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Oh jeeze, not to bring back an older discussion, but I have a strong distaste for ORMs after my last job and Sequelize (the Node.js version). So much wasted time of trying to get the "magic" to work correctly when I could do the vanilla SQL easy as pie (but was forbidden to)Ape Fist posted:You are a hiring manager whose also a dev. You can hire one of these people:  I love getting all these insights from more experienced devs on what they value in hires/new folks. Partially edifying and partially eases my impostor syndrome with a good dose of what's important to keep in mind as I grow.
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The only important thing to remember is that PHP is bad and so is anyone who doesn't use your IDE of choice. Everything else is details
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hailthefish posted:Regular blue-collar factory laborers fought and loving died for the 40 hour week and the 8 hour day.
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Ape Fist posted:You are a hiring manager whose also a dev. You can hire one of these people: How well do both:
Honestly, with the time I spend instructing people on how to make a loving commit, not knowing Git is something I'm keen to consider "deal breaker" territory.
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comedyblissoption posted:Every day the productivity of workers has decreased since the 1930s though since the 40 hour work week was instituted by federal law. Economists were predicting that we should be at 80 hour work weeks by now to make up for the continued loss in technology, and only by the grace of our bosses has this calamity not transpired yet. Do you have anything to back that up? Because that flies in the face of everything I know and any data some googling can find. 
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hailthefish posted:Regular blue-collar factory laborers fought and loving died for the 40 hour week and the 8 hour day. I went from being a teacher to being a programmer. What's a 40-hour work week? Seriously though, this is something I argue with conservative relatives constantly. Our country has been trying its hardest to undo a century of labor progress and do the exact opposite of every other developed nation on the planet. See also: Lack of mandatory vacation time, no requirements of family leave for a new baby (both for mother and father), how our insurance is tied to our jobs...... Don't even get me started on "at will" employment.
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Taffer posted:Do you have anything to back that up? Because that flies in the face of everything I know and any data some googling can find.  presumably
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Munkeymon posted:
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Ape Fist posted:You are a hiring manager whose also a dev. You can hire one of these people:
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Sep 27, 2018 13:56
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Everyone thinks they’re person 1
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https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/1044905355933876225
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The person 1/person 2 dichotomy is like reading the Facebook article people share like "studies show lazy people are actually more productive!!" Like, it's a completely absurd way to distill down the characteristics of any two people in an organization, much less generalize it out to ontologies of developers. Maybe Person 2 "absolutely can't grasp design structures" because they're undocumented, they have no support, the design they're supposed to understand is dog poo poo in the first place, and the theory was put together by someone who would rather wax philosophical and write 10-page development manifestos than getting anything done that's of actual value to their team. Or they could be total turd developers who can't understand a system larger than a single-file Python script. Maybe Person 1 forgets syntax and spends all their time on theory because they would much rather spend every work hour chasing the silver bullet that's supposed to make them a good developer than sit down and write some loving code. They can't remember syntax because they spend so much time reading and so little time writing that they develop no muscle memory. You don't know. Either of these people could be absolute poison to your work environment. Use better heuristics, then guess at absolute random who the right person is for your team, because these characteristics sure as poo poo give you absolutely nothing to go on.
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This is a weird way to tell us that you're the worst attributes of persons 1 and 2.
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Volmarias posted:This is a weird way to tell us that you're the worst attributes of persons 1 and 2.
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Vulture Culture posted:I'm worse than any developer you can imagine pal
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SardonicTyrant posted:How long have you been interning, exactly?
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Vulture Culture posted:I'm the owner's very large son You win
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Vulture Culture posted:I'm the owner's very large son lies. Everyone knows the owner's failson goes into some sales-but-doesn't-actually-sell sinecure.
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What's the thought on when to sell options, rsus, and espp stocks? So far I've been doing an annual cycle so as to pay long term cap gains but I've got enough in my account that I'm starting to get concerned that I've got too much invested in my company. We're currently in our blackout period so I can't do much now but I'm curious how other folks are handling this kind of comp.
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Blinkz0rz posted:What's the thought on when to sell options, rsus, and espp stocks? So far I've been doing an annual cycle so as to pay long term cap gains but I've got enough in my account that I'm starting to get concerned that I've got too much invested in my company. Diversify, this includes company stock. What happens if it turns out you were working for Enron? You've lost your salary AND your savings. Treat company stock the same as you would any other stock. WRT holding, you should only worry about LTCG vs STCG for value that's an increased since the stocks vested. You're already paying tax on them when they vest. Sell whenever you want (and you're not in a blackout period) Volmarias fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Oct 1, 2018 |
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I sell RSUs at vest, hold ESPP for 1 year (assuming gains).
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tortilla_chip posted:I sell RSUs at vest, hold ESPP for 1 year (assuming gains). Any particular reason to treat them differently? Is it based on the difference between discounted purchase vs award or something different?
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https://www.morganstanley.com/spc/k...plications.html Qualifying vs. disqualifying disposition. It is situationally dependent of course, but if you're seeing an appreciable amount of gains after receiving the ESPP long term cap gains should beat out ordinary income tax everytime.
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Week 4 of my new role as Front End Lead and let me tell you about my sadness. We have 3 front end developers. Me, one other senior, and a Jr. We need another 3, at minimum. The other senior's nose is bent out of shape because I've come on board and taken over, and has basically mentally checked out. He's buried himself in a project and won't move. There are over 150 outstanding front end issues of varying complexity and severity spread across 5 projects. I've been here a month and I still don't fully understand how our horrible loving tech stack works. (ASP.NET MVC + EPISERVER) We have 2 projects which are about to start and one "starter template" which is being built which all projects thereafter will use. Additionally we've taken on stewardship of a legacy webforms project and today I had one of the architects from the project on a call telling me we needed to change a section of the front end to javascript because, and I quote, "They don't like the way the screen reloads when you click a link. Modern websites don't do that anymore so just do some javascript stuff in jQuery to sort it out." He wants an entire corner of their site rebuilt with SPA-like functionality but doesn't want us to use Angular or React because" they're too big and too much work. This shouldn't really take more than 5 days." Jesus take the loving wheel.
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I have my RSUs set up to autosale at vesting. Too much of my financial stability is already dependent on my company for me to keep a ton of stock in it too.
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Jose Valasquez posted:I have my RSUs set up to autosale at vesting. Too much of my financial stability is already dependent on my company for me to keep a ton of stock in it too. I understand the mechanics of the argument, but looking back at my personal history I would've been better holding most of the time. Like this doesn't run the gamut of companies, but when's the last out-of-the-blue collapse that rewards this diversification? Like... Enron? Worldcom/MCI?
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JawnV6 posted:I understand the mechanics of the argument, but looking back at my personal history I would've been better holding most of the time. Like this doesn't run the gamut of companies, but when's the last out-of-the-blue collapse that rewards this diversification? Like... Enron? Worldcom/MCI? Conversely, when was the last time that anyone was able to consistently and reliably able to predict anything about the stock market?
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ChickenWing posted:Conversely, when was the last time that anyone was able to consistently and reliably able to predict anything about the stock market? Okay, so you’ve got an argument against all stocks, not specifically diversifying from an employer. Basically the odds seem ridiculously tilted towards your individual employment ending apart from a catastrophic moment for the stock. If it’s a big enough lay-off the stock is likely to bounce some. I’m sure there is someone that has actually seen this scenario play out, but I can’t think of any well known examples from this decade.
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Ape Fist posted:Week 4 of my new role as Front End Lead and let me tell you about my sadness. looks like a job for captain iframe, defender of the lovely webapp!
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:looks like a job for captain iframe, defender of the lovely webapp! Hook the onclick on every link on the site to fetch the URL and replace the body with whatever comes back. Oh, make sure to update the history manually, too.
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Munkeymon posted:Hook the onclick on every link on the site to fetch the URL and replace the body with whatever comes back. Oh, make sure to update the history manually, too. Oh, so Turbolinks
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Ape Fist posted:Week 4 of my new role as Front End Lead and let me tell you about my sadness.
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JawnV6 posted:Okay, so you’ve got an argument against all stocks, not specifically diversifying from an employer. What about this: a single-name pick isn't inherently wiser just because it's with the company that employs you, right? If you really want to determine whether holding has historically been a good idea, you should examine the opportunity cost of it in each case, not just whether the stock itself went up or down.
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Bongo Bill posted:Oh, so Turbolinks  If they're credulous/clueless enough to think you can just stir in some jQuery and make your stuff a SPA, then that'll probably trick them.
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raminasi posted:What about this: a single-name pick isn't inherently wiser just because it's with the company that employs you, right? If you really want to determine whether holding has historically been a good idea, you should examine the opportunity cost of it in each case, not just whether the stock itself went up or down. Again, looking for an example of where this disaster-avoidance strategy paid off or someone not using it was egregiously hurt, not some wishy washy handwaving around other theoretical strategies. Like is that really so hard to understand? This diversification 'strategy' is pitched all over and given the relative ease of ESPP and RSU's, not to mention the fact that I can keep up with one (1) employers' quarterly results without too much headache, I don't really think justifying or tearing down Literally Every Potential Strategy is a fruitful discussion. Blinkz0rz is one of the few posters who could legitimately be in a position where these concerns matter or could have seen the deleterious effects of sticking to one's employer's stock. I think everyone else claiming to use it is just fooling themselves at their own relative importance.
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JawnV6 posted:Again, looking for an example of where this disaster-avoidance strategy paid off or someone not using it was egregiously hurt, not some wishy washy handwaving around other theoretical strategies. Like is that really so hard to understand? This diversification 'strategy' is pitched all over and given the relative ease of ESPP and RSU's, not to mention the fact that I can keep up with one (1) employers' quarterly results without too much headache, I don't really think justifying or tearing down Literally Every Potential Strategy is a fruitful discussion. No one is fooling themselves about self importance. Forget catastrophic failures like Enron, assume that some aspect of the business or economy turns and the stock starts losing value, month over month, year over year. You still want to diversify, regardless of where your other income is coming from. If you want to pick a majority stock to invest in, so be it, but consider it the same as a normal investment, then let us know when to check in on you in this thread.
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Volmarias posted:No one is fooling themselves about self importance. Forget catastrophic failures like Enron, assume that some aspect of the business or economy turns and the stock starts losing value, month over month, year over year. You still want to diversify, regardless of where your other income is coming from.  Single example of either this strategy paying off or avoidance causing egregious harm would be great, but nobody's got those for some curious reason.I guess folks just wanna talk down to others without realizing how furiously their own hands are waving? Odd to find that behavior among programmers, you'd think they'd be less emotional.
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JawnV6 posted:I understand the mechanics of the argument, but looking back at my personal history I would've been better holding most of the time. Like this doesn't run the gamut of companies, but when's the last out-of-the-blue collapse that rewards this diversification? Like... Enron? Worldcom/MCI? The argument against holding a single stock that happens to be your employer is the same argument against holding a single stock that isn't your employer. Diversification is a basic tenet of smart investing. For every GOOG, APPL, AMZN, NFLX and FB there are a dozen examples of uninspiring stocks and there is no guarantee that one of FAANG isn't going to be the next uninspiring stock. As to specific examples... Microsoft stock was stagnant for more than a decade after booming in the late 90s and then crashing in the early 2000s. They are doing significantly better the last couple years, but even then between 2000 and the beginning of 2018 MSFT only went up 62%. Cut off 2017 and you are down to 18%. Same with Yahoo, although more extreme. It is down 20% since 2000. In the same timeframe Vanguard Stock Market Index Fund (VTSAX) went up 140% As a more recent extreme example Moviepass stock became worthless really fast earlier this year. If you were a Dropbox employee this year and held on to your stock since the IPO you've lost about 6% of your money instead of gaining 12% in VTSAX.
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