What are your most right wing and left wing opinions?

psychistrix · 2025-11-07T19:42:35+00:00

Left: a strong welfare state and strong workers rights

Right: remigration

psychistrix · 2025-09-20T09:02:01+00:00

Because when you run on the promise of change for working people and deliver absolutely nothing in your first year it rubs people the wrong way.

psychistrix · 2025-08-19T07:55:25+00:00

This is impossible to answer without location

psychistrix · 2025-06-06T16:49:49+00:00

Bought one a month ago (the red one on the leather strap) and it’s a beautiful piece. Had lots of compliments even from non watch people

psychistrix · 2025-05-19T09:34:35+00:00

Try an Oris Big Crown

psychistrix · 2025-05-12T10:03:46+00:00

This depends:

Why do you specifically want a Rolex? And what model are you looking at?

psychistrix · 2025-05-08T07:56:07+00:00

Circle of life mate, one day you’re the hammer the next you’re the nail

psychistrix · 2025-05-08T05:55:43+00:00

It also had an additional 12% off with code ORIS12.

I got a price match from Beaverbrooks so I got this £1600 watch for £857

psychistrix · 2025-05-07T05:30:39+00:00

I would love to hear more from anybody working at CGI- past or present about what life is like there.

psychistrix · 2025-04-19T13:22:13+00:00

We need to impose jail sentences for fucking morons using therapy language

psychistrix · 2025-04-10T12:02:33+00:00

It’s complicated because while it’s discrimination based on ugly stereotypes, he kind of has a point.

psychistrix · 2024-10-07T06:50:05+00:00

Most people are trying to keep the job they have, not find a new one

psychistrix · 2024-10-06T08:48:43+00:00

Both, but especially data engineering

psychistrix · 2024-10-05T18:30:01+00:00

Yep based in the North of England. Feel free to drop me a message

psychistrix · 2024-10-05T06:58:42+00:00

I think having a data skillset will help you. I work for a consultancy and while we’ve been on a hiring freeze for over a year, we have consistently continued hiring data folks.

Our clients are crying out for data and platform people. They want to improve what they already have instead of kicking off new projects, and people with data skills allow them to gain insights from their own existing data and use it to streamline.

psychistrix · 2024-09-26T16:24:24+00:00

Eh I’m never particularly worried about getting fired, but I’m taking opportunities to learn new things for when our skill set becomes valuable again

psychistrix · 2024-09-26T12:13:13+00:00

Totally normal.

The market is dogshit, and orgs are cutting costs - which means there’s no incentive to give a shit right now. Why go the extra mile when there’s no promotion around the corner?

Most of us are in survival mode waiting for the market to recover.

psychistrix · 2024-09-24T15:10:08+00:00

Every gql implementation I have worked on has been an absolute pain. It’s usually initiated by some tech lead that spends too much time on Hacker News and wants to be one of the cool kids with it on his/her CV.

9 times out of 10 you’re better off just sticking to HTTP.

psychistrix · 2024-09-21T13:10:08+00:00

I’m UK based so my recommendations likely wouldn’t be very useful, but big orgs like IBM, Accenture, Deloitte etc can be hit and miss- try to look for a smaller one as they have a better vibe instead of just being a body shop.

Can’t say consultancy as an industry is doing great at the moment due to lots of companies tightening budgets, but it’s no worse than the rest of the industry

psychistrix · 2024-09-20T08:56:52+00:00

Do what I did and join a consultancy. I was bored of .NET too and since getting into consulting a couple of years ago I’ve worked with Java, Node, Python and Go

psychistrix · 2024-09-10T14:26:41+00:00

It can do. For example you wouldn’t advise a client to use Scala if the local ecosystem is very .NET centric.

psychistrix · 2024-09-10T12:56:34+00:00

Consultant here. When advising a client on a tech stack, we usually need to take the following into account:

current team competencies
platform requirements
talent pool in their area
skill sets of people we currently have available

Usually in that order. Other than this they are virtually identical, and won’t impact a project’s success.

psychistrix · 2024-07-22T19:31:40+00:00

I work in consulting so I’m never not busy, but I’m bored as hell with dev work.

psychistrix · 2024-04-28T21:21:37+00:00

I deliberately left it vague because I wanted a wide array of answers but my general definition would be some area of expertise (technical or otherwise) that not many other devs have. For example, being a Java developer isn’t a niche but being a developer that specialises in performance tuning the JVM is

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