The one thing I've always hated is how recruiters are seemingly desperate upfront, but later on they want you to do all the work and treat you like /you're/ desperate for the job.

My time is valuable - I'm not interested in doing 3 separate interviews and a large scale test project just to be considered. Why the fuck would I submit myself to all this time wasting shit when I'm obviously content with where I am now?

They really need to switch up their approach.

Really these things can go either way. Have you had any conflicts recently? :)

@Hazarth

Couldn't have said it better myself.

VirusTotal API was the first thing that popped up in my head.

"can you give me your crypto before though"

lol'd

@jiraTicket

I don't know all the details here but did this stupid project/idea come from someone with actual decision power?

If the numbers really are that bad - is someone with exec authority actually aware of this attitude/this shit investment?

This guy (the manager) is an idiot and not good at his job.

The worst thing you can do as a manager is to set impossible deadlines. Why is this the worst?

1. It fucks with morale.
2. You give out promises to clients that you actually can't keep. This damages the company's reputation.
3. You don't leave room for errors/refactoring/testing/feedback.

@100110111

This seems like the most sensible compromise if you're not willing to honestly tell a higher up that you're out of work and can take on something else.

Refactoring for the sake of refactoring is not a practical approach. If you're out of work, take some backlogged tasks or perhaps work on some infrastructure projects.

Linux snobism has become quite common nowadays. It's really no different from the "PC masterrace" mindset. It's just blatant fanboyism, that's all it is. At the end of the day - these are tools. It's like saying one company's hammer is better than another's screwdriver. These OSes have different target audiences and they excel at different things.

Objectively speaking, Linux is a great and reliable OS, but it is not that average consumer friendly. It is not a more "elite" operating system, because having more freedom does not mean it allows you to be more productive or get things done faster-easier - which should be the most important metric.

Windows is a good choice for gaming, Linux is a good choice for heavy BE engineers/sys admins/servers and macOS is a solid choice for designers or FE/wide-range developers.

You were still hired at BigTech - that's got to count for something.

Why even use these random browsers lol.

When I was in my late teens, I was heavily into this one survival game. It became such a huge and important part in my life where I pretty much decided that school wasn't worth going to anymore and I'd rather just stay home and play games. I'm talking eat, play, shit, sleep and repeat all while following the game's heartbeat.

I'd consider that an "addiction". If I could go back and do things differently, I believe I would, but I might hesitate - I had shitloads of fun playing that game and some awesome experiences. I believe when you are young, you can afford yourself a level of degenerate behavior but there comes a time where you either have to reign yourself in or drop a bad habbit off entirely. I don't think gaming is a bad hobby, but that's only as long as you are not skipping any other responsibilities to do it.

My advice is to bring yourself to the realization that there's a whole world out there with fun and cool experiences - games aren't the only way to have fun.

@vane

This guy senior devs.

Schedule as in when we dev or schedule as in life in general?

That must have felt amazing to hear.

@bahua

I don't think people really do. Sure, if you want to fuck around with it as a hobby, go ahead - shit, you might actually learn something and it might even be "fun" for a while.

But my baseline is the following: time is valuable and having to mess around with your OS instead of getting work done is probably not what the average "tech minded" person is really looking for.

That seems utterly fucking stupid.

I literally never make any of my projects public for this simple reason.

@Hazarth

I support this 100%.

Windows is practical in the sense that it is cheap and not a bad choice if you need a solid all-rounder - but it does not excel at development. Sure, as a FE developer you can get away with it mostly depending on the tooling that you use, but BE / sys admin folks have it much harder.

OSX and Linux have clear tradeoffs, but I would always prefer something UNIX based for development over Windows any single day. Universal command-line syntax, decent package managers and native shell scripting support are just unrivaled features for me.

@vemedia

The biggest factors here are budget and the application of the device. What are you going to use it for?

People here will shit on OSX and be like hurrdurr Linux is better/freer/whateverer but don't mention how "beta" most software on it is and having to "recompile the kernel" to fix certain issues is more reality than a meme.

There's obviously a playing around aspect here but from a purely practical standpoint, this does not seem worth it. If you want these things to genuinely be available, just get a cheap VPS. They literally only cost a few bucks a month.

@mabbott94

I mean for god's sake, Tailwind is not magic or another language. It's literally just CSS written in a different way / in a different location. If you don't understand CSS, you will never successfully build anything decent from scratch with Tailwind.

Pretty sure OP is trolling, don't believe anyone genuinely thinks this way.

I believe people who don't care about their job don't really get far in their careers - but you also need to play the game of keeping yourself mentally in balance with how much you care & when.

If you don't regulate it then you are going to burn yourself out. I'm passionate about my work, but I don't "care" for free. I expect to get regular salary increases or something akin to a promotion and for the company to have my back and not to ask questions if I'm having "downtime".

I don't believe in work-life balance. I don't think it's a very pragmatic approach always since it makes you look at work as this thing that is opposite of freetime (and we all love our freetime!). I believe in work-life harmony - your personal and professional goals can be aligned and that mindset has helped me in both fronts.

I feel like "be more passive" is almost a synonym for "gives less fucks" in a lot of these cases. It's a hard pill to swallow, but there are times when being overly zealous or passionate about your opinions or arguments becomes more damaging rather than helpful.

If you're valued for your opinion or your analysis, it's important to stand your ground, but sometimes you just got to feel the waves and guestimate whether if you're trying to push your opinion too aggressively and might be stepping on some toes you don't really want to step on. Mostly this is just a quick path to stressing yourself out and not being on good terms with everyone.

It's a fine line between being too aggressive with your opinions and not aggressive enough. Sometimes you just have to accept that others might be making decisions that you 100% believe are stupid or wrong, but you just have to let it slide and pick your battles.

Freelancing like this seems pointless.

Might as well work a job and be protected by laws governing employment and do freelancing partially or when you're more experienced/valuable and can afford to dictate terms.

Feels like this is missing the joke/meme tag.

@bittersweet

Desktops are undeniably practical when it comes to price or performance. But it's hard to argue against laptops in 2021 - the M1 Macs have leaped laptop performance ahead quite dramatically. Not only are they beefy, they're also ridiculously quiet for how much power they output. They are even a force to be reckoned with against mid-high tier desktops, simply because the ARM architecture is so efficient.

Sure, it's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison but if we put price and choice of OS on the sidelines for a moment, these laptops are capable of offering laptop mobility at desktop performance. That's a hard to argue package if we're considering workloads like software development or media creation.

I'm not a big fan of having multiple computers. It introduces extra config/maintenance work. I prefer to have everything I do, regardless if it's work or personal stuff on one machine that I can bring with me anywhere.

What happened? :D

The new Matrix movie is the equivalent of a well-made frozen pizza. It's edible and not even half-bad, but it's still frozen pizza.

@IntrusionCM

Truth is I haven't even used the Elastic stack that much before. I wanted to ask around to see what other developers are thinking about it because I'm considering to "begin considering" it as an advanced search solution for small to mid-size e-commerce projects.

Neither, because they're both shit options.