Reversed, this is how English as a first language conversations go in foreign lands

Fighting among ourselves? You started it… ;-) I tried to debate you on facts and opinions. You made it personal in the response. Good one.

And yes, I do have a job. I work for a nonprofit-profit as a Software engineer. But you can guarantee I go “above and beyond”…? You don’t know me at all…

I love replies from people that seemingly only read the first line… Do you think your idea is so perfect it cannot be debated? Your ad-hominem response suggests so, and that makes you just as much of a snowflake as the rest of the red-hatted MAGA twats that are supporting this kind of shit.

I know you also probably didn’t read this far, but I’ll deal with points you raise anyway.

I don’t know to what “day” you are referring that people held their employers accountable…? Are you suggesting that thousands of Microsoft Engineers, Designers and Admin should leave the company because one of their shareholders is named in the Epstein files? Sure, there have always been those brave enough to stand against the masses and criticize. There always will be, but they are the minority and it’s a lot less common than you think.

And if you think you are one of those, go ahead: Spur on the masses to greater change. But “ditching microsoft products” isn’t going to change anything unless everyone does it and good luck with that.

Major social change is required. If you want to focus your anger on anyone, focus it on the Pedo in Chief.

I disagree.

Sure, stop buying Microsoft products because they’re shit. But beyond that? If revenues drop, they’ll fire half of the staff before they fire Gates. Besides, if they do fire him, what’s he gonna do? Buy a private island probably. Put another way, this would hurt average, working people far more than Gates.

I guess Microsoft are partly to blame. It’s not a good look is it? But, he’s also not be tried or found guilty so they’re not entirely at fault.

Instead focus your anger: Get out there and ask why he’s not been investigated? Why the people in power are seemingly closing ranks around this - are they all guilty? Vote for a progressive viewpoint that favors holding the ultra-rich accountable in all ways - legally, financially and morally

I get that you’re angry. What these people are accused of doing is truly evil. But take that anger and use it for something with consequence.

Isn’t a cornucopia from Greek myth? That would mean that literally nothing, apart for the wheat and the nuts should be in that picture…

I try not to comment on people’s appearances, but why the hell is Michael Dell pictured with Pennywise the Clown in a dress?

This isn’t digression - it’s pretty accurate to how I feel… Passion is the missing ingredient

I don’t disagree there are talented youth out there. I have another team member who is the equal of any of my best hires. He’s self motivated, and that is the difference I think.

That is partly true; our company should do more especially when it comes to hiring and screening. But you can also only mentor those who wish to be mentored…

I’ve also been in this industry now for over 25 years and I have mentored a lot of junior developers. I feel I have gotten a little better at mentoring, but I do genuinely believe that general skills of graduates have also decreased. I think it may be generational. Devs from a decade or two ago had to find a lot of things out for themselves.

And Yes, I know I sound like an old asshole, but honestly, I think today CS is treated more like a trade than a skill. I wish it were otherwise.

I work at a large company that is not considered one of the tech bros. I doubt we’re hiring graduates ever again.

For the record, we’re NOT all in on AI - far from it - but what we have found is that 98% of graduate hires aren’t productive and over-estimate their skills.

Maybe it’s different elsewhere in the world, but in and around Toronto, we’ve found that most CS grads have gone into the field because they think it will pay well. Most have no “adjacent” skills, such as VCS understanding, PRs, how work is broken down etc, but the biggest red flag though is just how few of them are interested in expanding their horizons. I currently have one junior right now working on an Android app and he seems incapable of moving past the MVP, java based patterns they learned in college.

The way I see it, Colleges are doing a very poor job right now, and the students are paying the price.

True… I personally dislike Java and work mostly in Kotlin these days.

SOLID is generally speaking a good idea. In practice, you have to know when to apply it.

it sounds like your main beef in Java is the need to create interfaces for every class. This is almost certainly over-engineering it, especially if you are not using dependency inversion. IMHO, that is the main point of SOLID. For the most part your inversions need interfaces, and that allows you create simple, performant unit tests.

You also mention OOP - It has it’s place, but I would also suggest you look at functional programming, too. IMHO, OOP should be used sparingly as it creates it’s own form of coupling - especially if you use “Base” classes to share functionality. Such classes should usually be approached using Composition. Put this another way, in a mature project, if you have to add a feature and cannot do this without reusing a large portion of the existing code without modifications you have a code-smell.

To give you an example, I joined a company about a year ago that coded they way you are describing. Since I joined, we’ve been able to move towards a more functional approach. Our code is now significantly smaller, has gone from about 2% to 60% unit testable and our velocity is way faster. I’d also suggest that for most companies, this is what they want not what they currently have. There are far too many legacy projects out there.

So, yes - I very much agree with SOLID but like anything it’s a guideline. My suggestion is learn how to refactor towards more functional patterns.

Empathy

I wouldn’t say a PoS but clearly has a lot to learn - and what sounds like a crisis is not the place to do that. And he sounds like he has a lot to learn.

As a father, I believe that at a minimum you should care for your kids at least ONE day every week on your own, preferably more. And not just the fun stuff, either. Make sure it comprises bed time, bath time, making and eating meals, as well as getting the little tykes out of the house. Either parent needs to be able to cope alone, and more importantly, trust that the other can, too.

My suggestion is that he needs to have a frank conversation with his wife, and commit to the above care routine. He needs to be able to do this in a way that allows him to admit he doesn’t know things and get advice. But he does need to do the work and ensure his wife feels supported.

Did someone else watch John Oliver the other day…?

The trouble with making things idiot-proof is they‘ll just keep making better idiots

I agree that North America is appalling. I grew up in Europe, so that is my main comparison.

The two new lines would be helpful, but as someone that lived in Toronto for 15 years until very recently, I believe they were horribly mismanaged. Like most of the city is…

Public transport policy in Toronto is a disaster. It is a complete disappointment of a city and an ugly blight on the landscape that serves only captialism and vapid mediocrity

Love and welcome the clarifications - Couldn’t agree more

There’s definitely a difference between the people proposing such things (a minority) and their followers:

The minority definitely seem get caught with their pants down more often, usually with a rent-boy and a bag of meth. Totally get that maybe this is about “forbidden fruit”

But the rest? Definitely due lack of education and religion (which usually follows the former).

Now, for the most part, the poor southerners I’ve met really don’t care about homosexuality when you talk to them alone. In bigger groups, it’s definitely a problem. How you fix this, I definitely don’t know, but it is definitely not by victimizing.

Unfortunately, the minority have created other “cognitive barriers” to prevent the poor from realizing what their actual challenges are - Immigrants is another good example.

In short, this is just another form of class warfare.