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It feels surreal that every time a Django topic comes up on this site it's flooded with people praising it and proclaiming how much they love it.

I honestly found it to be the absolute worst Python framework I've ever worked with. I found it so hard to intuitively write code for it because it just does stuff for you in the background and you can't always see the execution order of code, especially when leveraging that default dashboard feature. I lasted 11 months in a role that used Django exclusively. I'm happy for people that built a career with it, but it just blows my mind people aren't more critical of it. Not that they necessarily need to be though.

Aw that was lovely to watch, thanks for sharing.

I moved to a foreign country a few years ago and I've still not managed to make any friends. I've never had an issue doing things alone but having to do almost everything I find interesting alone was a little sad at first. It still is, but less so.

It's disheartening so many don't see the brain as a physical part of ourselves, just the mental. To describe this individual as suffering from "crippling depression" but also "physically healthy" when they clearly suffer from long term mental health problems feels like an oxymoron.

I'm not sure for what reason people think everyone needs to be alive and live long natural lives. If she doesn't end her life humanely and in the comfort of trained professionals, she can just simply do it at home in a far more unpleasant way. Hope it all goes well for them.

It's as easy to use as other 3rd party logging libs.

I frequently make use and it's as easy as slog.Info("text", "field", value, "field", value)

That's wrong, long term exist rates exist all over Europe. France has very popular 20 year fixed mortgages at great low rates, 30 years are not uncommon. Before recent inflation causing rate hikes, you could access interest rates between 1% - 3% for these types of deals

I interviewed with these guys in London maybe just over a year and a half ago? Interviewer was lovely for the first call then just absolutely ghosted me when I had to reschedule the technical session by a few days. Then came back about 4 months later asking me if I was interested in going forwards. So weird.

I remember they apparently wrote everything functionally with Elixr and kept mentioning it like it solved some real problem you couldn't possible do any other way. Weird seeing it pop up here.

This kinda reads as the writer doesn't actually know Python all that well, these definitely aren't Python antipatterns.

Lists and Sets are not the same data structure, obviously Sets are faster for finding if an item exists or not, but Sets are immutable and you can't have duplicate values like in a list. You can't substitue Sets for Lists for everything. What if I'm iterating over a list where I need to keep duplicates?

Also, who wraps a try except over a dictionary? Just use .get(), it defaults to None instead of raising a KeyError and even let's you pass a default value as the 2nd argument, .get("a", "hello").

The most basic google search could have helped with these.

It's weird to read this as I started a new role myself 5 weeks ago and after my first week I've had the exact question linger in my mind. I work for a finance company who have outsourced everything to Eastern Europe and now they're trying to rein everything in house but so many things are half-baked and bad practise or simply wrong, meaning everything will eventually need a rewrite. I spend so much time doing nothing because everyone is so frantic running around no one has helped me identify my work load or even assigns tickets. I don't find it possible for me to just figure out what to work on myself.

The people I interviewed with are so nice I would feel some guilt leaving, but the actual technical team I have aren't here and are hard to work with so I wouldn't feel too bad. Although, the older I get the more frequently I remind myself a companies bottom line is themselves. They don't care about you as much as you would ever think so.

I do not think you would be bad for leaving after 5 or 6 months, heck 2 or 3 wouldn't be bad either. Life is short and you legitimately don't owe your time to a company indefinitely. You won't struggle to find other jobs, people can be incredibly understanding and what you are describing isn't uncommon in the software industry IMO. As I am enjoying a similar experience unforutnately

Links in a chain are already together. You absolutely can chain 2 things together that are not the chain itself. Where chain is used as a verb to describe the tying of things together. Saying chain together absolutely makes sence. Example "His ankles were chained together".