IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

I've been developing on a MBP for maybe 1.5 years now and it is so much better than Windows. I still have no idea how to use the OSX UI really but you can do everything in their close-enough-to-Unix command line. Between that and Homebrew I don't think I'd want to go back to a Windows platform. Only downside is Windows has much more and much freer options for things like XML/XSLT and things of that nature.

If you're not going to be actively developing on it, I'd definitely go with the Mac for the better screen.

Mac it is then

Fuck lenovo

Noodlemod_sl said:

Fuck lenovo

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Seconded. We bought a Lenovo laptop as a "working" laptop for home (my writing, wife's schoolwork) and the bloatware was just insane. Wiping it to a clean copy of Windows was just painful as hell and I still can't get the built in wifi to work, have to use a usb stub dongle for that.

My favorite part of the Mac is how they handle multi-screens on one screen. I love the finger gesture options on the trackpad. I'm not sure if you can get software to do something similar on Windows or not. But its really nice to just 4 finger swipe full-screen windows of Chrome, my IDE and the command line. I far prefer it to having to click the items on the dock like Windows 7.

Fuck man. Fucking old guy Jesus christ. I pushed a pretty substantial change, which he knew, and then proceeded to do something fucking weird in git and got in a state where his local branches had this massive merge conflict. I tried to help him for like an hour but I only have so much patience. Fuck fuck.

I couldn't help but laugh when my boss saw him and did a 180 and left lol

Why don't people commit often?

We do commit often. My commit today was porting over like 30 files or something and some other changes, took me like 2 hours and he completely ignored it and fucked up everything on his end.

It's just like.. Fuck man if I get a merge conflict I just figure it out. He has to rally the troops.

Also in bios new features can take weeks to create and you can't push until fully tested.

lendarios_sl said:

Aren't you leaving in two weeks? Did you gave the resignation letter already? Just relax, and do the bare minimun.

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This is never a good idea in the tech world. This leads to backdoor references saying LOL, this guy was a dick. Don't hire-

Not to mention I'm sure Noodle takes a certain amount of pride in his work and doesn't want to leave everyone there dicks in hand

Cad_sl said:

Last two weeks is an easy time to take the high road and show them how a class act does things. Because it's not much of a time investment anyway, it's only two weeks.

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Yep. Thats my view. I tend to work harder in the last two weeks. I tend to work on closing out all loose threads that I can to leave on a good note.

1. I do take pride in my work and love what I do
2. The company, on a whole, has treated me exceptionally well (minus no raises, old guy)
3. I don't burn bridges - BIOS isn't a huge field, I may meet these people again.
4. I have a good work ethic minus posting on rerolled all day.

Noodlemod_sl said:

4. I have a good work ethic minus posting on rerolled all day.

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Compiling.

Vinen_sl said:

Compiling.

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Yeah in all honesty that's when I'm posting. Our shit takes 20 minutes to build.

Noodlemod_sl said:

Yeah in all honesty that's when I'm posting. Our shit takes 20 minutes to build.

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Takes about an hour for my product to build locally. And that is with all 4 Cores blazing at 100%... so I have to browse on my phone -.-

Well, although our codebase is massive it's just BIOS. It's a 16MB image, so 20 minutes is still pretty long.