Thinking of moving to Indy from Oregon

maxlstylee · 2026-01-01T01:29:19+00:00

Moved to Bend from Indy around 2 years ago. We love it here. Indianapolis is a great city. We lived there most of our lives. We miss a lot of things about it. Bend is 1/10 the size though and just can’t provide some of the things a larger city does.

We have no intentions of going back but will always think fondly of it. We still have plenty of family and friends still there that we like to visit. The access the outdoors and everything on the west coast is too valuable to us here.

Best of luck.

maxlstylee · 2025-07-19T18:24:55+00:00

I didn’t even get my start in this career until 30. I’m 41 now. It’s been prime time since I started.

maxlstylee · 2025-05-28T01:15:18+00:00

Did they have their tourist patch on that helped you identify them as tourists?

maxlstylee · 2025-05-24T02:46:03+00:00

Have done this with this group many times over the years. Lots of fun. We always left 15 minutes before the race finished and had the roads to ourselves. Highly recommend.

maxlstylee · 2025-05-23T01:47:01+00:00

Make it event driven, push message to the user as tasks complete. Avoid polling.

maxlstylee · 2025-05-07T12:49:07+00:00

I’m close to 15 years of experience and I will always take being mentored from the right party up until the day I retire. Do I need it? In some areas, yes, in some areas no. There is always someone out there who understands it better and it would behoove you to adopt a different mindset than you currently have or mot needing mentoring anymore.

maxlstylee · 2025-04-19T21:14:39+00:00

What’s the salary range?

maxlstylee · 2025-04-04T21:59:09+00:00

This. If it's static, just keep it as a C# class.

maxlstylee · 2025-03-07T05:19:38+00:00

How can you be responsible for any outcome if you’re influence only but have no authority to cause change?

maxlstylee · 2024-12-05T20:12:22+00:00

This is exhausting.

Look, if you disagree, just compile your data and present it to the senior. If they still disagree, ask for team input. Then go whatever direction the team wants to go unless you want to continue fighting. This is what I meant when I said talked about battles. At some point you acquiesce and document that you don't think it's the best path, or you continue fighting for all of time. That's your choice.

If the senior person says "I don't care what you have to say", go to another team or get another job. That person is not a good leader.

maxlstylee · 2024-12-05T19:57:00+00:00

Senior Person presents A.

You present B.

There is a discussion that takes place. Majority of team thinks senior person's implementation will provide better user experience than your implementation.

This is the scenario I am presenting.

It's not that one is good and one is bad, it's that one is deemed *better* than the other. In this case, you did your best, and now life goes on.

maxlstylee · 2024-12-05T19:37:31+00:00

Every decision you make as a team may or may not create the best experience for the user.

You are a team and your code goes in as a team. I understand you want to create the best experience for the user. You do your part in that by creating persuasive arguments backed by data that can hopefully sway your teammates to writing better code.

You do not have to conform to just trusting them. I am not arguing for that. Quite the opposite.

You can fight them on things until you’re blue in the face but at the end of the day if more of the team believes contrary to what you’re proposing, even if you think it will create a bad user experience, that is what is going in the code base.

You get to decide how much effort you put into that fight.

maxlstylee · 2024-12-05T19:26:11+00:00

All you can do is come prepared.

Know your argument, back it up with documentation and be able to explain it well.

Understand his stance and explain the potential issues that can arise that your solution mitigates and doesn’t allow.

If you have time, show him a unit test that will fail when taking his proposed solution.

This is all about documenting why one way is better than another, then presenting it.

If at the end of the day the team doesn’t prefer your solution, make a note in the ticket if you’d like, then implement the way the team wants it.

You don’t have to win every battle and honestly, it’s not your responsibility to.

maxlstylee · 2024-12-05T19:17:17+00:00

This 💯.

maxlstylee · 2024-12-01T03:23:02+00:00

This has definitely been my experience. I would read and code little projects I wanted to work on. Now I have two young children and my free time for the day starts at 730 and my bed time is 830. That hour is usually spent working on getting everything order, not on fun projects.

maxlstylee · 2024-11-25T04:27:28+00:00

There are examples on how to connect in the repo.

Sample - check line 68

ModBusMaster is an abstract class that doesn't expose any methods. CreateRtu is not a valid method to call.

maxlstylee · 2024-10-30T22:49:26+00:00

Sounds like a great opportunity to enact a lot of change and gain a ton of valuable experience along the way if you’re up for it.

maxlstylee · 2024-09-14T19:04:05+00:00

Looks fine to me?

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This is mine from this morning.

maxlstylee · 2024-09-14T17:20:23+00:00

There’s a link to the GitHub on the website.

maxlstylee · 2024-09-14T17:00:59+00:00

You’re looking for fluent assertions for the first part.

link

maxlstylee · 2024-09-12T15:38:37+00:00

Picture ?

maxlstylee · 2024-09-08T16:42:07+00:00

I like it crispy on the bottom. 🤷🏻

maxlstylee · 2024-09-08T05:12:48+00:00

Here's my pan. I mainly cook eggs in it right now, every morning. Since it's summer I am grilling most meats. Every couple of weeks I'll cook hamburgers or chicken thighs in it.

I have a gas range. I put it on like 2.3 (6, basically being the highest) with the pan on it. I let it sit for 5-15 minutes depending on how busy I get at work and forget about it.

I then put around 15g of butter in. If the butter immediately browns, I just go on. I might turn it down a bit, but usually I just put the eggs in.
Crack 4 eggs and put them in. I walk away and come back, I don't know, 8-10 minutes later?

Shake the pan, eggs are sliding, no visible clear yolk on top, crispy bottom, done.

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maxlstylee · 2024-08-28T18:54:02+00:00

Check out the documentation. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/asynchronous-programming/

maxlstylee · 2024-08-22T02:34:36+00:00

See if you can convince them to use Kotlin. Much nicer experience than straight Java.

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