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> Is there no way to treat working for big tech as a business transaction and compartmentalize the negatives?
Maybe you can, but I can't. It's so exhausting when it's an everyday thing. Constantly in Slack. Constantly in emails. Constantly expected to believe the exact same thing and if you don't you're a racist bigot that doesn't deserve life itself.
Not worth it. I value my mental health too much.
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backoncemore on Monday January 24, 2022 @02:00PM
from the self-post dept.
I'm tired of everything being political.I'm tired of constant political emails.I'm tired of putting my pronouns everywhere.I'm tired of diversity training.I'm tired of being ostracized for not believing in wokeism.I'm tired of social justice.I'm tired of companies saying they want diversity of thought but disallowing employees to have diversity of thought.The worst thing I ever did was waste my...
I got my start in programming in the early 2000s with Perl and, shortly after, PHP. I went through school mainly with C++ and Java and got a job as a .NET developer after.
I say all this because I fucking hated JavaScript with a passion. From the time of my initial foray into programming until my later years, I hated it. It was always a joke of a language that, honestly, caused me to develop such a bias that I nearly refused to use it, for a very long time.
Several months ago I decided to put my prejudices aside and began playing around with Nodejs and React. The main motivation was trying to learn more about front end development and guess what? I really enjoy JavaScript.
JavaScript is a very enjoyable language to play with. It has come such a long way despite, literally, all odds. The ecosystem is scattered. The build system is the most hacky monstrosity you’ve ever encountered. But, that’s one of the reasons I love it. It feels like the essence of what I feel when I imagine hacking.
And not only that, it uses a unique (at least to the paradigms I’m used to) execution model that is very performant.
These are just a lot of words for me to say I love JavaScript.
Cool project but no real world use case.
Which Twitter needs because they're chat absolutely blows.
Could have just connected your phone to data and tried it out.
I moved from back to front and I can confidently say for me the backend is much easier. But it probably has something to do with doing it so long. I imagine given time I'd decide they're about the same difficulty.
Pleasantly surprised to see that this is a technical discussion instead of a critique against Bob's political views. I went into it fully expecting the latter.
Interesting. I haven't worked in .NET for several years now, but the GAC was always an absolute headache to deal with.
Not surprising. I haven't used Windows 11 but both MacOS and Windows 10 feel more sluggish to me than Ubuntu.
There is still plenty to explore when you stop using mainstream websites. The internet is a vast place but most people box themselves into a worldview that doesn't allow for exploration.
Good article. People are being mislead constantly by people we've given our trust to and it's unfortunate.
I don't have any issues with the notch.
American programmers are mercenaries, capitalist minded workers, that have access to a digital hive mind that not many other professions can fully access. We hold a lot more power than I think we realize.
Europeans work to live. Americas live to work.
Not to mention the absolutely ridiculous amount of grilling over leadership principles.
> Some competitors seem to be doing well, so I guess there's a demand.
Sounds like a really thought out business plan.
Guess they're gonna be heading back to the office soon.
> Would you prefer they require basic science education instead so that you can be less misinformed?
We would prefer we are allowed to make our own choices, which is why people leave for places that will allow them to do so.
Anecdotally, engineers that I have interviewed that had a litany of certifications were very weak candidates.
As were bootcampers, which is similar I guess.
> I don't want to "write more docs" or "be visible on slack" or "join some engineer guilds" or "give demos" or "mentor juniors" just for a promotion.
That hit close to home. Such a depressing reality.
Nice to see another single screen maximalist. I was given two screens at work and always kept the second one clear. Alt-tab is my go-to second screen.
I've had problems with eye pain for years due to, what I thought, was computer use.
After a lot of trial and error and just thinking about what could possibly be causing this, I believe I have found that I wasn't getting enough sleep. I haven't had eye pain in months and I have been using my computer even more frequently than before (because my eyes don't hurt).
I have learned that I need at least 8 hours of sleep, but try for 8 1/2 - 9 hours. If I go a couple of days getting 5-6 hours of sleep, my eyes start killing me again.
Might be worth looking into your sleeping habits.
Mailchimp is very clear about not offering equity. I turned down continuing to interview when I found out.
The sweet spot is somewhere in the middle. Too laissez-faire and you end up with a ball of mud.
Nothing makes working at a place more unbearable than having to deal with someone that gives an excessive amount of criticism on working code, at least that's how I feel. I've been in that situation before and it made me never want to submit pull requests. It made me even madder when other developers, whose code was no better than mine but had been at the company longer, received basically no critiques.
Some might say, oh it's hazing, well fuck you because I'm quitting. I'm not putting up with any amount of hazing at a job. If I have to spend 8 hours everyday somewhere I'm for sure not going to spend it with some asshole.