Use a portable version of sublime, vim, emacs on a usb drive.

an opportunity to seize?

But inall honesty this is like asking what if Microsoft closes?

The thing is the managers are tasked with making sure we are on track and pushing forward. The problem is that they don't understand what we do. A lot of what we do doesn't look like work to them. We also all tend to go silent for long periods with often nothing much to show when we come out of silence because what we were working on is not intended to work by itself.

In other words they don't know shit, all think you are not doing shit and all believe they must check on you in order to get shit done.

Fun piece of life experience: I once had a manager whose office was 10 feet behind my own. And when large projects would go slightly over he would sit in his office with the door angled so he could watch me by reflection in the window. He would sit there for hours doing nothing but watch me wondering whether I was working or not.

@omid-student I wish....Sarcastic answers like this are only good on here between ourselves. Out in the wild they don't do so good.

That's because each technology you know counts. You could have 1 year in 30 technologies, 2 years in any technology etc etc.....So 10 years with any 3 technology works too.

Answer: No but I can program you your own version of it, if you give me 20 years of time and salary.

my *mind* skipped

@dewmsolo hmmmm...my skipped the users part of your rant and took it in as developers. Too early, no coffee yet and sunday morning are to blame.

Because developers born after 1990 don't have a nose?

@Nojil I disagree.... Calling super means that you want the parent implementation as well. In other words it lets you extend the parent's implementation. Do more while retaining the normal behavior without having to rewrite it.

Easy enough to do except for the IE part.

Yup.....the names mean nothing. You must look at the timestamps.

@cchings This was one of those replies that I would have given 5000 upvotes to if the platform allowed. I am seriously considering creating side accounts just to give you upvotes.

@helloworld and in close to every reply they send you they allow themselves to write something along the line of "I don't understand what is so complicated about this issue. It should be obvious and you should know what to do about it. I shouldn't have to explain it anymore to you."

My wife threatemed to do something similar.

1. Do not show her this
2. All video long I was picturing her doing it....I will have nightmares

Have an upvote

@dewmsolo The wife and I run run a foster home for mentally ill people, specifically people with schizophrenia. And I have 16 years of development in a specific industry so people are looking for me all over the place. I do roughly 30 or so ish hours for the foster home and the dev comes on top. But when your customers expect you to be available for a full week of 40 hours it makes things rough.

Being self-employed a 60 hours week is an easy one for me. About a month ago I delivered a new feature to a project nearing it's end. So I went to meet the customer and the owner starts telling me "Have you never thought of building some projects on your own time...at night or on weekends so that you can sell them?"

@jirehstudios Yeah that's what I thought too. I disagree with that mentality though.

I would probably have gotten up and left upon seeing that test...

@jirehstudios Except ASP != ASP.NET.

When sitting at my desk I only answer to phone calls, emails or chats.