My tastes have changed a lot but I still do gaming. Now I'm playing Minecraft with my kids and I have a server where a bunch of their friends can join in and build stuff. I'm not interested in Minecraft for it's own sake but as a social club it's great fun. I also tinker with maps and mods for Quake and Doom. Doom was the first PC game I played - on a demo machine at Radio Shack at 7 years old. I don't play the same way but using the engines as a sandbox to create something still holds my interest.
At a small company, I found a bug in the sales system that was giving away $10k per month by miscalculating customer's tax. CEO of the company essentially pretended that he couldn't hear anything when he was told.
I have the same feeling; society is sick. But I cannot just quit my job and escape society. I have no idea how to make a living on my own outside of a company.
This is just a random thought but procedurally generating a mansion could really work in ways that wouldn't normally work in other genres. Imagine the Winchester house, which is spooky and architecturally doesn't make much sense.
I would pay for a Rocksmith that could accurately capture my playing. I love the game but for more difficult songs, it's impossible. There are very complex passages that I know I'm playing correctly that have notes that are just not detected. It's so frustrating that I've quit playing the game entirely.
Not using your business as a political platform is not the same as supporting the status quo. The "if you're not with us, you're against us" stance is definitely polarizing and is not making things better.
I realize that with a lot of effort, Python can be performant or can be scaled. It was a pretty low-effort move to rewrite my Python service (which was pretty small) in Go and go from really poor performance to acceptable performance right away, and it only took me a short time. Also, I'm pretty good at Python but I'm not very knowledgeable about optimizing it for performance. I'd like to learn those tricks though.
I didn't like type annotations in Python, but I didn't like Go's type system either when I started. I'd be willing to take a second look at types in Python now. But, my real reason for choosing Go was for performance, and it blows our previous solution out of the water. Go isn't perfect but I'm pretty happy with it for right now. I still use Python for a lot of other things though.
I had an initial period where Go felt really difficult, coming from Python. Now I've adapted and I actually feel like refactoring things is easier than it was before coming to Go. Just the fact that arguments and their return values are more strictly defined helps a lot.
Two years later, the outsourced work is half-finished and what has been delivered is near-total garbage. All the best engineers have left the team and the business is scrambling to hire someone competent to cleanup the mess.
Me too. But how do you deal with this when you're interviewing? I'm more skilled and productive than ever but I feel like an idiot without access to documentation.
I'm in exactly the same boat. I've used 4 different stacks in the last year. It's too much. I can easily get in and debug and write code in basically any environment, but I don't have time to learn all the string methods of any particular language. Google all the way, and official docs (if they're any good). I rewrote an entire huge module in C#/.NET, have zero experience with that environment in the past. I would absolutely flunk a C# interview but I'm pretty confident in my ability to get work done.
I think this can really depend on the size of the business. At a small company, you probably can't afford a specialist for each area of responsibility. At a big company, you probably can't afford _not_ to have a specialist.