IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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LinkedIn isn't 100% programmers, though. My wife is in finance and has a LinkedIn similar to my brother and sister in law.
Noodleface
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Frenzied Wombat
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I believe there are expensive memberships that recruiters and HR departments subscribe to.
Noodleface
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We had our stand up meeting g Monday.. Yeah that's a thing now. Anyways we were talking about what we did last week and what we are gonna do this week and someone asked me why I always say the same tasks. I responded that i spend literally my entire day being interrupted with questions or tasks because it's just me doing this stuff. My boss was dumbfounded but everyone basically agreed that they're shitting on me. We figured out I'm spending like 65% of my week putting out fires or responding to inquiries or fixing small little requests.
It's stupid. I've already applied elsewhere.
It's stupid. I've already applied elsewhere.
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Siliconemelons
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do you have a Kanban board or just scrum? if you have interruptions etc. you need to be adding each interruption as a task and then put that task as a blocker for your other tasks that where interrupted for whatever reason.
Noodleface
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We have an online kanban board but there's no way in hell I'm starting and stopping for every interruption. Unless I go full inception and make another Kanban card that says "JIRA Interruption"
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Yeah, probably a mixture of Bootstrap and jQuery UI. There's the mandate that our app have the "look and feel" of a desktop application. So no huge icons and fonts, nor do we want that flat styling that's prevalent in contemporary CSS frameworks.
UIKit is the closest thing I've found so far:
Button component - UIkit documentation
Siliconemelons
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We had a physical board, now we use kanbanflow.com - the other team that uses it had a member that was constantly getting calls and "fix this little thing now" - they made a classification for interruptions/calls so he could have it as the card type with whatever the request was - you can also link those as interruptions to the actual "main project" cards you are working on etc.
We do not use it for time management or oversight so we don't really go into the task and say "working on this" etc. I would have to post that in the rustle my jimmys thread if so.
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I'm taking the train in tomorrow to see how it feels. Even if it's the same commute I can work on the train and don't have to deal with traffic. Also company pays for 25% which is nice ($350/mo for a pass)
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Noodleface
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I took the train today. I had to drive about 25 minutes east of my normal route, but it's back roads so I don't know how many miles that is, maybe 12.
The commuter rail was pretty painless and was most of the trip, took about 65 minutes to get into the city which isn't bad. Then I had to take the red line (aka bum cart). Smelled like piss and shit but only on there for 5 minutes.
All in all a pretty solid commute today. Think I'm gonna switch over in July to this instead. The added bonus is way less stress and less miles/stress on my car.
Yeah man if a train is an option I'd probably take that as well. At least then you can just plug in your headphones and unwind instead of constantly screaming at retards cutting you off only to get to the traffic jam 1 car length ahead.