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Whenever your manager comes to you with a new request, I think you should reply with Ocean 13's Roman's line:
"“Oh, with 18 months, nothing else on my plate, no other jobs, no distractions… maybe.”3 -
Freaking, some devs should learn how to make websites well. lol. I was hovering over a text, then I let it lose focus and focused my cursor floating halfway between left and right element and it caused an intense strobe effect.
I just can't. lol10 -
https://lightningchart.com/net-char...
Generate one trillion datapoints. Interesting. lol. I need 128 GB RAM for that, though...11 -
I think my mind is going a bit weird... Now I suddenly start hearing things in memes in my head. I wonder if I'm in the only one.
Examples of when something happens and my mind goes:
"The f"
"Ah shit, here we go again..."
"Huh?"
"Heh, yeah, bwoi"3 -
Based on your experience and knowledge, can you wager a guess on the percentage of dev/production codebases at companies are actual, beautifully written, architecturally sound constructions and not a nightmare of a (spaghetti) mess that keeps requiring new architects/ai engineers/senior devs/whatever to maintain (or rewrite)? In my personal experience... let's see.. about 20% or less of all the companies I worked at. That's sad. lol14
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One of the challenges I find is remembering which construct works in which context. It's like.. I try to pass in rgb() in JavaScript but then I forget that only works in CSS. lmao. Things like that... Through learning a ton of mixed things, sometimes the brain mixes things up. Yes, I know it depends on how well you master your fundamentals. lol4
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At your company, ever dealt with the situation where no one has any fucking idea who's in charge of what responsibility and there is a lack of process everywhere?
"Hey, I'm onboarding. I was told to contact person x for troubleshooting."
"Uh yeah we don't know but ask that other guy"
"Uh yeah that other guy is on leave so ask this girl"
"the girl says ask other girl"
Sometimes it gets deep and shit doesn't get done for at least a week.4 -
Sigh. There are a number of 'app' makers out there that slap their website into a WebView framework and call it 'our app'. Are you fucking kidding me? If you develop an app, make it at the very least native, not a port. Lazy fuckers.20
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How many of us tap their keys with their fingers extra hard even though the keyboard is responsive and flat enough? lol6
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Today I wrote: a mousetrail program. lol
<html>
<head>
<title>mouse trail</title>
</head>
<body>
<script>
/* elements */
let elements = [];
for(let i=0; i<5; i++) {
let div = document.createElement("div");
div.style.position = "absolute";
div.style.left += (30*i) + "px";
div.style.width = "10px";
div.style.height = "10px";
div.style.backgroundColor = "blue";
elements[i] = div;
document.body.appendChild(div);
}
/* mousex, mousey */
document.body.addEventListener("mousemove", event => {
let mouseX = event.clientX;
let mouseY = event.clientY;
for(let i=0; i<elements.length; i++) {
/* timeout */
setTimeout(() => { elements[i].style.left = mouseX + (10*i)}, (50*i));
setTimeout(() => { elements[i].style.top = mouseY + (10*i)}, (50*i));
}
});
</script>
</body>
</html>8 -
A true dev rant now: I find it difficult to get Unicode working. There is a nice assignment in a book where you have to insert a balloon emoji on the page.
Okay, easy enough. So I use <meta charset="UTF-8"> and then the HTML entity 🎈 which works, but then in JavaScript it doesn't work:
<div id="output"></div>
<script>
let balloon = '\u1F388';
document.getElementById("output").textContent = balloon;
</script>
Either I don't have the right font, or something else is going on.
And now more research. This is what I find cumbersome about Computer Science; hours stuck on one single thing. lol17 -
How long did it take you to become a... JavaScript wizard (so you are completely fluent in it, from beginner to advanced)? :cool_emoji:
A.I. says you would need about 12 months at 15 hours a week.24 -
https://realmofdarkness.net/sb/...
I think people should secretly use Al Pacino soundboards during meetings. lol
See button 'Waste time', Angry, second row. Every time someone says something pointless.1 -
This video shows how teachers parse students' work credibility for traces A.I.
https://youtube.com/watch/...
I think modern/good companies probably use A.I. now as well to scan an applicant's cover letter for A.I.-ness. Interesting stuff. Need to start watching out. lol1 -
Do you prefer local environments or cloud environments?
I think the major downside of having your important functionality in public cloud (usually not the case, but) is that when a major part of the cloud goes down (say, the previous Amazon issue), your services no longer (properly) work.
Of course, there's private cloud, hybrid cloud...
Pros and cons.8 -
I find it weird getting countless rejections saying they prefer other candidates who are 'better'. What the fuck, is the market flooded with top tier talent or something? I already have an impressive resume and apparently it's not enough.
That's the market these days. Not even an interview. Straight out rejected.11 -
:O... On modern displays, a browser pixel can span multiple display dots. Well, that sure demystifies layouts acting strange sometimes.
tmyk12 -
Regarding coding style, would you rather prefer:
1) Mutating state
This one sounds intuitive and performant because you are working with only one memory segment in place. I think that if you are skilled enough to efficiently modify the state without bugs, then everything should be efficient and powerful.
2) Copying state and modifying the copy
This one seems counter-intuitive to me because it sounds like you are doubling the resources it takes to perform the operation
Funny enough - at least for React, Python and my experience at work - it seems approach 2 is gaining popularity. Does this also apply to C? I would think not. Hm.11 -
https://youtube.com/watch/...
The more you know.
I knew about Hertz, but not about speed repetition causing a sinewave.1 -
Have you ever asked yourself: "Do I really want to be a dev?". Maybe one wants to be an artist, y'know.21
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I'm starting to wonder if the modern job market has changed in such a way that they now require you to have Senior skills if you apply for a Senior position - the old 'apply anyway' does not seem to hold true anymore. This is the experience I have been getting from my latest interviews. If they ask for someone who's a guru in C#... well then, you better be the greatest living legend in it, and no less will do, neither any amount of sales talk.
It's just that; they're asking for real skill nowadays, obviously because the job market is going downwards again and companies are taking no risks... the effect is: either you're really good or we're not hiring you. That must also explain the lack of junior positions... I used to see much more of those around. Now it's all spammed with Senior in the title.15