The simple answer is every senior developer will hang up the phone, walk out, or tell you to F-yourself when you ask them to take a coding test while those who only have those 50 free Vista-Print business cards saying “Senior Dev” will take the test. There is no higher level insult one can level against an actual senior developer. We have decades of code in production, tens of thousands of lines of code floating … Why do actual senior developers walk out when a coding test is mentioned?Read more
Experience
What life gives you when it doesn’t give you want you want.
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The Truth About Bootcamps
Bootcamps exist to part fools from their money and pretty much for no other reason. This post is a follow-on to my #cancelQuora post. Featured image courtesy of brokeassstuart.com. When Quora started having paid promotional content and paying for questions we must have gotten 32,767 “Which bootcamp is the best for insert-something-here.” Usually they had the word “job” wedged in there somewhere as well. If you never went to school to learn the fundamentals of … The Truth About BootcampsRead more
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Setting up a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS VM in 2022
Sometimes you need to use a really old version of Ubuntu for maintenance. Here is a quick run down on how to set Ubuntu 10.04 up now that the repos have moved. If you need Ubuntu 8.04 see this post. Basically 4GB RAM, 2 CPU, 30GB disk, 64MB video, enable bidirectional because I’m using the 32-bit version. If you need the ISO you can find it here. I’m going to assume you can “Start” and … Setting up a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS VM in 2022Read more
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Remembering Lotus Symphony
I never used the DOS version of Lotus Symphony. (Windows wasn’t an operating system until Windows NT. Microsoft committed criminal fraud putting “operating” system on the box because it was nothing more than a task switching GUI on top of DOS. Janet Reno should have put Bill Gates in prison.) The other day I got into a . . . “discussion” . . . with some kid who uttered a phrase like “never in the … Remembering Lotus SymphonyRead more
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Starlink – We’ve Seen This Movie Before
Starlink is beating the same drum John Deere beat back in 2011 to cover-up the fact they used AGILE and produced a shit system. I can’t believe I’m writing about this again. I searched my blogs and cannot find my 2011 article. Must have been when I was still writing for Motley Fool. Yes, even I wrote for them at one point. Maybe the Motley Fool site still has the article? At any rate, you … Starlink – We’ve Seen This Movie BeforeRead more