What a nightmare... writing code with 5 other people at the same time.

Our tech lead left a mess in the database. He turned his screw-up into an architectural discussion, weighing the benefits of duplicated, messy data vs. keeping it consistent. He suggested that, instead of fixing his broken script and cleaning the mess, we should break all of the other scripts and have them trash the database, too.

They almost believed it.

What a clever maneuver. I wish he would use his cleverness to make good software, instead.

People tell smoking is injurious to health and developer tell floats are injurious to website but no one gives a damn

People say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

I disagree. There's one more below that and it's called "the person hired to control a brand's social media page"

Ok, rubber ducks are ducking helpful, but I moved to use actual ducks.

If you are currently stuck somewhere where your rubber-mate cannot help out, feel free to ask. I’ll forward.

It is easy to deal with imposter syndrome if you are faking that too.

I remind myself that nobody knows everything, and even the most knowledgeable people have their gaps in knowledge.
For whatever I'm not doing well right now, I'll keep an open mind, and be willing to accept advice and work on it.
In the end, just because I'm not doing something right once, doesn't extrapolate to the rest of my life. I still try to be the best version of myself.

Geez, I'll be getting out of this quarantine as a stoic mindful person

Imposter syndrome comes from a lack of experience. Experience comes from trying things and figuring out what works. Find people with experience and ask them what works.

I used to have imposter syndrome when I first started at my current job. But then I discovered that one of my coworkers was an actual imposter. He didn't lie on his resume or anything but he was basically incapable of thinking for himself. If there was no step-by-step process to follow, he'd spin his wheels for weeks before doing it in the worst possible way, refusing all offers of assistance from the rest of our team.

After he quit and the true extent of his incompetence came to light, I no longer felt like an imposter.

I was asked to present a code I wrote previously. This was not planned. I shared my screen and presented. Things went well.

One employee asked me to search a particular term which was possibly related to an advance topic in the domain we were working on.

I opened Chrome and the first page had a Quora post: "Why my dull co-workers try to act smart and are not yet fired?".

[silence]

Had a dodgy stomach. Muted the mic & let out an almighty fart.

Only, as you'll have guessed (and I quickly guessed from the silence that followed), I'd missed the mute button.

Leetcode.

It doesn't matter if you've done multiple projects with different tools, languages, team sizes and requirements for ANY company / org etc.

You will feel fucking stupid while taking too long on some of these questions.

I know interview questions are mostly to test your critical thinking skills but fuck I feel so bad after 2 evenings of doing this shit.

It is addictive though...

So I'm finishing my last career class, it's called Web Design. I was really enthusiastic about it, because I've been doing that for almost 5 years. Then the professor wanted us to do a work comparing HTML 4 with 5, ok, that's history, I like history. Then he wanted us to do "Your first website", aahaaam, using just plain HTML and sending the content via .zip. Ouch!

Then I asked if I could do a SPA in React. He doesn't even know what is that. He thought it was an IDE.

I don't feel disappointed, I don't feel angry, I just want to hug him and tell him to study Web Design.

How can a professor in 2019 not know about the trending technologies it's been used to do web design?

Now I don't know what to do. I don't want to do a horrible plain HTML website, and I don't even want to do a "complex" thing for him and then have a 0.

makes sense

*Rant*

Dear current manager,

You wouldn't know real talent if it hit you in the face.

Sincerely,
Your employee who's leaving for a FANG

For Your Information

Me: well guys, after the 4th attempt and a week of waiting, I’ve gotten a response from the remote backend team about the errors affecting this release. Which are the same issues affecting the last release 2 months ago. The findings are: “there is in fact some issue with the API”.

I’d like to thank everyone who put in so much effort to get us to this momentous step forward. We can expect a fix any year now.

*equally sarcastic colleague on another team listening in*:
oh wow, this months long thing has just been “some issue” all this time? Well that’s fantastic. You should mark the ticket as “done” and reply “thank you” for all their hard work.

..... I laughed so hard at how ridiculous all this is and the joke, that I nearly did, hoping someone from product/business would have to review it

I'm convinced Microsoft won't go open source partly because they are ashamed of the code

Code review my industrial strength Javascript.

I love the new Gmail design, why people are hating it so much

Well done Rami, you absolutely deserved it!

Comments be like...

!rant

I’ll be interviewing for a software developer position at a bank today.

What do they like to hear?

More room now :))

In lame man terms..!

Progress on my UWP file explorer! Here's some screenshots. I really enjoy the Acrylic material, and my favorite page is the "There's nothing here" page because it came out EXACTLY as I wanted it. More images in the comments!

Was handed a nodejs project for refactoring.. all I've got to say is ..

Okay, it just happened to me.

Researching jobs, found one that requires ReactJS 7+ years of experience.

Initial release: May 29, 2013; 5 years ago

We all have that experience

Thank you, Satan