I've come across it during FPGA development where your bit widths are whatever you decide them to be. Useful if you work with hexadecimal a lot as well

@minimalBot EVERY editor worth it's salt will insert the required number of spaces when you hit the tab key so there is NO difference in coding time between the choices. IMO it's just a question of what you want to happen when someone else opens your code and has a different tab width set.

@linux-colonel Usually, although not always, depends on the size of the project and it's priority

@linux-colonel I work for a multinational and I still have to do both, keeps the project in budget

Depends on what you're doing, if your doing digital signal processing or paying the edge on algorithm development where you'll be expected to read academic papers then sure it helps. On the other hand most development is not like that and the maths isn't needed.

As for the uni choice, personally I think it does matter, the good employers look for developers who can do more than just push out code and a good uni helps show that you can apply your knowledge in new ways

@ezbie yes

Today's release day for us too and if anyone comes to me with a 'small problem' they're going to discover I've gone deaf for the day!

Depending on my mood either metal (Serj Tankian or something similar) or https://rainymood.com

Latter.

I find it makes matching up the braces easier if I'm looking for them at the same indentation.

It's a trap!

@Yonah Except in this case the precision is +/- 5 because of the integer division...

Congrats! One piece of advice, if you're stuck or don't know how to do something then ask, in my experience many new guys are often too worried that they'll look stupid for asking and instead flounder for days when it could have been solved in 5 minutes, everyone has to learn sometime!

#courage

Mouse wheel click all the time, it's so frustrating when I have to work on machines through KVM that blocks mouse wheel clicks, so annoying!

Quickly googles VS Code...

Happens a LOT, last time this happened (2 days ago) I ended up as the customer POC for the project, dammit I only wanted to help!

@larsouille Thought about it but I have a family to support and I bring in a lot more than my wife (not to mention she's on maternity leave right now so bring in even less!). I quite like it here right now as I've got a lot a freedom on how things are done. I think I'd like to see my projects here more finished off before I move on.

@larsouille I'm the lead software dev on a range of embedded hardware platforms so it's some of all of that, probably ~10% arch, ~10% devops, the rest spread over the application stack. Our system uses FPGAs so at the lowest level is VHDL, up through Linux kernel drivers, c++ userspace app (most of the work is here) onto HTML/JS and Java front-ends, (swing unfortunately 🙁)

Is it also your most used application? I'd guess it is and if so it sounds like a good way to spend your battery life...

@kshitij My advice is to stick it out, lots of devs where I work have done electronics, without a degree though they would never have gotten in the door in the first place. if nothing else it'll make an employer worry that you quit when the going gets tough. If your really hate it look into transferring to computer science, that'll look much better than just quitting

Swing :-( I'd love to move but I'm not sure I can get my client to spring the £250k it'll take to redo all of the GUIs

@larsouille Maybe, I don't know that many people in jobs like that, in my company they'd expect people to do more than just pure web development to get to that but then we're not in that business so it might be different elsewhere!

@larsouille Yep - http://payscale.com/research/UK/...

@JBPeb About £25k per year, heading up to about £40k at the top end

UK 8 Yrs full stack developer on embedded devices: £5800 before tax, ~£4k after tax (that's 7700/5300 USD).

It was a lot less starting out but I've stayed in the same company the whole time and worked my way up.

We mostly work with the same client so do fixed price, means we take the risk, if it goes wrong then we lose our but if it goes well then profit! Makes it easier for our client to plan with fixed costs as well

FreeIPA which is the open source version of Redhat IDM (Identity Management) can provide a good level of Linux authentication and policy management along with good integration with full AD integration in the note recent versions

Delete, it's way too easy to forget to come back to it later and it's much easier for other people to read without all the comment clutter, if you really need it you've always got version control