Today the government from Costa Rica announced their solution to tax double any UBER charge registered to debit/credit cards.

Their logic is to pretty much do it for any commerce that includes the letters UBER. Like something out of your first Unity C++lesson

Don't get me wrong, Dart is a darling. But also at the same time is like that one time you thought you found a good band and end up reading their wiki and one of the members turns out to be a wife beater.

Feels so good at the beginning and you feel you can do anything until you see the shortcomings and feel weird about committing time to it.

Is that time of the year when my company sends us gifts and they end up being the worst chinese products.

Woke up today to 4 commits from a peer that completely erased most of the work done in the last 2 weeks. After letting my coworker know that their commits were the issue, she insisted that they were not theirs, however they showed her signature.

Love how Git absolutely destroys liers.

I've been for the last year mentoring two employees from 0 knowledge to now working on QA development. However, they tend to get back to their starting point every couple of months and lack confidence. Do you have any advice on how to mentor someone and keep them on growing their confidence in their skills?

Family wasn't very supportive of my first choice (Film Directing) and since I live in Latin America and both of my parents come from very poor families, they pushed me to engineering in order to make money and live a better life than they did.

Even though it was not my initial call and they were not very supportive of my first choice, once I started CS they gave me everything I needed to keep on studying.

Overall, I think that for a lot of coders out here from third world countries, we can agree that engineering was not our first call, but it's mostly a way to get out of poverty and into a field that gives you advantages over others.

Shout out third world country ranters!

Nothing quite like having to almost wrestle with IT to get a new computer that has more than 8gb of RAM in 2020

. Next time, I fear that the option they will give me for a new one includes Windows XP and 2GB of RAM and they will call it a "stallion" of a laptop.

Anyone here that moved from big tech companies to smaller, almost start up like companies? What convinced you to move?

I would rather go through a burning building than doing a single line of code that is for test automation in Salesforce. Salesforce is the biggest sin of humanity.

The hardest part about having stickers on my laptop ,is when it stops working and I have to get a new one from IT. So much for sticker collecting.

I can't stand how big tech companies treat you like a child. Every fucking team bonding activity is more childlike than the other.

Its like they are about to bundle crayons and pizza next time you are on crunch.