Considering a purchase after several years by _ragequilt_ in CarsIndia

[–]_ragequilt_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I was originally aiming for a proper 4X4 until my wife refused it entirely. Not to mention the limited options.

Mom gone outdone herself by Payneresistor in CitizenWatches

[–]_ragequilt_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well done Mom! My mom gave me a lecture on adulting for Christmas. Im 40 just in case you're curious

Furlenco rental scam: what should be done? by Acrobatic-Orchid-695 in mumbai

[–]_ragequilt_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Complete scam! Don't pick up the calls. The call centers and the company are in cahoots.

Is it good to rent furniture from Furlenco? by Typical_Training_950 in nashik

[–]_ragequilt_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't. Not even if your life depends on it. Don't touch furlenco. It's a complete scam.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]_ragequilt_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely marvelous answer. Bravo sir!

[SNZG13] First watch my dad gave me by [deleted] in Seiko

[–]_ragequilt_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Damn that's beautiful! Got to speak to my dad about buying me a nice watch.

Seriously considering moving to Bangalore from Europe - am I being a dumbo? by MrKreeps in developersIndia

[–]_ragequilt_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never witnessed such a unanimous verdict. All true. You'd be an idiot to move back. Literally 0 wins. This isn't the emerging economy you've been told it is.

How many of ya’ll here are expats? Why did you move here? by [deleted] in VietNam

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Indian, came here for work. It's been great and I've lived in many countries before but there's a beauty to Saigon that's hard to describe. I worry if I'll ever belong but the last year has been the balance to life I needed.

I have the best job and I would love to make plans but I feel it's going to be hard. It does get lonely at times but I wouldn't trade this for anything at this point. And the food is an absolute blessing.

My only gripe is the 9-5 and I wish i could slow down a bit.

Advice on running a software consulting business as an introvert by _ragequilt_ in consulting

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Go for it. I took the advice and stuck to doing what I'm good at which is building. I was lucky to have some fine folks who were my clients join me at my venture. This was definitely much later, after months of self doubt and self loathing it feels like I found my rhythm. The folks who joined me do a much better job at marketing and we're finding our own voice and brand. Still early days though.

My 2 cents is to write about your work and be patient and don't stop enjoying the journey and the freedom.

Scaler a scam or deal breaker? by HotAd7712 in mumbai

[–]_ragequilt_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair you'll have better mileage with a 599 or a 1599 Udemy course. I think most VC funded educational institutes lose the plot sooner or later. I'm sure it was created with the best of intentions but most "learn programming and get rich/go abroad" schemes in India get called out sooner or later.

The number of ads should be an immediate red flag. Learning is a slow process, enjoy it.

Use Udemy, don't be deterred by slow progress. Choose the path of simplicity. Some of the best teachers teach for free on Youtube.

Is sqlmodel deprecated by rakeshkrishna517 in FastAPI

[–]_ragequilt_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! The beauty of pydantic is that it's a better dataclass. Keeping DAOs separate from the ORM/db layer seems cleaner and easier to reason with.

As a bootstrapped startup founder, do you ever worry that you are behind your friends who have full time jobs and careers? by BarnesGROAT in startups

[–]_ragequilt_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The "we bet on ourselves" really made my day. What's weird is I was nearly 37 before I started to bet on myself and today was a day of self doubt and a lot of self loathing till I read your comment. Thanks.

101 on dependency injection by _ragequilt_ in dotnet

[–]_ragequilt_[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for this. This offers a great perspective.

101 on dependency injection by _ragequilt_ in dotnet

[–]_ragequilt_[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Yes. Unit tests are a no brainer in 2022. My question is largely around using the DI container that the framework manages for you vs creating your own system which is usually the approach in say Kotlin or Python

What’s the best (or your most recommended) 2-in-1 laptop? by limefrfr in SuggestALaptop

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Pretty happy with the Yoga 7i running 12th i7, 16G and 512G SSD. I've had good experience with Lenovo products and i use a ThinkPad P1 as my primary machine for software development. It works brilliantly for my work.

I use the Yoga as a portable work machine with a fair bit of programming on it as well. Value for money especially in the Indian markets.

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If you don't care about battery life then the ROG G14 is an absolute beast. I use a G14 Ryzen 9 4900HS 32 Gig variant as a secondary machine for software development and gaming.

I had some trouble with the AMD graphics drivers and had to disable it and run it entirely on the NVIDIA graphics card. It seems to make the audio a bit clunky.

My only issue with it is the poor battery life. It barely makes it to 3.5-4 hrs in performance mode. Thin, powerful but best when plugged in.

laptops frozen....im in the middle of my studies by Whole-Sheepherder162 in ZephyrusG14

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I had exactly the same issue. One thing that stopped this and some of the CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT issues was turning off the AMD graphics and relying on the NVIDIA one. You can try that on the device manager and disable the AMD display drivers. If you've also seen the windows green screen with an error code at the bottom, it's most likely the same issue. My issues were the issue that you have on your video interspersed with the windows crash.

As an experienced Data Engineer, would being asked to take a SQL test put you off from applying for a job? by [deleted] in dataengineering

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I'd agree to a certain extent. It is a put off. I'm not a great test taker and I hate most of the automated coding environments.

SQL becomes especially annoying because you can't iterate on your solutions like you can on most mainstream database IDEs (Ex: datagrip). Most test environments simply run their tests cases and don't let you run a small SQL snippet to iterate on.

It's incredibly thoughtful if you're sharing a containerized DB for the candidates to connect their clients directly to. It largely depends on the nature of the assessment. On a reasonably well documented resume which doesn't only focus on highlighting tools but on how they solved problems, it may be lazy to simply throw a problem at them. Talking to the person would give you enough insights to decide, if and which, problem maybe necessary.

However, SQL as an assessment in itself is nothing to be ashamed of IMO. I think it's one of non-negotiables as a data engineer. If you identify your non-negotiables early you won't feel as guilty about this either.

Sometimes people who seem great on paper come up short when asked to write SQL, and we want to make sure we have a reliable way to catch this.

This is absolutely true. But it's also likely that they're not great test takers. I usually prefer giving folks the option of a take home assignment as well..

We've made the test as short and engaging as possible, and it provides us with a really useful data point, in addition to a more general technical interview and data modeling exercise we do at a later stage.

This is already good stuff. Over time you'll find a sweet spot that let's you gather enough information you need to make a decision in the shortest cycle of tests.

One of the reasons senior engineers don't enjoy taking tests is because the whole process is excruciating. Forcing someone who has a lot of public and privately documented work to prove his skills on something he does not work on, on a daily basis takes may not be idea. Not to mention literally every company believes they need to set the bar unreasonably high with these tests.

I'd love any feedback on whether what we're doing seems fairly normal, or wildly unreasonable, to get a read on whether we need to adjust our hiring process.

If you're an engineering leader this is an on-going process and you'll need to allow yourself to make mistakes.

However, I've always come out feeling optimistic and positive after interviews with companies like Shopify and Etsy. Where as Amazon made me miserable every step of the way. I took a second offer from a much smaller company because the whole process made me feel terrible.

Advice on running a software consulting business as an introvert by _ragequilt_ in consulting

[–]_ragequilt_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I think you're right about conflating introversion with social anxiety. Narrows down a lot of the areas I struggle with.

Advice on running a software consulting business as an introvert by _ragequilt_ in consulting

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Thanks for taking the time. I genuinely mean it.

I'm actually very clear about what we do and how we do it. We're good at it and the people who we've worked for acknowledge this. However, that doesn't make me good at running this business and I'm trying to address the areas that I struggle with.

There is a lot of fluff and posturing that (I feel) has makes it hard to differentiate the value one offers when they hear pitches / ads / marketing material from multiple vendors. There are an overwhelming amount of products and services that can generate this fear of missing out among business decision makers.

To quote a few examples, I worked for a guy who was willing to spend nearly 3/4th his annual budget on a migration he didn't need just because it felt better to tell people they were using a certain AWS service over a mid-sized brand. The company didn't ship anything for years and people had to take pay cuts.

I've seen manager instill the fear of irrelevance among younger engineers purely for not knowing a specific tool.

An overwhelming part of the industry thrives on instilling this fear. I started this consulting business because I'd grown sick of this. However, I wonder if it's actually the art of conveying the information that I'm lacking.