python is usually the next step up in admin land
python is a pretty standard install on linux systems since so many things like you’re talking about use it
python is usually the next step up in admin land
python is a pretty standard install on linux systems since so many things like you’re talking about use it
You missed one:
Don’t take issue with the platform. Take issue with companies that are so fanatical with “we’re a microsoft/java/javascript/esperanto shop!” that they’d cram it into medical devices and nuclear reactor controls before doing some sort of sober domain analysis.
Everything has its own set of problems.
Technical videos have helped me perfect my pronunciation of “umm” and “uhh.”
throw yourself to the wolves
embrace the wolves
From a historical standpoint, there is also the bad blood of ActiveX, Flash, Silverlight and early Java applets that still leaves a bad taste in people’s mouths. It has a slightly steeper uphill battle to fight.
Generally the most supported language on the tool/platform you want to target is the best one. Like SQL on databases, JS/ES in browsers, python in data science related stuff, etc. If multiple are heavily supported then just pick the one that’s the most comfortable.
I can think of surgeon examples but I’ve never heard of Recruiters Without Borders. Unless it’s just CapGemini
Fintech is easy to deal with in this regard.
“do you have code samples you can share?”
“would you be happy if an employee interviewed elsewhere and used your codebase for work samples?”
A more honest code test:
interviewer: “see if you can get this project my nephew made in high school to run”
job: getting the next project their nephew made in high school to run
PREFERRED:
Historical note: the golden age of crazy uncle email forwards made me completely reject capitalized sql statements
Nope, it’s all light theme with comic sans and small caps for me
They’re very useful for the boilerplate stuff and it’s somewhat rewarding to type out 3-4 letters, hit tab and wind up with half a dozen lines in a bash script or config file.
They tend to get in the way more for complicated tasks, but I have learned to use them as a psychology trick: if I have writer’s block, I just let them pump out something wrong since it’s easier to critique a blob of text than a blank page.
It’s on my radar and I’m sure it’s on a number of other people’s as well. It just takes a little onboarding time like all good projects.
Worth noting: the ui is in inferno js
Knock off the childish fucking gatekeeping and go back to reddit. It’s what the wider industry uses.