Python Programming & other inferior programming languages thread

i have a compile window and a coding window, so i don't use that

 

i alse use :set mouse=a



in the proficiency demo you have to do to get into portland state's upper division classes, they make you use a vimrc that disables the mouse and arrow keys lol

 

this is how I see your workstation but with a more metal twist.

spent 15 minutes this morning trying to push a database to heroku....I was in the wrong folder. I need a coffee

 

Our resident vim ninja made a best practices ppt that included this slide

 

well :set mouse=a makes means i don't use arrow keys, but it breaks copy/paste either in or out, i don't remember

i know that after some time moving to keyboard-only navigation is probably faster but i like the scroll wheel and being able to point and click

 

oh yeah, remapping escape to capslock was a nice QOL thing but i can't remember how i did it, and the server i used to work on is no longer available to me :|

 

lol guys I did a code and used VIM lol

 

i'm flattered by this but my work area is shit: one 22 inch monitor, a $10 cooler master keyboard, and a logitech mmo mouse :/

 

no one cares, but this is a vimrc i used

Code:

colorscheme desert
set mouse=a
set tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 autoindent
syntax on
set nu

it's pretty rudimentary. one of my friends set up some bindings so that you could set your current line to "line 0" and it made deleting multiple lines a lot easier.

 

just got contacted by an S&P 500 for a web dev position. super weird feeling considering where I was 9 weeks ago

 

Recruiters are hitting up people HARD now in the Atlanta area. I'm getting lead developer offers with only 3 years of experience, I am by no means a lead developer at this point.

 

Trump is president don't sell yourself short

 

In Houston you see junior positions starting at 50-55k, but can be had up to 70.

 

Yeah this is very much a where you are and how much experience you have. In a big city with a few years experience (although you may have a title loftier than "web developer") you can make six figures.

 

In the Bay Area it's 100k+

 

has anyone worked with stripe?

 

Hackers just publicized the NSA's digital security tools on github

 

link?

 

found it

 

Edward Snowden tweeted the github link out. Because he is dumb.

 

Will not be touching that

 

I clicked the link. that was enough for me

 

fuck the stripe API.

its taken me four days to set up a Stripe Connect.

 

any one ruby?

 

I've done some

 

any good online resources? i hear railscast?

 

For what kind of stuff? Ruby, or rails?

I've heard railscast is good but never looked at it.

The blog tutorial on rails is a decent intro to rails

 

taking an assembly class because i have to

taking two integer arrays and multiplying their values together at position i requires like 30 lines of code

 

Assemble deez nutz

 

my options are limited to like load, add, and bitwise stuff

 

Assembly killed programming for me and I didn't pick it back up for like four years

 

I've become more of the "Big Data" expert here at work due to the project I've been on the past year and a half. I have an old Raspberry Pi 2 I haven't messed with in quite some time so I bought a bunch of sensors, and Arduino (so much easier to read values with a microcontroller like this), a breadboard, and a bunch of wires. I'm running a simple Node script on the Pi that's reading the Arduino through serial, shaping the data, and then putting it onto a AWS Kinesis stream. It's been interesting as the Arduino can hold a max of 32K of a code script you upload so you're forced to make sure everything is as small as possible in terms of memory usage and lines of code. This is all in preparation for a talk I'm going to give on Kinesis + Lambda for big data processing during a company lunch.

Not really adding much, but since this is a thread where we get to jerkoff about our work I thought I might add.

 

it really depends on the details. Assuming shitty private sector benefits , in South Carolina I saw a lot who wanted to hire around the $50k - $80k range and seemed to get real pissy if anyone wanted more. There was little demand for higher-paid anything.

around Raleigh/Durham, by comparison, you will see some as low as $60k-80k, but plenty of people are willing to pay more, basically up to $120k ish.

I think Austin, Seattle, Portland and Denver are higher wage/higher cost than Raleigh/Durham, and SF/NYC are even higher than that.

 

In Atlanta if you have any relevant experience you can easily make 80+ and have a pick of a shit ton of jobs

That was our experience trying to hire someone front end angular developers

 

I don't do front end shit, but it's angular 2 if that makes a difference

 

Atlanta is fucking crazy right now. I get an average of one message a day by recruiters and our company is having trouble finding experienced Node.js developers.

 

We had a guy leave our company, who was probably making 120-140 as a Sr develop because he didn't want to manage anyone and just code.

Probably making the same at his new company.

 

We're having the same problem. My boss left a couple of months ago because he wanted to mostly code even though he himself proposed taking a more managerial job over all the devs. I'm still pretty upset as he was a really good mentor and no one else really wants to take a role of managing a bunch of devs. I might ask for a raise soon despite getting a nice one before he left as I'm taking on a couple of his duties.

 

I've been doing some research on UX design and I'm wanting to take a class that General Assembly offers, but I have no experience at all in web development or coding or anything of that nature. Any advice or tips for someone wanting to dive in head first?

Joe_Pesci

 

UX design and UI/Frontend development are two different things. Are you wanting to draw lots of SVG images that will be used in a web application or are you looking to write code that users interact with that will communicate with some API?

 

The second thing you said. Basically I know nothing about any of this stuff, but read some things about UX design and then went down a wormhole of youtube videos and now I've had an epiphany that I want to get into the industry. Tired of my current job and looking for a change.

 

Well, the first thing would be to stop calling it UX design as that term unfortunately is all too commonly used to describe frontend/ui development.

If you're wanting to become a frontend developer building web apps, you're most likely going to learn a lot of javascript with a framework like Angular (1 or 2), React, or some other thing. If you have little or no experience then yes, classes will be the best way to go if you're willing to shell out the money (Bootcamps can cost in the area of $10k and are 8+ hours a day, 5 days a week for a few months). If you don't have the money or time, there are tons of free/low-cost classes out there that teach frontend development. Check out Udemy and Coursera if you're interested.

 

Rob Chubb I just finished a frontend development course and would be happy to talk to you about it.

 

also been fucking around with Ruby on Rails the last few days, its amazing how quick you can get something up and running. Especially compared to a JS Stack.

 

pm'd

 

Rob Chubb I'll shoot you a PM today or tomorrow. I got into tech from a bootcamp and self teaching. Would be happy to share my thoughts

 

If I had unlimited time I'd really like to learn a functional programming language like this. I doubt I'd ever use it at my job, so unfortunately it's not high on the priority list but it seems very interesting.