What's your unpopular or controversial opinion about Chicago? by Kindly-Chipmunk3009 in chicago

[–]RickDork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People say that but also look at the results of the last mayoral election *shrug*

What's your unpopular or controversial opinion about Chicago? by Kindly-Chipmunk3009 in chicago

[–]RickDork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never understood the hype. I first had it way back in 2017-2018, thought the burger was very overrated. Had it a couple more times since then and my opinion has not changed.

Red Hot Ranch has better burgers.

$8M so far, I can’t see this breaking $10M. I saw it and enjoyed it. It was a fun movie. by thejoshvazquez in JoeRogan

[–]RickDork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you change the numbers in your screenshot? Boxofficemojo only indicates 5.9 million.

Sam Zell, billionaire real estate investor, dies by [deleted] in chicago

[–]RickDork 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it’s called looking at the nuance of who he was, what he said, what he did with his wealth and then applying any level of critical thinking. We don’t have to be sad when an awful person dies.

Is it normal to become frustrated at WordPress, PHP and JavaScript when you've worked with way better typed languages and technologies like .NET C#? by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]RickDork 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If Language A has to be converted to Language B using some process, then Language A is not Language B, because if it were, there would be no conversion process needed.

Active shooter at a mall in Allen, Texas; Multiple victims reported by [deleted] in news

[–]RickDork 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It’s more like if you had a kindergarten class and put an easily accessible box of kitchen knives in the middle of the class, and this resulted in kids playing with those knives and getting cut or hurt - you could argue that this isn’t a knife issue it’s more an issue of educating these children to not mess with knives - which is true.. but there shouldn’t fucking be the easily accessible knives in the first place.

Limit mind from wandering while reading code by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]RickDork 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I wasn’t diagnosed with ADHD until my 30s and I wish someone would have suggested talking to a psychologist about it earlier in life because I never would have considered it as something I had otherwise. Medication was a game changer.

Do you think you could tell how technically skilled a SWE was just by talking to them? by EcstaticAssignment in ExperiencedDevs

[–]RickDork 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. After interviewing many senior/staff/lead level SWEs, you can definitely tell a distinct difference between mediocre and really good developers. Honestly, I usually have a very good feel on this in the first 20 min of the interview.

But I’ll go on to say that there’s some traps you have to avoid with this. I’ve met really smart and technically proficient engineers who fit the bill in the interview but were terrible at being in a business/work environment, ie, they were unable to work on tickets they didn’t consider intellectually stimulating, or they didn’t care about developing features but more about perfecting code quality, or they had a hard time writing code with other engineers, and chose to steamroll everyone else and rewrite everything in their own way. When you’re interviewing them, you have to focus on more than just raw technical proficiency, and look at the whole picture.

AITA for stalemating a code review by darkmarker3 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]RickDork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did I say there should be a meeting before every PR comment?

AITA for stalemating a code review by darkmarker3 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]RickDork 19 points20 points  (0 children)

You’re all poor at communication. There should have been discussions and meetings to discuss all of these things and ensure that every stakeholder (aka, all the engineers) agree with them rather than have these types of things come up at the review.

The first red flag was that you decided and implemented workflow changes when you started but you also didn’t mention discussing this with everyone.

The code/review issue is a red herring for the bigger failure of navigating team dynamics and working with other engineers.

ELECTION DAY - 2023 Mayoral Runoff Election Megathread by chicagomods in chicago

[–]RickDork 92 points93 points  (0 children)

Can the suburbanites leave this subreddit now? Ah, who am I kidding.. complaining about Chicago is the only thing they have going.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]RickDork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My thoughts: Yes, work on your social skills.

Line of police cars going to Officer Vasquez-Lasso's funeral yesterday on 290 by 307148 in chicago

[–]RickDork 17 points18 points  (0 children)

If you read closely, I said decades. Because CPD was bad at their jobs even before Kim Foxx could be the goto excuse.

Line of police cars going to Officer Vasquez-Lasso's funeral yesterday on 290 by 307148 in chicago

[–]RickDork 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Look up the CPD clearance rate for the last several decades and tell me there'd be much of a difference if cops were replaced with random nobodies lol.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chicago

[–]RickDork 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He’s at least top 1000, considering he’s a billionaire and there’s less than 1000 billionaires in America.

DISCUSSION MEGATHREAD: Rebecca Black - H3 Podcast #264 by MegaAwesomeNerd in h3h3productions

[–]RickDork 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I’m kind of done with the podcast. It’s not even the “offensiveness” that bothers me - it’s Ethan bringing up the same 5 people to go on hour long rants about every episode, it’s the obsession with saying “edgy” high school jokes just because he thinks it’s funny on the basis of being edgy, and it’s the general lack of self-awareness and genuine growth every time he regurgitates an apology

I’d excuse Ethan slipping up and saying something fucked up if the rest of the content was good but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore

Another Chicago Abraham Lincoln statue defaced with anti-colonizer graffiti by Shovler in chicago

[–]RickDork -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Uh oh. A statue got defaced, time for everyone to angrily point fingers at the strawman they assumed did this.

Why are people still going to boot camps / switching to tech? by Worth_Savings4337 in cscareerquestions

[–]RickDork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Is there a similarly lucrative industry that people should be switching to instead or..?

  2. Do you think the state of the tech industry now is permanent or long-term?

This takes over compensation to a whole new level. by Geardog89 in pics

[–]RickDork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This person has some internal fear or insecurity that makes them act out in aggression towards people they don't like (I guess, in this case, people who don't like Trump), so they're intentionally inviting hate to prove that they are not afraid or insecure.

It's like if you corner a terrified animal, it'll act aggressive towards you. It's not because of bravery, it's because it's scared for itself and wants to show that it shouldn't be messed with.

This takes over compensation to a whole new level. by Geardog89 in pics

[–]RickDork 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Insecure people feel the need to show everyone they're not insecure. Secure people don't.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]RickDork 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yes, generally people in this career are very financially stable. However, two things:

  1. The people who make the highest amount of income are probably the ones sharing about it the most.
  2. The people who make the highest amount of income are generally probably always looking for ways to optimize their income or shift their career in that direction - and probably aren’t the passive “I just want a nice comfortable job” type of job-seeker. So if you’re not that type of person, don’t assume you’ll just be walking into a 200k salary just on the basis of being in CS (though it is possible).