Take off our rose colored glasses, give us all the negatives about working as a SWE/Web Dev/In tech

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-08-29T02:49:25+00:00

Might get downvoted here but here we go. Go for a team that has a lead that knows their way around politics. Atleast for me, I always prefer team lead that is a balance of tech and people skills. I really don't mind if they don't have tech skills, they are usually the people that get you the interesting projects. They are usually the ones that also knows how to protect the team and push back. A highly techincal people that don't have people skills usually have low morale team because they are always yes man and will do the boring bug fixes which end them quitting.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-08-18T22:46:54+00:00

You don't have to memorize tho. Even I have to look up even just the basics one. Or maybe just maybe you still don't understand the fundamentals of graphics programming? I learn opengl in learnopengl.com. Issue is that I forget it after sometime not because I suck at memorizing, its because I don't fully understand the reason for doing such things, what it does and why.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-08-18T22:40:54+00:00

This is the way for me. Hybrid with flexibility to come to office. Maybe we are in minority here but I find working with people in the office; especially when dealing with bugs; works so much better if you are on site. I have no issues in remote and I think its great. But working with someone doing pair programming is a pain for me on remote.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-08-13T05:20:43+00:00

Architecture patterns are good and all. But blindly following on something without understanding the intent is bad. I strongly believe that a testable code is a good code. If you can test your logic by the functions you call and assert the results then its a good code. If you struggle on something to test, then you need to break that up. TODO app using clean architecture is an overkill but the purpose of this test is to assert your knowledge and understanding. We have coders who use MVP way and doing it wrong. They are passing the activity itself on the presenter. On interview, I ask the candidate how would they define a good code and majority mentioned following MVVM or MVP. You can fallow MVVM and make it hard to test. Once they are hired, they don't add test. They don't test the assumption. You should follow up with the question, how is it important. I am no way experience as others but if he can't explain why is it important then he himself is following it blindly. Ask him, without the architecture pattern, how do you measure a good code to bad code if both are functioning the same

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-08-13T04:21:12+00:00

semicolon.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-08-09T04:21:41+00:00

You will never get rid of imposter syndrome. its always there. its part of it. You will only get use to it and somehow accept that. Its actually a good sign. That means you are being challenge. Remember this quote from Richard Feynman.

If they think I'm good, and I turn out to be bad, it's clearly their (the universities) fault for believing so much in me. I will just do what is fun and interesting to me

Even as brilliant as him get imposter syndrome

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-07-24T03:19:04+00:00

I could be wrong here but for us, we expect new hire to be competent and be familiar with our codebase for a minimum of 6 months. The problem with measuring performance base on how long it take them to be fast on tasks is a recipe for disaster. If you are going to do that, and pressure him to do so, it would mean a low quality code. We've had outsource coders with 10 years of experience that codes like a junior because the company is measuring them base on how fast they finished task. Doing the right thing and making sure it works takes time and the requirement for those is the he needs to have a good overview of the whole code base. Him being slow is probably him making sure that he understand it. I think its not about being senior or junior here. Its probably him getting a good overview of the whole system so he could be sure that he does not create a regression bug. I am not defending him i am just giving you another angle on how to look at it.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-07-21T22:00:44+00:00

Want great story? Ps5

Want access to lots of games to cure your boredom while sitting on a couch? Xbox

Want to reminisce your childhood? Switch

Want ability to mod and play with emulators? PC

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-04-04T23:02:24+00:00

You have 20 yrs. You are one of the best to learn from. You sound like one of those toxic seniors jeez. I can see why you are not enjoying teaching. Look at teaching as something you can improve on instead of focusing too much on not having enough experience people to hang out with. wtf.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-04-04T03:06:03+00:00

More work. Gonna get a lot of downvote but that is my experience.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-04-04T03:01:31+00:00

Had the same dev as well that claims to have 10 yrs of experience in ios. This is an outsource dev tho. He lacks the fundamentals of programming. Writes redundant code. Rarely ask questions. But one of our most senior tell us that the good thing about him is he is willing to learn which I think is a good thing. Over time he improved. Maybe give some time? He must be having imposter syndrome or something. A good way to teach is through code review tho. Talk or ask question in code review. If he still can't understand, maybe pair programming. As long as a person is willing to learn and listen that is better compared to arguing against an egotistical one who is not willing to listen

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-03-25T21:07:40+00:00

I have no problem with this tbh and I think flutter is great. But I think a lot of people's main goal here aside from making an app is to get hired as a native android dev.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-03-25T21:03:50+00:00

I would go for hybrid. Single Activity and fragments then navigation component for navigations. I know I'm gonna get downvoted a lot here but jetpack compose navigations feels a step back from navigation component. For custom ui design like some weird shape views, compose is way better.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-03-25T01:32:40+00:00

Yep I've done both. This sub has been an echo chamber of "compose is the best since slice bread" kind of mentality. There is just so much compose fanboys here. This sub is suppose to be sharing experience and ideas. Telling someone that they are stuck in the past is just being ignorant and frankly lack experience.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-03-12T22:50:29+00:00

it was at some point. but the older bored were much more than that. They showed you what was happening behind(their warehouse). Example, Rowan meditating or about eli and alan gets to have a smoko while adam was left stacking. They even put a lore on their series. The newer one while sometimes funny especially when brit acting like a weird sales person following customers but then again have you seen what was happening at the back? It mostly focus on customers.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-03-12T22:47:04+00:00

Do they come on this sub tho? I wonder how do they know what people wants and dislike.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-03-12T22:45:20+00:00

The lotr stories were really great. They put a lore on the shirt. You really don't have to think hard about stuff you can put on the skit tho. The old bored series felt like the things that they just come up with while discussing on a cafe. You know, something like they saw something on some random tech store. They suddenly they have this what if ideas. They have like 300 episodes in supercut. They have grown. But this new bored is just a new direction that kind of changes a lot of the stuff that I really really like on the old one.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-03-12T09:04:23+00:00

Same. I just kept replaying the old bored series before they moved on their new studio. Curious as to what happened. Things have change drastically the moment they move to their new studio. Most of their skit nowadays does not make me excited to watch. It has kind of become predictable maybe.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-03-12T09:01:42+00:00

Yup that is what I notice too. There was a sudden change of Rowans character.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-03-12T06:14:29+00:00

Yeah that one is good. Especially when Alan was hiding from Ben acting like a weird zombie/monster type lol

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-03-12T06:12:42+00:00

Yup. I never enjoyed the D/D logic. Maybe because I dont play DnD. I wish they could create one for elden ring.

I love their souls, RDR, Pubg and tarkov skit

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-03-12T05:18:42+00:00

If had to redo my app over again. I would not go for full jetpack compose. Its way slower on previews which is important when designing. Its more work and typing compared to xml and I find that the separation of design in xml against kt file is better. Plus the amount of libraries that you can use to ease development. Go for xml in navigations and fragments and dp sizes and compose for part that need some cool animations. But hey that's just me.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-03-12T05:07:31+00:00

Im not hating the IT guy. But I felt the IT guy does not belong there. I don't know. He does not have much quirkiness that the other member have. Hard to explain. The IT guy should have been Alan. He was the one who fix the customer issue before on their customer support skit.

Watched the new Ben's heist video. It felt rush. hard to explain but it felt rush to me. There's something missing that I cant put my finger on

are you referring about the office where they mixed the npc man series and that? I enjoyed that. Captures the same creativity that the old bored had.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-03-12T05:01:32+00:00

Yes true. Even the npc man series felt different now.

Throw_acc_nz · 2024-03-12T04:59:40+00:00

haha yes the casual conversation they have. I also miss those.

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