@IntrusionCM I read some things about non-confrontational speech, I'll try to put it to good use when I contact them 🙂

I hope there will be slow changed at least. It's just that I feel, generally, people here aren't used to make sure incidents don't happen again - they are in long calls involving many people when something happens, and that is seen as "doing the dirty work". Improving stuff is often seen as "useless stuff that doesn't pay off" somehow. At least that's the vibe I got from taking to some.

But now I tracked how many hours were spend by how many people and how many people were affected, so I have some hard facts to back me up.

I don't care if the branch is named master or main or whatever. If they want to change it they can change it. Who cares?

They go to banks or insurance companies where they don't have to learn much new stuff and get payed decently until they retire.

Don't know if I should write a separate rant but just as an example of what I have to deal with:

The products I have to maintain use SQLj. For security. Have you ever heard of SQLj? Me neither. IntelliJ just marks this code as an error, because JetBrain even said back in 2008 there are no plans to support an obsolete standard that is that old, and nobody bothered with creating a plug-in for it.

You can imagine it's great to work on these products when you know that articles like this exist: https://blog.jooq.org/2014/01/...

And that's just 1 of 20 things that's too old to find any knowledgeable developers for. Working with projects that are 5 years old would be heaven in comparison. Yet they said I would be working with "transforming this company to a new technical era and tech stack". The "new" tech stack is using frameworks that nobody has heard of either... urgh.

One of the questions I thought to try during my next interview: "What measures do you take to ensure the quality of the code in your products stays high?"

It should become apparent if they have never heard of coding standards, unit tests, code reviews, pair programming, and so on - all things to ensure you don't end up working with the kind of codebase I'm working with at the moment... *sigh

#MakeHashtagOctothorpAgain

@QuanticoCEO I started out with high level and learned Assembly and C in university, so your claims about what happens in university isn't even correct.

That's the problem with elitists. When they're wong it really hurts their narrative. I still don't understand why you assume everybody has to learn stuff in one particular order, you know with everything you can work bottom-up or top-down. Am I now a "script kiddie" for being a CS student that happened to learn it the other way around?

@QuanticoCEO I haven't claimed they are engineers but 20 years of Assembly and C doesn't make you an engineer either, you need to have the necessary qualifications to call yourself that and then it doesn't matter what language you prefer.

@QuanticoCEO you're not better, blindly hating on a programming language. If people accomplish stuff with python why are you angry about that? I hate this elitist thinking about what "real programming" looks like.

@Fast-Nop thing is we would first need someone at least partially responsible for managing our wiki or define where and how to document stuff. Most people do document but in such different ways and places and detail that it just feels more convenient for people to ask "who worked on similar projects before" and get the necessary information that way. We're in the process of improving that though, or so I've heard.

@Fast-Nop let's just say there are a lot of things that could be improved in our structures and documentation, so I understand why people here go around asking other people for processes, best practices and stuff like that.

Sure, it depends. If you work there for long enough you should be expected to know where to look stuff up. If the company has documented their processes that is. You don't want to know how often this isn't the case and you have to ask around how people are doing the stuff in their projects. And I sympathize greatly with people who are confused by this at first and need to go "information hunting" by themselves.

@Fast-Nop I usually ask "are you busy / can we talk later about X", it shouldn't be too much to ask to get an answer. If I get the "no" treatment constantly I'm going to have a problem if I were to work with that person, because I would be tiptoeing around trying to get help/discuss a topic and I hate that so much.

@stisch I thought PHP stands for People Hate PHP?

I've just talked with someone who got a job at a big German IT company, got offered a position in their "training" program with a payment of 35k€/year (for a B.Sc that's fairly low) but they say they'll "pay" you with all the conferences you'll go to... I don't know what to think of that.

@j4cobgarby found my mistake, this is kind of confusing. The icon is for their umbrella brand "Firefox", and "Firefox Quantum" is one of their products, for which there is the "normal" Firefox logo.

They want to have a different icon for marketing purposes, which is what the first option suggests. The second option looks more like the browser's icon. And everything is still awaiting input from the community and is not final in any way.

Just googled it, it's wip/design suggestions anyway. And even with the suggested "master design" it's not Firefox' browser logo, but will show up in marketing material etc.

Here is the corresponding design suggestions for the browser, so don't get worked up over nothing.

I for one like the new icon. Looks a lot sleeker, kinda KDE-ish with the color shades/transitions.

Gitlab uses similar colors but more plain shades and only straight lines. It's different enough for me.

@balaianu what are the first 5000 characters like, the suspense is killing me!

@HIGHphen there is a cloud storage solution that's called Spideroak One Backup (it's not just for backup, it can synchronize folders between computers and has a default sync folder like Dropbox, so more options there) that is privacy focused, maybe duckduckgo it and see if it's something for you.

E-Mail Provider: mailbox.org

Privacy focused and have a great spam protection. I'm really really happy with everything they do. This also comes with a CalDav calendar and CardDav-accessible contacts.

The developer should consider making this a "contest" to see who has the stronger support: Apple fans or haters.

Post it everywhere, ask people to support "their side" your know, show their support against the enemy. I guarantee he will have $2000 on each donation bar in one day.

I love simulation games, they are so relaxing. Cities Skylines, Prison Architect and such.

To be fair I can't understand 90% of all the beginning bits wherever I call, sometimes it confuses me so much that I ask them if they are who I wanted to call so I don't moan about by problems to a random stranger I didn't intend to call.

Haha, well if he broke out and told you, he seems like a nice enough guy though.

I'm running Kubuntu 18.04 on all my devices, home and at work. So far no major flaws. So, if you like KDE, this would be my recommendation.

Ubuntu is just convenient because most software exists as a .deb, it's very stable, not that much out of date if you compare it to Debian. If you want a rolling distro/more up-to-dateness I'd take a look at Manjaro or maybe Opensuse Tumbleweed.

Shame to admit but I Google how to declare arrays in Java because I mostly use Lists, so every rare time I have to use arrays I Google it and forget about it two seconds later 😓

@BigBoo wouldn't it be far more worrying if people implemented their own crypto instead of using a well established crypto library?

@GyroGearloose I once got a very good reply to a very specific question that probably only a relatively small group of of people are knowledgeable in. So, I had a good experience for that one question.

I don't hate things to be an interesting person. I do it because then I feel socially accepted by my peers.