what do you guys think is a good language to use when teaching the basics of coding? i've been thinking about it and i think something strongly typed would be the best, but i don't want to choose something too restrictive with errors, since i will be teaching for people that are not interested to working in the field

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started on the new job today, and to be honest I'm a little depressed about the technology we make.
i have this class in college about the history of technology and my professor called technology "the science of productive work". is that all there is? make tools so people can work more? is that all there is to life? it's fucked up if you think about it at all

i kinda got fired because they have no more work for me and i think i have a new job already, i haven't even grieved yet lol

i'm wondering if i'll ever get my devrant stickers...

I must thank past me for DOING A BACKUP! I found my old photos on google drive, so happy rn ✨✨✨

do you guys ever look at someone that makes more than you and think "...wh- how"?

You have to be really dumb to hire someone and have them do nothing the whole week, it's a complete waste of money. I got some tasks friday 8 am and i was done by 10:30. That's incompetence to lead.

hmm tough choice, but i think i'll choose my first language over... is that mandarin?

My previous boss disappeared for a week and didn't tell us why. We thought the team was gonna get fired because of him and I even started looking for a new job. The team got fired, but they kept me for some other work.

I'm so fucking stupid. I got a ransomware on my pc and lost all my files. At least the important stuff (code) is safe.

I work at a coworking space and one of the companies there uses those spraycan horn things when they get a sale.

I'm not sure if it's just here, but in my country dev teams are not very organized. Most teams i've seen have no sense of process and they overlook testing.

Does anyone here work with automated acceptance tests? I don't know a lot about them and I've been wondering if it's too time consuming to write them and if it's better to test manually

Honestly... I was checking the notebooks they use at work, because they were having problems with performance, and not only were they using win8, they were running without a license key, even though the notebook they use comes with win10. Someone messed up. I found a way to restore the original copy with the license, so all good i guess?

it's awful going to work and having nothing to do... i feel like i'm wasting my time here

I work at a place where all the employees are pretty much on the user side of the spectrum and they have 3 chromebooks. Some would think that's not really a problem, chromebooks are fine for simple tasks BUT they weren't able to setup the printer correctly so they were only able to print one copy at a time. These people never used anything other than Windows and they already struggle with that, so I think it was a waste of money for the company, and I'm pretty sure they just went for it because it was cheaper. It's a fucking joke, since their employees prefer to bring their pcs to work and only one of the chromebooks is being used.

spent the entire day trying to get ssl to work 😩
it works now, but honestly, it's draining to spend so much time on config

linkedin api is such a pain

How do you guys feel about working remote? Just curious

boss: *showing me the new platform*
me: "oh that looks like a good demo"
boss: "ah no that's the product! we're going to put this live"
me: "wh... there's no update nor delete function for anything! where is the user profile? where are the menus??"
boss: "that's ok, we'll take note when people start using it"

and now

boss: "we've concluded the product was bad and we're giving up on it"

teenage me: "people asking me to help them with the printer or simple tasks are so annoying"
now: helps anyone with anything just to catch a break and get some validation

Someone saw my work and asked how I used this api, and I was like "oh ok you just do this this and this" and they were really lost and asked me if I could teach them. So I asked if they programmed and they said no. *inhales* *sigh*

I was teaching this girl today how to make a poll in slack and her computer was so sloooow. I started fixing her pc and she was really happy about it

Today a guy at work asked if it's easy to make an app. I said it depends on what he wants. And oh boi he was very disappointed the more i talked 😂 People really think it's an easy job

i think it's nice that the company wants to include me in the administrative meetings, but honestly i have no clue what they are talking about and i could be doing my tasks

everyone want the best tech and services until they see the pricing

I was getting tired of this guy asking me about really simple things, so when he asked me how to change the email signature I taught him how to google it. He unironically thanked me.

How do you type your code? Like:

a=b+c;

or

a = b + c;

What kind of tasks would you guys trust an intern with? Asking because I see a lot of people giving admin login for everything, access to production and sensitive info