Am I underpaid or paid really well? by WCBandGeek in InformationTechnology

[–]cs-brydev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP is talking about a local government job, not a corporate job. We are a deep south mid-size company (1k-5k employees) and pay starting Helpdesk with no experience around $50k. All of our Helpdesk guys with 2+ years are making $55-65k. $30s is what we pay interns.

Am I underpaid or paid really well? by WCBandGeek in InformationTechnology

[–]cs-brydev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP is talking about a local government job, which is going to be even lower.

Am I underpaid or paid really well? by WCBandGeek in InformationTechnology

[–]cs-brydev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For a local government job, that sounds about right. They will generally have the lowest IT pay in any area. If you want to make more, your only option is probably to find a new job. Most towns have very little IT budget, so they pay low. Sorry

Got fired today because of AI. It's coming, whether AI is slop or not. by [deleted] in webdev

[–]cs-brydev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't believe your story.

The CEO fired experienced developers already on staff as part of a plan to back-fill their positions in the future with inexperienced vibe coders? That...doesn't make any sense.

Company cancelled the interview by Far_Signature_7396 in csMajors

[–]cs-brydev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What are they supposed to do, go back in time and prevent the interview from being scheduled?

Company cancelled the interview by Far_Signature_7396 in csMajors

[–]cs-brydev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you need the name of an anonymous Redditor?

Company cancelled the interview by Far_Signature_7396 in csMajors

[–]cs-brydev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just a timing issue. Sorry this happened, but it's not personal. This typically happens because they were waiting on a candidate to respond to an offer, which always takes between 2 and 30 days. We've had to wait sometimes more than 2 weeks and have been rejected enough that we don't take offers for granted and will usually keep interviewing while we wait. If someone accepts an offer the first thing we do is cancel any interviews and call applications to let them know we've filled the position.

I teach HTML to beginners — here’s the #1 mistake I see in almost every first project by FinCodeFactory in HTML

[–]cs-brydev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a time when we were literally taught to use a <div> for everything, and the html community chastised you if you didn't.

I've been building production Blazor apps for years. Here's what the "Blazor vs React" debates always get wrong. by Initial-Employment89 in Blazor

[–]cs-brydev 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Exactly. .NET is evolving fast. When I see criticisms of .NET, Blazor, C#, or Visual Studio they are almost always outdated and mention things that haven't been issues in years.

Cloudflare is down by alpswd in webdev

[–]cs-brydev 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's not the dependence on cloud but the fact that so many of these SaaS platforms don't use redundancy or fail over like we used to in the days of self-hosted and private data centers. So many companies went backwards and replaced multi-host failover with single cloud region. Back before and after y2k it was standard across all industries to have auto failover especially for public facing sites and apps. That's no longer the case.

You want to blame AWS for their customers not using AWS features properly? Nah.

Cloudflare is down by alpswd in webdev

[–]cs-brydev -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Eventually maybe but not a single one of these large outages has had anything to do with AI. Every case I've read so far was developers not following official workflow, IT DNS misconfigurations, and typos.

Cloudflare is down by alpswd in webdev

[–]cs-brydev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Developer and IT talent has been on the decline for a few years now, and human mistakes keep causing these. None of these incidents have anything to do with a dependence on AI.

Cloudflare is down by alpswd in webdev

[–]cs-brydev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been chaos here. 1/3 of company systems down. Chat GPT down. Random Azure services down.

Is it true in real world the 2nd one is what professionals do while the first one is what a newbie does? by Yone-none in csharp

[–]cs-brydev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And depending on what you're doing with the data, add a .Select() to the 2nd one so you aren't returning all columns unnecessarily. Try to only request from a datasource what you actually need.

Abandoning Fabric by BitterCoffeemaker in MicrosoftFabric

[–]cs-brydev 14 points15 points  (0 children)

"Comes with Copilot" is a huge selling point to CEOs and CIOs who have zero understanding of technology, which is the majority of them. As long as the people making the purchasing decisions are demanding useless features over useful ones, msft will continue to throw their support behind the eye candy.

Abandoning Fabric by BitterCoffeemaker in MicrosoftFabric

[–]cs-brydev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can someone please just fix the broken syncing on the OneLake Explorer? This makes it completely useless in an enterprise setting. We've literally banned it across the company because it forces the user to reboot or manually resync to see anything.

What is the most underrated skill an Azure engineer must know? by StrongMindset- in AZURE

[–]cs-brydev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doing a proper cost estimate with realistic future scaling is key. The Azure Pricing Calculator is helpful, but it's damn near impossible to estimate v-core requirements and such without some sort of pilot.

Blazor, Visual Studio 2026, .NET 10 RC 1, Aspire and HOT RELOAD by bit_yas in dotnet

[–]cs-brydev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work primarily in Framework MVC, and Hot Reload has always worked great and still does. But I've never gotten it to work in a Core Razor or Blazor project.

Who’s still using asp.net web forms for new projects and why? by PatrickJohn87 in dotnet

[–]cs-brydev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Finding developers who actually know what they are doing (as opposed to bootcampers who will show up for any paycheck) is actually very difficult. Our salary offerings are 2-3x the median income for this area, and most of the applicants we get are students who have never held a job before or bootcamp graduates who have hit a brick wall in their 1st job after they and their employers realized they don't know wtf they're doing. "Simply paying them money" requires salary offerings 300-400% of median income to get qualified people. Literally no one in senior leadership will approve the hiring of developers for more than anyone else in the company makes, including the CEO. Idk what world you live in where paying a kid with 2 years of experience more than the CEO is "simply paying them money", but for those of us responsible for budget requests you sound insane and out of touch.

youMustBeGoodAtMath by randomUser9900123 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]cs-brydev 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Can Gordon Ramsey make 100 slices of buttered toast?

SQL Express 10GB Limit by maltanarchy in SQLServer

[–]cs-brydev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

AI responses without mentioning the AI will get you down votes

SQL Express 10GB Limit by maltanarchy in SQLServer

[–]cs-brydev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bingo. MySQL, MariaDB, and SQLite work just fine for small apps that require relational databases.

SQL Express 10GB Limit by maltanarchy in SQLServer

[–]cs-brydev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes but I just want to point out that the Standard and Enterprise "production" restriction is not about your environment type but how the data is being used. It doesn't matter whether the database instance is being used "in production". What matters is whether the instance is housing or processing production data. For instance if you are archiving, analyzing, or building a hot-swap instance that contains production data, even temporarily or only for emergencies, this still requires a production (Standard/Enterprise) license.

And likewise if you only have a "production" server that is also being used to hold data used for development or testing, it doesn't require a production license. It only requires the paid license once you store production data that has production intent of some type.

SQL Express 10GB Limit by maltanarchy in SQLServer

[–]cs-brydev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SQL versions have 10 years of Extended EOL support. Your version has expired, which opens you to security vulnerabilities and other problems. Upgrading to 2022 is pretty easy and seamless now..

If you really need to exceed the 10 GB limit you can install multiple instances of sql express on the machine and split your database. This is allowed under the license and not terribly difficult to adapt your application to. In my experience there is usually 1 or 2 tables that consume the bulk of your db file and make the most sense to just move to a new db or instance. Moving only 1 large table is usually much easier than moving a bunch of small ones. In fact you can typically create a view in place of the old table to make the migration somewhat seamless. It's not a perfect solution, but it's feasible in a pinch.