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I develop key performance indicator software for my company's manufacturing plants. It's basically a real time analytics dashboard that also trends data over time. One of the resul…

It completely blows my mind when I see stuff like this. We're not all perfect programmers, I'm sure, but still. An alarm should go off in your head when the thought occurs to put f…

I recently went to a department store called Kohl's for the first time with my wife, who'd been shopping there for years. For those unfamiliar with this store, think something simi…

I can't agree more with this. As with anything we use in our applications, understanding and leveraging the strengths of our different tools is vitally important. If, for example, …

It's very interesting how many application developers shun SQL. I believe a lot of it is due to a pervading sentiment that SQL is unruly or inelegant. There are certainly quirks to…

Different perspective here than most. I worked in the retail grind for a decade before getting into software development. The best decision I ever made was going back to school and…

The crazy part about overworking in the software development industry is that, at least from where I am (TN, US), job opportunities are abundant. I could maybe slightly understand …

I wonder, though, what percentage of those people already have families. I was part of that demographic not that long ago. Had I needed to support a family then, I'd likely still b…

> For a lot of people it doesn't mean a single goddamn thing how hard you work or how hard you try. From my viewpoint, breaking out of poverty comes down to these factors, in order…

> Refrain from having children if you cannot afford to have children. I'm 100% on board with this. You can make a lot of mistakes in your life and still pull yourself up if you're …

It's not so much that I believe that the earth will be in utter ruin by 2100, or that I'm a super green environmentalist (I'm not). My pessimism comes from seeing intentional ignor…

I'm reminded of a scene in an admittedly crappy movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still. No, not the awesome original, but the recent one with Keanu Reeves. Super quick plot synopsis,…

Perspectives change as we age, particularly if you decide to start a family. It's easy and fun to socialize with your coworkers when you're young and unburdened. After all, once yo…

I see pros and cons to both sides (4 year university vs boot camp). I have a CS degree, whereas our front end developer came from a boot camp. For my part, I have found the underly…

I wonder with more frequency every day if there will ever truly be a solution to the problem of rising health care costs in the US. I see a lot of posts here suggesting that privat…

Someone please help me understand. I use relational databases everyday for my projects (db, api, frontend). I'm well-versed in SQL and general best practices, and my projects scale…

Software developer, 3.5 years experience, $88K /year, ~10% bonus, TN USA

Does it really matter if it's ethical or not? I mean, we're not talking about the ethics of, say, killing a tyrannical despot or allowing a terminal sufferer to commit assisted sui…