someone's credit card is getting deducted $7/year to keep that URL up

>as long as you don't want to connect to Wifi

What are you talking about? I only spent about 2 hours trying to figure out what the problem was, another hour trying to find the correct drivers, about two more searching through my cables to find an ethernet and an adapter, then it's an easy peasy installation of the drivers. 5 hours tops.

That deserves jail time

In here we tried a task-management software like Jira. But it became tedious to click in so many places. We ended up using a google doc for our meetings and ongoing tasks.

Yes, but as soon as I close my eyes I’m wide awake again

That's why I explicitly write HTML and CSS in my resume

That’s very close to what I see over most places, specialty if there’s a non-dev managing the software department

@topsecret230 when we were hiring I tried pushing for the more expensive, experienced devs who lived in a slightly more developed and democratic country (I posted a rant about it), but management wanted to cut costs

@iSwimInTheC An better understanding about git and migrations. The better dev had had experience in professional projects, whereas the ok-dev had had a lot of personal projects but little colabs. So he ended up messing git branches a lot, and the feature got either split into different branches or multiple features got stuck in the same branch etc. Also, he didn't know how database migrations worked besides the commands "django-admin makemigrations" and "django-admin migrate", which kinda work if you're working alone or if you get it all right the first time but if you're working in collaboration and make further changes it gets more complicated. Also turns out the ok-guy lied in his resume and hadn't finished college yet, so his knowledge about algorithms was still so-so

Hiring season comes.

I find a good coder, a few years of professional experience.

Manager: “No, he’s too expensive.”

Me: “he’s within HALF our budget!”

Manager: “yeah, but I think we can find cheaper ones in 3rd world countries. Let’s look for one ourselves instead of having to pay a fee to a recruiting company. How about this other candidate?”

They hand me a second resume. No professional experience, but he had a lot of hobby projects that looked legit. No degree. Passed the coding test.

Me: “this one…? Well, he’d be _acceptable_ but barely. The first one is good, really good, but this second one is barely ok.”

Manager: “great! That means he’s ok. He’s much cheaper. Go with the second one.”

I had to spend almost two months training this new guy before he could be really useful. Two months we could’ve focused on writing features.

Engineers as mechanical engineers?

I think it’s actually good news. Smaller stars have a larger lifespan. So maybe we just got a few more million years of sun

I know of a streamer that lives in the middle of a village. The down speed is awful coz of the lack of infrastructure, but he was able to negotiate with the internet provider to get him mad upload speed basically for free coz he’s the only one using it

Budum tss

I mean, what OS is actually good? iOS has 0% backwards compatibility or compatibility with anything besides Apple products. With Linux distributions, good luck if you run into a bug unless you’re an OS developer. I haven’t updated to W11 but my partner has a Surface and they’re loving it.

I mean, same could be said about most issues…

“We’re in the middle of a war, and you’re worried whether we can draft homosexuals?”

“We’re in the middle of a war, and you’re worrying about what famous person sleeps with whom?”

“We’re in the middle of a war, and you’re worried about driving a bigger truck than your neighbor?”

Stack Overflow wouldn’t have been invented if C had better error messages.

That’s why Python recently had a big update on their error messages

Finishing an online course makes you a developer, but not a good developer

Ouch… my condolences

There should be laws against that

By the time you’re finished explaining, you could’ve done the task yourself

My father is an airplane pilot and he often has on-call days. In the airline industry, these hours are paid, very little compared to working hours, but paid. There are extra considerations and restrictions to take on these on-call days, such as not drinking alcohol, keeping your cellphone on, not going too far from the workplace, etc. These deserve payment, however little

I know a few people. But my favorite position is with my ergonomic keyboard and with the screen elevated to eye level on a nice chair with armrests

Responses:

“What options have you tried?”

“What did Google say?”

“Did you read the error description that says exactly how to fix the problem? I suppose you did. I can’t think of any other solution “

I sometimes wonder whether I am indeed a robot

Oh my formatter does that automatically. Do you have any recommendations for settings against that? (I’m VSCode)

My health depends on the inexistence of PHP

Learn: just read the docs!

Care to elaborate?

I recommend starting with documentation, since it’s the easiest and it’s very helpful. Or, if you can, translating the documentation to your local language.

If you want to write code, you should first be very familiar with the library. Go to the GitHub repo, check out if there’s any issues that nobody has taken, and go for it.

Python 3.10 had an update on more descriptive error codes. It’s a simple tweak, but very useful.