Why do companies boast of their “high hiring bar”? At this point, I start having double thoughts about the company as soon as I see that phrase. Maybe it’s me, but it sounds somehow.

To whoever stole my copy of Microsoft Office, I will find you. You have my Word!

windows always ...

Last week we made jira tickets to create jira tickets

I see so many freaking excel sheets where a database should have been used that I wouldn't be surprised if, at the veeeeery bottom of all things, the entire global financial system runs based on a single excel sheet made by a dude in the 90s. And since then poorly maintained.

Why we don't have money day for those who chose money instead of love

And u luv or money??

When I see everyone is busy in MS Teams(in meeting) and I am not invited to irrelevant meetings anymore.

When you press restart instead of shutdown, and are hoping to see that one annoying program which always stops the shutdown, so you can cancel the restart.

Absolutely new to programming world and devrent. And looking for some advice on were to begin for a Web developer

Stick to one project about which you want to learn but don't know how to do it,complete it...and now you have learnt something new

Finally resigned.
I didn't hate my work but I need to grow. I was 4 years experienced and I was working on entry level positions. That's because for getting promoted I need to work like I'm on the next level for a year consistently, I don't know if I was working on next level but I felt confident that I can, so I switched companies finally. I don't know if work will be a lot what will I do but I have enough hard skills, my soft skills might not be that good but I'm finally doing something to achieve growth in that area. I'll be scared, anxious, helpless and all but let it be. I'll sprint, rest and repeat.

Is it okay to date a student that you teach programming?

In Africa,
To get a private company job, you need skills, not books.

To get a government job, you Connections to big people, not books or skills .

To get a scholarship for higher studies, you need books.

I think the main issue with Computer Science is that it's considered an Academic study, while 99% of work is very much dynamic, quickly evolving and hands-on.

I think all forms of (higher) education should be part time, starting at 4:1 college/work, gradually moving towards the opposite.

Currently, combining work and study is only done for "lower level" education, at least in my country: For example a car mechanic needs to work on actual cars, and barbers need to cut actual hair.

To me, it makes sense if engineers work on actual software, during their education.

It also feeds back into the education itself, when companies are paying for courses and the course doesn't teach practicalities, there's a lot more feedback to the colleges on how to adjust their material.

start teaching people how and why to delete code instead of teaching them only how to write code

compare functional and object oriented languages as well as high level and low level languages and explain what are advantages of using certain language without going into the syntax

let people do mistakes and don’t punish people for making them but let them explain what happened, if they know what was the cause of mistake it is worth ten times than doing things correctly

mix teams per period of time instead of per project

make showcases how to modify ugly code to pretty one and what are the steps and what patterns people should look after

teach by not showing old stuff but showing where old stuff exists in modern things and why it’s important there and what’s the purpose of doing things certain way instead of flat theory based on ancient examples

Happy that Facebook “lost” 230 billion in valuation (got off that toxic platform years ago as well as Instagram). Should I stop using React Native as well?

So can yooooooooooouuuuuuu guysssssss see the meeeeeeeeme?

Believe me or not but there are some companies that do test their software on prod and ignoring users complaining.

What you think of this?

I might sound ridiculous but yeah, I am switching from C++ to java.
reason: I am bored sticking to a single language for 4 years.
Why not python?
reason: I use it every second day at my work.
Why this(java) shit? There are tons of other languages out there.
reason: java gives me PLEASURE
How drunk are you?
me: VERY

ClickUp is worse than Jira 🤷🏻‍♂️
Change my mind.

We work with about 7 developers at this company with 80 somewhat websites in production.

We edit changes directly trough FTP and we use ctrl+z as version control...

(yes since i started working here I've been demanding git, I'm spearheading it and we are getting there slowly)

Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in its field.

oftentimes I believe we are in simulation because of the unique fingerprints. It's like a uuid. Or a PK.

Does anyone else suddenly loose the ability to type properly as soon as someone is watching/pairing?

That annoying moment when you took an algorithm test, you didn't even pass any test case or you passed just 3 🙂, doing that same algorithm again outside the time scope, then you killed it.
Moral lesson: you have to take your time to think properly even when time is running out.

Reality of big data

Very bad feeling

Goals for 2022:

- Keep studying my new book (concrete mathematics)
- keep solving hacker rank problems
- Interview at amazon.com again (I was so close to get it) and feel the pleasure of reject them
- Stop skipping gym days
- Making friends in NY

Don’t get fired.

I wish you OK holidays!