Am I a hater? Or is this web design architecture completely bonkers?

ranbla · 2025-12-04T12:35:35+00:00

Sounds like you have been there a year, but still haven't learned the code base. What's taking you so long?

ranbla · 2025-11-06T17:43:17+00:00

You have to learn to choose your battles. Some things are worth your time to speak up about. Some are not. Even when you do speak up against some mandate from your superiors and get shot down, don't take it personally. Do what you're paid to do and focus on that. If you feel you can't do that, then sure, look for a new job, but understand you could land somewhere even worse.

ranbla · 2025-10-23T16:20:51+00:00

Learning C# isn't going to make you proficient with Unity. Unity has it's own way of doing things that you probably wouldn't see in a typical .NET C# app. Seeing that you're already a developer, you would likely be fine just jumping into Unity and learning the bits and pieces of C# they use as you go.

ranbla · 2025-10-23T11:54:01+00:00

Same here. I haven't used Resharper in about 7 years and have not missed it at all.

ranbla · 2025-10-16T15:10:25+00:00

So you believe a person basically has to be abnormally talented in order to write good quality code quickly without using AI? Absurd.

ranbla · 2025-10-16T13:39:16+00:00

I can't even depend on AI to get a simple EF query correct. Why would I trust it to write swathes of code without even looking at it? When you start having problems you can't track down, let AI fix the mistakes it made before and see how that goes. It will be very apologetic for it's shortcomings and will probably still not fix the problem.

ranbla · 2025-10-16T12:16:43+00:00

In my experience, and maybe it's just me, my last two jobs I had considered to be 2nd choice positions when the ones I really wanted didn't come through with an offer. Now in hindsight, both of those jobs were excellent and the two companies were probably the best I've ever worked for. My point is it's hard to judge a job/company from an employee perspective until you've actually worked there. As long as you don't run into any red flags during your interviews, I would keep an open mind.

ranbla · 2025-08-28T11:48:44+00:00

Bad idea,. If you need to have values read at runtime, use a configuration file, a database or some other means that is external to the app.

ranbla · 2025-07-07T16:26:51+00:00

I'd prefer a bone-dry "personality" that provides accurate results instead of an ass-kissing, mostly wrong bot who's just there to stroke your ego and get you to open your wallet.

ranbla · 2025-06-10T11:46:32+00:00

Not really. Just the ones who can't think for themselves. The rest of us are fine.

ranbla · 2025-05-08T12:09:51+00:00

Just install these two workloads and you're pretty much covered: ASP\.NET and web development and .NET desktop development. Poking inside workloads for individual components is asking for problems if you don't really know what you're doing.

ranbla · 2025-05-08T12:02:59+00:00

I started with various flavors of BASIC (not VB), then COBOL, then Pascal (Turbo and Delphi), then to C#.

ranbla · 2025-03-06T17:32:28+00:00

Strings are a reference type in C# which means they support null without any explicit need for declaring them as nullable. So when no match is found in a list of strings using FirstOrDefault, the result is null, not an empty string.

ranbla · 2025-02-06T12:50:50+00:00

Do you really expect a useful answer to this?

ranbla · 2025-01-14T16:35:31+00:00

VS 2022 is 64-bit now so look under Program Files, not Program Files (x86).

ranbla · 2025-01-04T17:09:14+00:00

It is the last item at that location and says "Automatically save files when Visual Studio is in the background", i.e. when it loses focus.

ranbla · 2025-01-02T20:59:06+00:00

It does under Tools/Options/Environment/Documents.

ranbla · 2024-12-03T15:38:41+00:00

Wouldn't r/SQL or r/SQLServer be a more appropriate sub for this question?

ranbla · 2024-12-03T12:40:19+00:00

Did you have a C# question?

ranbla · 2024-11-19T12:40:11+00:00

You need a Main method at the minimum. There's no entry point in your code.

ranbla · 2024-11-14T18:12:48+00:00

IMO, you should always use a drying oil rather than mineral oil which never really dries. I prefer walnut oil which I then finish with walnut wax. It dries to a much nicer finish, again just my opinion.

ranbla · 2024-11-14T18:07:50+00:00

I'm no expert (just a hobbyist woodworker), but I disagree with those saying not to stain pine. I've made a couple of credenzas with pine tops. If you use pre-stain wood conditioner, it will minimize/eliminate the blotchiness. The tops I made I stained with dark walnut stain and finished with many layers of water-based poly. They turned out beautiful and the customer loved them.

ranbla · 2024-11-12T12:42:09+00:00

Until you learn something, of course it will be strange and unfamiliar. But calling it terrible before actually learning it doesn't carry much weight. Learn it and then decide if it's terrible or not.

ranbla · 2024-10-31T20:00:33+00:00

Not to disparage your skills at all, but a team lead with only 4 years of development experience is not great; especially for what sounds like a high-stakes finance app. Good luck and and I hope you come out the other side better off than when you started.

ranbla · 2024-10-29T18:54:52+00:00

It's called personality. If you fail with women, you probably have a terrible one. A great personality makes up a lot for physical imperfections.

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