The OFFICIAL programming thread

Gators1

Fucking Indians!

Should Indians Contribute To Open Source?

Tazz

Would you like an orange squishy with that?

Maybe related but I watched a vid a couple of days ago about how a lot of younger programmers think “contributing to open source” is a necessary box you have to check off if you want to get hired these days. That attitude is attracting a lot of low value contributions from people who otherwise have no interest in the project they are contributing to.

Re Indian programmers: The client I work for hired one of the many guys I interviewed for them late last year and he started a couple of weeks ago. He’s turning out to be great. He’s pretty switched on and although still a little green in some areas, he really gets it and he learns quick. It’s such a fucking relief after having to work with the so many mostly low quality programmers from the IT managed services firm they use. I used to try to train those guys up but they’d fucking quit all the time because the conditions they worked under were so bad and they had no real connection or loyalty to the client. It’s nice to be able to mentor this new guy and not be afraid I’m wasting my time. He’ll likely take over some of the work I’ve been doing when my contract is up so it will also be nice to know that stuff will be in good hands.

Kilemall

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Maybe related but I watched a vid a couple of days ago about how it’s considered by a lot of younger programs that “contributing to open source” is a necessary box you have to tick off if you want to get hired these days. That attitude is attracting a lot of low value contributions from people who otherwise have no interest in the project they are contributing to.

Re Indian programmers: The client I work for hired one of the many guys I interviewed for them late last year and he started a couple of weeks ago. He’s turning out to be great. He’s pretty switched on and although still a little green in some areas, he really gets it and he learns quick. It’s such a fucking relief after having to work with the so many mostly low quality programmers from the IT managed services firm they use. I used to try to train those guys up but they’d fucking quit all the time because the conditions they worked under were so bad and they had no real connection or loyalty to the client. It’s nice to be able to mentor this new guy and not be afraid I’m wasting my time. He’ll likely take over the work I’ve been doing when my contract is up so it will also be nice to know that stuff will be in good hands.

Ya succession is on my mind nowadays.

Gators1

@Hog Apparently the blow up started with the “influencer” below. He was bitching about people trying to contribute to open source to buff their resumes or even get a free tshirt. So he posted a video about it that didn’t target Indians, but that spawned other videos and comments about Indians because they are significant offenders apparently. So then the influencer had to make another video saying “no racis” and then showing an Indian video teaching these people to go make contributions but half assed, like commenting their name in the code to get credit for the commit. There are some good Indian coders that I have worked with, but at the upper end I tend to hate working with their management and consultants (actually from India, not Americanized). It’s more a cultural issue than technical.

Don't Contribute to Open Source

I screwed up.

Kilemall

We dealt with the Tata people in the 80s when they were first starting out, and there is a SE Asian sub village in one of our analyst kingdoms. You end up dealing with their caste type stuff no matter what you do to step on it.

I deal with tatas daily

Kilemall

@Zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I deal with tatas daily

Indian programmers? Not sure how they would help ranching.

Tazz

TATA makes Jaguar, and Land Rover.

Poor Zep.
Theres A Lot Of Misunderstanding Misunderstanding GIF

NSFW: Language warning

The Unhinged Nature of GTA V Source Code

Snippet of an email I just sent:

Having reviewed the changes on (redacted) in conjunction with the reference (redacted), I don’t believe it will cause a problem when migrated to production.

*I don’t believe". Urgh.

I believe there’s a fucking problem with our system landscape and testing methodology if it requires me to make statements of faith about what is going to happen when changes are migrated to production.

Gators1

As a person of faith, why not? Maybe end with “may the good lord bless you code”.

Yeah I should have at least ended the email with “Pray for us all”.

Anyway, I took one for the team. I consulted with two other devs before sending that email but I didn’t write “we believe”. I don’t know for sure but I’m guessing I can afford unemployment better than they can.

Body hell, the manager I wrote the above to approved the wrong change. That’s probably on its way to production and the change I was asked to investigate has probably missed the cutoff window.

This thing is giving me bad vibes now.

Pakoon

Can I have your stuff?

Kilemall

@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Can I have your stuff?

I want the tuk tuk.

No toys for either of you I’m afraid. The changes went to production ~~six~~ four hours ago and nothing broke that I know of.

Pakoon

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Can I have your stuff?

I want the tuk tuk.

Dammit!