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LOL I’m pretty sure the screenshot of “their” avatar creation is actually from Forza Horizon character customization screen

I believe that was r/TheDonald

Totally agree with your comment about monolithic code. I'm in a similar situation, at work I am primarily in a PHP pile of spaghetti, but in the past 2 months I've been lucky enough to develop micro services in Go.

Once I got over the initial learning curve and started to get the nuances I really enjoy working in the language. So much so I've started looking around for a full time Go position.

Fascinating, but aren't tattoos a big part of prison/gang culture in other countries besides Russia/USSR?

I don't have a car and don't dig on carrying a huge bag of cat litter around when I go shopping. I also don't want to pay the higher price of smaller bag, so I just order it ahead of time on Amazons normal retail site.

No insane markups and still requires some planning else my puss will be pissed.

The only issue I have is that we can't do code reviews, since we cant view pull requests. I just occupied my time with other tasks.

....But its back up now, time to code review.

Ha, small world. It's strange, because I don't even look like a typical "techbro" as people have been describing in this thread. Work/life balance is incredibly important to me. I have a large beard, my long hair is in a bun, I have tattoos on my arms. I moved to Fremont because the one friend I had here lived there.

Shoot me a private message, lets grab a bite or beer sometime.

Oh, I wasn't aware this was happening. Totally makes sense, although this is not the case in my instance.

Took a job in Bellevue in April and moved from Philadelphia to Seattle. So far it's a been an interesting experience. I've encountered many people hostile to software engineers in general. A bunch of people immediately ask if I work for Amazon with a hint of disdain after I state my occupation. So it hasn't felt super welcoming so far.

I get it, even in some neighborhoods in Philadelphia the same thing is happening. Although to a much lesser extent, but there is tension between locals and newcomers. I was initially sympathetic to the locals, but now it just seems people will complain about the change no matter what.

But you have no right to complain about this gentrification when you are operating newly built apartment complexes, charging a premium to tech workers. And then go on to say you have Amazon prime. Screw you, Owen.

They are definitely using our data, but probably not in the same way. More of a we won't use your data unless it's to improve your experience with our device.

Sounds like you are describing SkyMall.

R.I.P.

Why didn't I read this earlier?! I was at an AWS hackathon all day and it was my first time ever using any of their offerings . This would have been super useful.

It seems kind of ridiculous that it took that long to realize getting out of the armor left them open to attack. Did everyone have to take a break at the and time? 37% of casualties from soldiers outside of their armor. Really Brits? Really?

I agree that Agile can be the middle ground, but it can also can be dangerous.

When my previous employer implemented "Agile" they payed what I imagine was tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for an "agile framework's" consultants to come in and teach us how to agile correctly.

1.5 years after that I saw that our time was more micromanaged than before. We were told regularly we were "empowered" and to speak up when we had any doubts or anxiety or saw a problem with our plan, but when we did it we were either chastised or disregarded or in some cases convinced it wasn't an issue.

That and the entire development organization treating estimates as infallible. That was the worst. Being told to estimate as best you could because agile was about adapting to change. Then getting reamed for being wrong. I gave up pointing out all the double-speak (release dates are flexible! as long as it is done by the release date) going on in the "agile ceremonies" (2 day 4-hour Release planning meetings with all 30 dev teams in one room.)

I know it's just one org I'm speaking about, but after almost 3 years I don't know if their dev organization is any better off than when they were waterfall. Now I'm curious just how wide spread this particular issue is.