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I'd seriously consider migrating to bitbucket if this happens.

I tried to use it as replacement for ftp for deployment 14 years ago, in part because I could mount a drive and perform some costly (for a VM at that time) sanity checks on the deployment. It was OK, but too unstable on that kind of connection. Now with jenkins, sonar, docker... CI/CD has become way easier. Also cloud services with a REST API replace pretty much any functionality offered by WebDAV in a simpler, more efficient, more versatile, more interoperable and scalable way, so... Not relevant anymore, I think.

you lost me at not opening our platform to hate speech. Even for an open minded person there must be limits. I keep remembering that quote: "If you open your mind too much, your brain will fall out". They can build their hate internet if they want. With blackjack, and hookers!

This is an open invitation to break programs. It's so cool. I always, compulsively, accept those kind of invitations. I, like most people here, keep breaking eclipse and then rebuilding it to see what happens. Unfortunately the industry often tends to go right the opposite way. That's why they keep sending us off to very expensive trainings and buying licenses on tools we cannot break by ourselves.

This is cool but where are the metrics, examples?

You got it relatively easy: I assume you don't have any good contacts on the business, which is the obvious first choice. You can find clients at upwork or some freelancing site. Prioritize portfolio building and long term projects/recurring clients over one time deals and money. After a trial period, if you are good and trustworthy enough, ditch upwork and start charging them what you are really worth. Obviously don't be a dick and be upfront about your intentions of charging them more when you prove them you are worth it. It is a lengthy process. You need to be reliable and smart, otherwise you will not find good clients and you'll be taken advantage of. I don't want to discourage you but if you aren't good enough yet and you need the money now you'll be better off working at mcdonalds or some other simple teenage job.

hey, hello, hi... have you ever read about em? just set the default size to whatever fits the resolution you are dealing with? viewport? responsive design? web? computer? anything? is this for real?

I have seen a few online videos about a fantastic method that can get you started at 10000 eur/month guaranteed. The sky is the limit.

On top of that you only have to work like 4-6 hours a week, without commuting. You can travel as much as you want. You can stay at home if you want. Stay at home mums and wives and dads and husbands are elegible too, no matter how busy they are taking care of their families! There are no gender, age, religion, race or country of origin requirements. It doesn't matter how you look either. You can be thin or fat, big or small, cute or ugly or totally average. You can be shy or outspoken. No prior education, formal or informal, of any kind is required. It doesn't matter if you speak English as a second language and not too well. You don't need an expensive diploma from a fancy and prestigious University and waste years of your life to get it so you can be accepted and maybe over the years recognized and respected after you spend at least a few years as an intern or entrepreneur or start-up founder or a mix of them in the corporate world. And, by the way, the business model is hand fed to you; you don't really need to come up with it by yourself, although if you have any business ideas you can ensure they'll succeed by themselves and make you rich in days by following this method. If you are a little suspicious don't be. Believe it or not, it's all legit.

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If the explanation looks like this I am not sure I want to see how the code looks like..

http://imgur.com/a/E0idH

NO. No way. It's the second time I see this here. The answer is not a hybrid that is neither 2.7 nor 3.0 compliant. That's just a third, useless standard. Let's just please stick to one standard, preferably the most current from the official ones and start porting/rewriting whatever we need until we need the old one no more. Please.

Coding ability wise, elite coders are usually already well above the average professional senior programmer level while still in their teens (emphasis on coding ability wise).

But,

- They are a tiny fraction of the collective. Pretty much everyone else sucks at programming.

- Coding is like working out. Even if you are not elite, you can improve a lot if you persevere. All the way through your entire career, no matter how long.

- It is not all about coding skills. Maybe for those 40k LOC one-man app guys it is, but that's not even the most common scenario anymore. You can compensate with other skills such as being inspirational, having good insights, ability to QA a product/design and identify its weak spots and potential on the early stages, ability to break down a problem into smaller ones and prioritize your tasks, ability to evaluate, understand and communicate with team mates and clients (social skills with coding skills is always a winning combination)... The list goes on and on. Even though it's not all related to programming, it is stuff you'll eventually have to deal with as a professional programmer, specially in the startup world.

Code is reusable. You don't have to be a genius coder to put together a slick and successful app. Even for the most innovative software, the code of every part is most likely already there, written by experts in a clean, efficient, robust and well-documented module you can use free of charge, even commercially. So go on and use it. (I know it's actually not that easy, but mostly piles of crap until you find something useful and learn to use it properly. You get better at that too).

Don't even bother reading it: whenever there is a question on the headline of an article from a serious major news outlet, the answer is NO. Seriously it's like that EVERY time. 100%. Literally. Early ages of click-bait when it wasn't even clicking but buying read-bait. Sensationalism and controversy always sell but they have to keep some kind of integrity to be taken seriously, right? Anyway: Challenger, Columbia, Apollo 1. Those were actual disasters. That was actually taking it too far. And the industry learned from those failures and put in place the necessary failsafes to avoid them. Doesn't mean there aren't more to come. Blowing up stuff to get into space is still blowing up stuff. Nevermind driving thousands of cars in actual traffic millions of miles. But what SpaceX is doing, testing on production non manned vehicles, doesn't even compare to what both USA and Russia were doing during the space race. The only problem is it upsets shareholders, and I'm pretty sure the amount of people trying to short this stock is reaching critical mass, so they better be more careful because the real shitstorm of defamation and FUD is yet to come...

Awesome. Really. But it can also be taken down with a sneeze. And these are not easily fixable details, they come from the foundation, so I doubt it will ever leave the lab. Reminds me a bit of the three little piggies tale.

Whitout being more specific I would say that, in general, fighting the policies works even worse than ignoring them. Try to become somebody who can dictate them.

you took the ponzi scheme and applied it to marketing. That's glorious. I am starting to believe what I once read about the brightest minds of our era being too busy trying to devise new effective ways to make us click on the ads.

In many households the mother manages the father's wage down to the last penny. Father has little to no saying on what it is spent on. It may not be the rule but it is relevant enough not to ignore it. I would even dare to say it is more common than working mother / stay at home father combination, but I have no data to back it up.

That sentence makes about as much sense as "immolation training on an atheist club".

It's arithmetic, not calculus. In both your performance depends on three factors: technique, practice, capacity. I don't know about capacity, but practising and learning calculus techniques is not the same as practising and learning arithmetic techniques. In fact if you wan't to get good at calculus it is probably counter-productive and inneficient to waste time on solving arithmetic operations "by hand" when using a calculator will be much faster and help you keep focused on the calculus problem at hand.

You are a n00b. Don't worry about it. You might think you are not. You might even think you have a shit-ton of experience because you wrote your first program when you were 5 and you've got a CS degree and you have worked on many personal projects and some freelance stuff. But your lack of self-confidence and your view of everybody else's mental processes show that you are new to the industry, you might be suffering from impostor syndrome, and your boss/employers might be taking advantage of that by giving you the n00b treatment, which basically consists on assigning you titanic tasks you are not prepared to do and leave you to your own devices, requesting that you finish them in what would barely be enough time for somebody who has done it a million times already (and charges a much higher rate for doing it). You are cannon fodder. You will either get through this phase and move on to the next level where you can accurately assess your competences and delegate to your underlings whatever tasks you are not fully capable of doing efficiently yet and don't care about; or you will burn out, give up and let your career die. I don't think you have just discovered you are not a genius. But not everybody in the industry is a genius. In fact there are very few, and soon enough you will be spending most of your time battling with less experienced, less competent people suffering from Dunning–Kruger effect delusions and their clusterfucks. Because they are the fewer, but boy do they mess up.

reliably <> accurately

Wow, some psychology professor who read Ender's Game (Probably watched it since, come on, psychology is science at its laziest and the timeframes match) decided to make a quick buck by publishing an online paywalled paper on the "discovery" "for the first time" that people give up signs of their intelligence when observed performing an activity that requires them to use it (which matches the description of an infinite number of activities...).

Hey, I can reliably measure your intelligence by reading your comments on Hacker News. May I have your cash-money bucks, please? $_$ I have been working hard with hundreds of my students to prove it! For the first time ever! $_$

The fact is that you need specifically designed games for an accurate test. Most video games just won't make the cut. Even a combination of them: take the top 10 from steam. I dare anyone to accurately measure the IQ of their players just by looking at them them play in whatever lab environment they want. An those would be pretty boring. They would be in fact, tests.

Beware of the long post ahead:

Mine is a very common and uninteresting story. It is not even a cautionary tale, but I'll write it anyway to remind myself of the choices that I made and why I made them, because I think it will help me and because maybe it will help somebody else.

I used to drink when I partied with my friends, mostly on weekends and vacations. I kept it like this for almost 12 years.

5 years ago I started living with my girlfriend and drinking frequently with her and when we met our relatives; then I started to drink alone from time to time when my girlfriend was not around; then I started to get drunk every night because it helped me unwind, numb myself, forget about all my problems, release stress and fall asleep after 11-12 straight hours in front of the screen trying to meet deadlines. I had perfectly adjusted the amount of alcohol that wouldn't get me hung over or impact my performance the next day at work so I wouldn't get in trouble, and wouldn't drink a drop less nor a drop more. I even managed to stuck to that amount most weekends in order to avoid building up tolerance, and because I hated wasting my free time suffering from hang overs. I went like this for more than a year. Then I broke up with my 5-year girlfriend after a few months of maintaining a long distance relationship and realizing our life goals were not compatible any more.

I decided to stop drinking because I knew without her I'd soon find myself overdoing it (even more). I thought it wasn't going to be an easy choice to maintain, feeling depressed most of the time and still feeling at the lowest point of my life so far with not much hope of it getting much better; but, surprisingly, feeling bad about myself has been very helpful: I got drunk with about half a bottle of wine 5 times in the last 3 months (I am a little guy), only 3 of those alone, and that was all the drinking I have done since.

I do not believe in a higher power, self labeling yourself an alcoholic and get a chronic disease diagnose from anything other than a doctor, a specialized one, with enough data to produce an informed diagnostic. I don't think I can talk or think myself out of alcoholism; only action and persistence can help. I find motivation in all the things I love to do and in all the people I love and I love spending my time with. I even find motivation in my dull work because I have plenty of room and opportunity to improve and get better conditions.

I respect the 12 step program and its effectiveness as a generic solution for a significant number of people dealing with addiction. It is probably the best there is right now, but it doesn't work for everyone, not even the majority of people. I think I have a basic understanding on how addiction works and how it works differently on different kinds of people. I knew that I was in a very dangerous track of self destruction and I decided not to let the situation escalate any more when I was still in control. It took no effort at all, just the proper motivation and realizing I was only going to find misery and self hatred at the end of that road. I know I may find myself in the same situation again, and that I might not be able to get out so easily next time, if there is one. I do enjoy drinking, and I enjoy drinking alone to take the edge off; but right now I feel pretty confident about my self-discipline, and there are enough safe ways to find the comfort and relaxation I need that work for me. Healthy and non dangerous ways that make me feel better about myself instead of the opposite. I do believe in moderation and a reasonable amount of self control, and I am committed to drink even less than what I am drinking now. Like I wrote, mine is a very common story that I hope will have a common ending too, but a good one: "And he kept the drinking social and moderated, and never again used it as a crouch". Or, perhaps: "And he stopped drinking, and nobody batted an eye".

TL;DR: The drinking is not the problem, is the addiction you need to avoid. Even if you are not an addict or are in the first stages towards heavy addiction, drinking is easily replaceable with many things that can improve your life and how you feel about yourself. Do not procrastinate that decision. It is not tomorrow. It is not after the next drink, or this one. It is now. Keeping the drinking social and with moderation or not doing it at all, combined with a slight effort to find healthier enjoyable activities to occupy yourself with is a very good thing to do for yourself and to give as a present to your future self for enduring the consequences of all the mistakes you are going to keep making.

And that's my story, at least up to this point. I haven't talked to anybody about it, I know it is a drag to read or hear people talking about boring stuff like this. But still, it feels good to let it out in the open.

A connection is not an extension. It is a poor replacement for what is suggested; extension of a system by employing multiple devices. Think of dual screen duplicating desktop vs an actual extension of the desktop on the second screen.

Come on, are you freaking kidding me? They should do one about C way before even mentioning COBOL. 43 years old and still rocking!

JE SUIS CHARLIE is a movement that condemns killing. It is a movement for freedom and freedom of expression. Some people seem to be pissed off because the killings that started the movement were not the ones that happened before or will happen later. That's plain stupid.

Tell him to join a local open source community and learn to work in group projects and to code in a team close to other people (Like the GDG, for example. It's free and in my town every week or two they organize meetings, hackatons, workshops and many interesting talks which they post on youtube in case you cannot attend that day). He can be useful even if he knows nothing, by being assigned the most trivial tasks or watch and help. Tell him to find a mentor and to get used to version control, code reviews, test writing, quality assessment, applying design patterns. Those are every bit as important as just learning how to code algorithms. I believe coding by yourself tends to make you a "bad" coder, in the sense that unless you are amazingly self disciplined you can take on a lot of bad habits that are very difficult to get rid off later on.

confirmed. It's a scam.

P.P.S: I'm writing this from an hotel room, as I took a week off my regular job to do a consulting joband travel a bit. So I guess I haven't grown so tired of it after all :-)

I totally agree with namecast.

Also, it depends on your destination(s) and your connections along the way.

If you don't mind traveling cheap and light to cheap countries and live off a traveling bag on student dorms and the like, you'll be ok.

It was a really nice experience for me but it was more of a working vacation and by the end of the second year I was already tired of the working part: uncomfortable hours, environment and gigs. I was glad I finally got back home, earning the good bucks on a regular schedule again.

P.S: The "wifi drama" is true, and no better way to express it.

Good advice, indeed. I don't think I'd have any problems getting a new job right know, because everybody wants junior developers, and practically none of them are as experienced as I am.

A few years from now it might be very different, so if I intend to switch I should better do it ASAP.

The only problem is: What do I do to avoid ending up in the same situation? I did my research on this company before and during the interview, and it's almost impossible to know what happens inside the office beforehand (Even people you might know already working there usually won't tell you anything about what's going wrong, because it can damage the company image...)

That's why I want to know if that's something every company has to deal with, and what are the chances of finding one where it doesn't happen.

Thanks :-) I'm actually quite happy. The pay is decent, the colleagues are great, smart and they have a good deal of experience. Plus the office is not far away from home. From what I know from my college partners, such a combination is quite difficult to achieve.

I enjoy what I do and I am learning a lot. I see many things I like and many other I would do on a very different way, such as:

- There is no automated testing at all,

- No separation of duties either,

- The version control system is ridiculously outdated, misused and underused,

- The deployment strategy is practically non-existent,

- The upper management constantly tries to push technical decisions that sell great to the client but make little to no sense on the project context, adding many man hours to achieve the same results.

Fortunately everybody identifies this issues and they do what they can to fix them (except for the automated testing, it seems like they all think it's worthless), but the company is growing and external image is all they can care about for most of the time...