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

I've checked out both, I don't see anything in .NET I would really miss by going to core aside from distinctly windows things. HTMLAgilityPack works just fine on core for me. I'd also not scrape in C# unless I absolutely had to, but that's another discussion.

New role is swit - software integration and test. Never done this stuff before so it'll either be interesting or make me want to kill myself

It's not traditional testing I think

Could be like an R&D type position. At my work, the R&D department is like my dream job.

Our stuff sort of traffic slates all the different systems and routes them around. The testing is exercising all of the interfaces.

I was worried we were QA

At our shop software testers use some telerik tool to make scripts that jam a bunch of data, click all the buttons, etc. They don't really have to write too much code, but they get a ton of freedom so the good ones usually write tools that help to test better and take on coding projects on the side. They are pretty good about giving opportunities to advance up to actual developer positions if people do well as testers.

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So, people that "develop" automated blackboxing? I'm not sure I'd like that either.

I'm the QA manager at a small shop and we do QA a bit differently. We still do some test result reviewing that I would like to push back on developers, luckily it's not much of my day anymore. But sometimes I can't tell if I dislike my job because it's QA or I'm just projecting and it's actually because we're so damn overworked due to the inability to hire anyone for this department. Only the stupidest Asians want to work in QA.

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Everywhere seems to do it a bit differently. People actually go after the tester jobs here because it's a good way to break into development. Our apps are nothing fancy though, they are mostly C# crud type web apps as well as modules for like SharePoint and CRM. I personally find that type of development incredibly boring but it pays well and it's steady. They have one old dude that does some of the lower level stuff and I wouldn't mind having his job, but I think once he leaves the person that takes his position won't have enough with just his workload and have to take on some business app work.

I make my own tree. Don't really want to spend 40+ hours a week hating what I do. If I wanted to program I'd find a job that lets me program.

If Gabriel wants to rollerblade, Gabriel rollerblades.

I meant traditional testing as in QA. Just not for me. Did it in my internship and hated it

I had a real issue with vs code several years ago. Our project had like 10000 files in the git repo, and VS would hang for minutes at a time trying to reconcile with it. I'm sure they fixed it but I never went back.

I actually emailed the devs about it and they agreed with me and said they'd work on it. This was right when it got released.

I've been steadily porting all my old SharpDX stuff over. I've had a few moments of hunting through tabs looking for a file I knew I had just opened a minute ago and it's not there.

Turns out that when you open something in the usual way, from the list on the left (or whereever you put it) that it opens it in a "preview" mode. And if you switch off to something else it very helpfully closes it. Yet another in the long list of "Why would anyone ever want this ever" features ms seems to keep coming up with.

I finally figured it out when I wanted to change all my libs projects to optionally aim at SharpDX libs I had built myself (just hackily doing it by commenting out the packagerefs), so I had opened like 10ish csprojs so I could go through them one by one. Only to find it had closed all but the last I had opened.

This disables it: How to config vscode to open files always in a new tab?