- >But there can also be comradeship and a sense of being part of something historical if you choose the harder path.
Meh, I've tried and all I got was hate for many years and very few staunch friends. Sheeple don't want truth, justice and the Amerikan way. After seeing 2020-2022 in action (the lies, the gaslighting, waving evidence in peoples faces until I'm hoarse), I've decided to join The Empire. Evil all the way. Abstergo, here I come.
- These examples all say the same thing. You have outgrown that company. I bet you've been there for more than 2 years, hm? 2 years is the average period at a company these days unless you're aiming for management.
My advice: leave it alone. Focus on yourself and your code, improve your skills, and look for another role in another company. You'll be happier in the long run for the only reason that you can only change your behaviour. You cannot help others, I've got the scars and burns to prove it.
- money making idea: make a SO clone with ads, where you ask your question and the AI gives you the code. Profit.
- People around me have started really forgetting things, to the point where I've had to remind a co-worker twice in the space of 5 minutes what they were supposed to be doing, or repeating conversations I had with friends a few weeks ago to remind them what we discussed. Myself, I don't have any issues, my recall is pretty decent for most things, such as counting back the meals I've eaten over the past week and with whom. Mind you, I'm the only one who regularly plays computer games, exercises and balances their meals.
- > I'm pretty close to going to Linux on this system
Well, I'm one step ahead of you. As of last weekend, I purchased and returned 3 games due to unplayability on Windows 10 (yes, patched, all drivers updated, msconfig nothing running, ran exclusive/un-bordered/windowed, every recommended change and sfc checks ok), and they all crashed regularly at irregular intervals.
I've partitioned the SSD and have installed Ubuntu. Now to learn how to use Proton to make games work.
That was my last Windows machine. Goodbye Microsoft.
edit: Just to add...I'm the most technical of my group of friends and typically lead the way. If this works, I'll have 5 other guys migrating in the next 12 months with me, they too have been complaining since leaving Windows 7.
- In all my years of coding, I only knew one developer who did TDD properly. He taught me, as I was struggling trying to track down an intermittent bug and nothing was working. Not going to lie -learning to do TDD properly is difficult. Since learning it, I've not met another dev who does it, and most devs barely write tests. Stick with it, practice. You'll eventually hit that ahah! moment.
A story: I used to work with some devs, most of them would finish coding something in 2 weeks and then spend a week debugging it. I'd take 4 weeks to TDD something. My boss was frustrated at my speed until one day a production system which I'd written, stopped working. Several million dollars was stuck in limbo, the backend team responsible for the paperwork unable to do anything. We had a new dev and the bandwagon was "TDD is crap!" was fully rolling that morning. I asked the backend processing person what had changed? The said we had a new client, they had a weird name. Looked into the client log, sure enough. Added a test with the client's name, and ran the tests. It spat out "1 failing test in module X at line Y because 'this'". Modified the code to handle that test, re-ran the tests, 100% pass. Emailed the results output to the team for a manual upload, processing done, committed and pushed to the production branch. The server would update after business hours. Diagnosed and fixed in 5 minutes. I turned to my colleague who I knew was still stepping through his code for 2 days and said (within earshot of the new dev) "How's that bug you've been hunting? Still not found it? This is the power of TDD. I might be slow at the start, but I fix bugs quickly". The dev manager had everyone take a day of TDD training after that, but nobody really understood. The trainer said my approach to TDD is too strict, with my team doing 110 test runs against the next team of 63 test runs. Our solution had only a few lines of code verses the paragraphs of the others though.
- You don't need to have cookies on your website unless you need to reconnect the browser to a session where you're keeping their authorization etc. Unfortunately most people just want to run a website to do something and the easiest thing is to use WordPress or whatever the popular framework is, which has this cookie behavior built in because it "might" be needed.
I browse with all cookies blocked, except on sites which I need to login with. This sometimes gives me a "enable cookies to use this website" message but I just move onto the next website in my search.
To answer your question however, website owners need some analytics to know if their site is getting attention, what people click on, where they go. It really helps to improve the UX and reinforce the 3-click rule (your visitor should get to the page they want in 3 clicks). Perhaps if an analytics package was part of every framework, less efforts would be placed into using external companies which must monetize people. Just a thought.
- Getting your hands on equipment to make identity documents is physically difficult, requires lots of deals, is costly, and is limited to a few people.
Replacing this with an electronic system, where access is guaranteed via leased lines to many locations, with sloppy physical controls... and a back-end that more than likely has several holes due to misconfigurations, last-week exploits etc
This is fine.
- Companies have had women employees since the first businesses crawled out of the swamp. Why is this a company issue? Or TikTok specifically? This faux outrage is childish. This really is the fault of the staffer not the company.
- I waited until the initial rush of comments were complete before throwing my 5c in. The first thing that sticks out is you being a good little slave, and your shitty job. I've had shitty jobs before - and I automated the shit and spent the free time skilling up into another job... which unfortunately was 12-hour days getting yelled at for much more money. It's relative is what I'm saying, grass greener and all that.
You have the opportunity to improve yourself which many jobs don't allow. You get pigeon-holed and told to stay in your lane, getting slapped down because you write a replacement app in a month when your boss's boss has been working on it for 2 years.... Use the opportunity you currently have. I'm struggling to start a business and wish I had the safety of a day job.
Also, the adage "dress for success" or "dress for your next job" is true. If you dress like a slob, that's how you're perceived. If you have the Linux-hair, people will assume you're a basement-dwelling loser, even if you live on the top floor of your building in NYC and are friends will millionaires.
Finally, people will only buy if you're selling. What are you selling? I've looked at your github and I'm unimpressed. Perceptions matter. People will stalk your name and ID on the internet to achieve confirmation bias or be impressed. In a job interview, I fixed a bug that had plagued a company for months because I knew the software in-and-out. What are you selling? I was hired that afternoon because of that knowledge and my willingness to take off my suit jacket and write 30LOC.
Right now you're looking to be bought. You're not changing you, you're changing the image which people buy. There's a difference. Recognise that. Stop taking it personally. Get it done. Profit. Best wishes
- When a user comes over and says "this isn't happening" I write a test and sure enough, the test fails. I fix the case, re-run all the tests, push to UAT, and ask the user to verify it works in the UAT system. It's pushed into production after hours.
Prior to TDD I would spend hours stepping through code, setting variables to replicate the scenario, scratching my head, and usually fix it after a week or so. Then I would get a bug report of something else weird happening. And repeat that process.
- Go away, or I'll replace you with a script
- This assumes that trucks and cars will continue to use "nozzles" and "hoses" rather than the evolution of swapping cannisters of hydrogen. If Tesla can build a mostly-robotic factory, we can make robotic hydrogen bottle-swapping refueling stations.
Of course, this is a future thing, not a now thing.
- This sounds familiar - but I will say, at least you're making an effort to discuss the issue and gather feedback before taking any actions, which is a good thing, most companies would distance them, get them to quit.
If you want to help him resolve his issues, you're going to have to become involved in them. Time, listening to him, never breaking his trust - no matter your good intentions - and taking that 3am phone call of dispair and offering hope.
If you cannot do this, do not try. Does it really mean that much to you? Or is it an inconvenience to your "now"?
Suggest a sabatical and let him figure it out in his own time.
- The title isn't quite correct, their last death was July 24 according to the stats at worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden
- Yeahh...I'm gonna have to ask you to come in on the weekend.
- I remember reading some of a book about the psychology of pushing people into the far-(right|left) camps. It went something along the lines of "if you reject them, it crystalizes their opinions as being right". It offered advice on how to make them feel heard, and ways to guide them back towards a more mainstream opinion.
I can see why the environment is so polarised.
- quote from The Independent:
The company, which is based in Houston, Texas, says that XRP is the least damaging, using 0.0079 of a Kilowatt hour (KWh) per transaction.
Dogecoin, which is a favourite of Mr Musk and which he plugged during his recent Saturday Night Live appearance, is rated at 0.12 KWH.
Litecoin, which has been described as silver to Bitcoin’s gold, is rated at 18.522 KWh, while Ethereum uses 62.56 KWh.
Bitcoin, the most successful of all the cryptocurrencies, is bottom of the list at 707 KWh.
- Because he wants you to buy Dog Money!
> is why intellectual progress is stalling.
It's stalling specifically because of the "progress" we have made over the past 100 years. Welfare didn't exist back then. Government mandated schooling either.
These are the absolute reasons why we're getting dumber and dumber. You're a parrot at school, not thinking for yourself. You don't have to think or plan about food or housing, tomorrow or the next year - go and get a hand-out - free housing, free food.
Look at all the geniuses and their path to success. This is what we should be emulating. Obviously not all of us are geniuses, but continuing this path will ensure that none appear. UBI is only going to make it worse. Okay, that's my 2 minutes. I'm off, back to TikTok.