Definitely try "Password" and see how many accounts you can reset.
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I used to do press ups at the last place I worked. Took at least a minute to build the solution.

I was getting pretty jacked by the time I left. Haha.

Muting posts with certain tags would be cool too, e.g. Ones tagged "!rant" and "meme"

I'd have thought the current version of that is searching the Python tag. People should be tagging their stuff correctly.

Being able to bookmark some tags might be a good idea, though.

Don't panic about them contacting your employer. Recruiters understand your employer doesn't know that you're looking for other work so they won't contact them. You can put "References available on request", and then if they ask for references you can decide who you want to ask, be it someone at that employer or a former lecturer etc.

Sounds like you're getting both a raw deal and a hell of a lot of experience straight out of the gate. That's a double-edged sword, but try comparing yourself in your mind to the you just before you started working there, I'm sure you'll agree you've learned a lot, not just about the new languages.

Definitely apply for other jobs, always go to interviews, always look smart. If you get the job you don't necessarily even have to take it; you can weigh up the options and make a decision to stay if you prefer.

That mindset makes interviews a lot less nerve-wracking, too, because if you don't get it you haven't lost anything!

Hope it works out for you!

Story points are good for when you have business people involved who want to use your estimates as a stick to beat you with.

Saying that, instead of "you said it would he 3 hours and it took 5", we did get "you said it would be 3 story points and I equate that to be about 2 days, and it took 3!" which can be equally annoying.

Interesting hack we found that stopped that from happening: we changed the labels on the Fibonacci numbers to text, and started estimating it with text.

We knew that "Very small" meant 1 story point and "medium" meant 5 etc but the boss didn't, so we could still estimate just as easy, but it suddenly made it really difficult for that boss to start adding things up and comparing things.

Take two weeks off and ask for a raise when you get back 👍🏻

Jesus, I feel guilty that I never code outside of work.

Life gets in the way.

If you have the time and the energy, embrace it!

After my colleague left some debug to the web browser console saying "Fuck <filter name>" whenever someone selected a filter, and one of our highest profile clients naming their filters after their daughter, and then seeing the debug had output it about 20 times.... I never do this. Even for a laugh.

I'll go as far as using the name "poop" for a test case.

I upvoted this because I thought this as I tagged them in something this morning.

Even worse that the thing I posted I eventually found out was a repost.

//this comment directly contradicts what the below code does

Just don't hit 'Chilli Note 7' levels of hot!

@nblackburn damn and there it is. Like every other idea I have, someone has already done it better 😂

@trogus @dfox

@core Haha I left it in to appease @trogus' fear that the whole column was just for social media buttons

I fixed it 👍🏻

@Glinkis Haha autocorrect 😐 "Send them a visa credit card covered in blood."

Yes. But some people just want to watch the world burn.

@jckimble nah they already have those. You need to send them a visa of your blood.

"If less is more, imagine how much more more will be."

You're going to need to update Windows.

I do this. But only like...4 lines.

Sorry, mate!

@hjk101 ooh how did I miss off "IE is not the internet"?!

Oh God. I feel like this group of misfits could be the most dangerous group of April foolers ever.

@ironedr Nailed the Java is not OOP point 👍 I meant that while Java is an Object-oriented Language, that doesn't make it "the methodology of object oriented programming".

Also I love Agile! Well, scrum. Well, it feels like a constant unrelenting stream of work. Kind of luck being stuck at the bottom of a waterfall. But I prefer it to Waterfall. 😉

And the correct casing!

I left my 3 mile commute job for a career in contracting. Now looking for a remote work contract because the 2 hours I lose in driving are ridiculous wastes of time.

@StevenZ that's what amendments are for. 😎

Boom. Nailed it.

@ryanmhoffman congratulations on the little one! Ours (our first) is 5 months now and he's the most amazing, challenging, pursuit ever. 👍