If you show 50 of something on your desktop before loading a new page, you should change it to 10 or so on phones.

It wasn't anything like that. A pretty sparse page. Changes in CSS weren't showing up on the screen at all for one div, but they show up for others. Googling suggested that other people had similar problems so I thought it was a bug, but decided to clear all my cache and then it worked.

Chrome has some kind of inspector on Android right?

Looks like there's something you can download. I don't see anything standard. I just remembered that Chrome on Windows has a emulator for mobile and at least right now it's pretty spot-on what my phone shows.

Things must have improved a lot then. 8 years ago the emulators were ****e.

If everyone has moved to Chrome, meaning Samsung finally abandoned the terrible Android native browser (so ****ty it never had a name except "Internet") - that's a very good development.

A few years back they put malware in the installers of the popular projects, causing people to leave. Then appropriated the newly abandoned projects and added malware to "new" versions, or something like that. I think it's supposed to be all good now, but their reputation remains forever tainted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Controversies

Wow - that's terrible.

Lol she's actually extremely nice. I kind of feel bad for her. Just thought it was funny.

its really amazing how just a few lets say less than impressive coworkers just bring things down. like, theres an amazing amount of handholding and rework from them. but then we also get emails like this.

no link to the tracking. no requests for the information necessary. just...that.

I swear the rest of my team is awesom tho. believe me.

Speaking of bad devs, this person got moved to another team. I don’t understand how my managers pulled it off but they pawned off a ticking time bomb.

i have been accepted for some remote work via a staff agency from a recruiter who found me on LKIN. i have already done a successful technical interview with the company. now the recruiter wants at least two people that he can call to ask them about me... the recruiter has no technical knowledge of web development - which makes this seem um totally pointless.

who does this **** in 2019 ?

most of the people i know work at my company and you guys told me before there is no benefit telling my current company that i am working two jobs so i don't want to involve them.

the other people that i could ask i only know from online, mostly from developer slacks.

also, i feel like this has the potential for them to start getting spammed, which i wouldn't want. also, who the feck wants to field random calls from dumbass recruiters asking about strangers you've spoken with online.

i'm thinking of just paying someone on upwork to field the call.

This sounds like a pretty standard reference check. If so, they're just going to ask something like would you work with x again?

the only people i have worked with are the ones at my current job. i have only talked with people on the internet. that's basically it. 13 years of o.n. l.i.n.e p.o.k.e.r prior. i guess i need to go to more meetups or something.

Well if the recruiter knows your current job is the only one you’ve had you should be able to get by with saying you don’t want to use references from your current place of employment.

Most companies in my experience.

The concern should be more that 1) the hiring company wouldn't consider these real references if you've never met them and if you're never done anything together; 2) they wouldn't be able to actually confirm anything that they are trying to confirm.

What does your resume say? References should be largely based on what you have on your resume. Did you ever go to college or even a bootcamp? You could reach out to classmates from schools that are professionals to see if they could serve as a reference. A major plus if you've ever done any long-term projects together. I've done this for a friend who was freelancing for a long time and getting a professional job for the first time. Also college professors or event bootcamp instructors are fair game, just reach out if you think they'd remember you. Reference checks are generally done to verify that you're a normal functioning human being that's not lying about past accomplishments, so the more they are tied to your past accomplishments the better and the more they can vouch for your actual IRL personality the better.

If you don't have any of this, assuming this is an important opportunity for you, you should also consider asking your current coworkers, if you're personally close to anyone.

Finding it difficult to support arbitrary queries that hit multiple services, each with not so great latencies. Over 70 micrservices and hundreds of APIs, it's kind of spaghetti services architecture we have here. Nested queries are also scary and seem like a big DDoS risk. Another issue we have is choosing Ruby (ugh) instead of the reference nodejs implementation. The ruby implemention doesn't do nested resolving async, basically it resolves 1 level at a time. It's in parallel at each level, but that's not ideal.

Hire better and fire faster for people like this. Not everyone has the same work ethic, common sense, or intelligence to do the job.

Ya this. There was 1 junior women who was pretty clueless and couldn't code that I once worked with. Clearly our interview process missed this completely. But they are reasonably smart and started doing better after a lot of mentorship. Then there is this 1 guy who is "Senior" but basically never gets anything shipped, works 10-3 and still manages to keep his job. But it's been rare so I consider myself pretty lucky not to have to deal with this kind of incompetence regularly.

Easy to state, very much harder to implement.

some random Chinese dude contacted me on slack and wants me to create an upwork account and i can keep 20% and he does the work. what's the catch here?

LMAO, what could go wrong?

Start a business. The work and money flows through you. You get 50%, but give him a % for clients he originates.

On why he can't create his own account: "I had own account 3 years ago. But I have lost account info right now."

What do you mean by "Chinese" dude - is this person a Chinese national living in China? Also, is this person asking to use any part of your identity for this - exactly what is it that you can do that he can't? I guess it could be "legit" (well it's still shady but at least there are some scenarios where you're not the mark) but it could also be part of an industrial espionage operation. It feels a lot like someone paying you $350 at the airport to check in their luggage - I'm sure you could imagine some relatively innocent reason and I suppose the chances are that you won't end up in a lot of trouble, but the worst case scenario seems both extraordinarily bad and totally plausible.

This doesn't sound legit at all. I'm sure you can recover account information for substantially less than 20% of net pay.

I didn't discuss details with him. The only way I would hypothetically entertain it is if I maintained all account control and he just did the work. That's probably not what he is looking for.