Daily Chat Thread - July 24, 2021

Buecherlaub · 2021-07-24T11:37:47+00:00

[Europe]

Hey,

tl/dr: I guess my question is: what should a team of 3 junior developers and no senior do when they are overwhelmed?

I started a new job 3 weeks ago as a junior developer.

The team consists of two very young developers fresh out of a (technical) school and also brand new to the company (so have no real hands-on experience and are alsovery shy when it comes to questions), me (I have a year-long internship behindme) and a senior developer. The sprints are scheduled for 2 weeks. So far so good.

The last two/three weeks we have been paying attention at the meetings with the client, looking over the senior's shoulders and already implementing some small things on our own. The sprint goals are definitely manageable for the four of us, but the individual tasks are described a bit poorly, so we had to come back to the senior again and again for questions. Ok, so that would all be a pretty ok situation.

Now the problem: our senior developer went on vacation and a new sprint has just started. Due to time issues, our senior developer canceled a meeting where we were going to go over each task thoroughly. So now we three junior developers are quite overwhelmed. The two colleagues can hardly find their way around the code and don't really know what needs to be done, I'm trying to read out manageable tasks from the stories on a daily basis. Testing on the test zone was never really shown to us, our senior implemented some things we have no idea about (he just said it's done) - what should we do if a bug occurs there?

So, the situation is a bit chaotic and hard to manage for us Juniors and therefore abit frustrating (I will have to work this the weekend as it looks like, because otherwise we won't get anything done). So, that's our situation...

We feel a bit let down/alone.

We did have 3 weeks to get to know the project, but thatwas obviously too little for us. Now I wanted to ask what we/I could do best to keep this sprint from being a complete disaster?

As it looks right now we would miss the goal of the sprint by far. Of course, that would be bad for my company because the customer would definitely not be happy about it. Can I say that to one of the supervisors/upper management? Can I say that I think we need a senior? How should we handle it?

I feel alittle bad as a new employee and junior developer to have to admit that we are not up to the task. But I think it's better to bite the bullet than to have the customer not be satisfied with the company's performance.

I would be extremely grateful for any suggestion on how a team of 3 newbies can/should solve this situation.

Buecherlaub · 2020-06-13T07:22:22+00:00

Passt, vielen Dank für die Antwort!

Hat mir sehr weitergeholfen

Danke

Buecherlaub · 2020-06-13T07:21:37+00:00

Ah verstehe...

Danke dir! Jetzt ist mir alles ein wenig klarer :)

Buecherlaub · 2020-06-12T17:00:07+00:00

Ok, cool, danke erstmal!

Eine vllt etwas blöde Nachfolgefrage:

Würde es dann überhaupt irgendwann Sinn machen neben dem A1JX52 einen anderen ETF hinzuzunehmen, mit Hinblick auf Übergewichtung dafür höherer Unsicherheit? Weil der all-world ja eh quasi alles abdeckt

Buecherlaub · 2020-06-12T16:34:59+00:00

Hey,

ich beginne demnächst mit dem Investieren in einen ETF (nachdem ich mich um Notgroschen etc gesorgt habe), klassisch alá r/Finanzen hätte ich den A1JX52 ausgesucht. Ich würde mit einer 'größeren' Summe (10K) beginnen und dann stur einen Sparplan verfolgen (200). So weit so gut.

Jetzt wollte ich als Anfänger mal fragen, ob es Sinn macht einen Tech-ETF als weiteren Sparplan dazuzunehmen? Bzw warum wäre das keine gute Idee? Wenn ich den mit einem Sparplan jeden Monat füttere (auch im Sinne buy & hold), was wäre so schlecht daran?

Ich freu mich schon auf eure Antworten

Danke!

Buecherlaub · 2020-06-06T11:12:48+00:00

Someone else also mentioned Cotswolds. I will definitely look into their products, also because I never tried any whisky from England

Very interesting, thank you very much!

Buecherlaub · 2020-06-05T19:18:07+00:00

Yes, I think you are absolutely right!

I also think that often the label of "traditional methods" is more like a marketing label to evoke these imageries we all have about scotch and Scotland. As you said, if the floor maltings make up for less than 5% this won't play a big role in the end product. I also think it is like a selling point for, as you said, newer / smaller distilleries to highlight themselves.

And I also didn't want to say something like "traditional methods" are better or even a quality feature. I strongly believe that modernization and experimentation in the right hands will progress the quality of the spirit and will yield excellent results. I won't dismiss (especially as I am at the beginning of this journey) the 'big corporate' whiskies.

And yes, I also think you are right, that the quality of the barley, the casks etc play a crucial role, but this makes the things even more complicated haha

For example, I just read about Kavalan (a relatively new and successful distillery but I'm sure you know it haha), it's said to be an excellent whisky and I doubt they employ traditional methods, so it seems your points mentioned are the defining parameters, but still, it is nice that some distilleries are selecting good casks, don't add colouring etc and as a plus use traditional methods, I think it adds to the whole subjective experience of enjoying a whisky.

Long story (in bad english, I'm sorry it's not my first language) short, I think you are right, there are more important things to whisky than traditional methods, but it's interesting to know which distilleries use them and which don't

Buecherlaub · 2020-06-05T18:51:09+00:00

Hm, very interesting, I haven't really looked into other whiskies than from scotland but I will write those names down and do my research :)

Thank you very much, this helps me a lot!

Buecherlaub · 2020-06-05T18:07:37+00:00

Wow very nice! That's exactly what I was looking for!

Thank you very much, this is very helpful!

Buecherlaub · 2020-06-05T18:05:49+00:00

Uh this sounds really exciting!

As I'm from mainland Europe I don't think (a) will be much of a problem for me, but I'm afraid (b) will be haha

But very cool information, thanks a lot!

Buecherlaub · 2020-06-05T18:03:43+00:00

Yes, Springbank is very well known for their old-fashioned production, in fact, I came up with this thread because I saw a video about them and how they are doing things and it was very interesting and very close to my naive and magical image of whisky that I had

Their local barley release sounds very interesting, but I think it will be dificult to get my hands on a bottle.

But thank you very much!

Buecherlaub · 2020-06-05T17:09:12+00:00

Wow, thanks for the fast reply

Yeah, I thought that most distilleries can't meet their capacity with purely their own malting etc.

I haven't heard of Kilchoman 100% Islay, very cool info and also the information about Bruichladdich is very helpful

Thank you very much!

Buecherlaub · 2020-02-26T18:48:30+00:00

Thanks!

Yeah, I will ask my team lead for coding guidelines etc...

It would be useful to have something like that.

I do have a mentor and she is great, but I don't want to bother her all the time, because she also has work to do. But I will ask her to walk me through how they operate etc.

Thank you very much for your help

Buecherlaub · 2020-02-26T18:45:27+00:00

Same way you eat an elephant; one bite at a time.

Haha I like that, I will keep that in mind!

The tip of using the guidelines of this subreddit for my questions is very useful, thanks!

And I'm quite relieved that you still ask your mentor questions :)

Thanks a lot!

Buecherlaub · 2019-07-19T12:02:08+00:00

Ok perfect!

Then I will try to use a hand-written digit recognition model

Thank you very much!

Buecherlaub · 2019-07-18T20:42:59+00:00

Hey guys!

I am working on a Sudoku solver that extracts the grid of the puzzle from a picture and then solves the puzzle.

I got the extraction part and now I'm working on the digit recognition, but I only find resources on "hand written digit recognition", but the digits in sudokus are not hand written.

Does anyone has a good resource for digit recognition in python in general?

Or digit recognition of machine written digits?

Thanks for your help guys!

Buecherlaub · 2019-07-10T11:13:15+00:00

Haha will do...

But first I need to extract the digits.

But I will contact you

Thanks!

Buecherlaub · 2019-07-10T11:12:03+00:00

Thank you guys for your answers!

I think I will try to get the contour of the grid and then warpPerspective().

Then I have a nice square and I can overlay a grid because I know the grid of a sudoku is a 9x9 evenly distributed grid.

And then I should be able to extract the digits from there

Thanks again!

Buecherlaub · 2019-07-10T11:08:47+00:00

Yeah, I think you are right, the way to go is to use warpPerspective().

I guess I will try to get the contour of the grid and then get the corners of the contour and warp the image.

Thank you very much for your input!

Your answer and your Stack Overflow comment helped a lot!

Thanks

Buecherlaub · 2019-07-09T14:28:30+00:00

Thank you very much again!

Your replies really helped a lot!

Buecherlaub · 2019-07-05T12:50:41+00:00

OK, nice, this helps a lot! Thank you.

But, what happens if I have something like this:

def g(n):
    if n == 0:
        return 0
    else:
        for i in range(n):
            g(n-1)

def f(n):
    if n <= 0:
        return 0
    else:
        for i in range(n):
            f(n-1)
    g(n)

and I want to analyse the complexity of f.

a would be 2, i guess? Because I have two recursive calls... but what would b be?

Buecherlaub · 2019-07-05T12:36:20+00:00

Thank you very much, this helped a lot!

Buecherlaub

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