@ViRaS you do have a valid point about that. Probably better to leave at least something rather than nothing.

@musician 1000 records is only for 1 single request. When working on a platform where there are a few hundred to thousands to people using it, the exponential factor is quite significant.

Actually I've had a few small disputes with my current co-workers about stuff like coding rules (which have been established for 3 years already!), writing comments, and general formatting.
Most of the time I end up winning thankfully.

@mt3o Already told my manager. Basically got told "you'll work something out" which just left me gobsmacked and enraged.

@Codex404 it WAS cool. MANY years ago...

@Commodore Had to say really as it's a completely open space. Though if I have to estimate, I would say close to maybe 600 people.

Way too low for what I do.

No.

Will look at changing jobs in a few months.

@filthyranter Ah, also forgot to mention for Search results. Not sure how I forgot to write that in the original rant.

Ah, I should probably mention I meant with the website version.

@JKyll It's a little hard to state what some of the cultural differences would be since each company, and the people you work with, can be very different. But I think I would definitely say the one major difference is the distinction that your boss is your boss here in Japan.

From all the jobs I have worked at in Australia, all my bosses would see themselves as team members first, then as a boss second. So everyone would be on an equal footing, until they need to act like the boss. Japanese culture has the whole seniority system where it's age, not experience, is what really matters. Of course this doesn't apply to all Japanese companies, just some of the more traditional ones.

@pionell The entire floor is an open office. They really try to pack in as many people as possible. Also I'm not Japanese. Just a working expat.

@KAS89 I've worked in this kind of open environment before. It's not too bad. Plus majority of the time at least in this company, you don't interact directly with people as everything is communicated via Slack.

Plus I'm usually listening to music whilst working so noise isn't too much of an issue.

@poetrique I don't know exactly, but the last I checked many many years ago, it was about 20 items.

I kind of do it now and then as well and it's not a bad thing. By being analytical when it comes to even the minor things, you can derive those solutions and utilise them for other factors in your work or even life.

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But man I really need to get out of PHP.

Back in my university days, which is around 2003, I had done my programming class assignments in Notepad. And that was for ALL classes and ALL languages I learned at the time. So that includes C, C++, Java, HTML, CSS, and Perl.

Debugging was a damn nightmare, but over time I would say I developed eagle eyes when it comes to spotting mistakes.

@Krokoklemme That is true. But 7.2 is the latest version and there's a few projects that I work on that use it. So it's more of a personal annoyance.

Very true. I use PHPStorm at work so we have a business license covering it, but as an individual user it is kind of expensive unless you do major work in it.

I use to use NetBeans. From my experience it used to be great. But over time it's starts becoming a pain to use, from its lack of support for PHP (latest 9.0 only supports uptil 7.1), it's constant background scanning to check for files changes, and it's constant high CPU usage which has been an issue for god knows how long. I tried Atom but it was way too simplistic.

Right now I'm using VSCode as recommended by a friend. So far it's been pretty good. Just give it some more time and you might find it very a good alternative to PHPStorm.

Pretty much describes my non-tech related hobby.

A little interested in this. Whether I could something like that or not doesn't really matter. More interested in the concept/idea.

@ethernetzero well they do at least explain the problem. It's more of the problem that they don't read/research stuff. And when I do explain stuff they just seem to remember or take it in. I think this stems from the fact that they've been doing the same thing for so long they just can't learn.

@ethernetzero absolutely true. But my point is that my co-workers just can't seem to figure out things on their own. They come to me for help, even though I have no idea what their implementation is like.

@psukys You mean for Laravel? No since this is a part of it's core exception handling. Any kind of request that is not expecting JSON will send a 50x template as it's default.

@DreamWave it could possibly also be the JRE version. But one other minor thing that bugs me is that NetBeans 8 only supports PHP 7.0. Currently working on stuff that uses 7.2 so seeing all these source errors, when they're not, is also a little annoying.

Maybe I'll wait until NetBeans 9.0 is released.

@HomeAlone Indeed I am. My mistake.

Trust me, once you start seeing adults who have been developers for at least a few years and you see them doing right click copy, it'll blow your mind!

@Dimmerworld there were various reasons, but the main reason was that I wanted a change of pace or a change in environment.

@electrineer For data management purposes. If by some chance someone does a flushall() on a single Redis server, by bye user sessions.

@Codex404 I've only had it for less than a week but the letters are still stuck to the cape. I'm guessing if you play around with it a lot or maybe the place you have your duck might be a little too warm where the adhesive is probably wearing off.

@Devnergy $9USD for the duck + cape. Shipping from US to Japan at least was $12.80USD, but depending on where you are in the world, it could vary.