@retoor Excellent!

@jestdotty That reminds me of the analogy that your brain hard drive has to purge yesterday's page file (sleep) before it can store and access new information efficiently. Not doing so will leave you feeling sluggish (access from hdd rather than memory). I understand that feeling.

What's this? What's this? A recursive advice! What's this! ♫ Yes, self-knowledge is wisdom. You hold the mirror to your own reality and you shape it. Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the wisest of them all? lmfao. It is good to know thyself - it saves more energy.

@jestdotty NnnoooOOOOoooOOoooo. I function without it. : D Though it's nice to enjoy once in a while.

@retoor And you think you like it!

@jestdotty I got sent away like a dog. It was kind of crap, but good riddance there.

What kind of attitude do they have? lol. It's good to challenge yourself and grow. Yes, people who go big mouth when they don't have knowledge are very irritating. lmao the html thing.

@jestdotty Baah.. I tried the busy thing. The same annoying person still pinged me. What works is going offline altogether, or setting yourself to meeting indefinitely. lmao

Yes, contexts carry over.

Thankfully I can book meeting rooms for people to leave me the bleep alone. Even then.. sometimes someone thinks it's funny to knock and ask me through the window if I'm going to join their stupid party. No, I'm not. lol

I read somewhere that e-mails in the morning is throwing off your concentration. I try to automate things as much as possible in software. Swish, swish, e-mail filters. Hah. If from management_software and task_assigned > move to tasks. If from newsletter > idgaf. If from jira, filter it out to separate folders.

@jestdotty Thankfully I hate silent mode on my OS, which is great. Management just likes to point fingers lol.

Sorry to hear about your situations. We must find the best environments.

It's not always easy to tell people off politely - another skill for me to learn. Even to some are so dense that I politely tell them I'm currently occupied on something else, they still hammer on as if it can't wait. The manager referencing is nice. lmao. Managing expectations.. requires such energy. No wonder I'm tired lately.

@jestdotty Management sur likes to get their grubby hands on everything and pretend they're managing. lol.

Oh, but what about having meetings to discuss the scope and requirements? Well.. write them down. Okay, sure, you can have separate meetings to discuss uncertainties.

In a lucky world you get a tester. In a less lucky world you are all roles: dev, tester, DBA, analyst, etc. Fun huh? And then getting snarked at for not writing enough (types of) tests. Spending 1/3rd of your time testing the hell out of everything. lol. "You wrote it, it's your responsibility".

I've had those annoying "this is the way we do things here" meetings, with a PM specifically. Yes, that's annoying. I also agree on the progress notes - just put them in jira or SharePoint. lmao. And the annoying thing of having to keep in mind eeeeeverything everyone is doing on the project because "team" bla bla.

Yes, ridiculous.

@jestdotty I've seen that annoying clause repeatedly. It is indeed often bullshit. A former friend of mine won a case against a company that way. I read similar crap, like: "Not allowed to use time outside of work for anything other than work", so not allowed to do any type of hobby or venture related to similar technologies. lmao. Anyway, that was ridiculous and I'm glad I don't work there anymore.

@BordedDev In contrast, in one interview I got called a fucking asshole for knowing programming better than the interviewer. lol

@jestdotty

Ah yes, not to worry on the priority etc, those are defined at the start of the agile stage, when specifying epics etc. What helps is them telling me how important each project actually is, which they do and I appreciate - it helps me focus. Like say, it's more important to focus on a client project rather than on an internal one.

I like the idea of the acclimatization, even though what bothers the bleep out of me is those damn Slack interruptions and then the expectation of being available all the time. That's some balance I have to work on as well. You're working on an important project and then some people from the lesser project act like their project is super important. ping ping ping bloop, ping, bloop. Yes, alignment with the shareholders, classic stuff. I dislike all that extra management.

It makes me go crazy when I am context-switching. Yes, I organize well as well, but here is the kicker: stress throws my organization into hell. lol. Something to work on.

@jestdotty Aah.. the true agile way of working: "In an agile environment, the assignees get to pick the work from the backlog and discuss it, rather than work being forced upon them". I'd be glad to have three days for such a ticket. I'd say: 1 day business analysis, 1 day documenting (ok maybe much) and 1 day testing.

Too important, hm. So that sounds like they want to put you on valuable projects.

@jestdotty Well, interesting. Back in college Law we learned that you have to put clauses in contracts so that court can use that in a case. We then also learned that the law is not black and white and is weighed on a case-by-case basis (this is why the statue of justice has the weight scales and the sword of justice). As well, that it is better to put clauses in a contract to protect yourself from trouble later on. Though, hm... not legally enforcable? Seems strange. I'll have a look at the book.

Now that I remember the lessons, I also remember that a contract was.. not by definition legally binding? It has to be at least signed, and even then. Yes, law is complicated.

@jestdotty Yes, I have too strong self-criticism. For me, I have to reach the perfection of NASA or ISO to consider myself good.

I know. I have a whole history story about my college years that made me grow substantially but I'll leave that out. lol. Indeed, the skill of extrapolated insight is invaluable.

I have noticed that the older I get, the harder it becomes to learn something new. It becomes tedious, slow and annoying, though I like learning, but at my pace. Yes, they heavily teach us math here but I misse out on that. I've been made aware of it all my life and it's a battle I go through.

@jestdotty I once researched this and here is my educated guess answer:

Because generally everything possibly translates to a golden ratio, from UI object distances to engineering beauty, making it easier for your brain to calculate, requiring less calculation energy, and evolutionarily this means that as cave people we were focused on focusing on the survival-important aspects. Less calculation > saves energy > more energy for survival > dopamine. Note: classical music is also in golden ratio.

@retoor I'm talking about ye way long ago, back in 1998. Heheheh. Yes, the internet may be faster. GPT is still in development, of course.

@retoor Kind of, yes. Invoice is same. lol. Just underpaid.

A programmer that goes through a book to look for an explanation on something, that goes to a library and does their own research using the local database viewer to search books by content and topic, that spends hours, days, weeks on this.

@Hazarth I'm lacking optimal skill in it. I already have a strong foundation but I need to become stronger at it because the industry problems get increasingly complex. An example project I had to deal with was where one of the core formulas used for the system was formally expressed mathematically in code as well as referring to a mathematically formally-expressed document. This document is as academic as they come and it talks about proofs and shows complex algorithms. Why was this drafted? So they could justify the complexity to Business (budgeting). Now, I don't have a tremendous amount of experience with mathematics and data structures. If I look at a mathematical proof and the complex algorithm in code, my brain tries to understand it step by step, but it's hard. Someone else looks at the code and goes "Ah yeah makes sense" but they are of a mathematical background. A second instance is modeling a backend. Somehow some people magically know what fits, but I don't.

Jurassic Park but with cat. https://youtube.com/watch/...

It will reinforce your neural pathways to learn something new in addition to reinforcing the already-existing ones. This will result in better insight generally which you can use to become even better at solving problems.

@Hazarth Well, I am aware there are people who don't improve (mainly because of factors not necessarily related to them).

Ah yes, a lot of effort and time. I added it up. I spent a total of 11 years in two colleges educating myself to become a sharp Software Developer and Computer Scientist. The last six years in college were the real transformation. At that time I was even promoted to Valedictorian, but I had a drive that no one else had and I am a great teacher as well, uplifting my entire class of 100+ students to passing the exams while they themselves were really bad at Computer Science.

And of course, you need a strong theoretical framework combined with active learning in the case of science-like activities. I still have a long road to go, but I find it highly annoying that the industry demands high skills from me already when 70% of the time I've never even worked with the technology. Like putting DevOps guy to do SoftwDev.

Are you talking about the visuals, the internal orchestration or both?

@CoreFusionX I think it is possible to rewire your brain.

@cuddlyogre Of course, that's why we have the fundamentals of our higher education, but it doesn't take away that they don't allow us time to become great at several different technologies with the timeframes they pose.

I think it's better than Treaty 40 minutes. Just kidding.

I think supremacy can be achieved through expert development in a field. A doctor would typically have classical science supremacy over an average person, and so on. A developer will have supremacy over topics in Computer Science over the average person. If the person is good and and industrious about it, they merit the supremacy.

@jestdotty Thank you for your advice. Yes, I equally get stupid comments from toxic devs as well, but thankfully it's not many devs.

@jestdotty Yes, games are stupid. I just come in to work and get out.

@retoor Except for those who are too lazy and continuously scratch by with techs while portraying to everyone positivity whilst having no skill. It's not commendable and it also make the serious hard workers (like me) look bad who aren't lucky enough to gel with the team. This results in hard workers not being given opportunities while the unskilled jokester keeps getting new ones. That's not exactly a good system and it's infuriating.

@cuddlyogre The problem is that only knowing surface-level of the many technologies will not suffice.