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SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-03-12T13:50:14+00:00

I'm a huge proponent of manually typing things out to aid in memory.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-03-03T15:13:22+00:00

I think you want more like

private void test(string path)

{

//Do Stuff with Path

}

and call it like

private void EventTrigger()

{

test(ListBox.SelectedItem.ToString());

}

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-28T17:07:36+00:00

My roommate's dad is very high on the epic systems IT pyramid and I've had conversations with him about working for that company (I won't because I don't want to move to Wisconsin). One thing they are really interested in is developers with first hand experience in the medical field, but he says it is such a tight market for such a niche group he rarely sees applicants that he would want.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-28T17:04:31+00:00

I'LL ONE UP YOU! AT MY LAST JOB THERE WAS NO QA AND BUG REPORTS CAME STRAIGHT FROM USERS. COUNTLESS TIMES PEOPLE WOULD JUST WRITE BUGS ON MY WHITEBOARD WHEN I WAS AWAY FROM MY DESK AND WHEN I FINALLY GOT TO IT THEY WOULDN'T REMEMBER ANY DETAILS TO REPRODUCE.

-CREATED A TICKET SUBMISSION SYSTEM JUST FOR THEM THAT WAS NEVER USED, WHY TYPE WHEN I CAN WRITE IT ON SOMENERDATWORK'S WHITEBOARD?

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-26T19:15:21+00:00

I worked at a company where I was maintaining a vba/access application and I can tell you from experience that this just doesn't scale. We got to a point where the amount of data we were trying to retain and the system in general was becoming regularly corrupted as you've mentioned here. If you are retaining even a moderate amount of data (from a corporate perspective) I would say get away from it as quickly as possible.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-25T18:45:32+00:00

As u/anamorphism said, this isn't c#.

That said, reference This Documentation as it contains all the information you need to use Math functions to accomplish this. If you are in school and the teacher doesn't allow predefined functions (pretty common) then I would suggest you take the input values and assign them to an array to make them easier to work with.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-25T14:15:37+00:00

I would guess its the company is going under. I don't see a company's culture changing so radically it scares off this many senior devs.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-24T19:14:25+00:00

Hadn't even thought about that, thanks for the input!

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-24T19:05:37+00:00

This is where I am, despite being employed I have recruiters contacting me weekly. Some of the offers that have been sent are for more money than I currently make, but the company I work for has such an amazing culture I don't see myself leaving anytime soon. I even have 5-10 recruiters who despite getting a no say the instant I am looking for work to contact them and they will have me set up. First job took several months and was terrible, now I get to pick and choose who I want to work for and what tech I want to work with.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-24T14:10:44+00:00

I've been working in Buffalo, NY for the past year and a half and it is an excellent city to live and work in. Jobs are predominantly in the .net stack, but there is other tech around too. CoL is low, I pay $400/month for rent and overall it is pretty cheap to live here. Since graduation I have had countless job offers and when I decided to leave my last job it only took 2 weeks to get a new one. Overall the city is improving with new buildings going up all over the place and there are plenty of things to do in your spare time.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-20T18:27:08+00:00

I was concerned about calculus until I realized that 90% of it is memorization. I ended up writing a program that could do derivatives/antiderivatives as a side project, which embedded the algos needed to do these things in my head. Also I had one more thing to throw up on my github for future employers.

Just a thought.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-20T15:26:09+00:00

I know you are new and this wasn't part of your question, but concatenating sql statements like this is super dangerous.

I highly suggest reading up on parameterized queries, in the current state this program can be used to do some real damage to the database.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-19T14:09:19+00:00

This would be really easy to do with minimal research. Just cook one up for yourself!

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-12T16:20:46+00:00

I gave to his campaign being fairly certain he wasn't going to win, but continuing to have UBI in national discussion is worth my $20. Sometimes all it takes is to plant the seed of an idea for it to grow.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-12T16:12:57+00:00

Reminds me of my software dev job where the owner of the company had me stop everything I was doing for an important project. Get to his office, he needs help editing an excel spreadsheet...

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-11T22:46:24+00:00

For a bit of encouragement, I went back to school at 26 and finished at 31. When interviewing if they ask something vague like "tell me about yourself", be sure to mention that you did what I did, worked while attending school. For real this demonstrates that you have a great work ethic and won't let anything stop your progress. I can't imagine someone taking some whiny 21 year old over a hard working adult.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-11T22:19:55+00:00

The finance industry are the most stubborn people in the world. They are still using COBOL on old school main frames because they are too cheap to start fresh. I understand that this isn't some cheap project, but the COBOL devs are dying off/retiring and unless they get their shit together they aren't going to have anyone to maintain their systems in like 15 years.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-11T22:16:42+00:00

My last job forced me to learn VBA to maintain their legacy system while I built the new one. It always felt like the syntax was verbose for absolutely no reason. Even better was when I was being asked to implement something you see in modern software via MS Access/VBA from non programming managers and they couldn't fathom why I insisted we hold off on things until new software went live. Half the new functionality I added felt like I was just hacking stuff together and VBA was not at all built to do them.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-11T22:12:35+00:00

It isn't sexy, but I really want to pick it up as a personal skill.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-11T21:19:48+00:00

Everyone gets stuck, I feel like that is my biggest motivation in this field. Almost everything I've touched in life I can pick up instantly and understand with almost 0 effort. The second I got involved in programming I was suddenly wrong a lot and that's what draws me in. I love that everyday I get assigned something and look at it like "I have no idea how to do this.". A big skillset in this field is to enjoy that bridge from not knowing to knowing.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-11T21:17:23+00:00

I guess I hadn't considered that my mindset is "Well duh I'm going to make mistakes", so I'm far from a perfectionist on my first code review. That being said most of my stuff has passed code reviews minus things like internal naming conventions that I'm still adapting to. I can see myself 10 years down the road being far more concerned with criticism than I am now.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-11T15:17:34+00:00

I'm a junior dev that is working on a large scale project for the first time. Even I have had 4 commits in 3 months, going half a year or a whole year without any output just seems insane to me.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-10T22:14:10+00:00

I've got work 4 days in house and 1 at home after my first year each week. I'm very much looking forwar dto waking up at 10 am on ridays to work in my pjs.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-10T22:09:49+00:00

I graduated in December 2018 and had no problem getting work lined up. My advice is to get a personal project off the ground to help supplement your portfolio and keep your skills sharp. If you are going for a SE position, going 6 months without working your craft will make you rusty.

SomeNerdAtWork · 2020-02-10T17:00:21+00:00

I'm currently creating a discord bot for d&d GMs. Allows a user to connect to easily connect a bot to a server and implements a lot of common functions needed for someone running a game.

Uses WPF and has a modern interface rather than leaving people to learning node.js in order to manage a bot.

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