@jestdotty Yes, they were all frat bro and party after work and I was more serious and mind my own business. That's also why I was let go at another place. Heck, at any place.

@jestdotty Hm.

Willingness to learn to be gold.. yeah.. I learned years ago that employers don't give a fuck about it. Either be a unicorn or a big-ass gloater. That's how you get to the top. lmao.

I can't stand staying ignorant, so I always try to stay up to date.

Yes, I think you defined 'secret' better. Good analysis there.

You are very funny. You are super funny.

@jestdotty Thanks for spotting it. It's always tricky to figure out what companies are spewing bullshit. Companies that call their fresh grads 'industry experts' or 'engineers' or whatever the fuck unicorn title.

Yes, I can just ask. That's right.

Did you know that employers are onto AI cheaters now and they put a clause in their interview process saying that if you use AI and not your own words in the interview, you are disqualified? lol.

Job posts are energy-sucking.

@jestdotty

You know, that was a major problem; the problem was not replicable.. nor Googlable, and, fun as the company I worked for was: everything siloed behind bureaucracy. I couldn't do shit, so to speak. When you have such a problem, that's when it's tough. I did have a test environment.. but I couldn't even troubleshoot it because it required permissions from the lead.. which they didn't want to give.. such bureaucracy again. All I got was: "Make it work!".

Free time was another issue.. all my free time went to trying to plumb the issues. I had no time for anything else, but I agree on your point. That's what I technically got fired for, yes. I was too good, the manager didn't like it, they felt inferior, and then they decided to conspire against me. If only I were joking. They confirmed it. Sick fucks. And then personally offended me. Incredible. Glad I'm out of there.

@jestdotty I always appreciate your replies, jestdotty. Thank you.

If you miss info, you can just keep brushing up.

Yes, the junior doing senior shit sounds typical.

Politics.. just goes to show it's not always skills that propel you.

@Lensflare Yes, IEEE754. Interesting. There have been public dev talks where experienced developers call out JavaScript for being at fault for being 'weird' in this case, which makes me question their expertise.

Yes, I see the MDN bias.

I am a bit confused there as that logic does not seem to hold sense. Many people use it, so it gets redefined? People are strange sometimes. Strange decisions.

I define secret as something that I am not aware of, such as those details. I imagine a team lead assuming from me that I know my way around JavaScript and not that I have to spend an hour of research on every detail. From experience, it 'wastes' time, at least on the client's side. Someone who knows JavaScript in and out would have no problem dealing with its quirks, which is often what you're hired for (and from my experience).

@Lensflare So you know exactly why in JavaScript 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004? Why is it not a real programming language? MDN refers to it as both scripting and programming (I assume because of its modernization to back-end). As far as I know, a programming language is one that allows you to write independent programs and has its own constructs, and a scripting language is locked to be housed inside a single container program (e.g. JavaScript originally housed to be interpreted by a browser engine).

What is your take?

@jestdotty <reading attr="snort-laugh"/>

Eskimo Boooob. Eskimo Boooob.

@jestdotty

I went to the best and hardest college in the whole city, where you had a 16% passing chance of getting your degree. Admittedly, that's not a high percentage, and it means people need to put in inhumane hard work. I'll know because I went from the worst grades to good grades later on. I remember in the beginning of the year we had to purchase all books.

I don't want to make you feel bad about your education. You're obviously a talented developer - something that can't be said yet for me. It's quite interesting they know the stuff. I know I had the disadvantage of being behind in Math and Economics when I started out.

Always have the courage. : )

@Lensflare :< :< :< |°°| |°°| |°°|

@jestdotty Neeeeeeeeeerd.jk.

Yes, it's definitely interesting to figure out the effects of nutrients on the human body. It's all so fascinating!

Ahh, knowledge!

One class? And you're supposed to study 6-8 years for this. I watched this MD girl on YouTube and she had to study about 75 books (in my case I had to study about 50 books for Computer Science), so I figure that there are many in-depth disciplines going on as she mentioned (Pathology, Physiology, Anatomy, Chemistry, Forensics,...).

This Health Science thing sounds interesting. Are you a teacher in it? Hehehe. That teacher you are referring to sounds like a horrible teacher. A really good teacher will always explain the origins of things and every single possible reason behind it, or at least drive you to do that research. I really hate that 'you were supposed to know' part. It applies sometimes but it shouldn't be the starter for knowledge. It looks like you are creative! Yelling.. also not a teacher thing.

@jestdotty I know, I knowwww, JS is loosely typed. -inner joke lol

JavaScript sounds like your thing and Rust sounds rusty. It always makes me think of that videogame...

@jestdotty Strange.. strange.. they don't? That doesn't sound right. lol. I mean, they know all about food properties to the subatomic level and such.

Nutrition.. chemistry.. yes, I have to get to it.

Deep like organic chemistry? Heheh! Yes, it's exciting, deep stuff.

@jestdotty /ignore jestdotty -thinkingoutloud -jk. I appreciate a creative mind!

@jestdotty Accounting for when data doesn't exist is what I sometimes find hard because you have to know what you're going to do first.

I see the hierarchical logic there.

I worked with passport.js and the classic access_token and refresh_token in the past before, security wise. I prefer keeping things non-async and few API's if possible.

@jestdotty That is a good question. Do I? I do, but I don't have the authorization or knowledge to. Health Science.. interesting. Hm... I've been thinking about studying Medical on the side.

Just remember your worth is not judged by your job. Good to see you are learning.

Yes, gather your results, discuss. May you find a solution.

@jestdotty tf. lollerz.

@lorentz A criterion list. Interesting approach. It also decouples the searching from the criteria. Very nice.

@jestdotty You're making cool and interesting stuffs. Well done, jestdotty.

@jestdotty amagad jest, so hawt. Yous the cools.

Permutations, innit? Accounting would be fun because then you already have the model ready.

Thanks for the explanationz and the enums tip.

To be specific: as a mediocre programmer I often struggle with state in semi-complex situations. Highly-interdependent states, keeping logic in your head.. it's all a bit cloudy sometimes. You want to save state A, which depends on state B, and you think you're going to keep it all in memory by adding it into a temp state C, but then state B depends on A and A depends on C and quickly, you're going crazy in your mind, losing oversight of the code.

Solution: study algorithms and computer science better.

@TheBeardedOne Hm, as expected; the occasional difficult clients and their communication, the self-branding challenges. Thanks

@jestdotty Hmm. An interestingly-placed emoji.

I can't give medical advice, but it sounds like one of those situations where the body is defending against itself.

Yes, frequent hunger.

Perhaps something in the process is making you react (no JavaScript pun intended). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articl... Allergy to some nuts? How about allergy/intolerance tests?

Step 1: remove sugar (spikes in blood sugar)

Step 2: remove or limit eggs (cholesterol)

Step 3: make it light (no dense stuff)

Thus, CaptainRant trying to help you.

@jestdotty Oh, you're slick, jestdotty!

@cuddlyogre That is evident.

@jestdotty It sparkles like Homer Simpson Sparkles commercial. Although, it doesn't, because it's nicely hidden away on the phone browser.

@Lensflare My idea is not towards memorization, but rather toward finding bugs without the IDE telling me: "hey, here's a syntax error" or "hey, it could be here!".

I was able to successfully find a tricky bug in React using this method, even if it took me 20 minutes.