Maybe it changed in the last few years but matrix worked horribly for us. Messages didn’t send, errors here and there, slack cost more but was more reliable.

@vane as compared to calling people in office corporate pigs? I’m just pointing out you said you argued with the recruiter about things they couldn’t change.

Why argue with the messenger? Like you weren’t interested from the word go, and the recruiter made no points that enticed. All you did was waste your time and someone else’s. Not like you can get the recruiter to magically rework the whole organisation to be how you want it or even how companies that were established in the last decade do it.

Reddit just becomes an echo chamber that when you try spread the idea outside of that realm, people look at you strange. I noticed this a few times for myself that I would form some opinions, have them backed up in some subreddits, then once I try talk to people outside of reddit about I realise how stupid or wrong it is.

@asgs change in management at a higher level. Went from a very personal guy who would do code review actually code on projects, to someone who was more customer focused and more stereotypical of the boss that you see of like “I told the users can get your product in 4 weeks even though I know it’ll take 8 weeks minimum”

I work in finance and this is kinda true. Some group gets told something like “this software has an off by one error on all shorts” and they will develop their whole pipeline based on that. So one day you fix it and then it wrecks havoc because said team built their stuff on the basis of an error

Home - after using it, so at least once a day.

Work - IT restarts it every Sunday.

Followed the path of TAILS I see. Still wonder what the applications are of this outside of maliciousness.

Entry level software engineer. Like backend stuff.

Yeah sometimes you need a break but I think the break should be less than what you normally do.

Gotta get those exposure bucks

@mrmakeit at that, it’s less than 1%. The new CEO did an AMA on Reddit and stated that it was really just a minority that left. It was an interesting AMA to say the least as it sounded pretty optimistic on GitHub’s end. Seems more like in the coming year or so it’s more about integrating GitHub’s team with Microsoft rather than commercialising the product and turning it into something to promote Azure

Honestly, one time I wouldn’t mind. BS Code I found was better on my system than atom, loading-wise and performance

I seriously don’t get this elitism. If the company uses PHP why do you have to be pretentious and a snob about working in a different language? If you know how to program well then you can sit down for a week and learn the fundamentals of most languages. Granted there are intricacies that only come through experience but that’s pretty searchable with the internet. Being ignorant in something is understandable, like if someone offered me a C++ position I would be hesitant purely because I’d suck at the manual memory management, not because of some religious standing with Java or JS.

@musician kinda hard to stick to facts if speculating. Fact that Microsoft has a history with acquiring some companies and pushing them over the edge. Fact that as of late Microsoft has been pushing towards more OSS (with Linux subsystem and other git projects). What will be the end result? Nobody knows. Personally, I would speculate that they would try integrate Azure and/or VSTS into it but not anything ground breaking. Also fact that it will take a few months (if not a year) to finalise the sale so still time to see true intentions before they come into play.
Lastly a fair portion of those going to gitlab/bitbucket are just bandwagoning. Some people said MS is bad and they should switch - they switch as they see others doing it. It’s the same as language circle jerk - you read that language x is shit and just mindlessly spew that garbage every chance you get to appear relevant and educated.

@-vim- Skype and Nokia - maybe. Nokia I’ll surrender but Skype I think was bloated before MS acquired it, just no real alternatives. MS just made it more business focused and I would dare say suffered a lesser blow by doing so instead of if they tried to appeal to individuals too. Mojang - definitely not the reason for their downfall. They were going downhill even before that, and the MS store version of minecraft was out before they were bought over. Notch left, there were licensing issues with the server platform (the whole Bukkit affair) and the EULA enforcement that did their toll before MS stepped on to the scene.

My logic is that if Microsoft buys it over and let’s GitHub do its own thing so be it. If you look at the board on the Linux foundation, there are reps from AT&T, Facebook, Google - and yet people have no issue with it (also so either here or on Reddit that MS pay a large chunk of Torvalds’s salary but not sure on that validity).
I doubt they would buy a $2 billion company without knowing what they are getting into or try to commercialise it immediately and basically kill off the majority of its users.

A lot of college startups (at least that I hear of from my uni and friends in other ones) append blockchain to some arbitrary part of their process purely for external funding. Mentioned this as a rant but yeah blockchain is the buzzword that gives corporate a major woody, so if investors see that in a startup they’ll flood money into it regardless of what it does. Sad thing is - it works. I’ve seen good ideas shot down but shitty ones with buzzwords on top of them get tons of money.

Little bare. But each one has some meaning to me, and have more on the inside.

Anyone know where I can get more? Really liked the hexagonal ones for coding.

1 huge tip: if you own the repo make it impossible to push to master but only have PRs. Was one of the best quick-fixes my team did because at also forced code review and more communication (sort of).

@CrashOverride yeah just to make the hopes real, it was satire. Just saw like 3 posts in a row where someone actually cleaned the code up for OP.
And with less sass that SO to boot

@Khani aside from some people creating languages for learning purposes and then seeing it through to the bitter end or creating a language just to jerk oneself off, the reason for so many languages is because they seem to find a niche issue that needs filling and create a language based on that hole. Except brainfuck - that is just there because fuck you and every generation of your family that ever lived on God’s green earth.

Honestly, I don’t mind the language bloat until we get the religious shitfest of “php is shit... C++ is the true king... Java is too slow... if you’re not writing in a functional language you’re an imposter.”

@azous we tried. They broke gradle and we spent 4 hours fixing shit. Somewhat unrelated to the spacing but that’s when we said no to having any form of leader

I’m impressed that one can learn how to time travel in just 40yrs of training

@djsumdog interesting, thanks. What would be a good hosting integration setup? Like heroku is a case of pushing to GitHub and it opens from there. Is there anything similar to this? Something that isn’t just FTP I guess

@F9lke PHPStorm is free for students, sublime isn’t.

Yeah bad enough you look at your code from a month ago without amnesia and think “who was this idiot and what were they trying to achieve with this shit”

I’d say nice but isn’t there a chance that your potential employers may try to ask why you left the former employer/use them as a reference?

@FrodoSwaggins probably would say it isn’t people thinking data is meaningless as much but that they think there is no pattern to their behaviour that can be traced. Like companies like Facebook can almost tell with certainty when a person is sick, on their period or anything really just by looking at activity changes and typing style. What amazes me is that people think technology is capable of magical things (the good old buzz words machine learning and AI can do x, y, and z) and yet feel that this magic will never be used on them because it isn’t trained to their behaviour.

People believe what they want to believe, is included. This means that they think a website offering them a “free” community must also adhere to not looking at what you say even though you use their services and agree to their policies.

@TwiN wouldn’t call them peasants, just people who don’t care for the ins and outs of tech. Kinda an arrogant way to look at it.
If we talk to some people interested in finance who would mention stuff like everyone knowing about the pending financial shit show of 2008 and etc. then we’ll lol like fools since we only caught wind of this when it hit us, very similar to this.

@TwiN I would look at https://devrant.com/rants/1323347/... (a bit of me humble jerking myself but whatever). It’s news because it’s the first time this really hit mainstream news. Before it was just “look what big corporations are capable of” deep inside the tech section that no normal person would read and all of the tech world knew it would and did happen, while the layman only cares about the “did” rather than the hypothetical. It made news because now it wasn’t a simple advertising ploy like Google currently does it, but had way more sinister underpinnings.