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Lithu

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Because CTOs are selected for big org operations not developers. Whatever programming they had which likely wasn’t involved gets left behind on that techie management climb.

Yeah I thought something similar when I read it but it was still amusingly written I thought.

I really know nothing about the mid to upper management at the place I work. My direct supervisor and his boss are smart and are programmers/ex-programmers which is a huge help since it’s easy to explain issues to them when I need to. I maybe cross paths with someone in middle management once every few years and it’s usually when there’s 30 to 50 people on the call because something shat itself in production.

I’m also lucky I have two lower level managers (one IT, one in a business area) who go in to bat for me every 3 months when my contract comes up for renewal. This next renewal which just got approved apparently came with “an option to extend” which I assume means the mid level manager got tired of being harassed by those guys and I’ll get a renewal next time easily if there’s work (and there always is).

Don’t worry. We always have a very prestigious position available here for app development.

Gators1

It’s always available because you can’t find anyone who will work for Lithucoins?

Lithu

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

It’s always available because you can’t find anyone who will work for Lithucoins?

Typical Democrat always lying.

PRESTIGIOUS POSITION. We don’t hand out LithuCoins™ to just anyone, nor provide sought after opportunities for the much awaited LOT 4.0.

Kilemall

@Lithu said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

It’s always available because you can’t find anyone who will work for Lithucoins?

Typical Democrat always lying.

PRESTIGIOUS POSITION. We don’t hand out LithuCoins™ to just anyone, nor provide sought after opportunities for the much awaited LOT 4.0.

The Rats need your kind of hucksterism, er thinking.

Tazz

Kilemall

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Been there done that.

Kilemall

Wasn’t going to say anything since it’s company business, but since 94% of all US healthcare has been impacted, I will tell you I am quite busy with this charming bit of hackery-

Change Healthcare - Wikipedia

Fucking with healthcare should be life prison terms. Even if they aren’t hacking machines that go beep and directly keep people alive, any disruptions and distractions is going to lead to avoidable deaths even if it’s just because people’s surgery was delayed.

Kilemall

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Fucking with healthcare should be life prison terms. Even if they aren’t hacking machines that go beep and directly keep people alive, any disruptions and distractions is going to lead to avoidable deaths even if it’s just because people’s surgery was delayed.

It’s a billing clearinghouse so it doesn’t stop emergency surgery but it does kill pharmacy account payout when you need to get it now and don’t have hundreds or thousands on hand to buy it retail.

Depending on how much the doctor/medical org is in, could be total cash flow starvation- any hospital living procedure to bill paycheck might go under or destroy any savings they have, then care is impacted.

I think I must run the most expensive (per-user) accounting system on the planet. It’s completely custom built, multi-user, multi-language, multi-currency and, now since Chhunly does more important work, has exactly one user (me).

In previous years, I fell for the mistake of enhancing it whilst I was actually doing my end of year taxes but, since I prefer programming to accounting, it just meant I lost weeks doing stuff I enjoyed while my tax deadline drew closer without any real progress. Now I wait until after my taxes are done and fix things that irritated me during the previous weeks. To that end, I just implemented dark mode:

I could probably just use an off the shelf solution (or even just a spreadsheet) but one of the technologies it uses is something I use professionally so it’s good to ride the bleeding edge of that tech and experiment with it / learn. And it’s nice having the freedom to make it do whatever I want. For example, the number of web apps that insist on blowing out the back of my retinas at 11pm because they still don’t support dark mode in 2024 is too damn high.

Jam

Probably 30 years ago I set up an Excel workbook which has served me well to this day.

I have an accountant, a necessary evil for the business, and I just send him the workbook each year around the end of February or towards the middle of March.

I suppose if I were a programmer I would have looked for a more difficult way to get the job done. ;-)

Gators1

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I think I must run the most expensive (per-user) accounting system on the planet. It’s completely custom built, multi-user, multi-language, multi-currency and, now since Chhunly does more important work, has exactly one user (me).

In previous years, I fell for the mistake of enhancing it whilst I was actually doing my end of year taxes but, since I prefer programming to accounting, it just meant I lost weeks doing stuff I enjoyed while my tax deadline drew closer without any real progress. Now I wait until after my taxes are done and fix things that irritated me during the previous weeks. To that end, I just implemented dark mode:

I could probably just use an off the shelf solution (or even just a spreadsheet) but one of the technologies it uses is something I use professionally so it’s good to ride the bleeding edge of that tech and experiment with it / learn. And it’s nice having the freedom to make it do whatever I want. For example, the number of web apps that insist on blowing out the back of my retinas at 11pm because they still don’t support dark mode in 2024 is too damn high.

What’s the blurred out line? Porn subscriptions?

Was just wrestling more than I should have to with a simple MongoDb query when I was reminded by how much I dislike MongoDB in general. Actually, I’m not a huge fan of document databases to begin with but they’ve certainly got their very specific use cases. They aren’t a replacement though for relational DBs in 99% of normal enterprise software. Unfortunately, I chose a software stack that was hot in 2014 that was based on MongoDB which was also hot a decade ago and now I’m fucking stuck with it unless I want to spend weeks on a rewrite.

When I was first exposed to the MongoDB hype, lets say I was highly skeptical. After years of using now, I’m certain that whatever dubious time savings it gives you are wasted in working around its issues. Mongo seems to be on the nose now maybe in part because they are trying to squeeze money out of its users but at least in part because for most people it was a wasted fucking investment based on bullshit marketing lies:

Nemil Dalal / Aug 29, 2017

The Marketing Behind MongoDB

Countless NoSQL databases competed to be the database of choice. MongoDB's marketing strategy helped it become the winner.

the majority of application software that developers write will be in use cases that are better fits for MongoDB and other NoSQL technology

MongoDB’s CTO feels that nearly 90% of database installations would benefit from switching to MongoDB.

I fucking tech marketing.

Jam

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I fucking tech marketing.

When one is filled with hate, sometimes words go missing.

I bet that I can read your mind though! ;-)

Gators1

@Hog welcome to my world but it’s worse by eleventy. There are hundreds of tools out there all with hungry sales reps trying to tell you that their shit will change the world and the competing tools are terrible. The chart below was made to show how crazy it is, but the crazy thing is each box isn’t even all of them for that category.

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@Jam said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I fucking tech marketing.

When one is filled with hate, sometimes words go missing.

I bet that I can read your mind though! ;-)

I had to re-read the line you quoted 3 times before I saw the problem.

I drop/miss words way too often in my writing. I read a how-to book on speed reading in my early teens and I think it permanently broke me because unfortunately I seem to write the same way I read - leaving out chunks that can be inferred from the surrounding words.

Lob12

I speed read everything Jam posts and it’s been serving me well so far!

Gators1

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I speed read everything Jam posts and it’s been serving me well so far!

Damn you are a masochist. Actually listen to Putin…read Jam… I scroll past without reading anything and then post the frog.

Kilemall

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I fucking tech marketing.

When one is filled with hate, sometimes words go missing.

I bet that I can read your mind though! ;-)

He constructed it correctly.

Kilemall

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I speed read everything Jam posts and it’s been serving me well so far!

I actually read them because it’s same speed comprehension for me. He makes points that are valid but more complex then USA Today level writing, but a LOT of you are missing it.