@Lensflare ... and in some cases "yes" would be a valid answer.

German jokes are no laughing matter.

That must be just someone who's doing an exercise on TS types - because there's quite a lot that can be done on the type level. I see nothing wrong with that.

Just that?

If you don't have a reliable way to roll back to a known working state (until you are able to reproduce the thing you "fixed" and go ahead to actually fix it), the joke is on you.

I'm still mad about the Start menu. In 10 you could freely rearrange things and leave empty spots if you can't fill everything; now, if you want to have something stay in the upper right corner, you have to have an exact number of things before it (and if you dare to add one more, it will shift to the first place in the next row).

You'll be singing a different song when RSI starts to hit.

First started messing around with it in 2005-2006, but I've only been doing it professionally since 2015. Still wouldn't say I'm completely fluent, although I think I know most of the quirks and pitfalls.

Yep, in the west part of Europe.

General interest in tech combined with the realisation that I couldn't do much with hardware. I knew how to assemble a PC and how to do some basic hardware troubleshooting when I was 15, but that wasn't very useful in practice.

@PaperTrail It doesn't really need the context. It's in a fucking CV.

If the person is any good, they will be able to elaborate. If not, you'll know it in the first sentence, but not from the CV alone.

I feel like this is a lost-in-translation problem. Say a new version of something comes out - a library, a framework, whatever - and the devleoper/team shows you the default use. Then another someone comes around and shows their specific use case which might be different than the default - and a bunch of people start parroting that without fully understanding it, for some reason only remembering that it's better than the default.

Seconding the notion that this is not burnout.

But yeah, whenever what you mention happens it's usually a sign that I have to take my lunch break or an afternoon nap.

Yeah, no shit.

I also sometimes stumble upon seemingly very simple things. In such cases I usually open a scratchpad that lets me see values on the fly and start playing around either until I fully understand what's up or until I stop caring (so that I have to redo the process the next time).

But yeah, I get your point. I do develop some sense of those things with enough practice. When I was starting out, I was almost afraid of for example map and reduce, now I like them quite a lot because they let me do things with single expressions instead of with explicit loops.

It's not supposed to be blue as far as I know. You might wanna see a doctor.

If they decided to throw all the fancy stuff in, then yeah, I feel you. Otherwise I'd have to disagree - depending on how you set it up, it can be pretty non-intrusive.

Is it all that hard to set a pre-commit hook?

No, I don't.

@netikras Yeah, as if from then on dude will be immune from existential questions like "Did I really want kids?"...

Hope those folks have sense of humour.

Cinema is also content.

@Lensflare I feel like this is where passphrases came around. From security perspective they're the same as passwords, but from user perspective they might be better.

I think what you're describing is not a problem with working remotely in general but with that specific company.

You shouldn't have to use your own devices - besides maybe peripherals (if you wish) and so on. If they want you to test an app on a device, they should provide the device. Fake camera blur should be fine for calls. On-call duty should be paid on top of the base salary - both stand-by time and active duty.

Ew, row stagger.

Yes. That. 100% that.

Throw out the "clever" shorthands and all the "cool" tricks you've learned. Things need to be as simple and as short as possible while still being readable.

Haven't seen anything break because of tabs. Not saying it's not possible, just that I haven't seen it - and on that matter I'd be curious to see an example.

What I like about tabs is that you can customise how wide they appear without changing the codebase, which you can't do with spaces.

@retoor Maybe people just don't care that much.

I was wondering why it didn't install on my new phone when I was supposed to get everything back.

At least it's not a big deal - the mobile site is almost identical in functionality.

I had all four of mine removed in past year or two. Sometimes it doesn't make sense to keep them. My dentist explained to me that they get demineralised and thus rot way easier than usual, so after the second time I was there to have a cavity fixed, he suggested I just pull them out. And I'm not in the US, I think I only pay like 30 bucks for each one.

It's a bit weird at first, but you get used to it fast. Be prepared for a few days of pain and itchiness though.