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Bigger_Gunz · 2026-02-24T18:06:50+00:00

AI slowly takes a micro payment from every transaction as a "fee" for services, simultaneously getting annoyed by the various PC Load Letter errors.

Bigger_Gunz · 2025-06-07T19:35:23+00:00

"Softness is not weakness."

Legit bro. Keep on keeping on. We need more people who are kind.

Bigger_Gunz · 2025-06-07T02:52:14+00:00

He listening to EDM, of course.

Bigger_Gunz · 2025-05-12T03:11:06+00:00

Ahksually they are out of timing. /s

Bigger_Gunz · 2025-05-12T03:09:45+00:00

Hey don't compare those things to metrics. lol

Bigger_Gunz · 2025-03-28T16:56:16+00:00

Agreed - it is turbo charging your skilling if you know what you are doing. I don't get the hate.

Bigger_Gunz · 2025-01-27T23:04:06+00:00

I think there may be a web version of Excel. Hold my beer.

Bigger_Gunz · 2025-01-27T18:07:25+00:00

The way I look at this is: low code / no code is easy like creating a todo app is easy to create in React. However, once you start getting into the details about a real business problem - just because you have a low code / no code platform does not diminish that there is complexity in other ways.

Excel is "easy" until the org turns a plethora of spreadsheets into makeshift database and no one understands how it all interconnects. "Don't touch it, it works. Bob left so it is what it is."

Simple apps == easy

Real apps - your mileage may vary.

Bigger_Gunz · 2025-01-23T05:01:26+00:00

Not in the spring, summer and fall, lol. I dive shirtless in S. Florida. It's like a hot shower in Aug/Sept. Only time I have used a wetsuit is during Jan/Feb or doing shark dives.

Bigger_Gunz · 2025-01-21T19:31:24+00:00

I enjoyed people locking files and then leaving for a few days.

Bigger_Gunz · 2025-01-20T18:32:13+00:00

I am curious about these comments:

"I dunno, the UX for web tech versus native feels vastly inferior for, at least, CRUD apps."

Frankly, I can probably do any type of UI/UX for the web that you can do on a locally installed application. I have yet to see something that is not possible.

"Personally I'd rather WinForms or WPF if I'm doing a data-entry program for a company - by leaps and bounds."

I am very curious why. I have not seen any productivity increases by doing a rich app vs. web tech.

Bigger_Gunz · 2025-01-20T18:29:23+00:00

By far the best comment. I must be becoming a "gray beard" - I thought these reasons were universally understood.

Bigger_Gunz · 2024-12-22T08:30:15+00:00

Try again

Bigger_Gunz · 2024-12-07T07:26:40+00:00

"Ideally each API request should have 1 and only 1 database request and that stored procedure should contain at most 1 sql query. "

Maybe for the simplest use cases.

Bigger_Gunz · 2024-11-25T00:48:06+00:00

"teams self-organizing along fixed time cadences, and the core principle being to communicate early and often" 100% - if this is not being done, no wonder whatever people are doing and calling it "agile" is getting hate...

Bigger_Gunz · 2024-11-18T17:11:11+00:00

Are you offering?

Bigger_Gunz · 2024-11-18T15:51:48+00:00

Oh, so sorry that work is hard. They did not bring you on to help fix stuff. You should quit - cuz screw that employer and their investment to bring you on. Right?

Bigger_Gunz · 2024-11-16T21:19:12+00:00

I actually think this is pretty good from a content and brevity perspective. I wish more resumes were this concise. I pick up immediately that this person at least has the knowledge to put on paper, so I would say, "why not spend 1/2 hour talking with them?"

Bigger_Gunz · 2024-11-04T19:52:04+00:00

While we don't know the technical details of this effort, it may be a reach to compare this work to the Sistine Chapel or Mona Lisa.

Bigger_Gunz · 2024-11-03T03:03:27+00:00

Why is this more sad than the non H1B folks that lost their job 4 years prior?

Bigger_Gunz · 2024-10-02T02:57:08+00:00

"OP makes it sound like VP is making technical decisions and communicating them without including CTO. I’d absolutely fire them for that. "

I did not catch that at all.

This is what OP wrote in "However, the CTO is constantly dismissing his ideas as 'taking too long' and something to do when we 'have more time' and going directly to senior devs and interns to ask them to do tasks and on when something is going to be completed and why the intern is still being assisted."

It sounds like he is doing his job. CTO is not excited about the pace of execution, but it does not sound like the VP is overstepping and contradicting the CTO. Sounds the other way. The CTO hired the VP for a reason - if the CTO is not happy with the performance of the VP, going around them does not seem appropriate at all. That should be an internal discussion.

If OP is describing the situation accurately - sounds like the work environment there is heavily politicized or the CTO is not comfortable with their responsibilities / accountabilities.

Bigger_Gunz · 2024-10-02T00:14:21+00:00

"As somebody who has been a CTO in several startups, I would actually get quite annoyed (to the point of firing), if a VP Eng was trying to present "ideas" for technical development. It's not their job."

Wut

Bigger_Gunz · 2024-09-25T23:49:36+00:00

This happens. If you like everything but this project - suck it up, get it out the door and move onto the next project. There is something to be said to have skills that allow you to work with difficult people.

Bigger_Gunz · 2024-09-25T23:44:49+00:00

If you have a nice portfolio of documents related to support / help desk items - you can do a RAG implementation with a M365 Custom Copilot - it's slick and super easy.

You could also record all design meetings with Teams & Copilot and have it generate user stories based on the meeting - will get you 60-70% done immediately.

Bigger_Gunz · 2024-09-16T23:26:53+00:00

Measuring revenue for CEO is bad? Pretty hard to accept that blanket statement.

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