I went to a top rated engineering school in the US and found the CS program easy. It helped that I enjoyed most of my classes, and that had been teaching myself for years before I got there. I had plenty of free time to spend with friends or whatever else.

While I’ve certainly had jobs that demanded long hours, I’ve had others that are more reasonable, and with good pay. It’s more possible now to find a good paying job with good work/life balance than when I started working over 20 years ago.

Don’t let the negative people scare you away from school or the industry. Ultimately your experience will be your own. If you find that the path you’re on isn’t working for you, just do something else!

If C is so great, why do you have to hack in garbage collection?

This just blew my mind. I had always assumed Java was older. I started writing hobby projects in Java in the 90s. I don’t think I heard about Python until the early 2000s.

“why” is a perfectly valid question to ask

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

What is wrong with Google’s C++ guide?

What do you mean by UTC only?

I was able to read the article without logging in

Check your employment contract. If that includes an NDA or a confidentiality agreement, the company may own your design as well as any code produced. Writing the program from scratch a second time may still end up being company property.

Given that they didn’t put your program into production, it’s unlikely they would pursue you legally for releasing a new version on your own.

It’s unclear what any of the images have to do with the article.

I’ve been a vim user for over a decade and I doubt I’ve spent eight hours configuring it in all that time.

Many years ago, I had forgotten my password to the Sprint websiteb so I could log in and pay my cellular bill. I had to call customer support to resolve this. After verifying my activity, the support agent read me my existing password one letter at a time. While this was alarming, I was amused she had to spell out a somewhat obscene phrase for me. This was maybe 20 years ago and I no longer use Sprint.

Biggest raise was about 12%, when I got bumped up to senior a few years back. Currently searching for a new gig so I’m hoping for a nice bump

Does the existing engine phone home or is that something they’re adding?

What don’t you like about medium?

There’s no way this is real. Completely insane.

Yes please. Many times when I add a feature I end up refactoring some of the code first to better accommodate it.

While this looks like a handy tool, it does make me think shell scripting itself needs a cleaner approach than what we have currently.

Sometimes it’s easier to try a new idea in a new language (e.g. the borrow checker in Rust) rather than trying to shoehorn it into an existing language.

Same here! Testing up front has made it extremely rare that I have to go back with a debugger later.

… it would sync overwriting the currently deployed version in qa. I obviously don’t want this.

Then don’t allow the deployed software to be overwritten while tests are running? Your test environment should be treated as a singleton. Your CI system shouldn’t be able to affect the deployment while it’s being used.