Comment on: How to Make It as a Mediocre Software Developer
2 22 Jul 2017 21:49 u/pyres in v/programmingComment on: 7 Best gifts for programmers or software engineers.
They couldn't find an affiliate link that had mechanical keyboards?
How about a nice desk light?
I disabled the Fluorescent lights in the ceiling above my desk because of the glare.. It took about 3 years before maintenance tried to replace them.
Comment on: What is the Future of Front End Web Development?
Monkeys, typewriters, part time, minimum wage employment,
Comment on: 11 Essential Tech Skills You Need to Get Hired as a Web Developer
How about skills like:
SSH (FTP? REALLY? WHAT IS THIS 1995?)
Creating, implementing and testing a backup and restore plan.
Using Relational Databases
And let's not forget the most important skill:
Making less than minimum wage doing all this.
Comment on: Code as text is a problem
Just imagine how bad it would be to try to figure out code as emoji.
Comment on: Apparently, they don't want to hire people that knows about HTTPS.
It depends, are you a man in the middle site, collecting and selling everything about everyone who is going through you? Then you don't want to have to bother with pesky HTTPS. You may even want to provide a telnet service.
Comment on: The head of the Drupal project threw out a member for consensual BDSM practices in his spare time. The community has signed a letter indicating mass resignations if this isn't reversed
The head of the project was upset he wasn't the only person whipping/beating and making the life of the member painful, except in a non-consensual way.
Comment on: In protest of the new privacy bill, I created RuinMyHistory, which will pollute your search history
As a linux user, I think it would be just as useful to randomly select words from the built-in dictionary, or man pages, and run a script with browser identification just like the one you use the most.
Or you could write a script for your browser, which selects random links from a web page. The downside of this idea is you'll probably end up on a porn site before the script iterates 6 times.
Not too bad. I'd recommend becoming a Project Manager in the quest to fulfill the Peter Principle Promise.