Replace the macbook with a beaten up Thinkpad with 4th-5th gen Intel CPU, then it's more realistic.
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I'm an alcoholic how do I translate this skill into becoming a dev? Serious question.
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If I interpret the mac as just any laptop then I kind of agree. The more experience I have gained the less I care about how many monitors I have or how fancy my keyboard is. I do require linux though.
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That's not true. I prefer wine and Scottish whisky
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Pfft JD is trash no self respecting senior would by such short whiskey
23:22? Nah mate, my work phone turns off the moment I step through the gate. If someone chose to wait until after 16:00, they can wait until next morning to be told to fuck off.
If I resort to using a Mac I want someone to put me out of my misery.
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I used to prefer Jameson poured into my coffee when I worked somewhere with 6 hours of zoom meetings a day. I don't care what the laptop is,really, as long as it's not running windows and it has a buttload of ram. It's usually provided by whoever I'm working for anyway.
There's far better bourbon out there, seniors.
The best, brightest, most complicated thing I've done in IT became obsolete in 4 years.
The constant distraction and availability resonate with me.
The main thing is to put in systems where you don’t need as much effort to handle daily business. Usually you can engineer your way out of high touch, multi-step process glue.
In my youth working manual labour jobs I was full of vinegar and wouldn’t wait for the trucking dolly. Older workers taught me to slow down and I took that advice into software work.
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System admin. This is still relevant
I was a senior developer within my first year, so I guess this tracks with the mid-wit theory. Now I’m well beyond that level I answer all questions with “it depends”.
a senior engineer should has nothing to do with a fisher price toy, a glorified miniature lamborgini. real engineers should only use thinkpad.
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Recently happened that I was asked to fix a problem in a thing for some collaborators. It was quite some time I didn't look at this thing, but I opened it and fixed it.
Apparently we had 3 of those things and I fixed the wrong one. Oh well, went on vacation the following day and eventually got to fixing it a couple weeks later.
Nobody died.
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