If you are on an android, you can use Google play's payment to make a recurrent deduction.

I find the articles (Bloomberg, Reuters, etc.) on 737 Max a bit misleading. 9-dollars-an-hour for graduates in India is too high and for Seattle is a bit too low (someone would rather work in McD instead).

The report states the 9 dollar outsourcing to India and immediately shifts focus to rows of contractors in Seattle, which begs the question whether these are grads or workers shipped across countries?

The underlying problem is not outsourcing, which the article tries hard to justify, since the specs were from Boeing. The underlying problem is tight deadlines and encouraging "frugal" ways of development. Boeing was losing hard against Airbus and had to come up with something fast. It did what every company does, that is, buy an "off-the-shelf" team and give them unrealistic deadlines with crappy PMs who don't know apeshit and justify their existence by filling templated excel sheets, which spirals out quickly and then leads to disasters such as this one.

When will people understand that good software takes time?

It's your take, but a friend of mine had appeared for something similar (a two day task) and wrote some really good TDD code, was able to google, get a math heavy algo, understand it and implement it within a day... And they rejected him.

Its surprising that these 'tasks' are becoming more common than ever. I do understand that they test a vast array of one's skillset, but when someone is applying to a plethora of companies, and each one of them presents you with such tasks, it gets quite stressful in a very short duration.

To top it off, after cracking the interview, they are not able to negotiate in terms of pay, which is pretty common here

@Jay-Kadam
Yup, it's an HP one.

@kamen
Ah, I see. You learn something new everyday! Thanks!

@Nanos I like how a slight orientation change to the keyboard cripples us devs.

@electronix
Shift keys on the left-hand side are generally larger.
Due to this sudden change, I keep fat fingering the pipe operator key.

You'd need homing missile like precision to hit that small of a shift key!
It's painful if your coding style tends to be camel case.

Hence, the keyboard is broken :)

Awesome. This post makes me feel happy :)

Awesome. Congrats, and best of luck!

Flash is what got me into programming. There was this site where you could license your games, which got me interested in "how" computers work, following tutorials by http://gamedev.michaeljameswilliams.com/...
Good old AS2 to AS3 days. End of an era, indeed.
I feel so old now 🤔

Welcome to the dark side!
In the upcoming months, you'll be binge drinking coffee and ranting about how crap every developer is.

Getting rewarded (no matter how small) for something which you pick up as a hobby is always intriguing.

Hope you get that Google Home. Best of luck!

@Techno-Wizard well, I've got really good results with xlwings (FOSS).
This is if you are strictly restricted to the Excel environment.

You'll need to add its plugin to excel, and then can use python to write your own UDF (user-defined functions) and call them in excel.

https://www.xlwings.org

Another commercial one is pyxll, but its pretty expensive.

Yup, never used a sticker so far.

This reminds me of my early academic year's where we used Turbo c++ and a gazillion cout statements to figure what's going wrong.
I'm glad I've passed the point of using print statements to debug.

I do sometimes have to code some VBA occasionally. Yeah, it's one tragic language.
Specially when some non-techie made a macro that reads hard-code ranges and values to automate himself and you spend a good day to understand that damn thing!
Get out of vba world ASAP. It's known to be career crushing.

@C0D4 As a company? Yeah, it pivoted to selling software.

Working on mine ATM

I want to learn and contribute to an open source library. Branching from there to several related open source projects learning the best things, and then finally writing my own.

1. Grab a quick cup of coffee.
2. Take a long washroom break and think about some task/programming problem.
3. Read up on some open source project's internals.
4. Ask if someone needs help.

Really depends on what I'm doing. If it's some hard-hitting problem, then anything from classic rock to metal. If it's some menial config change or I know how to complete the task, then I prefer movie/game scores.