@darksideofyay we had a custom solution working perfectly for our needs, we designed it and was so fucking optimised, insanely fast. We throw it away because the customer wanted to use an existing solution that performs shit compared to what we had and now we basically worsened the entire application system. We are using this solution in a way it's not meant to be..

I guess we have a similar situation going on.

I am in the exact same situation right now but the project itself is fine, the real issue is the application architecture, it was designed by a drunk monkey.

I see the greedy capitalists corporations gonna try to replace us. I'm 100% sure because my CEO just released a statement about that "We want to reduce our workforce by 10/20% in the next years with AI".

I think most programmers are just in denials "It's not gonna happen... ahaha client so dumb ..think about AI dealing with him ahaha..."

Fuck it...

I want to give it a shoot one of these days, seems mmm... Interesting.

I left uni after some years, prestigious uni, top marks, scholarships, no regrets. I was
depressed. I kind of deal with social stigma due to being a dropout but I'm happy at least.

You can correct me if I am wrong but I have never appreciated Tailwind
It's a stupid idea for me, sounds like inline- css with extra steps. It "scales" because you reduced every property to class names atoms and imo it fucking suxks.

@NamanB Glad to help, you will have fun if you embrace the way of the open source. I learnt the trickiest and advaced stuff while contributing. It's such a nice experience.

@NamanB

1. Pick a project open to contributions
2. Find an issue you want work on
3. Apply for fixing it, wait for feedback
4. Open a pull request
5. After merged, thanks the team for wasting their time checking your pr, I do it always

And that's how I started contributing, one day, randomly, because I was bored as fuck.

@12bitfloat "The second coming of Christ"
I laughed out loud but yes I agree, especially when some of them come up with "You should rewrite X in Rust" where X is a perfectly functioning software.

Actually, you are watching an accelerate class about "How to handle stressful situations: Good and Bad behaviours"

So you are learning, a lot.

@NoToJavaScript I did something like this some days ago. I'm ashamed too.

Take your time.
Everyone is different.
Just be happy.

A small step each day toward your goals.

:D

@molaram You are greatly missing the point.

It's not about the degree, it's about the labour market.

@molaram At the same time, the average wage has fallen as a result of this pool of workers.

Universities, on the other hand, are not able to keep up. I've been programming computers since I was 14. I found vulnerabilities inside Windows, still enjoy breaking things and fixing them. I contribute to open source.

But that's NOT enough to afford a decent salary.

Graduation is quite useless in such a market. "Yes, congratulations, you can calculate the computational complexity of a certain algorithm... but now go back to writing shit code, we're late on the road map."

Also, how many companies ask you to develop super-efficient algorithms?

The point is that many companies do not even understand these technical aspects.

What are you surprised about?

We live in a depressing reality.

The moment IT stopped being a closed industry, all this mess started.

@molaram It's a bit more complicated than this.

IT workers are the new low-cost skilled workers in the business industry.

Today all companies need websites, applications and more to be competitive in the market. This makes demand high but at the same time the narrative that "anyone can program software" driven by large companies has made the industrial workers' pool full of low-quality people with surface expertise.

Just think of YouTube, full of Indians with their 5-minute tutorials for each tech stack.

Now, without going into detail unnecessarily, large companies have lowered entry barriers so that anyone can jump on the software development wagon.

What do you expect from companies?

They are known to be looking for people who are able to do the job without worrying too much about quality.

The same applies to consulting firms. They don't give a shit about quality, just the result.

Is the customer happy?
Good
Is it best practice?
No
Is the customer happy?
Good

Litterally the reason I am dropping uni

If they want to hire me they will look at my working experience. If they need the degree to hire me, I'm not interested into join them in the first place.

Can you tell us more? What was the bug about? :D

@Demolishun I can't believe two hours and no upvotes, here take mine sir

Well.... We are waiting... :D

@ostream Your comment is underrated.
Take my upvote. Yes, they mean Vim.

So basically you procrastinated by creating a chrome extension which led to not being procrastinating.

WTF, this is a bedtime paradox...
(If you don't get it, it's a reference to a popular web comic)

@burntoutnoodle This.
I can't give you more upvotes.
Fack

Seems like Director is in charge of IT operations but without any knowledge on the subject... I wrote a rant about this.

Good luck

I don't think you should complain with the management, they probably know you have a tough job here. Just keep delivering anyway, in the end if someone complain you can always point out you did the best you could to improve situation, the team is cooperating but slowly adapting.

I'm saying this because management is not expecting to get your complains. You have got the job to introduce changes in this prehistoric environment. They don't want to deal with it so they hired you to deal with it.

I am in my twenties and I work every day with 40+ devs. From my experience, they don't easily adapt to new changes and usually come back to the way they used to do stuff.

You gotta reach a certain threshold with them, speaking about time, before they start to understand they must adapt. It's pretty weird to say but basically you gotta think they are like kids who gets zero or little value from changing the way they used to code in the last 10+ years.

Aside from the time it takes to change, you probably have to deal with the "who cares“ attitude which is pretty common in European people, at least where I live. Don't take it personally, don't even cry, you should put away your passion at work. In my opinion the best piece of advice I can give you is the following:

" The workplace is not the context where you express your passion "

Yep, sounds weird but you have coworkers and management with pov and priorities different from yours.

Yeah, the default implementation is hidden and you never think about changing it :')

Anyway glad you solved.

"[ ... ] "years of experience" basically means nothing, both for people and organisations. You can work with someone who has 30 years experience who knows nothing, and someone with 1-2 years who's practically an expert. [ ... ] "

You summed up my existential work crisis in one sentence. I love you.

The big problem about telling that at my young age is: it makes me look like I'm presumptuous.

@N00bPancakes He is probably one of the managers we always mock for being dumb.

@IHateForALiving 3 days of work?

@IHateForALiving Such a mistic experience, much wow.