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    October 07, 2021

    Will I ever be employed as a programmer again? Ask Programming

    Will I ever be employed as a programmer again?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 09:31 PM PDT

    I was a software developer for about ten years until I left for health reasons around 2014. Since then, I've never stopped learning and working on my own little hobby projects. I feel that I'm still competent, yet my confidence has taken a severe beating after being absent for so long. I'm not sure how to convince an employer that I'm still relevant. It doesn't help that I'm terrible at finding potential positions and selling myself.

    What should I do? Has anyone else faced anything similar?

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    As a junior backend developer, how do I build up my portfolio when all the projects I work on are non-public and owned by my employer?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 08:54 AM PDT

    To be more specific, I work mostly in Python using the Odoo framework. Most of what I touch involves working with various models and controllers to add new functionality to existing projects.

    I cannot link to these projects to let prospective employers "see" what I've done, and I cannot include any of the code I work on in a repo.

    I know I can work on personal projects, but honestly, I'm usually pretty tired of coding by the end of a long day / week. Is this the only way to build up a portfolio of work I can actually show a new employer? Is it enough to just talk about the things I've done and have experience with?

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    How to aggregate data in Django?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 10:44 PM PDT

    Hi Reddit,

    I have a Vue, Django integrated project. I hosted the Vue project on Netlify and the Django project on Heroku. A python script (integrated into Heroku) is called on certain buttons which extract data and posts this to the Django API and PostgreSQL database to be viewed on the frontend.

    Now in one of my tables, I have information about 3 football players. I have the position of three players (pos1, pos2, pos3), their names (name1, name2, name3), their rating, number of goals and assists. So within every row, there are 15 columns with this information for 3 players. I want to make a table, where I would see the player name, and aggregated stats from the other 4 data points (number of games played at a certain postition, average rating, etc.). However, it may be that e.g. Ronaldo is in the 'name1' column in one row, and in the 'name2' column in another row. The data for Ronaldo would in the first row be the 'pos1', 'rating1', etc., and in the other row, it would be 'pos2', 'rating2'.

    What would be the best way to achieve this, getting the data in django, and returning the aggregated data back with a request?

    May it be that it would be better to make another table with another player on each row? If so, is there a difference in size (mbs) in tables if one has many rows and few columns, and the other has many columns but few rows?

    Would appreciate the help!

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    Calendar Management System for SaaS products

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 10:33 PM PDT

    I'm looking for a solution to help me do calendar management in my system (something like Calendar as a Service).

    Some of the features that I would need are

    1. Ability to create a calendar for every user in my system.
    2. Allow everyone to set their availability and Off Days. They should also be able to change the availability for a specific day.
    3. Ability for the system to book a timeslot on any of the user's calendars.
    4. Ability to check conflicts before booking a slot.
    5. Ability to get notified via Webhooks whenever someone cancels the already booked slots.

    I don't need a UI. I can use any readily available Calendar UI Component. All I need is a service that can provide APIs to manage multiple calendars (one of each user in my system).

    I've explored Calendly, but it requires every user within my system to have an account on Calendly as well. So it's not going to work for me.

    Currently, I'm exploring Calendso, but I would appreciate it if you could share any other services you are familiar with that I should explore for this use case.

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    Why do we have HTTP2, HTML5, IPv6, etc., but email looks the same as 20 years ago ?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 01:25 AM PDT

    What does MATLAB do better than Python?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 05:44 AM PDT

    Basically being forced to take a course in which the prof insists on using MATLAB. And every time I'm thinking, I could've done this so much easily in Python. Why do people use MATLAB? It's slower, IDE sucks, and the goddam "end" after each if and for statement is driving me off the deep end (lol).

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    What could be causing Reddit's infamous ''Account deletion bug''?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 05:54 PM PDT

    This bug has been brought up quite a lot recently, and it appears as though it's not a recent issue, but one that has been present nearly all year. A person will be posting comments or links, and all is good. But then they suddenly stop receiving notifications, and when they log out, they see that every single post on their account is deleted, as though they deleted it themselves, when this is not what actually happened.

    They click on their username, only to have some kind of 404 error pop up, saying ''that page doesn't exist'' or ''nobody on Reddit goes by that name''.

    The notice for suspension and manual account deletion is different. Some accounts end up falling victim to this site-wide bug even if no posts or comments have even been made. It has happened to accounts regardless of their reputation, karma, or posting style.

    I'm wondering what type of error(s) could be causing this bug, because it's the first website that I've known experiencing this kind of thing. Many people are theorizing that Reddit never replaces their severs because it is a free site to use and new servers cost money, and because those servers are basically ancient, this is a symptom of data loss. Is this a plausible theory?

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    Hey guys, can an app be triggered by a physical button/unique gesture and then interact with other third/first party apps which are currently open on the user's screen?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 04:19 PM PDT

    It may be triggered by pushing a hardware button on the phone, such as by a simple push/combination of the power key or the volume keys. It should be able to interact with the 3rd/1st party app on top which the user may have opened. By the term 'interact' I mean it should be able to read the data/metadata that is currently on the screen of the user (of course this will all happen with the permission of the user). For example: If the user is watching a video on youtube and they trigger the app, it should come up on the screen in a popup/splash screen kind of style and it should instantly know that what video is the user currently watching without any sort of input from the user.

    Is it possible to program such an app, either on iOS or android?

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    Book to understand system architecture of per user home feed customization (like twitter, reddit etc)

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 03:48 PM PDT

    Example, twitter home feed uses various signals like the tweets and accounts you saw recently, notification settings, the accounts that you follow, topics subscribed etc.

    From a system architecture perspective want to understand how big tech cos handle the customization for millions of users, the models they use, if any pagination optimizations are done, if feed is refreshed by the user how is new content served instantly based on the same customization etc

    Tried searching but could not find the right keywords to do so. Recommender system books did not cater to this.

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    Can someone help me setup CloudFlare?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 03:09 PM PDT

    Hey everyone.

    ​

    My website is getting attacked by DDoS.

    I setup a CloudFlare, and for a few days it was helping, but now the attackers have overwhelmed me. Would someone be able to tell me some good settings in order to maintain my security?

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    Program name brainstorm

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 02:44 PM PDT

    I have this program, or rather set of PowerShell scripts, that I use to automate my vSphere environment. I want to publish these scripts within my company in our private GitHub, but I want to brainstorm some name ideas. of course I can always go with a descriptive name like "vSphere-Automation" or something boring like that- but who wants to conveniently and effectively communicate something like that?

    Help me brainstorm ideas !

    The scripts deal with

    • VM administration (creating, deleting, powering on, reverting to snapshots, etc.)
    • Linux admin (installing our products, changing static networking, manipulating firewall, etc.)

    some ideas that've been divined:

    • Bit Sized Band Leader
    • VM Virtuoso
    • Computron
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    Is it common enough that a project is a huge mess of code?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 03:17 AM PDT

    I'm currently working at a small (I think) game development company (~50 persons). One of our project is a huge mess of code with no tests, documentation, architecture AT ALL, zero, null. It comprises of 1200+ TS/JS files with 125K lines of code and 83K lines of LESS styles scattered across 160 .less files. It's such a maze that one simple task - changing the order of game items in the inner market - takes a few DAYS to accomplish. Because you cannot just change config/order field of items or similar. There is a function that calculates the order but it's not that simple! To accomplish the task you must change the logic across multiple files and so on. Item entities can have fields that does not even have something to do with entity. You just cannot understand what to do. And apply that situation to any other task or part of project - that is what I'm working on. Moreover - there is no a single framework that our project uses. At all. So the question as the title says is - is that situation common enough across different projects? That a project has nothing to help you to finish or even start a task, that it does not have tests, documentation and so on. I don't have much of experience with huge projects. Is it everywhere or just an exception

    Edited: Added a note about framework

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    Create syntax checker vim plugin or a linter for a new Programming language

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 02:01 PM PDT

    I want to create a new vim syntax checker for a new programming language that is not used widely, first i tried to read the code of the follwing plugins neomake, syntastic , and Ale in order to understand how i can build my own syntax checker plugin but i could not really get it so i just want know what is the best and easy way to create syntax checker plugin for vim ? if you can not answer this question i want to know how can i create a linter for this programming language note that this language already has a compiler,

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    autoshutdown programs

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 01:55 PM PDT

    Hi people, don't now for shure if this is the right place to ask.

    I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to autoshutdown a specific program if there is no user activity after a set time. Dus anyone know of a way how one would go about this ?

    Thanks in advance😃

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    Which language should I use for multi vendor e-commerce store?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 01:28 PM PDT

    Hi I just want to build a multi vendor store, we store and apps and I have no clue and frankly confused about all the different languages.

    I just want to build a website and mobile apps that are uniform to each other. So any language that's best for both app and web.

    It's obviously going to take me months and months but I would love to try it I just need to know which direction where to even go. I got no clue.

    So any help is appreciated.

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    Mysterious 5 bit floating point????

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 09:21 AM PDT

    I'm working on a chip that has an instruction that allows one to multiply a number in X register by an immediate float and store it to Y register. However, if you look at the opcode, it only allows 5 bits for the immediate float.

    ​

    I was taken aback! I've heard of 8 bit floats, but never of 5 bit floats. The documentation of this chip is awful, and it doesn't describe the format of the float for this instruction. So my coworker and I decided to try and brute force assemble a sample program to find out which numbers compiled and which didn't. Here is that data thus far:

    ​

    Numbers that assemble:

    0.5

    -0.5

    1.0

    -1.0

    2.0

    3.0

    ​

    Numbers that don't assemble:

    0.25

    0.1

    0.0

    2.5

    1.5

    ​

    I was taken aback again! It means that there IS a sign bit in the 5 bit float, and that it can't handle a 0.0 (it makes sense in this case, because multiplying by an immediate zero is redundant and makes no sense).

    My question is, based on this information, how many bits are there for the exponent and mantissa?

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    Evaluate my JavaScript program?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 12:15 PM PDT

    Hi guys

    I'm a junior developer and I've been tasked with developing a program which exhibits evidence of good: Object Oriented programming, Design Principles, Separation Of Concerns, and Testing Methodologies

    I've chosen to develop a program which takes a text input of playing cards and evaluates the best poker hand that could be constructed with the cards using Node JS.

    To do this, I've used the pokersolver and the readline-sync Node JS modules.

    Since I'm no expert developer, could you guys take a look at my code below and let me know if it meets the aforementioned objectives?

    //Call the poker hand API and readline-sync modules var Hand = require('pokersolver').Hand; //Allows us to evaluate poker hands const readline = require('readline-sync'); //Allows us to prompt input from user //Call the maain function which executes the program main(); //Function which prompts user to enter poker cards and returns them as a string function getCards() { var cardsString = readline.question( "\nPlease enter a comma separated hand of up to seven cards in the following format:\n" + "Card number or first character of honour + first character of suite\n" + "e.g. Ace of Clubs, 10 of Diamonds and King of Hearts = AC, 10D, KH\n\n" ); return cardsString; } //Function which removes all whitespaces and quotation marks(if any) from a string function removeChars(cardsString) { cardsString = cardsString.replace(/[\s"']/g, ""); return cardsString; } //Function which replaces all occurences of the number 10 with the character "T" as the poker hand API does not accept more than one digit function replaceTen(cardsString) { cardsString = cardsString.replace(/10/g, "T"); return cardsString; } //Function which converts the cards string to an array as the poker hand API only accepts arrays function convertToArr(cardsString) { var cardsArray = cardsString.split(","); return cardsArray; } //Function which passes the cards entered to the poker hand API and also returns a descriptive error if user entered the wrong input function calcHand(cardsArray) { try { var hand = Hand.solve(cardsArray); console.log(hand.name); } catch (error) { console.log( "\nError, please ensure that your cards are entered in the correct format:\n" + "Card number or first character of honour + first character of suite\n" + "e.g. Ace of Clubs, 10 of Diamonds and King of Hearts = AC, 10D, KH\n" ); } } // Main function which determines and displays the best poker hand that can be constructed with the cards //In order for the poker hand API to process the string, a few changes must be made to the string first: function main() { var cards = getCards(); cards = removeChars(cards); cards = replaceTen(cards); cards = convertToArr(cards); cards = calcHand(cards); var playAgain = readline.question("Would you like to play again? YES / NO\n"); if (playAgain.toUpperCase() === "YES") { main(); } else { console.log("Game Over"); return; } }
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    Trying to understand exactly what this line in my requirements doc means

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 11:43 AM PDT

    I've run a number of google searches, but I'm having a spectacularly tough time filtering out real answers. For people who are more experienced than me, this will probably be a really simple answer

    in my work's project, in the requirements doc they link to github for a dependency that they created.

    I have to obfuscate some info about our organization so before I write the modified version of the line, let me tell you the context and what everything means. I can't say the organization's name, so that's replaced by "orgname". We have a repository in our microservices architecture that's just for dependencies we created for ourselves. So I'll call that repo "dependencies" So here is the line in our requirements doc

    git+git//github.com/orgname/dependencies.git@$master#egg-orgname-dependencies

    its the last part I don't understand, orgname-dependencies

    in all of our code, when they actually import the dependencies, its "orgname _dependencies" rather than orgname-dependencies". So I don't really understand what that last part is. Is that just a nickname for the dependency? But if that were the case, why in actual usage of the dependencies is it underscored rather than hyphened?

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    How much should I charge for my App?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 10:39 AM PDT

    I drive semi trucks and train new drivers. I've made an App using the no-code platform AppSheet to help act as reference material for my trainees. It includes in-depth step by step instructions for all of the duties of drivers. It's basically everything that I verbally instruct them to do in written form with images for reference. How to operate our tablets and other IT, how to complete paperwork, other best practices. It also has map functions similar to other paid trucker navigation apps (like Trucker Path).

    All in all I think it would be a really useful tool but I have no idea what I should charge for it? Like, I made it out of hobby, but I think the other drivers in my company would really benefit from it. Any thoughts? It's a medium sized company so they're not hurting for cash, but also not so big that I'm just a complete nobody either.

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    How to start writing tests on a big vue web app (60+ pages) in order to work on CI/CD one day

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 12:47 AM PDT

    We currently have a coverage of about 0%. So the good news is we can't get any lower (I think).
    Our final goal is to have a coverage nearing 90% and to start working on CI/CD.

    But when starting writing tests using Jest and Vue framework, we have to spend a few hours mocking every prop, data, computed, store call, router use, etc. only to instantiate a single component. And we have quite a few components for which we need such tests (more than 200).

    I'm guessing it's way easier to start writing tests from the beginning, but here we are.

    Is it the right way to go? Just mock everything to instantiate a component, then write tests.
    Or is there a smoother way to start writing tests for big vue projects?

    Cheers.

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    Help me with what is wrong in this and I'm a beginner

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 09:48 AM PDT

    input('what about your credit? ')
    good = True
    bad = False
    price = 1000000
    print( 'Actual Price of the House One Million' )
    if good :
    print(f'${price * 0.1} is your Down Payment')
    else bad :
    print(f'${ price * 0.2} is your Down Payment')

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    How well does software architect for physical test systems translate to software architecture in general?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 09:15 AM PDT

    I am currently working on architecting software that provides a test system for electronic devices. This includes communication between Python, Robot Framework, Command shells, ethernet, GPIB, etc.

    My question is, how well will these skills translate if I wanted to be a software architect for something more software focused in the future?

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    Why test methods that consist only of calls to other methods?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 04:50 AM PDT

    So I see that much too often in Java projects: method that only calls few other methods underneath. No logic, no nesting. And there is always the same mess of a test method: mock everything, and then see if your mocked methods were called. It's not testing behaviour or anything other than implementation. What is the point? Some go even deeper: pass some object as return for mock and checking if it stays the same at the end. But it was only passed through other mock, no real code there. How can I change this approach in my team?

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    Are DSLs like this any good (attempt 3)

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 04:06 AM PDT

    So the company I work at (recently started working here) is using a "DSL" (quotes might become apparent later on) for the development of their applications. The entire thing runs in a highly configured MPS (JetBrains MPS) with a plugin a (in my opinion) delusional guy has made. The Plugin this guy has made is publically available under his github and he believes this is the next best thing in the world (even though he can barely write understandable English). When he taught me this thing (you can only be taught by him or the others of my team) he said it's made so the buisness people can read the code if they wanted to, which is just plain useless in my opinion, since they never will, and could never understand the thing anyways, since it's just as complex as a normal programming language and needs up to a week of training to actually understand and use.

    https:// justpaste.it /22bo1 (since reddit didn't let me post the message and is deleting all the content from my post, you sadly have to piece the link together.)

    I could still go on and on about this, but I feel that everyone should be able to see what I mean at this point.

    edit: something big I forgot to mention in the paste: If you have an existing expression and you want to delete only part of it, or change a single character, you have to rewrite the entire expression. That single developer thinks this is the most productive a developer could be

    I'm thinking of going to my superior (since we're the only team (5 people) using this plugin) and telling him that this just isn't gonna work out in the long run, though I might just have a skewed perspective of it and as such am asking here if such things that are any as opposed to a well maintained framework made by us (the company) or a well known and maintained framework/library (something like ASP.NET, Tensor flow, Angular, etc)

    If this shows up twice, please delete the first post. Reddit is having slight issues again. I am also incapable of setting a flair, but it would be language

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    Fake screen of broker or with much dynamic graphics like geektyper?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2021 05:48 AM PDT
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