Ironically Apple’s batteries in the newer generation iPhones are actually fairly easy to remove

So you have a slow computer and don’t understand how Windows security model works, remind me again what that has to do with PowerShell?

I just read your original post again and realized you said you were deaf apologies, I was thinking this was one of those socially backwards developers complaining posts. Communication is huge at most companies and to be frank being deaf could put you at a pretty large disadvantage in that area. Doesn’t mean it’s impossible just very difficult. Some larger companies might have resources available to help bridge the communication gap. Most startup companies and other smaller firms probably not so much. You might consider remote work opportunities where there’s less teamwork anyway and communication could be written and also working independently on projects.

So speaking from someone who works at a technology company that places a higher value on soft skills than technical skills there’s a few things we look for when hiring. We do care about technical skills but we believe anyone can learn technical skills and fewer people can learn soft skills. We have social fit interviews first and any candidate can wash before they even get to the technical screen. At our company it’s very important to have a solid culture and strong teams. And this is true of many companies, your soft skills are more important than your technical skills. I missed two questions on the technical screen for my job at the company but they hired me anyway because I did a good job explaining my thought process and I was willing to say that I didn’t know the answer when I didn’t know. If you think that being a successful developer is about having the best technical skills you’re in for a rough career.

Blockchain is a way to accelerate the heat death of the universe for no reason by turning lots of electricity and compute time that could be used for literally anything else productive into heat and ones and zeroes. Stay away. In a few years the last of the fad will blow over and there will be some other ridiculous shit trending topic to deal with.

Lol I think I’ve dealt with these developers before. Bunch of noobs stringing together Wordpress plug-ins, you get what you pay for.

This looks like a real fun group wish I could visit the Netherlands and hang out!

Switch to C#

Running SQL queries direct from JS? 😬😬😬Maybe I’m too much of a traditionalist but back in my day we had something way more secure to handle that shit called the back end that ran on real strongly typed languages on real servers. But what do I know, I’m sure there’s a #yetanother JS library to do that for us now.

I didn’t know EA was using Dev Rant to hire game devs now. Let me guess, it needs to be a game as a service that has a core loot box mechanic and if it doesn’t sell at least 100 million copies at launch you get laid off.

I automatically start to question whether any company that asks me that question or any of the slew of corporatese BS questions if that company is a place I really want to be.

This is a fun bit of logic, let’s reverse it, why are you ripping off companies by paying the same amount on months with 31 days you filthy freeloading peasant?

Working for a startup has been both the best and worst experience of my life. Shitty pay for years with a mixture of coworkers that will be lifelong friends and coworkers that I wouldn’t be sad to never see again. I did learn a ton though and it got me into programming after college when I definitely wasn’t qualified to write code. Tons of stress about bad business processes and practices and asshole people. But overall I think it was an experience that helped me grow as a person, helped me to launch a career in software development and allowed me to make some lifelong friends. But if you have the experience to not work at a startup I’d recommend you steer clear unless you’re a masochist in which case you’ll be right at home.

Fuck no to PHP what a dumpster fire of a language. Java or C# are probably about equal but I would stick with C# as it’s the better version of Java that left all the cruft and boilerplate behind. Nobody should be learning Visual Basic today considering C# exists.

I mean another question we might want to ask ourselves is why is anyone a 'Javascript developer' in the first place? If you think about JS basically its whole purpose in life is to shuttle data back to the server and maybe modify some front end shit but why would you want to do anything else with it? JS is one of the most over hyped over used languages in my opinion. It's slow as balls, it has so much crap getting added to it every day it's outrageous and it has caused our web applications to come to a grinding halt. UBlock Origin on Chrome blocks something north of 10,000 scripts on Gmail for me and things work just fine without any of those scripts. Also yourself why the fuck do we need 10k + scripts to run any website? We don’t, if you do it’s over engineered garbage. I personally hope and believe that someday JS will die to be replaced by a more elegant language for the web. But maybe that’s just me...

Get him a whip he can flog himself with so he’ll be ready for the lifetime of pain and suffering that awaits him as a game developer. I say that only partially jokingly, working in the video game industry is hell from everything I’ve ever read, games are fun, making games isn’t.

@Wack will be running Windows since it's mainly a .Net shop (I know I know Windows is bad etc. etc.). I want a 15" device just because of the screen size. Don't need 4k, want it to be able to run Visual Studio which can be pretty heavy depending on what you're doing. Probably don't need a discrete GPU, but wouldn't be bad to have just in case.

Because we’re working on those mental gainz #KNOWLEDGE. But in all seriousness I think it’s because working out is boring and devs are smart by and large. We became developers so we could automate boring repetitive tasks not do them over and over at the gym. Myself I don’t care about getting ripped either so I try to do enough exercise to not get fat which for me works out to about 30 minutes of walking every day and watching my diet.

So I’m not a lawyer but I promise you that doing anything to their computer networks without their consent is going to be considered a crime in the US. If it was your network and your hardware you could shut it all down and tell them to fuck right off. The right course of action in this case is to find a good lawyer and sue for breach of contract, you’re more likely to get your money back and the likelihood of you ending this story in federal prison drops to zero.

I look at JavaScript compared to C# and it makes me gag a little every time, but that’s probably just me. C++ and C devs probably think the same thing when they see C# code.

I watched an interesting video where Mark Rosewater (lead designer for Magic for those who don’t know) was talking about game design and one of the points he made was that constraints breed creativity. If you had unlimited time in the day you’d get far less done and be far more tempted to procrastinate. Since there’s only 24 hours in a day and less once you sleep (which you should do!) you have to find creative ways to utilize that time to get the most out of it. Sometimes that means innovating code so you can write less boilerplate, or coming up with ways to automate basic tasks. See your limited time as an opportunity to innovate and come up with creative solutions. Further take Warren Buffett’s advice and say no to most things, keep your calendar empty so you can focus on what’s important rather than filling it with useless meetings and other time sinks.

That article is too real. Makes me wonder if I shouldn’t have gone into stats or economics or accounting back in school lol

@irene it is, but not uncommon for Americans. Accountants during tax season in the US can work some crazy hours. I try not to work more than 40 hours a week unless I’m really on a roll mostly because I think much work over 8 hours a day causes quality and productivity to drop pretty dramatically. But I have friends who work 10-12 hours a day.

You work from home for 8 - 10 hours a day and your boyfriend says you use the computer too long? You say he works as an accountant I don’t know many accountants that don’t spend at least 8+ hours a day in the office, it’s your job for fuck’s sake. I use the computer for like a 12 + hours a day both because I work on it and play games on it so 8 - 10 hours sounds like rookie numbers to me lol.

@nint3ndope I’d make a strong argument that your ‘fixed’ code there is not fixed at all. What happens when someone else has to come back to that a few months or years from now or even when you have to come back to it? It might be functional but it’s not good code. It needs refactored to be good and if you view software as a form of art with readability being key to good code this code is bad. That code is barely comprehensible, you can’t just glance at it and tell what it does, you first have to figure out what each variable is, then try to make sense of the mass of null checks. Name those variables with descriptive names, then break the checks out into separate functions. Otherwise all the work that went into troubleshooting this has been for naught.

This is just gross. First off the variable names are complete crap, how the fuck are you supposed to know what any of that stuff is? Second why are they trying to check 1,000 different things in one if statement? First thing to do is give the variables meaningful names, next thing to do is break those checks out into separate functions. Third thing to do is go find whoever wrote this and give them a good verbal lashing for their failure to uphold clean coding standards.

Idk maybe I’m somehow part of the problem but the way I was raised I was taught to treat everyone with respect, regardless of their skin color or gender or sexual preferences. And that meant basically follow the golden rule, treat everyone how you would want to be treated, and I can’t see myself wanting to be treated this way. Where event organizers assume I need a handout because I’m a person of color or woman or whatever.

And don’t get me wrong I don’t want anyone to feel unwelcome in the Dev community but I feel like pandering to people like this as if because of their innate selves they somehow cannot afford to go to this conference or they should be the object of pity and charity makes everything worse.

A diversity ticket... because the only thing we can do to fight discrimination is to discriminate based on race, gender, etc. Got to love the ethical reasoning here, two wrongs somehow make a right. How about they have a system based on financial need where new devs who don’t yet have a job in the field can go for free if they make under a certain amount of money or something? Instead of discriminating based on innate characteristics of the individual? Which is by definition racist, sexist, et al. And isn’t it a bit offensive that they assume women or gay or transgender or whatever devs aren’t successful enough that they can afford a $500 conference?

To be honest I view Javascript as a sad little language that people are forced to use because the web is a hodgepodge of various technologies all layered over each other without any real plan. I always prefer to code back end functionality in C# or Java and use Javascript only because I’m a full stack dev and thus have to. But I’ve pushed more and more to end up on back end code and spend more of my time there. That and I hate the fact that a large chunk of the JS out there is just to mine data from users, uBlock Origin blocks literally thousands of scripts on some sites that I have to use every day. And all these garbage scripts running in the background mean web pages take longer than ever to load and become more bloated by the day. But it does allow for some cool functionality.