codr4life

Worst idea ever, stay off the chemical cocktails. It only takes one objective look and a minimum of reflection to see what Big Pharma is up to, and it's not good for anyone. Speed will make you feel better-ish, but it will also turn you into a Zombie-like shell without substance.

I wouldn't recommend drugs at all without knowing more about the person I'm talking to, but I strongly prefer natural alternatives like weed and shrooms to untangle my my brain.

Back to subject. I would say stop worrying so much about what others are doing and trust your own intuition about what to learn and how to do it. Most of software is an ignorant echo chamber, most of the people who make noise couldn't write a creative line of code if their lives depended on it. Do your thing, I'm sure you didn't go through all the effort of coming here to be just another drone.

Exactly, this has nothing to do with free software. Most people are so messed up mentally and emotionally these days that they react like injured animals to any kind of outside stimuli. In the end I'm pretty sure they hate themselves more than anything. Expressing anger over the obvious injustice in this shit world is one thing, flaming any one who threatens to rock your boat another.

Word. I started coding at 8 and I'm not letting my children anywhere near the stupid gadgets before they're old enough to see through the illusion. Computers are stupid, humans are so much more than 1's and 0's. Teaching kids to code is about profits, period; and no one except our controllers really gives a shit about profits when it comes at the expense of human lives.

Go ahead and postpone life then, no one will stop you; life still doesn't give a shit about plans. You should try being close do dying a couple of times, that will align your perspective with reality in no time at all.

They would make some stupid shit up I'm sure. Sadly, I didn't have the resources to take them on legally. Never going to Portugal again, that much is certain.

And then you get run over by a bus.

Why would you work 80 hours per week when a couple of hours a day is enough to get by? Or even encourage that? There's plenty more important things in life than work and funny money, and plenty more important things in work than number of hours spent behind the keyboard.

Deep breaths, all is well :)

Modern Java is a pretty decent language. Servlets, spring, JPA; and the rest of the enterprise mumbo-jumbo is mostly over-engineered crap. Same goes for design patterns, they don't even come close to pulling their own weight. I suggest focusing on learning core Java 8, and leaving the enterprise crap to the enterprise. You will learn whatever you have to learn once you're there, filling your brain with bullshit and buzzwords ahead of time isn't going to help. At least that's my take home from 32 years in software, including several years of Java consulting.

Good luck!

This bullshit needs to stop. There is plenty of proof out there that microwaves interfere with the human body in a bad way on several levels. But I guess the hundreds of thousands of people who aren't yet completely numb to the effects are just making shit up? As did the Russian scientists who got microwave ovens banned there from the start.

Suggesting that people rub Aluminum and other poisonous chemicals into their skin to protect from life giving and healing sun light is just the icing on the cake. The sun heals cancer, sun-screen causes cancer; there's plenty of statistics out there to prove this and plenty of people who are old enough to remember a time before sun screens when cancer was a non-issue.

Stupid, ignorant, techno-babbling sheeple. I honestly don't know why I bother any more, saving this kind of stupidity from itself borders on interfering with evolution.

I'll tell you why; because they're willing to sell their soul, play the game, and not ask too many questions. This system was built by assholes; which is why it rewards assholes, and why it's going down fast.

I was responding to this kind of reasoning even being on the radar; the caption was enough to make me feel sick, didn't feel the need to go further. More like a Freudian slip in my ears, referring to specific human beings makes all the difference. Skimming the article proves my point, all about numbers with barely a mention of humans.

Fourth story down starts with 'Fuck you and die', pretty much sums it up for me. Facebook is the past, most people just haven't noticed yet.

Any culture that can't accept different is no culture at all. I once got fired from a startup for opting out of mandatory weekly surfing lessons, thank god in retrospect.

Correct. Assuming senior still means someone who leads/mentors; then yes, I have a hard time seeing a 25yo having the kind of perspective needed. I'm turning 40 any day now; not the Travis Boober kind of 40, the real one; and imagining me leading anything at 25 is a scary thought.

My programmers? Who the fuck do you think that you are? These are human beings; you, not so much.

What about life experience and perspective? Is he going to mentor/lead teams? I wouldn't have hired myself for that kind of scenario at 25, and I started coding at 8.

By calling bullshit on Science and opening our eyes to thousands of years of carefully planned deception.

I would recommend getting a plain old code solution up and running first, get the logic right. Once you have that staring you into the face, you will see what is needed where. Starting with the database paradigm will never lead to an optimal solution. Good luck!

Projects with a soul, that manage to push forward in some direction and don't get tangled up in details; code that surprises me. Puzzles and yet another whatever don't even register on my radar any more.

You mean, is there still space for C? I'd say yes. I can't remember last time I used classes/objects unless forced to, despite using polymorphism/runtime dispatch every day. Go for it, follow your intuition.

I think you're mixing up real work with fake work :) I've found that working on anything that doesn't distract and derail effectively kills the creative spirit. While I'm not at the top of anything, I'm guessing that the people you mention find their work distracting and derailing enough to stay awake.

There is plenty of available spectrum between native widgets and writing entire applications inside the web browser. Electron is a fashion statement and a convenient short cut to portability, that comes bundled with a mountain of complexity and technical debt. Moving the DOM to a native "server" removes most performance issues and allows applying the full power of a real language. https://github.com/codr4life/libc4dom/blob/master/tests/main...

Unfortunately, the only thing you learn from using a framework is using that framework. Best practice has very little to do with the best solution for any problem, it's a backup for when there isn't enough experience to make a better choice. Learning to be a better software engineer means writing your own code, there is just no way around that.

You are not alone. There are even older (40 and counting) farts out here fighting the same battle. And I agree, we need a better forum; one about substance rather than image and awesome profits.

I prefer tabs, but it's not a religious thing for me. I don't get any errors building the library, and I never saw that error; did you check the signatures?

Jenkins integration is obviously not going to work as that was never the goal. I think CI is mostly a cover up for failing culture, an excuse to waste more time on ceremony.

I'm glad you got your rant.

It's amazing how we can go from discussing the latest CIA leak to clamoring for ever more connected gadgets. And from Amazon and Google, no less; two of the most suspect companies available. Jeff Bezos received plenty of millions from the CIA to build the cloud infrastructure they needed, and Google has it's head so far up the elite ass that I wouldn't want their stupid gadgets anywhere near me or my family.

The only thing you can say in JUnit is that this test is part of that suite. My tests have several aspects that I'm interesting in using for triggering. Sometimes I want to run all DB tests, regardless of which suite they're in. That's what I mean by strict hierarchies. Part of the point I'm trying to make here is that once you've written a couple of test suites, you probably have a pretty good idea what tools you would prefer; and it's totally OK to dive in and have a go; there is nothing sacred or magic about test frameworks that rules out rolling your own. When it comes to test frameworks, most of what I've seen so far is over-engineered crap in my eyes; that is my authentic experience from 32 years of writing code in umpteen languages.

I've found it worthwhile to add a thin facade on top of assert to support out-of-band reporting of errors even if NDEBUG is disabled: https://github.com/codr4life/libc4/blob/master/src/c4/assert...

Would you rather have your psychopath stalkers tearing their hair out over the Boost dependency you dragged in? Once written it stays mostly the same, there is not much to maintain. I can't see why rolling your own framework would introduce conflicts; unless you're in an environment where writing code to solve problems is frowned upon, but then you have worse problems.

The posted approach clocks in at 300 lines of C, and comes with the freedom to add whatever features you want. Testing is as fundamental as it gets; and unless you're aiming to write the One True Testing Framework, it's at most a days work to get one up and running. Google Test and Boost Unit try to hard to be everything for everyone, which makes them too complex; while failing to add anything that was missing from plain functions and asserts.