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

Well, can't go into too much detail but gonna jump back on the job hunt...

After all the shit happening this past year I reallyyyy don't want to move. Unfortunately a lot of tech jobs in my area aren't really utilizing any of the tech stacks I want to work in. It's either DoD contractor jobs (no thanks) or gaming (no thanks). Slim pickings. Had a few good looking opportunities pop up but no dice.

I don't wanna do remote. I wanna be around ppl but also don't wanna move. People who work remote, is it isolating?

Foler said:

Well, can't go into too much detail but gonna jump back on the job hunt...

After all the shit happening this past year I reallyyyy don't want to move. Unfortunately a lot of tech jobs in my area aren't really utilizing any of the tech stacks I want to work in. It's either DoD contractor jobs (no thanks) or gaming (no thanks). Slim pickings. Had a few good looking opportunities pop up but no dice.

I don't wanna do remote. I wanna be around ppl but also don't wanna move. People who work remote, is it isolating?

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Depends on your work ethic and how much of a self starter you are. Personally, I fucked around a fair amount, but always stayed on top of my work and got way more done when I was fully remote for a while recently. Then you got people who can't help themselves and let shit slide while they play cyberdick77 on their TV. If you are the kind of person who knocks out work before goofing off and are fine using chat to keep in the loop with your team, then yeah its fine. If you hate being micromanaged and just power through shit, you will thrive at it. If you have a goldfish attention span and constantly dick around with work in your bucket, then no I do not think it will go well. Short version, it all comes down to how you manage distraction and prioritize.

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So the lead developer on our team wants to start migrating our classic .NET application to .NET Core. Personally, I think this is insane. Our application is very old -- an ASP.NET WebForms app which began its life in the mid 2000s. Now, the WebForms portion of the application can't be migrated and he knows that. But he wants us to start porting the data layer and some services to the .NET Standard framework (Standard allows interoperability between classic .NET and Core code).

The problem is, the way our solution is structured, we have a bajillion projects and from what I gather there's no simple re-targeting a project to the new framework. Seems we'll have to manually re-create all of them and port the code over.

The point of this post, though, is that I'm curious what you guys do when you have newer releases of your platform - be it .NET, Java, Node.Js, whatever. Do you bother upgrading to newer versions just for the hell of it? Or only do so when its necessary (i.e. bug fixes that impact your product, security fixes, etc.)? We've always upgraded to the next minor revision of .NET because people want to feel warm and fuzzy that they're running the latest version. I disagree with this and think its adding risk to our product for zero benefit.

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Great news!
Skip standard and go straight to dotnet core 5. You wont regret it.
Start reading into DI and you'll love it in no time.

You will replace a lot of inheritance for interfaces and that is good. Also your testing will improve exponentially.

I'm full on the dotnet bandwagon and DI.

To start you gain AWS lambda support at a very low cost.
Also if your technology stack is too old, you will run into personnel problems as no one will know your technology. Then you will run into packages being deprecated.

Basically, if you dont improve your system.. you will lose.

Got a taste of working with the backend of Jira this week.

That platform is a massive, steaming pile of shit. I had no idea it was so retarded.

You want to add two numbers together on a ticket with some kind of function? That requires 50 lines of code and new custom fields to contain the script, and you have to configure it in like 30 places.

Fucking why. I guess its okay out of the box for sprints and linking to code overall. But fiddling with it is absolute AIDS of the highest order.

People don't understand what they are getting into when they wanna perform all their crazy workflows. 800 hours later they're like hey I finally got it transition from this column to that one when I fill out x field, cool. No thanks.

Yeah I don't normally work on this shit but someone wanted to have their proposed hours and whatnot add up into a total hours thing. I foolishly thought this would take 10 seconds to do like it would on any other even remotely similar platform.

12+ hours later of reading documentation, dicking with stuff, coding stuff and I get it to do this. I sit there and think I must truly be retarded and brain damaged. There absolutely MUST be a better and easier way to do this. Why am I too stupid to find it? I hit up the Jira dev discord and they tell me that this is the way. I was fucking floored.

Get to the end and tell the guys who asked for this that in order for your stupid ass ticket types to do this and save you 5 seconds of mental addition we will need to delete the old custom field and replace it with the new scripted version. As not even the field types can be changed (or at least I can't. But I can make custom fields so IDK). Deleting this value from all of your tickets. At this time they said, "hold up. We don't want that, can you just put in a sum function on the ticket like in Salesforce or something?"

Then I explained the retardation I'd discovered and they were also shocked. So we discarded it and canned all work but the most important of changes in Jira forever.

I did something similar for subtask hours to roll-up to the main issue due to R&D credit tracking. Had an intern do it as a plug-in and the package/API/SDK thing they gave you was broken. That was the first vote of confidence.

IDK about Azure DevOps but I always worked well with Team Foundation Server if there's any similarity between those two products.

Ao-

Jira is fine out of the box. It sucks dick if you have to make any special weird shit. If youre just doing basic ticket/project management and sprints its totally fine.

Best way to box up u2 and u4 servers for shipping across country when you dont have any of the original packaging?