Posts by trcooke

A QA tester walks into a bar, orders -4 beers, "2" whiskeys, and Integer.MAX_VALUE + 1 packets of crisps.

This question sounds familiar.....(https://coderanch.com/t/789618/Speed-Replaces-Satisfaction-Coding) I'll repeat what I said over there.

Perhaps fulfillment just looks different with AI "accelerator" tools such as the ones you mentioned. Can you develop code quickly while maintaining your values? Is your code well tested? Is your code beautiful? Do you have confidence in your code? Can you put your code in production and sleep well at night?

I'm a developer too and 14 years ago I bought an entry level MacBook Air and honestly it was probably the best laptop I've ever bought and I used it for development for years and years. It used to creak a bit if I ran more than one instance of IntelliJ, but other than that it took everything I threw at it. I have since replaced my own laptop, but that little Air is still being used by family and still going strong.

Maybe a wee bit older than you Dani, I was 26 or 27 doing a Masters degree when I met my Linux loving friend. I'm 46 now.

I have had Macs but it annoys me that they get obsoleted by software long before the hardware runs out. My wife has a MacBook Air and it's great because it's zero effort to maintain but the cost is replacing it even when it's still in perfect working order, apart from nothing works because Apple have decided it's too old.

Profile spam for sweet sweet SEO internet points. Create an account, put a link in the profile, but never post anything thus reducing the likelihood of triggering the spam alarms and getting deleted down by the site moderators.

It's the back-link on a public facing web page that they want, and for that there's no difference between a forum post and a profile page.

Like Ron McLeod, who we met yesterday, I'm a moderator and administrator over at the CodeRanch.com forums.

I'm a Software Engineer, currently working as a Software Architect for a medical technology company in Belfast, Northern Ireland. We use Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, we have used many of the related tooling for those languages, and our runtime environment is AWS following an "as serverless as possible" policy.

I've recently started doing some manuscript review work for Manning, for new books that they have in development, which has turned out to be quite enjoyable.

I learned of this forum only recently so thought I'd drop in and see what's going on over here.