I only do that when the problem space is interesting.

Most developers are just implementing CRUD using a framework that does most of the work. There isn’t the interest motivation to keep on trying to fix things.

Yeah. This was the face of an old man having trouble believing what he was hearing.

He looks like a walking corpse, but he seemed to understand what he was hearing and was just amazed by it.

Windows reports using binary and continues to use the Greek terms. Windows is still the holder of largest market share for PC operating systems.

This is such a weird take to me. We don’t even colloquially discuss computer storage in terms of 1000.

The Greek terms were used from the beginning of computing and the new terms of kibi and mebi (etc.) were only added in 1998 when Members it the IEC got upset. But despite that, most personal computers still report in the binary way. The decimal is only used on boxes for marketing terms.

That indicates that you might buy it if it’s good. The person I replied to implied they would never have purchased it at all.

If you were never going to buy it, why pirate it?

Don’t worry. They’ll change it again next week.

This was my take away. They paid 1 individual over twice the amount they lost last year. That fix is easy math to me.

Read they paid spez over twice what they lost, so I’m gonna say they did it to themselves.

For the goal you have, the best thing to do is find something you’re passionate about and build something for it.

Ask yourself what do you love to do outside of programming? What is some problem you have that you could solve by writing a a piece of software?

You are more likely to complete a project that you are passionate about and when you speak about it in an interview your passion will show and excite the interviewer.

If there is an industry you are interested in, try to attend conventions that are relevant and go speak to the reps at the companies you are most interested in and ask questions about their products. Ask if they have any internship programs coming up and who to speak to after you’ve shown interest in their projects.

Source: an engineering manager who is not currently hiring

This. Many devs will never even meet their Product Manager because they are “too high level to be needed in technical calls”.

Translated to “I only want to tell people how much money this is going to make them without even knowing what it does”

I’ve had my dad agree that something the Republicans are doing is extremely authoritarian and state that he is going to look past it because he wants lower taxes and likes guns in the same breath.

I’m not sure what that last paragraph was about, but I was extremely religious throughout highschool. Like, leading youth group retreats and all.

Catholicism comes in many forms for many people. The OP could be legit. My family struggled with the idea of fantasy. It was a strongly held belief that dabbling in things that tilted occult would result in possession. An actual conversation I had with my mother was that Magic the Gathering would result in demonic possession, which would not be fixed because the Catholic Church officially stopped exorcism after Vatican II.

Some people take Catholicism more seriously and at seriously more weird ways than you can imagine from “having a Catholic friend.”

I grew up Catholic. The answer might be yes because weird things are considered sins, but there’s a built in mechanism for getting around that.

Confession is used for way worse things than “I used the devil’s tool at the instruction of my teacher”

This is a massive assumption from the story that was provided. We don’t know that they didn’t discuss with the team and an explanation of “I added a log to errors that were already happening” shouldn’t result in lack of trust from the manager.

Reactive managers like that are a big problem in the industry.

It’s fine to not know every language. I’m not saying you must know every language. I’m saying that only knowing one and refusing to use another is a problem I’ve seen from PHP, Java, and C# cultures almost exclusively.

The only exception I’d say that makes sense is people who are using coding for a small part of their overall job. But full time software engineers should have at least a few options in their belt for backend that they understand and can use in different scenarios.

My issue with PHP isn’t the language, it’s the developers. PHP developer culture is much like C# and Java culture.

I could bring a million reasons I don’t want to program in PHP and every time we talk about it, the PHP developer tells me I should be using it for everything. If I suggest that it may not be the best tool for a particular task at hand, the PHP developer tells me it’s the only language they know so they will use PHP.

The issue is that this type of culture closes doors mentally. In any craft, we should try to use the best tool available for the task at hand. In carpentry you’d use a hammer with nails and a screwdriver with screws. In programming, there are times using PHP makes sense and times it doesn’t.

In container based services, I tend to lean toward a compiled binary because it reduces the size of the container at run time and most modern languages don’t require tons of heavy duty frameworks to scale well there.

In a monolith, a fully interpreted language with an MVC framework could make sense.

Fireplace

My only point on the compass being a better representation is that it acknowledged a problem. That’s not to say it’s a good representation.

I think it’s unhelpful to say that a step toward more fidelity is the same level of bad, though. Even if it’s the tiniest step, it’s a move in the right direction by pointing out that a single line isn’t sufficient.

In reality, it would be more like a series of lines on different topics weighted differently by an individuals priorities so no singular generic representation will ever be truly good enough.

The political compass is a better representation purely because it acknowledged that political ideals aren’t a linear spectrum, but it still misses the mark because a plane isn’t sufficient either.

Politics is such a complex topic and any simple representation of it will lead to what would appear to be contradictions in a person’s beliefs.