Someone didn’t read the article. She addresses exactly this.

I can already hear the trolls making jokes about women being concerned about breaking a nail. If it’s so inconvenient, why not just have short nails? Well, I’m not out here wearing long nails for fun. Being a reviewer often means acting as a part-time hand model for whatever gadget I’m testing. The Internet Nail Police has repeatedly shown up in my comments over the years if my polish is chipped or, god forbid, there’s a smudge of dirt under my natural nail.

My favorite project was C++; it was big, it was complicated, there was a massive team working on it, I got to work with high level abstractions while occasionally dealing with really low level concerns.

It was really hard, but now writing code in every other language I’ve worked in has been really easy.

But guys, if we use agile then we don’t need requirements! We just make something and then the customers tell us if we are on the right track, we just get to iTeRaTe

Wow, I didn’t expect an expert to chime in.

The plural of moose is meese.

There’s really good documentation out there and there’s bad/nonexistent documentation. So stackoverflow is going to be a more consistent experience.

Also I think it is a bit of a skill to be able to read documentation well, especially for Jr. Devs that might not have fully grasped OOP.

lgtm skip

That really depends on the culture of the company and your mindset. If you think it is going to be hell it is going to feel like hell.

You work more with people and less with computers, but ultimately you are still working on solving problems. Instead of inside code on a computer it is inside a team within a larger organization.

Join us at !engineering_managers@programming.dev

The community is still small but you can ask questions and there are some good resources there already.

null doesn’t necessarily mean “nothing”.

Classic toilet paper example.

Hey, my meme I reposted got reposted to this instance’s programmer humor. Cool!

I stole it from someone else, so no worries OP. I honestly just like how Lemmy can enable these “reposts”. I think it’s fun that someone else that a dumb meme I thought was funny was actually funny enough to post it again.

C++/++

There’s no harm in messaging the sales team directly. Whatever deals CivitAI got might not work for you, they might not even be legally allowed to mention specifics. But you can shop around and see what different providers will offer you.

Lots of VC funding?

Probably. They might have gotten additional discounts off of the advertized price by talking with sales and committing to the service for a year or other ways.

Yup exactly. How do you define successful anyway? It’s say that Lemmy is already successful and it’s likely to continue to grow.

It’s unlikely Lemmy will ever be more successful than Reddit, but it doesn’t need to be.

Edit: to clarify, I’d like help with how to ask them to tell me their usual contractor rate

You ask them and then they will tell you or not. If the say “based on experience”, then ask for a range for an engineer with your similar experience.

They might not want to tell you. They want to get you for as cheap as possible, which is way everyone on this thread is telling you how to estimate a rate.

You might be able to find other contractors for them on LinkedIn and ask them, but they are also unlikely to tell you and might inform their client that you did it.

Oh wow! That is really cool. I used Google Bard for a bit and liked it because it included some web links, but I found the answers not as good as ChatGPT(especially GPT4), this looks like the best of both worlds.