@heyheni

I have paternity leave coming up. It will help to get away from work and focus on something more important for a bit.

I just need to make it there :(

We used to get tickets like that all the time. I just started closing them with could not duplicate. After I got yelled at by my boss, I explained why I closed them. Shortly thereafter, all tickets had steps to reproduce and typically some kind of screenshot.

This was incredibly satisfying to read. good work!

I would love to, but the org mandates and controls policy for Lastpass 😭

I didn't have the password for a particular domain in Lastpass. So I ended up forgetting which one it was exactly. As I was going through my normal passwords, Lastpass decided that because I typed the master password in by mistake, it was going to flag my account for a password change.

My Organization manages the Lastpass settings, so I have to rotate through passwords to get back to the master password that I want. It's just an enormous hassle for no good reason.

@javarules I write big data code and do some performance testing on the side.

goddamn... good luck man.

@javajavajava math*

I use alarm clock extreme for Android. It requires you to solve a man problem to stop it (configurable). I've gotten really good at math in my head, so I had to crank the difficulty up a bit to make it to work on time!

Well that's another issue. There is still a record of where you've been since that logging is done outside of chrome (on company networks). So generally, porn is completely off limits on work hardware. That said, banking website visits are relatively benign, and incognito doesn't save anything once it's been closed, keeping banking etc... details like logins safe.

refactor is a 4 letter word to managers. NEVER use it in front of them.

I like to run performance tests AND THEN automation to clean up the demolished remains of QA. After its cleaned up, back to running basic automation. But yeah, if you're able to run both side by side, your performance tests aren't testing anything meaningful.

I'm the exact opposite. I'm useless before 1 pm. after I get enough coffee, I'm crazy productive. I also have meetings before noon. afternoon is my time to get things done.

@burswag - If you're a recent college grad and took the right software engineering courses, you're well prepared for doing that kind of stuff. A lot of colleges won't prep you for gathering requirements from clients that don't know what they want.

It's a coin flip in my experience whether it's your job or not to negotiate requirements. Best to ask your supervisor/manager for clarification and carry on from there.

You're not alone, brosef. Most of us have been there.

Good, Fast, Cheap - you get to choose 2. No more.

It's only after you're gone that they realize all the shit they're gonna have to do since you won't be doing it :)

if you're just looking for something that doesn't burn your eyes horribly at night f.lux is awesome for me. ever since I started using it, I've been sleeping better and felt considerably less eye strain in general.

I have very little experience with sql, and I'm a senior dev. THAT BEING SAID, I know all well enough to know that there is a query built for SPECIFICALLY that purpose.

if you're doing Android development, learn about fragments and how they fit into the application life cycle.

once you have that, the rest of Android coding is cake.

git add
git commit
git push

then evacuate 😁

light theme and f.lux checking in

incognito mode for chrome. I use it to do personal stuff on company computers, so they can only do so much damage if they were able to unlock my session.

Windows at least has the bottom right corner click for hiding all windows. I honestly haven't used Linux in awhile, but I'd imagine window managers have implemented this somehow.

<internally screaming>

regex is great for this too!

both c# and Java

Back end dev here. Scripting is fine until it gets complex. When you're using bash to parse the output of other commands 5 calls deep, just use a high level language. Any will do. It has to be better than second guessing yourself ever time you need to make a change. Code reuse is your friend!

BobbyTables

ctrl+r is your friend.