@Charmesal he gets one every morning before work. Even has a raincoat so there’s no excuses

@netikras took me a long time to figure out what the hell you were talking about haha.

That is a big box of retro sweets the gf got me for Valentine’s Day and a small metal thermos. It’s my emergence supply’s for gaming sessions on the PlayStation ha

@Charmesal wrote one just for you

@Charmesal hahaha

I haven’t been on as I have (almost) nothing to rant about! Life is bliss. Working remotely from home. I’m the only iOS dev on the project so I have nobody telling how great react-native or RxSwift is. Get to keep things simple and get work done!

Not taking down their servers, their own devs are good at that. I did leave them a lovely glassdoor review titled “hellhole” and listed the pros as “that feeling you get when you quit”

... just because of that? You are easily pleased my friend

I personally hate React-Native, Flutter and all those cross platform tools. Ever since AirBnb wrote that article about why they rewrote their app to drop it, a lot of companies have started shifting, or considering dropping it (in my circle anyway).

I would personally stay the hell away from those things.

EU isn’t typically great for remote work, but there is a lot of native mobile roles around at least to start a conversation with them.

Stackoverflow jobs is typically better for remote working than the likes of LinkedIn

@Redders Western Europe, I talk shit about too many companies to give more ha

If you need more than 16gb of ram, you are not building a simple website.

A simple website is a html file and a css file

@JFK422 trying to be polite and not rub it in. Local team are having a hard time and it won’t get better lol

stackoverflow.com my good man

@nonox ....... he could offer every once in a while

10,000% accurate

@perfectdark I don’t know exact numbers, but I’m pretty sure it’s higher than that globally.

I figure they follow a “if it doesn’t work, hirer more people” kind of mentality

Omg I know 4000 people in my company like this

This company is one of the biggest in the world. I would imagine any API such as this one is going to have extremely high traffic, and in the region of one to a couple hundred thousand concurrent users.

This isn’t going to be just an API reading from a database and returning. This is multi region cloud + database, Kafka event queues, I think one other internal company API and then all the layers of services and load balancers between it and the internet that the team don’t own.

All of the engineers on that team say 9ms is a pipe dream

@asgs I'm not part of the team, so take this with a grain of salt.

My understanding is the API will have to generate a unique serial number within a certain range and have certain restrictions. That needs to be written to a database, validated, and a shipping label with this number needs to be generated, converted to an image and returned to the mobile device

... in 9ms

Humans can't even perceive anything close to that, so I don't know why the phone needs to get it that quickly.

Spoiler: it won't

@electrineer forgot to turn off my "yes i'm looking" toggles on all the sites.

... regardless, when the fuck has that stopped recruiters. I was contacted by another 1 week after changing my job on linkedin asking if I was happy

@ParthRaval very not true. Worked for several companies that I enjoyed, left because somewhere offered a lot more money or the chance to grow a startup etc.

There are many pricks in this business, but not everyone is

@-pthread maybe, but i'll take a chance its not over the current one that definitely is.

Don't try, can't win

I handed in notice yesterday to a big company to take less money at a startup. Not a massive drop. But with perks and bonuses added in, it will be noticeable.

Not saying all big companies are the same and I don’t know if you can afford to work at the startup. Personally I’ve worked for several big companies and I think the only avenue that will lead me back to working for one is if they by the small company I go to work for.

@netikras I felt bad for him as I haven’t had any major issues with him. He did try to help us a lot, but doesn’t really have the power to do what needs to be done. Him being a nice guy didn’t make up for the others being a living nightmare though and I had to make a call

@Charmesal ha yeah in a perfect world. It’s still very good compared to local and would be the higher end of the scale. Worth it for the sanity lol

This is all really irritating because I really like zen hub as a tool. But they are now tracking if I open their emails or not which is so fucking creepy

@HellaDev I brought my car into a dealership to be repaired. Got signed up to marketing stuff. I got a text message about a sale, a call the next day to see did I read the text and a pamphlet in my letterbox. I will unsubscribe from everything now

@Root definitely. I have to give notice before I actually leave, and I have to wait until Monday to do it. So yeah will be a few weeks before I actually get to de-stress.

Upside, I have xmas and New Years off before starting the new job

@saucyatom oh you have no fucking idea lol.

I love the people I work with in my country. But several people in the states need to be taken down a peg ... or 7

@apairathod the fact that your team had performance issues and had to write the native part themselves ... is you answering your own question.

I realise it’s a different tool. But people believing “this time it will be different” is what gets us into this state. If it’s hybrid/cross-platform you will face these issues. It’s native with many layers of abstraction. Those layers don’t come for free. It will cost you performance, memory, battery and development time learning something completely unique and dealing with bugs that are unique to that platform

@AleCx04

“Horse shit vs cow shit?”

The answer is: Native

That’s location-ist

@Marl3x after I commented he replied that he didn’t see it. Tried it. Worked for him and deleted the question.

In this particular instance it was a bug in the latest version of a open source library. Solution was to down grade temporarily.