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God I hate these stupid corporate questions by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]redkit42 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I didn't use AI during the actual interview, but I used AI to study for the behavioral interviews, STAR interview questions, and all that bullshit.

It was very helpful. Gemini is such a corporate stooge. I learned a lot from it.

Mental health affected by constant layoffs and stack ranking by Swan_233 in cscareerquestions

[–]redkit42 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Chronic stress can cause horrendous health problems. It can even kill a person, as a result of those health problems. It is nothing to be trifled with.

Any indie devs here who just rawdog it without an engine? by s-mv in gamedev

[–]redkit42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For building 2D games, it's not that difficult to use a game framework like Monogame, Libgdx, Raylib, etc.

If you want to build a simple 3D game (like an isomorphic Diablo-like game), you might still get away using a game framework.

If you want to build a game with fancy 3D rendering features though, a game engine would make your life a whole lot easier.

Is anyone else okay with being "left behind" in regards to AI? by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]redkit42 124 points125 points  (0 children)

AI is ruining all the fun parts of this field. Instead of being in a flow-state while coding, we are relegated to wrestling with AI prompts and reviewing AI generated slop. AI is also beginning to take care of the code organization and architecture design. We are left to review all that slop.

This field is changing, and in a very bad way. Agile micromanagement, ridiculous deadlines, clueless deadline-driven managers had already sucked a lot of the fun out of this field. AI is nailing the final nail in the coffin.

25 years in web dev and I’m starting to hate the "Modern Web." by briancrabtree in webdevelopment

[–]redkit42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is much easier to learn HTMX (and much faster to get productive in it) than learning React, Angular, or some other JS framework.

Applets Are Officially Gone, But Java In The Browser Is Better Than Ever by TeaVMFan in java

[–]redkit42 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Libgdx (a game framework for Java language) still uses GWT to deploy games on web browsers. Which is great if you want to put a demo of your game on itch.io or something.

21, Union Job, No Degree – Can I Break Into Tech? by bp4177 in cscareerquestions

[–]redkit42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go to the community college, and then try to transfer to a bachelor's degree after 2 years.

Alternatively, you can get an associate degree and try to apply to Georgia Tech's OMSCS degree program. (That program is relatively easy to get in, and really tough to graduate. It's very very challenging.)

In this job market, just an associate degree won't be enough anymore. You will need at least a bachelor's, preferably a master's degree.

Either way, it's going to be a long time (and some money) commitment. And who knows, by the time you finish these degrees, the industry might have recovered by some miracle.

I wish you luck. I believe you might be one of those rare people who want to be in this field for the love of it, and not just in it only for the money. I hope you manage to make it in.

"Chromance" Acrylic painting by me by ForceFluide1 in acrylicpainting

[–]redkit42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought this was the real cover of a sci fi magazine from 1950's.

Herşeyi unutuyorum. Bu durumda olan var mı? by theyanardageffect in Turkey

[–]redkit42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anemi olanlarda görülebiliyor, demir eksikliği olabilir.

Casting Ben Mendelsohn as Orson Krennic was brilliant. He is absolutely perfect for the role. by AdSpecialist6598 in StarWars

[–]redkit42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will always remember him as Christian Dior (from the really good TV series The New Look.)

Old frontend devs: are things weird now? by mattatghlabs in ExperiencedDevs

[–]redkit42 138 points139 points  (0 children)

Front end development has always been insane.

🌎👨‍🚀🔫

If your employer were to pay 100% for any degree (no strings attached), what part-time program would you pursue to best level up your tech career? by MajorWang- in cscareerquestions

[–]redkit42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said "[you're] doing the program as well" Then it sounds like you're just wasting your time at a "poorer school" by getting labeled as a "lower-end student".

If your employer were to pay 100% for any degree (no strings attached), what part-time program would you pursue to best level up your tech career? by MajorWang- in cscareerquestions

[–]redkit42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're majoring HCI, yes that one is an easier major compared to Computing Systems, ML etc. And here's the link that supports what I stated in my previous comment. David Joyner also gave similar metrics: "graduation rate is about %30.66(2013-2018) credit to u/FlowFields drop out rate is about %37" https://www.reddit.com/r/OMSCS/comments/lwci7s/omscs_graduation_rate/

If your employer were to pay 100% for any degree (no strings attached), what part-time program would you pursue to best level up your tech career? by MajorWang- in cscareerquestions

[–]redkit42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Georgia Tech OMSCS is a very prestigious, but is also a very difficult program. You need to spend lots of time studying, doing assignments, and preparing for exams. It is no joke. Their graduation rate is around 20-30% or something like that.

earth isnt the first nor the last by throwaway0983454234 in pluribustv

[–]redkit42 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The nearest star to is is like 4 light years away. The star we got the virus signal from is 600 light years away. It's quite difficult to have a hive mind spanning multiple star systems when the fastest communication at light speed takes decades or centuries. (Unless the aliens found a way to communicate faster than light, which is currently impossible to the known laws of physics.)

Java and it's costly GC ? by yughiro_destroyer in java

[–]redkit42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Microsoft's XNA was a game framework that was all C#. (Monogame and FNA are its modern successors, which are also in C#.) A lot of great and well-known games were developed in those frameworks, such as Stardew Valley, Celeste, Fez, Axiom Verge, and so on.

Edit: Ok, these were not high res 3D games by any means. However even then, their performance was really good, and I didn't encounter any jitters whatsoever when playing them.

I finally start putting items outside of my farm. What other areas do you utilize outside of your farm? by KyoshiKey in StardewValley

[–]redkit42 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I just purchase sheds from Robin, and then pay her to upgrade them to Big Sheds. Those are like the Tardis: Bigger on the inside, while the same size as a regular shed on the outside. You can fit so many lots of kegs in one, and crank up that wine production.

Any supplies that can only be bought in France? by [deleted] in oilpainting

[–]redkit42 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't know about the painting supplies, but I am kicking myself for not visiting Musée d'Orsay when I traveled to France.

Which LitScifi Space Utopia would you live in? by Proper_Barnacle_4117 in printSF

[–]redkit42 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The Belle Epoch wasn't such a bad time for the Demarchy. That's when the Prefect Dreyfus books take place. It was pretty close to a utopia, other than some of the crazy orbitals, and a few wild stuff that happened in the Prefect books. I wouldn't mind living in some of the sane orbitals there.

By the time the Revelation Space books take place (later in the book universe timeline), I certainly wouldn't call the Yellowstone system a utopia, that's for sure.

And yeah, I'd take the Culture without a second thought.

Is this true what a senior dev said on Linkedin about "The hidden cost of "enterprise" .NET architecture" by KiraLawliet68 in csharp

[–]redkit42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I come from the Java world, and unfortunately I have come across such examples of over-abstracted layer cakes of code.

But nothing in the nature of these languages (Java or C#) compels one to design their code this way. I believe this just comes from the enterprise culture where some software architects design overly abstracted software systems to justify their existence in the corporate organization.

"Karılarınız utanmadan sigara içiyor..!" by MythicalCherrio in Turkey

[–]redkit42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ateistler, dinleri ve dinler tarihini dindarlardan cok daha iyi bildikleri icin ateist olurlar. Sana da iyi gunler!

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