Fanmade

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by Fanmade 11mo ago
Reminds me of my current customer. We (another freelancer and me) built an application that replaced an Excel sheet, which was the foundation of the business until then. So the usual so far. We have a policy that our customers are responsib
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by Fanmade 1y ago
I'm usually first in line when talking shit about the German government, but here I am absolutely for this. I was really positively surprised when I had my apprenticeship at a publishing company and we had a routine to bring physical b
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by Fanmade 1y ago
Ha, I've written a lot of these Makefiles and the "make dev" command even became a personal standard that I added to each project. I don't know if I read about that, or if it just developed into that because it just make
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by Fanmade 1y ago
I have a paywall there :(
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by Fanmade 1y ago
Absolutely! I have used Copilot for a few weeks and then stopped when I worked on a machine that didn't have Copilot installed and I immediately struggled with even basic syntax. Now I often use LLMs as advanced rubber ducks. By descri
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by Fanmade 1y ago
I guess it totally depends on the specific use cases. Just yesterday, I asked Gemini 2.5 for how to test a Laravel artisan command that internally calls another artisan command using the Pest testing framework. Gemini showed me a method tha
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by Fanmade 2y ago
I have met several of these leaders. Problem is, that very few of them are also very successful. Most of these "leaders" that I met, based a lot of their success from basically being able to stack their bs very high and bailing ou
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by Fanmade 2y ago
> Concord is that the game was poorly marketed, had bad character designs, and also one of the developers made some ill-considered tweets 4 years before the release of this game. You almost got it. Not "some developer made some ill-
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by Fanmade 2y ago
About Concord: There is a lot of discussion about why Concord failed. Some say that the price was too high. But at the same time, games with the same or even higher prices sold just fine. Then there is the argument that the genre of her
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by Fanmade 2y ago
I think that wokeness is increasing racism. The woke people tend to throw around "-isms" a lot. It is sometimes enough to not be on the extreme left-wing view to be called "racist", or even "Nazi" immediately.
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by Fanmade 2y ago
I agree. I still have to rely on my car for basically everything because the same government also fucked up the rail system so severely that it barely works in my region. When I moved from a small village to the city, I sold my car and wan
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by Fanmade 2y ago
I don't get why you would write your first two sentences. It is very obvious how the automobile lobby has a direct influence here. Here is an excellent documentary (in German) that analyzes the issues with the DB. https://yo
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by Fanmade 2y ago
I agree it's not a black-and-white problem, but I don't fully agree with your statement about collaboration. I am a senior software developer who was entirely against working from home until 2020. Now, I can't imagine ever re
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by Fanmade 2y ago
Hah. One of my clients is in German insurance tech. They thought the same as you and started recruiting from around the world. They said that German employees are just too expensive. For comparison, a PHP software developer in Germany usual
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by Fanmade 2y ago
I think that this is true, and I hate it. In a previous job, I had to work with the worst (shop)-framework I have ever seen. It is very expensive, over-engineered in the worst ways, very slow and awful to use. The blatant misunderstanding o
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by Fanmade 2y ago
In our region, some people have devices to repel moles or marten using "Sounds that are inaudible for humans". I have yet to come near to one of these devices that I can't hear. And it's not only me, my wife can also hea
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by Fanmade 2y ago
Well, I know several experienced software developers with good software ideas, but no clue how to sale them. It sounds like bringing them and you together would basically be a guarantees success. By the way; I am working as a self-employed
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by Fanmade 2y ago
Same for me. I got here via pushbullet and I was at first confused about the comments here until I saw yours ^^
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by Fanmade 3y ago
I am currently sitting at my gaming PC, which does have a Blu Ray drive. I use it about one or two times a year. Just today I threw in a CD with the driver of my newly installed tp-link AXE5400 (WiFi PCIe adapter), because it wasn't de
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by Fanmade 3y ago
It is really hard to read this for me. How can anyone think that it is harder to write a proper monolith than implementing a distributed architecture? If you just follow the SOLID principles, you're already 90% there. If your team does
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by Fanmade 3y ago
Yes, I completely agree. If your team doesn't have the skills to use a proper architecture within a monolith, letting them loose on a distributed system will make things a lot worse. I've seen that happen multiple times.
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by Fanmade 3y ago
Ah yes, the great fun of bug-hunting. Probably most people in working IT have some stories to tell about this. One thing that comes to my mind happened in a company where they used a simple software to create medical reports. One clerk sud
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by Fanmade 3y ago
That reminds me of my last query to ChatGPT. A colleague of mine usually writes "Mop Programming" when referencing out "Mob programming" sessions. So as a joke I asked ChatGPT to render an image of a software engineer us
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by Fanmade 3y ago
This is the first time that I saw this blog and I've now read a bunch of those posts. There is so much gold there, it's incredible. So much is going wrong in all those companies, that it is just frustrating to be working in those
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by Fanmade 3y ago
I remember when I had to use Jira for the first time, which had this "n days ago" display for the tickets. I don't remember if that couldn't be changed or the person in charge just could not/would not do it, but I n
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by Fanmade 3y ago
Which would be the worst date format. Just use ISO 8601 (2020-10-21) and you could even sort by the date.
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by Fanmade 3y ago
Well, you're of course using the best example on the one side and the worst on the other side, so that's not really a fair comparison. Apart from that: The phones generally try to substitute the tiny sensors through highly complex
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by Fanmade 3y ago
Or you're working in companies that basically stop you from being productive. Managers questioning the developer's decisions, focus on the sales topics instead of fixing the existing product and colleagues taking shortcuts and exp
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by Fanmade 3y ago
Well, those sites are often running ads probided by Google, so it's understandable why Google doesn't really have a good incentive to follow your first suggestion.
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by Fanmade 3y ago
German here. Yes, it's pretty much how you described it. In my previous company they hired a new CTO. He doesn't like anyone who is smarter than him and/or who doesn't just follow orders. He quickly started hiring people

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