I never get bored of discovering yet another software that gets broken because someome put a dollar sign in their password…

For real, I thought he was going there. Like : the AI keeps trying to fight off the coders messing with its perfect code so it keeps generating junk code to protect the actual code.

If you tested whether those files had healthy seeds on the Net, that would actually be a pretty cool idea. But I have some rather rare Linux ISOs that definitely don’t get seeded anymore so those I would want to not lose and actually backup.

Oh I remember years ago my project manager worried I was not at my desk typing and I had to explain to him that my brain was constantly thinking about the code. Even while on breaks, even at night, 24/7 essentially. It took time to convince him but thankfully my senior knew I wasnt bullshit ting because he was seeing my code. I did burn out after two years, obviously.

Sure, but I’ve a guy working with me who’s supposed to have ten years xp in the tech we use, and he’s pretty fucking useless.
Meanwhile the young front-end dev who didn’t know any of our tech turns out to learn everything we throw at her after one explanation. Pure tech eval would’ve meant throwing her away after reading her cv.

Telling me your blood type or astrological signs is as useful as telling me your certifications and years of experience, these days.

Because Duolingo isn’t enough. I had two years of Rosetta Stone before I went to China. It was just enough for me to survive, but it was not enough per se. Duolingo isn’t any better. It’s been useful to keep my skills, get some vocabulary, but it isn’t enough!
You need to actually practice.

It’s funny to read the reactions and the people not understanding that programming questions are not enough to judge you. We need people with functioning brains and that usually means problem solving skills. And sometimes the problems are fucking idiotic! Nobody cares about the light switches. We want to see how you think. We want people who don’t give up if they can’t look it up.

You think you’re hot shit because you learnt the latest trendy language? I’ve wasted entire days with people like that because they couldn’t be fucking arsed reading error messages and figuring things out by themselves.

That’s user error. “Everything is working fine on our end. You figure it out, champs”.

That’s certainly one way to phrase it, comrade.

Oh I see you’ve visited Barcelona. Oh, and Annecy, my previous hometown.

It’s a rattling bug?

That makes sense though. Two things can be “not number” yet be different.

We literally have both and our new Tech Lead is absolutely terrified that I can deploy shit into prod right from my command line. I think it’s hilarious (because yeah, it’s total shit, but our Dear Leader was a complete muppet who refused to listen and prioritise doing things right, so here we still are). Also our GitLab is the free licence because why pay for the thing that takes care of our entire codebase, eh ? 👌

Deleting files was an amazing one already. Then I recently discovered the joy of deleting 30k emails from Outlook… T-T

Nintendo career advice!

Literally me right now in my job after two years. Projet Owner left, Tech Lead left, two Devops engineers left… I was supposed to be just a Dev and instead I end up doing a bit of everything. Fucking crazy. Coincidentally, I’ve never been in a job for more than two years…

Well yeah, obv. But not enough girls in computer science, so like the fishes, some of them magically turn into girls after a while.

Like everything that’s impressive at first sight, but misunderstood because you never go past that first impression.

Oh, it’s not “gee new”?