I have no idea what you're doing but I now have a strangely irresistible urge to invest millions of dollars in your startup...

@sunfishcc
I see your point. I'd say what you're doing sounds enough to qualify as full-stack - so long as you're doing something more complicated than theming a website it's probably not just front-end :-)

Traditionally js is purely a front-end role - full-stack would be html/css/js + a server-side language like php/.net /python.

Having said that you can use node.js for server-side so it is technically possible to be full-stack with just javascript.

Sounds like either the sales team threw the developers under a bus to make the sale (not uncommon), or your project management team is not handling the client correctly.

If the client keeps changing the project scope then that means the budget and deadline should also change - if you're having to do weeks of "crunch mode" overtime to ship the project then someone else screwed up!

This kind of thing does not happen everywhere, but it's not that uncommon - if you see it happening regularly then you probably want to look for a new job as the problem is part of the company and won't go away.

Either way, good luck getting this one done and hope the next project is better.

Next time just say "I have a couple of possible ideas, let me look into it and I'll email you the results". That way there's an email chain in case he tries this kind of thing again...

It also helps when you get your next review with your boss as you can use it as evidence of your knowledge/skills/ability to help out other people on your team.

Win/win!

Ah yes, but what about a marketing director for an agency? That's recursion-level-shit right there...

Had a situation once when I was job-hunting where I'd applied for a job through one recruiter and another one rang me several days later about the same job.

I told them I'd already applied and... I kid you not... The recruiter asked me to email them saying that I would rather have this new recruiter represent me for the job instead of the other one.

I laughed and hung up.

The problem here is that you were not drinking at the correct level.

For more info see the Ballmer Peak comic on xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/323/

Laravel has to be by far the best php framework I've used. It just does things in a nice way.

Dunno about the rest of you but my first intro to "programming" was messing with unit data files for the original command & conquer games.

So yeah, I figure being a gamer as well as a dev is totally normal around here.

Pascal/delphi isn't bad as languages go, although it's showing its age these days.

If you want to learn a language that will be useful and help you get a job then definitely learn python. It has a good community and a large number of useful libraries available for everything from machine learning to Web development.

Come to the dark side, we have $_COOKIEs

Back in the day during my final year at university we had a mathematical computing module where the final exam for the course contained a bunch of stuff that had not been covered in the lectures and everyone was freaking out.

Fortunately the professor left the answers to all the questions on the exam paper so the exam got cancelled and the re-sit exam was much easier due to my class threatening to put in a formal complaint to the university about the questions we were given but not taught about.

Good times...

Hack the planet!

Boss: why have there been a higher than usual number of hardware failures in the data center recently?

Dev: because reasons.

So long as I've got a good bottle of scotch by my side then I'm not technically alone...

That said, with the community here are we really, truly alone?

I wonder where hunter2 comes on that list...

So, by that analogy then booting windows vista as your main setup is like playing Russian roulette with an automatic handgun.

That's a good start but I'm not seeing Amy whisky there...

UK here (just south of London)

Whisky's always good but I'll take a good brandy (well armagnac) if I can get my hands on a bottle.

It does seem fairly universal that devs tend to be drinkers. I guess it's because it helps to numb the brain against all the stupid that we face daily.

C+++?

Users are often stupid but they usually aren't actively trying to piss you off.

Now clients on the other hand... There's a special level of hell reserved for those fuckers, especially the ones who want you to build them a WordPress site!

If you want to build a website then php's great, if you want to build anything else... Then not so much.

If there's no signed contract saying that you are required to take on the work then tell your ex boss to match your current hourly rate or they aren't getting any code written...

If your colleague is the type of person who has lots of browser tabs open then bury a random 10-hour rick-roll video in there and wait for the screams. If you're feeling particularly evil then make it two tabs of Rick!

Calling it now - this will be a gold mine for the ransomware business.

"Hi, this email is from Facebook (and definitely not a bad person) to verify some pictures we've just detected..."

@kunashe

We must all make sacrifices in the pursuit of scientific truth. In this case the sacrifice is being made by my liver...

@codeStalker

My university grades (from back in the day) suggest otherwise, but that just means more research is required.

@codeStalker

I assume you're trying to hit the "Ballmer Peak" then