1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

This reminds me of the kid mining with a small farm in my dorm wing back during a summer semester in 2018. It was only worth it because he wasn’t paying the electricity and summer dorms are free.

 

That was my beef! It comes out of the embedded device perfectly, all they had to do with it was keep it as in int. Didn’t even cross their mind I guess, except for when they decided to keep 6 digits for more “precision”


I asked them to change it and they told me to submit a change request and maybe they’ll get to it in a couple months because it’s gonna take days to rewrite all their tests.


I have so many questions about modern development practices.

 

Sort of a Beluga vibe

https://expeditionportal.com/forum/attachments/img_1038-jpeg.707374/

 

At a previous job a coworker got caught mining btc on his company laptop, at the office. He denied it, lied about it. They fired him, not for mining, but for lying about it. What an idiot.

 

Mid-mid-life-crisis-crisis time?

https://denver.craigslist.org/cto/d/arvada-corvette-z06-built-procharged/7444993192.html

 

I firmly believe in the usefulness of automated testing and test-driven development.

I have yet to be involved in a project where either was done well.

 

You thinking about changing industries?

 

Yeah fess up. If IT caught you you’re already screwed.

 

I watched fast job movement but stayed in a company through acquisitions or mergers for an average of 17 to 20 years each. One very large company where I worked in the early days encouraged its developers to change systems every 2 years and to move around the country. You were most valuable to them if you had been supporting/developing each one of the 5 major products and could adapt to different geographic cultures and/or countries.

It kept everybody on their toes by learning something new and kept the people from becoming provincial.

 

What a dumbass lol

When I get caught shit posting at work there's nothing to do but agree and laugh about it. They already know if they have to ask

 

Tan

 

I grew up in an atmosphere that was:

1) Test
2) Then code.
3) Then test again.

 

slap a shipping label right on the hub and send it

 

Yeah I get the concept, and i feel like he should have written tests after the end user (me) had verified that the output was what was needed.


I do think there needs to be some more sanity sometimes though, they spend a lot of time tinkering with their Ci/cd system, and writing tests, and the end product is still loaded with show stopper bugs that we find after just trying to install and use the product for its advertised features.

 

@Blue92 @BartMaster1234 Just had a power supply blow up in my face.


doesn't look like much but it let go similar to a snub nose 357 being shot right next to my ear. Pardon me while go unsoil my shorts

 

I am buying into automated/UI tests more and more

I just did a huge refactor and having had already written a bunch of UI tests that kept me sane

 

Nah, current job is great. There's plenty of room for me to write JavaScript here

That's wise of that company. I hope it was more encouraged than required. I know of other companies that liked to keep a rotation of staff to ensure nobody developed a social life that might interfere with their work.

I didn't mean to discount the value of changing your job to stay fresh, but I do think a lot of people who do that miss the opportunity to see their own work age. It's humbling.

 

Been there before. Though not one that big.

 

I spent a couple of years at a place where the source code was highly suspect with latent defects.

I would need to run a baseline test and get the users to sign off on the system's output before I would touch the code to make a requested modification. Once we agreed the output was how the system really worked, then I would go to work on making changes. After getting burned cleaning up some old jacked-up code that I could prove really never worked, I started getting pre-modification signoffs.

 

Airbag and all