a month with potential for 2% yearly raise if employee exhibits a positive attitude.

Check out https://old.reddit.com/r/...

the are style is called algeria and I concur with you.

I for one appreciate when apps do this. It makes it so much easier to figure out how to use their stupid API in the first place rather than navigating through a bunch of crappy docs to access endpoints that don't do what you need.

I wish Sophos wasn't a steaming pile of fecal matter, whose primary purpose was to rootkit our machines, invade our privacy and turn everything to shit.
I wish that Sr. Management wouldn't buy the code equivalent of offal that is Sophos.
I wish our InfoSec department didn't think that the solution to our security problems was to put what is equivalent to a hentai tentacle monster while our OS is the unwitting victim that installing Sophos does.

I wish I lived in a world without Sophos.

A good leader serves his team, sets am example, and seeks to make the people he leads better.

Been there man, it's adrenaline. It is going to wear off tomorrow and you are going to feel like crap.

Nice, sounds cool. So what are you paying? How much equity are you offering? Or are you more of an "idea guy"?

@Oktokolo

> Boot a linux from a stick <strike>and do a scan from there. Or just reformat without verification.</strike>

Boot a linux from a stick and do a live install from there.

FTFY

Please send me the link to the job listening I want to apply so badly.

JS is a real language but it is probably the language they wrote the necronomicon in.

Send them this
https://kalzumeus.com/2010/06/...

It's falsehoods people, especially programmers, have about names. In short a name should be considered a decorative text field in almost all cases and should not be used for any real analysis as you will invariably not think of a corner case of a name.

As a conclusion to this idea let me ask you is the name McKayla the same name as Mckayla?

I'd check out the BOFH on how to best deal with Managers.

Pluralsight I've found is pretty good for getting a deep dive and learning a specific technology or program well, but isn't good for tutorial learn how to code type stuff.

Remember this is your opportunity to show them how smart you are. Use obscure terminology, and acronyms as much as you can.

Grill them relentlessly they should come away feeling like they aren't worthy of working for you company.

No matter how they answer questions respond with a slightly dismissive grunt.

Keep your eyes locked with them the whole time make them feel like hunted prey.

For bonus points rip your short off halfway through and challenge them to an arm wrestle to establish dominance.

Remember at all times the objective is to make you feel smart and powerful if they really had any skills they wouldn't be interviewing for a job in the first place remind them of that frequently.

That way if you do like them they'll be so grateful they got a callback you can low ball them on an offer.

If you or your coworkers were trying to parse HTML using Regexs you need to view the top stackoverflow answer at this post.

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

In conclusion you cannot parse HTML with Regexs and if you try to do so you should be publicly flogged for the doom you have brought upon collective humanity.

I'd be willing to be most of them mentioned it in their exit interview. The C suites just didn't like the idea and continue to pretend it's something else.

You know I always hear people complain about that, but everytime I run Windows or Mac I run into issues to, where updates will randomly fail, my machine will freeze, or who knows what else.

The difference is with Linux I can see what happened, have the ability to fix it, and know why it happened. On Mac or Windows I'm just screwed and hope it gets sorted.

Actually there's a great marketplace out there where various 3 letter agencies will buy this kind of exploits for a decent price.

And I need you to learn how to code. Seems like neither of us will be getting what we need today.

I do when I am getting paid by line of code, and memory consumed.

Actually its interesting that you asked that. I actually have just went through the task of organizing a lot of resources on that subject.

Just check it out here: https://googlethatforyou.com//...

Sorry although your ability to turn lead into goal is pretty impressive, we are also unfortunately looking for someone who can turn graphite into gold as well.

The good news however is that we will now spam your inbox with every open position we post from now till the end of days.

Thats what is great about the JavaScript ecosystem you need to download 16 petabytes of data to do hello world in any framework to make things "easy"

The only thing better than that is the Java environment where you'll spend 4 hours trying to figure out the Spring config and write 4 pages of XML and annotations to keep things "simple"

@Sariel

- I wish it was Arch but I end up using Ubuntu because that's the only distro most of the corp software runs on that I have to work with.

- Usually if I have ended up screwing things up that bad I ended up just reinstalling from scratch

- 5.x I think whatever the current Ubuntu is.

- If I ever have a time machine the first thing I am going to do is go back in time and off the guy that invented node, but the next person on the list is the fellow behind SystemD

- If there's a virus on there its because I was the one that developed it, otherwise I'll defend my system with SELinux like a man.

It's always been like that, we just are getting to the point where there are now enough people to shine the flashlight on the roach infested corners floors upon which software is built.

`sudo apt-purge npm` is my preference.