Von_Broheim

@Von_Broheim@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you explain your reasons for jumping ship?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Last 2 job changes I told the recruiters my current company is not paying competitively and the annual raises are below inflation. Then we agreed on my expected salary range. They got back to me within a day or two with offers and both times I was signing a new contract within a week.

  They respected my bluntness and aimed to meet my expectations. I’m in the UK and I find that outside the hipster businesses or blatant venture capital scam startups, in tech, people respect being to the point and honest.

  Sadly both times my existing employers couldn’t afford to meet my new salary range when I got the counter offers, I would’ve stayed if they matched or exceed.

  I’m also honest and to the point when interviewing and my interview to offer ratio is about 1/3. The other times they find someone cheaper or they’re one of those companies that expect a full stack senior dev at mid tier salary. I never got ghosted or declined, it was always that I asked for too much money and I declined the counter offer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to design a database without writing an analysts first but basing it on the design?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I find that code written towards fulfilling some specific database design is usually a nightmare about 20minutes into the project. You end up with garbage semantics and interfaces because you’re building an entire app for the sake of storing stuff in a database. It’s an ass backwards approach to software development imo, software is about solving a human problem and data persistence is just one of the steps in the solution. Instead figure out what data your consumers need, then figure out what domain objects can be extracted from that, then plan how you will persist those domain objects. You’ll end up with less boilerplate, better naming of entities and services and you’ll also find that the words your team uses to talk to each other make sense to your business people not just your dba.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always write comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just do TDD instead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always write comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re writing an explanation of what your code does then, ding ding, you’re writing code. If your code has so many side effects and garbage in it that it’s incomprehensible without an explanation then it’s shit code and I doubt you’d be able to write a comment that explains it that is not equally as shit as the code. Commenting on how shit code works cannot be trusted because the commenter has already proved they’re shit at the job by creating that shit code.

  Best you can hope for is the comment contains a reason as to why the code is shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always write comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that code is language and people who write shit code tend to write shit comments, so no value is gained anyway. The sort of person who’d write good comments will most likely write good code where these comments are not needed, and when they intentionally write shit code they’d probably explain why.

  So best you can hope for is that both of these people write comments about why they decided to write a comment, and hopefully the person who writes shit code improves over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨web development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In culinary terms a back end is usually a pasta bake that’s undercooked in the middle but burnt on the edges. Front end is usually a pasta bake smoothie in a nice looking cup with an umbrella.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, large chunk of my CS class was extroverted. They liked to party, many were in relationships and we often went for pints between lectures at the campus bar.

  There ofc was a lot of weirdos and assholes around too, an above average amount, but they got outnumbered by normal dudes.

  Had a decent amount of women but by the end of the 1st year like half of the class was gone and most women left. They found it boring, too technical or they were not really ready for university, same for the dudes that dropped out. There ofc was sexism, but that came from niceguys or dudebros, they exist in every field.

  As for my professional life, most sexism I saw was from career managers and finance staff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ditching Docker for Local Development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Op comes off a bit, uninformed. E.g. I use docker engine and docker compose inside WSL2 on windows and performance is fine, then I use Intellij to manage images/containers, the service tab handles the basics. If I need to do anything very involved I use the cli.

  Docker is fine, the docker desktop panic really only revealed who never took the time to learn how to use docker and what the alternative UIs are.