I've been doing mobile for four years now. If you're doing something that only have a few features or dealing with mostly data, it's great. But if you need to use the actual system API, then you're in for a world of hurt. You can have the best architecture going and the maintenance is still going to take a toll.

@Oktokolo

Also, Math in a higher level is mostly about proof, not methodology. I'm reading a paper on frequency analysis and the actual algorithm is only a few line, but the paper is more than 13 pages with a lot of equations and very dense explanations. With a less terse writing, I guess the amount of pages can be nearly thrice that

I think I mostly use small variables inside iterative code, like map, reduce, sort and the like. Otherwise a one-three word variables is usually enough. You should have a pretty strong reason to go for more (Except Java Classes)

@HiFiWiFiSciFi

When you go from "Can you code this?" to "Can you solve this" to "Can you build this?" to "Is this possible?" to "What do we do next?".

These are pretty much convenience in case you want to modify stuff. Like Guard are for auth stuff and a kind of interface for doing auth. Implementing an authentication mechanism while using the guard interfaces and convention will allow you to not rewrite your old code. The same thing for the multiple Facades for stuff like Email, Hash,... Laravel is big on modularization. and you can probably replace pretty much anything.

Fuck me, I guess. Just did this this morning

That is when I open the Ack documentation, or the jq documentation because I prefer fiddling with an already made tool instead of creating my own in whatever because the job is so boring

And please remember that the frontend platform (aka browsers) are hell. While the situation is better this day, there are so many constraints which lends to more code to support everything (accessiblity, browser support, design,...)

Participated in a few ones, but mostly for fun. Which I still think should be your main drive. The win prize may be nice, but do yourself a favor and go participate in one only if you like the theme. Hackathon is not how real products are built.

The thing I don't like with closed source software (I presume the driver is) is if you're going closed, at least make it clean. If not, distribute the code so someone can fix it. I'm dealing with this on my ducky where it freeze every time the os is checking for an update. I'm just glad the hub it is plugged in have a switch so I can quickly reset it.

I've done the Turing application and everything went great. But I kinda lost the motivation for them as the only thing I wanted them to do was to get the contract and assign me to it (I don't even care about the percentage they get as long as I got a fair wage). But it was even more work than me closing my own freelance projects.

As I'm also a freelancer I don't mind questions on my time off, Just that it's not mandatory for me to answer (I do it if I'm not busy) but requests for meeting or call is a big no as well as a lengthy conversation about non-urgent things.

Every time someone asks me about authentification design patterns, I have to give the full lecture about how the HTTP protocol is stateless. Most people don't care to dive into technical books. (I'm an Electronics Engineer, which means I'm full packed of those stuffs)

Due to our proximity to the US (Where we import electronics), we use qwerty. But we have to memorize the alt+numpad keyboard shortcuts for the french diacritics (Windows) or use the compose key (Linux).

That's what you get when you duct-taping plugins to a Wordpress site (only theme builders and big companies really bother about accessibility)

I don't know if they look at them, but it does help in providing more information than what you would put on a resume.

@groxx, you nailed it. I had a Samsung Tablet which didn't support an inductive pen. I've bought a capacitive pen but did not really need it (Finger worked just fine). My next one should be an iPad Pro

I've studied Electronic Engineering and the stuff they teach you does not particularly help you in getting a job, but they do help when learning abstract concepts and you've got more extensive knowledge about how computers work (Ever delve into the TCP/IP Stack? or how to schedule processes?). You become a really fast learner because of all those theoretical knowledge

I have a coworker who always use the word thing while explaining like:
This thing is not working due to the thing that I needed was missing certains thing. Also the thing from the spec is missing. and we need to do this thing to get things rolling.
while standing across the room.

First, for all my needs, an IDE is not necessary (JS Dev). and the VIM way is the good way!

Lol. I've never seen one... Even on my youtube feed...

The ultimate weapon that should be the only thing equipped and can only fire under specific conditions
A time weapon that can either slow down or accelerate opponents
A weapon that set the limit on how fast you can travel (instant deceleration like in the Expanse)

Plan to do so with a 50-inch tv (not smart). I have the model without wifi (it was a gift) and I have not received the adapter yet. It does not work with the tv remote, but I've tried it with an amazon basic gamepad

That's why I prefer to listen to podcasts. I canceled my Medium subscription because I'm not paying for the '10 best vscode extensions'.

I don't know. Maybe familiarity. But I will be checking those options. I don't necessarily want to leave the country (There's a lot of problems for sure, but there's also the Haitian vibe). I just wanted a position where I can actually afford to travel (which I'd like a lot). and xteam seemed a really nice choice...

I don't really have a problem with devrant as I've not been here enough to experience them. But I still think it should be open-sourced. Why? Because we have a lot of good developers here and it would help with adding new features (like proper code formatting, maybe markdown support). I'm not keen on subscription (I'm already bleeding with my Spotify one (I don't make a lot of money)) but I would gladly support on patreon.
As for low quality posts, I don't know how we could remediate that as I spent a lot of times on Reddit, Quora and dev.to and they still have that problems. The problem is that it's very subjective (I like see memes but can't stand seeing them twice).

When I was using Arch Linux....

@tekashi, LOL
just to not display all the files I have on the desktop, (work related screenshots and important documents)

The status bar is usually hidden. and pretty all my app are in fullscreen (Terminal: Alacritty, Chrome, Spotify, Slack,...)

@C0D4 it does not work

I wonder how come you need to increment a string?