Some shit like that happened to me too.

Without intending to generalize, there are a lot of dumb head hunters out there. They don't understand shit of what we do, and they don't have any aim to learn about the topic. Oh, and of course they are not ashamed of faking it all the time.

The case of PHP is... special, though. It was a very bad technology for many years (now I wouldn't say that, it improved a lot), and it acts as a stigma for many developers who used to work with it. It's totally irrational, but it really happens.

There are some people discriminating developers for the sole and only reason that they have experience on PHP.

@12bitfloat thx for the suggestion!

@Lucky-Loek Thx :) , it means a lot to me reading that.

Please take into account that although it's stable, it still needs a lot of work to be a truly awesome tool. But it will get better! ^^

@hjk101 Actually... it has some similarities, yes. But it still has to evolve on some aspects to catch Lando regarding some features.

Fucking crazy! xD, human inventive always surprises me...

You were right, that was a brain fart.

More seriously though, we don't have that because it's not useful at all.

Good that you are leaving that place. If they put pride above doing the right thing, better run away.

Even if they don't trust you for sensible stuff, it makes much more sense, as you said, to transfer the knowledge you have instead of starting from scratch on a service you never touched (damn, that's even worse if they don't trust you!).

For the ones asking what I'm going to do with that extra time:

- It will depend on the week, but mostly sports, going out and taking care of myself.

- Although from time to time I also want to play with some side projects.

Regarding on how I arrived here:

Well... it took me quite a lot of time, I could have done this before, but it's now when I feel really comfortable to do it.

Basically, I've been an employee during these past 10 years. Since 6 months ago, I'm a freelance, my income is relatively stable as I have many clients, and they pay well.

It's also important to note that I live in Europe, where workers & citizens rights are respected, we have relatively good & cheap health care system, and we don't have a mind blowing prices bubble like in Silicon Valley.

Yeah, USA's neoliberalism sucks out the lives of their citizens.

Although it's a "slow approach", it's usually good to start adding tests to the undocumented legacy code base, so you can be sure that the new code is relatively compatible with it's behavior.

@hitko I was very specific about that: "In case you consider doing it, first ask for proper advice to see if it really fits you".

@Fast-Nop You see, I didn't say that Windows is a piece of shit (although it is in many aspects, if you ask me, I'm sorry for the unsolicited opinion).

But what you say is just FUD. Most modern Linux distributions just work out-of-the-box, including all sorts of technologies without having to do any extra step (USB3, USB-C, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, webcams, printers, scanners, graphic cards, etc.).

And Windows is no problems-free, no system is, indeed.

So, when Linux can be a pain in the ass...? well, in some cases, for example:

- You are a hardcore gamer that loves playing AAA games from the very first day. Ok, then Linux is not for you, but again, not because of Linux, but because companies rightly considered it wouldn't be profitable to release such games for Linux.

- You rely on heavily-specialized niche software, usually for engineering purposes, which is usually quite expensive, and only released for Windows. Well, again, Linux is not for you.

@VaderNT That was already answered, there was no need to repeat. It was an extra insight, because that girl is ALWAYS having problems with Windows.

I'm not a Linux fanboy, I'm very aware of its pitfalls and I also explain them when I talk about it.

@projektaquarius Don't get me wrong. I specifically mentioned "user-level" knowledge.

I'm mostly a software developer, and a curious guy. I don't say "no" to knowledge, but I state my priorities on what to learn (and even though, it's literally impossible not to learn anything about those things that we are not interested on).

Besides that, I choose to "fake" ignorance on the topic (as I spent around 18 years mostly dealing with other systems, I have a good alibi).

P.S.: This is also kinda related to the "forged instincts" that we develop as we gain knowledge & experience, that stop us from making gross mistakes.

This, in fact, creates a language barrier between newbies & experts, who usually have difficulties understanding what are the problems newbies are facing. The biggest chunk of learning about Windows is mostly related to cover this communication gap, even more than about the system itself.