• themaninblack@lemmy.world
    1·
    40 minutes ago

    The constant distraction and availability resonate with me.

    The main thing is to put in systems where you don’t need as much effort to handle daily business. Usually you can engineer your way out of high touch, multi-step process glue.

    In my youth working manual labour jobs I was full of vinegar and wouldn’t wait for the trucking dolly. Older workers taught me to slow down and I took that advice into software work.

  • nullptr@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    43 minutes ago

    a senior engineer should has nothing to do with a fisher price toy, a glorified miniature lamborgini. real engineers should only use thinkpad.

  • arty@feddit.org
    552·
    4 hours ago

    Let’s see how many people agree with me that both poor communication and alcohol are not really signs of professional seniority

    • woop_woop@lemmy.world
      9·
      3 hours ago

      I don’t think the image is trying to indicate professional seniority, it seems to me to try to represent seniority from an experience standpoint

    • Axolotl@feddit.it
      171·
      4 hours ago

      I agree, i also want to add that bad financial decisions are not professional (buying over-priced hardware) but i suppose you don’t care if the salary is high soo

      • fonix232@fedia.io
        10·
        3 hours ago

        Except every single MacBook you can buy right now (directly, from Apple, not second hand) directly beats pretty much every other device in its price range - unless you go super crazy with the specs and want to do 128GB RAM with an M5 Max and 8TB storage.

        So it’s hardly overpriced.

        • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
          5·
          2 hours ago

          The build quality is excellent in my experience. I can justify spending more if it lasts and my previous MBP made it a decade!

        • joelfromaus@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          27 minutes ago

          I’ve been diehard anti-Apple for anything but their mobile devices (iPhone, ipad) for most of my life. Overpriced, underpowered. Now I own a MacBook Pro M4 and I just can’t get over how good it is. What a turnaround their change to Apple Silicone has made, it’s actually wild to me.

          MacBooks, specifically, are still expensive but actually value for money now.

        • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          1·
          21 minutes ago

          I’d personally prefer more hardware for the money, including when its being bought by others. But I also have to replicate client environments (though at a much smaller scale), so its kind of a cheat code for “buy me that” or “I’ll be keeping this for 6-9 months and you can buy me a replacement when this one gets delivered to you”.

          I think I need another GPU heavy project.

      • NotSteve_@piefed.caEnglish
        4·
        1 hour ago

        Macs are excellent dev machines, especially if your company buys them for you. 3/4 of my past jobs have provided Macbooks rather than Windows laptops and I don’t plan on going back unless I’m allowed to install Linux

        Having a Mac laptop at work means I can use the same dotfiles between it and my personal CachyOS desktoo

    • tuff_wizard@aussie.zone
      3·
      4 hours ago

      If you can achieve the objectives in the desired deadline without attending 4 million zoom meetings, were the zoom meetings ever really needed?

  • ramius345@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    4 hours ago

    I used to prefer Jameson poured into my coffee when I worked somewhere with 6 hours of zoom meetings a day. I don’t care what the laptop is,really, as long as it’s not running windows and it has a buttload of ram. It’s usually provided by whoever I’m working for anyway.

      • fonix232@fedia.io
        1·
        3 hours ago

        There’s two products of Jack Daniels that I do appreciate:

        • their BBQ sauce (I know there are better ones but none of them reached the UK yet, sadly, it’s a “good enough” substitute at a good price)
        • Gentleman Jack - pretty much the only commercial bourbon I find drinkable, albeit not worth the price
  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
    1·
    3 hours ago

    I was a senior developer within my first year, so I guess this tracks with the mid-wit theory. Now I’m well beyond that level I answer all questions with “it depends”.