Not something that's happening. Just remembered a debate I had with a coworker from a long time ago regarding hiring and diversity.

Assuming there are two candidates.

Objectively one is slightly worse than the other (let's say 10%)

but the objectively better candidate is more of the same as your team (In terms of stack, gender, ethnicity)

Obviously if one is a lot better (say 30%) I'd hire the one that scores higher.

However, in this scenario (~10%). I think I'd hire the person that offers a different perspective even though they may be less talented.

My reasoning is the team needs someone that thinks differently and looks at a problem from a different box. Otherwise it becomes too easy for my team to go down a path that we like but isn't necessarily better.

What say you?

Have you tried anything (legal) to consume/smell that helps you get in the zone?

I want to try smelling salt lol. Feels like it could give me a rush to crush whatever I'm working on

dang. Messed up at work. Small action, big impact

Oddly enough. I thought I've outgrown this but still am being pretty stressed about it.

Weirdly, I think getting fired might put me more at ease than anything else.

Any theories?

dang. who thought faceid was a good idea?

Who the heck likes to see their face every time they use their phone o.o

Give me my fingerprint scanner back!

wow. I, do, not, want, to work today at all.

I don't think I've ever felt this strongly about first day back to work before.

Guess the previous job was actually interesting :(

I even went to the office on NYD just to do some heads down coding. (but ended up doodling on everyone's empty whiteboards)

Is it me or is password security is a giant mess right now?

Everyone has a gazillion ways to sign in.

Everything needs an account so eventually you get a password manager to keep track.

After reauthenticating passwordword manager, then you get to the next screen that requires you to enter a code from 2FA. Internet isn't fun to use any more.

Reading some system design study materials.

Unless it's literally a startup from scratch. I feel like that proper response to the "design youtube/twitter" question should be: I really hope your product team comes up with better requirement than just design a product, get to it

dang. google one tap is annoying.

It's basically a popup ad

wow. Work had someone to talk about software on those space telescopes.

Compare to what they deal with, we are just monkeys! Monkeys!

gah. my ADHD is so bad I often leave sentences unfinished. Thought tagging this as a joke but no one

lol. I didn't pay attention and pasted my GPt prompts on someone's work anniversary card

almost, wish I didn't delete it

People giving advice: Have you told your boss how you didn't like his approach? If you don't tell them they can't improve.

me: No, but it's easier to just find another job than risk getting fired. Another day he asks me to do dumb stuff is another day of wage earned while I'm given permission to put off the more serious stuff

Is it just a coincidence that there is always somebody going crazy here? And it's always one after another?

Seeing how there's only one thing in common. Coding is making us crazy!

boss: numbers being aside. Why is this happening 40% of the time.

me: (thinking) wtf what an idiot. wtf do you think?!

type: (politely) Well the number being wrong suggests it's *not* happening 40% of the time.

I don't know who I hate more, myself for not point out how dumb that question is. or the person asking the question.

dang it. just because I signed in using google on an app. doesn't mean I want to be signed in to google everywhere. whatever happened to the privacy sandbox.

Why do I think older iOS version actually does what I want?

Just to piss off people some more.

Since everything applies across industries.

How could design patterns apply to non software industries?

fadge. Can't work. when I see the world plunging into chaos. what's the point?

Spent too much time with Sass companies.

I'm forgetting there's a non Sass world of tech

aff. I just said my managers management skills seem to be improving on the company survey.

Then he asks me "why isn't the status quo done in the new way"

o.o

me: "that's what status quo means"

I shouldn't have to explain to you how to get value of a cookie and pass it in to a remote call (cookie not passed from generated clients) when you make 6 figure salaries + rsu

What does it tell you about the organization when a senior PM presents quarterly results using white text on gray background?

hm.....

I can't believe how difficult it is to convince people in a *tech* company to automate things.

"oh yeah it's only a couple of times a year. How much work is it gonna take to automate it, it'll take us only a few minutes to do manually"

That's how you get stuck in the past.

https://linuxfoundation.org/press/...

This is gonna piss of b2plane even more lol

Definitely Jon Skeet. Not only is he #1 on stackoverflow. He is actively tackling the hardest problem of them all: Time zone.

Closely followed by Joel Spolsky. The founder of stack overflow. Feels like all his products (fogcreek, trello) revolutionizes developer productivity and addresses actual pain points

da fuq.

My manager wants me to write specific test cases for status quo behavior (without turning on new features) on mobile web.

and TEST IT ON DEVICE NOT SIMULATORS

Does he know it's the 2020s?

and does he know all our changes were already out since we deployed it the first time? aka customers already tested it for us?

I'm not gonna tell him and open another can of worms lol

lol so I got a new oldish laptop (so it doesn't break the bank) for my upcoming trip where I focus on working on my own project.

Didn't want to splurge since I have another laptop that I regularly use. just didn't want to take through customs since it's 8 years old.

Already used up half of the storage (128/256gb) from installing rider and wsdl lol.

thinking maybe I need to actually return it and get a more powerful machine o.o they are so expensive though

that tech will collapse as it provides no real value and I don't have the chops to switch to a different industry

Why do I want to use in-house "products" when I could go third party.

I feel like when I build in-house I want a bespoke solution that's easy for MY use case. trying to "productize" it for internal teams is counter productive

Numbers don't lie is the biggest lie ever.

No context needed (I think?)

Dang. postman is forcing me to make an account.

Is this the age where we have to make everything ourselves if we don't want to store our information on the internet?