I got told by a recruiter that a job I was applying for would involve java and mobile app development using react native. Got to the interview and found out they build web apps, they were thinking of maybe using some react in the future, but no plans to support mobile any time soon. Fortunately that wasn't an issue, but damn that's some serious miscommunication.

Same. Most efficient first thing in the morning, most motivated at the end of the day just as they're about to kick me out the office.

@mattjhagen They did. They had several.

I worked for a company like this once. Shortly after I left the company ran out of money and had to close down.

Write a script to estimate the work for you based on your previous performance.

Back when sass was new, you could download a theme for Notepad++ (computers were slower in those days) which enabled proper syntax highlighting for scss. It only worked with their default (light) theme, unreadable on anything else. It was too useful not to include at the time, so I just stuck to the defaults and got used to it. Years later, light seems more readable to me. Not sure what all the fuss is about.

That's what version control is for - you don't want code filled with commented out blocks of code, it just makes the actual functional stuff harder to read.

Well this makes the same amount of sense as everything else I've heard about it so far.

I always thought this sounded more insulting than helpful.

This is part of a bespoke CMS, built by a guy who was learning PHP at the time of writing it - it was better than the last bespoke CMS so it took over as the company standard for a few years.

They always made new sites by copy/pasting an existing one and changing the config. As a result there is no consistancy. Some sites using it have a 40 step setup process. There are functions in there that are 1000s of lines long, a lot of repeated code, a lot of secuirty issues, a lot SQL errors (eg. '' is not a valid int). It switches environment from dev to prod based on the users IP. And you can't refactor it, even if you do there are 100s of the bloody things so you'd just see the same shit all over again on the next project you open.

It's painful.

@olback this isn't the worst of it

@bashleigh "with 5+ years experience in java-es7 and OOP-mysql."

@bashleigh there was a lot of last straws.

I'd be concerned. It's a chance to review your own code as well as getting someone else to double check it, always worth doing imo.

@R1100 it's fine, I'm starting a new job soon. Having to explain to my manager that lorum ipsum wasn't going on the finished product was the last straw.

@bashleigh nah, this is me :(

@telephantasm yep, completely agree. We've just finished documenting about 15+ years worth of projects and now I've run out of things to work on.

@LastDigitOfPi iAmAnInt in js is always a lie.

@CurseMeSlowly bdo is bidirectional override, used for specifying text-direction.

Eg.

<bdo dir="rtl">right to left text</bdo>