the boom, crash and winter have been happening since Covid and it escalated everything to crazy levels

@Lumi still, what are the reasons that make you love it?

@antigermanist needs to be included for emacs and cheese

no solutions please, keep those rants and complaints coming

@antigermanist I live in a part of the world where working at coffee shops was attempted more than 10-15 years ago, but it never materialized. I think its better this way because it leaves more room for young people to pay "thousands of dollars" per coffee cup just to be away from the boomers.

@jestdotty I agree its an extremely cheap investment on their part, but they always make it seem like a big deal.
Had to fight hard to get a proper dev laptop.
Initally they wanted to give me the cheapest machine they had in stock.

@antigermanist desktop for dev ftw

@jestdotty no, I use my own hardware for whatever projects I do in my spare time.

Regarding company hardware, a guy told me his boss gifted him the laptop upon finishing the job. But the laptop had full admin rights (no config from company) and the dev worked there for 8 years.

@antigermanist so what are you using now?
I agree with the IDE thing in a big part, but sometimes I feel like I need it.

@jestdotty yes, more rot more fertile ground

Once worked in a place that blasted us with music from the time the dude with the radio showed up till he left home a bit early (was old)
People that stayed after he left home were split into 2 categories: 1. turn that music up or 2. can we please turn that down?
I'll let you figure out which category of people was doing more work.
Totally, never changed station. I knew all the songs in the first 2 weeks, and of course world news.

Last time I talked to a real Apple dev (also from Objective C days) he told me there are only about 5 real Apple Devs that can make an entire app from start to finish in the entire country (not US). So he started a business around this.

@IHateFrameworks of course I was being ironic. I really hope I don't see escalation of that magnitude just so people could steal stuff via Android platform
Also, I remember seeing newly developed games posted on Play Store that were copied and republished the next day by a shady company. How did they manage that?

@Lensflare Swift and Swift UI offer the best DX ever. What is DX? Digital Experience or smth?
Also, getting into Swift and Swift UI as a career path comes with a lot of "red tape", so you must really want to be an Apple-based developer. How did you manage that? Sheer luck?

Regarless of how much you charge them, you're encouraging a very bad business practice. Basically you're letting them get away with what they did.
I interviewed for a company that had a codebase they "obtained", but with no documentation or anything. They said they couldn't do anything with it and that it was up to me. Turned down offer right away.

Also had this issue before, client offered to pay a bit more than usual in freelance costs. However they were actually trying to scam everyone (me, my old employer, their own upper management etc.)
Best to just let some things go. Give them a taste of their own medicine. If they dont learn their lesson, they will just do it again in the future to others.

People had paid time during lunch? Honestly, I never heard of anyone in tech having such a thing.
You clock out, eat, come back (if you can) and clock in, and do more work to recover the time you lost during lunch.

Try copying the android/browserName folder to different phone.
See what can be recovered.
Not sure this works, its just a guess. But it might be worth the shot.

As an insane I find that offensive (jk). Aditionally, what makes you think you have what it takes to join our group? Also, what are your qualifications? Any recent recommendations?

@tosensei yea I get it now. Thank God I never had to deal with TFVC

@tosensei TFVC also known as VSTS? Why call it Git when you can make an acronym of 4 letters?

@null-pointer-ex agreed, you run into such issues when running stuff mac isnt optimized for.
I assume you have M2 with 32GB and 1TB storage?

Also, when you run into such issues, they probably mean that you are using it wrong:
- if you use dual screen they ask why not only use 1 screen
- if you use IntelliJ they ask why not use xcode or whatev

Don't worry, AI is coming. All this will soon be fixed.

I suggest formatting your machine. Then write 0s to the disk. Reinstall Windows. Last but not least, never use Teams again.
In short kill it with fire

Unpopular opinion: we as men, need to understand that this concept of hotty is fake.
But sure, nice one for the lolz

@tosensei that is a good point

@azuredivay there's always that one user that wants to bring the bug/spam back. its worse when the bug is a requirement for his use case

i think they just bully the devs they appoint with the hardest tasks. and then management has to deal with finding someone else and so round and round it goes.

Love this site as well. Also, thanks for contributing to it and keeping it free of spam

You don't need a degree only if you follow YouTube logic