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I still require to work in a company where my manager/boss/CTO know much more than me. I'm almost 40. It's really hard to work for a 20-something guy who has almost no experience and is happily making all the mistakes he could read in books about.

Still, finding a job where my boss would know more is more and more problematic.

When I was 33 I was rejected by a recruiter with "you know, here I have dozens of resumes of people 10 years younger than you, who have lots of experience in managing teams. There must be something wrong with you, so I cannot pass your papers to the client."

Still, looking for a job is a very traumatic experience. The companies are looking for unicorns: young, cheap, without family (aka drinking in evenings, working on weekends), with lots of experience, and academic knowledge (which will never be used).

A couple of times I heard from guys, who would be my managers "oh, I'd love to have your experience"... the rest of the interviews went smoothly. In all the places I even didn't get to the step where they asked for the money requirements. They just didn't answer.

I'm looking for a remote job now. I even made a nicely stripped resume on one page. My normal has 3 pages. It's a very traumatic experience, especially that most of the remote companies require knowing almost only some new stuff, totally ignoring my 18 years of experience in everything else.

Btw... a surgeon of my age is usually not experienced enough to make surgeries on his/her own. A programmer of my age is usually a useless resource, which is happily replaced with someone just after the college.

All this makes me sad. The experience is not valued here. So what is? The lack of experience?

OK, can you also post here all your personal details, so I could sell them to anybody who wants to exploit them to earn money? OK, fine, you don't want to post it here. Could I get them from your bank, work, friends, family, post it here and sell to anybody?

Yea, I have always this problem with people from Japan coming here. When they tell their names, I'm not sure if they do as they do in Japan or they do for me to understand. I always have to ask them.

Not "the next week" but "for the next week". My experience shows that debugging pure integration test systems is really time consuming.

Depends on your system. Mine usually are huge. The integration test showing "this json reply is wrong" doesn't tell me anything else than I have to dig through all the layers.

Focusing on integration tests: oh, the test fails, something is wrong somewhere... I will debug all layers for the next week, as we simply don't have too many tests covering the internal code.

I like to have both.

True. However, this time they are closed because the world changed (due to someone ignoring a bug and a certificate expiration date).

Btw, I haven't got any Fx crash for the last 3 or 4 years.

I hope an ignorant programmer/manager won't try removing my bookmarks because they lead to a page with an expired certificate.

No. JUST A HUGE NOOOO.

My reply is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828472

Please, don't tell people to do this. This way computers get infected. People should know that clicking in a random link posted by an anonymous guy on a forum page is one of the worst things they can ever do.

This one will be emotional as this destroyed some of my today's work.

F you Mozilla. I lost all my tabs opened in other containers. The containers don't work too, so I cannot reopen them.

This bug has been known for 3 years, and you did nothing to fix it. You get so much money, and what you do is basically provide a pathetic software (thunderbird) and a nice browser (which you just stopped from working) and you show me banners asking for more money.

You should be ashamed. 3 years. And no, I'm not going to listen things like "this is open source, you are free to fix it". I will just go and switch to another browser. I need a browser which works, not a one which suddenly decides that my stuff should be broken because all the developers and managers have been ignoring a critical issue for a couple of years.

:( I know, this will be flagged, and removed. I don't care, I just need to get all my tabs in containers back. I have never thought that a browser can just close my tabs because a certificate expired.

> Can anybody explain the downvotes? It looks suspicious.

I can. This is a long tradition here. If someone criticizes something loved by people with little knowledge (aka fangirls and fanboys) then they downvote it.

The truth doesn't matter, the hurt feelings do. And it's downvoted without any explanation.

I had this many times, I'm thinking about not posting at all. It's not worth it. There is no discussion, just downvotes.

I'm sure this will be downvoted too :)

I have the same thing. However, it turned out that almost none of the things is a financial success, so I went back to just having fun.

"Because I have a weird hobby: I like to live in a flat, I like eating food a couple of times a day, I like to give some food to my kids."

... so the reality is that I need to lie at the interview to get the job, this is so sad.

Yea, an in depth code review. Like the last Cisco router bug fixed by banning access if user-agent contains 'curl'?

This is a good indicator of a team I don't to work with.

> 1. mediocre routing (no nesting, all routes have to be declared in one place)

In reality these can be multiple places, however not really nested. There is the main routing file, which can move resolving a url to another file.

> 2. mediocre middleware (middleware is global)

Isn't it how it should work? The middleware is something your want always run for the request.

> 3. mediocre ORM (easy only for very easy stuff, more pain in the ass than writing raw SQL itself when it comes to complex aggregations and joins) not to mention some of the famous ORM bugs that have been open for like a decade

Not really. On the other hand I always prefer SQL... but using SQL in the Django ORM and pushing the results into Django model classes is simple.

> 4. custom user model? good luck fighting with Django errors to make that happen

Done that a couple of times... https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/auth/customizin...

> 5. custom authentication? external authentication? good luck

No luck needed: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/auth/customizin...

> 6. Django is built for 2000s websites not REST/gRPC era

True, that's why we have e.g. this https://www.django-rest-framework.org/

> 7. want to use graph databases? noSQL? good luck

Yup. I'm using SQL and I'm with it. Graph databases are cool for some specific problems, you can also use the core Django models and store some more stuff in the graph database. As for all the noSQL mess, well, it's usually a mess with thousands if programs running just to clean the data, and almost nobody cares about the correctness of the data model, thank you, I'd rather stay with the good old SQL.

> 8. external migration for SQL? oh god, prepare yourself for the mental hell

I'm not sure I can see a problem here... but I'm half-dba, half-programmer, half-dragon... so maybe that's why.

> 9. Django as far as I can tell still ONLY supports decoding "x-www-form-urlencoded" bodies, yeah no JSON, it's that pathetic

I'm sure I was using json with django without any problems in both directions. But you know, I'm different.

Yep, Python has lots of problems, and I'm not sure I like it (especially after moving to Kotlin for 97.49% of the code). However, if you stay with Python, I'd recommend Django :)

Well, it got downvoted in the first 2 minutes.

I'm wondering if people in China can see this website in Google.

Edit: to people who are downvoting this... check this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19540562

> Also, there is no censorship of the internet going on to appease the US government so I think we are good there.

I'd add "at this moment"

Another question: if they do all this just to make the Chinese government happy (to earn more money), what is done to make the USA government happy (to earn more money)?

How should I trust that they won't "sell" my personal data to a government paying the most for that? How should I trust such an entity which makes the government happy, not the people? Are we really just the product sold to the people who have power?

It's hard to avoid Google totally as many of the emails I send are stored later on Google's servers, even if I don't send it from a Google account.

"Don't be evil" should rather be changed to "Don't be evil (whatever makes money is fine)".

At the same time China switched off the corruption AI, the rumor says that because it was too efficient in tracking the officials. If Google supports such a system, what would be next? Covering for selling children?

On the other hand, when Nazis were making the death camps, many companies happily provided lots of help, all for money. Seems like for too many stakeholders the money is the only thing that matters, not the people. Even if this is behind "don't be evil" faded unreadable flag.

I'm not living in the USA, should I assume that Google will work with my government to do evil against me?

Maybe he was not working on every weekend and his team hasn't hit the KPIs... yea, weekends... all for the bonus for the boss.

>> and the screen could be way, wayyyy better.

When I'm driving, I want to concentrate on the road and on driving. Tell me, why the steering wheel is not just a picture on a touchscreen? When I'm changing gears, switching on the lights, opening windows, I have physical buttons and knobs, I can just do all that still driving and watching the road. I don't want to gaze at the touchscreen while driving. In many countries using phone kept in hand while driving is illegal, because it causes many accidents when people concentrate more on the screen than on driving.

I wanted to buy a new car, all that I saw have the new touchable interfaces. That's terrible and unsafe.

why?

... except that Google still has most of my emails as people who send me them or whom I send to are using Gmail...

Yea, this is also quite terrifying that many companies trick people to install Chrome while installing their software. Trick - because the option is too often checked by default, and sometimes it's hidden in the text so it's hard to notice.

So what do you use instead?

All the I-have-nothing-to-hide people, please publish your bank account, address, SSN, passwords and other information the bank can ask when trying to transfer the money.

Yea, I know... so they really have something to hide, right? So why not to start caring about the privacy and start thinking?

Google is an advertisement publishing company. All the things they do, they do to earn money, not to give people anything. When Chrome first appeared, I was wondering about the extremely huge cost of building the browser and how Google wants to earn from that. Then it started to be obvious: it's all to spy on people. Not from the beginning, but slowly... the google account integration... the forced logging into the account... adding custom adblock (which doesn't block most of the ads)... and now this: disabling adblockers.

I'm glad that I stopped using it.

Then the government will add new legislation that you are not allowed to go anywhere where there is 0 reception :)

You can make a PR and add your ideas. Really.