We have a hiring process where we (software developers) do a "test", a small programming challenge. There is no right or wrong, we only want to get in a discussion with our potential co-workers. This step is usually at the end, where HR/Management already "eliminated" some they find inappropriate.
What accellerant do you recommend?
That my friend is easier said then done, as you should know better than most judging by some of the steaming piles of shit coding that you have had to unravel in some of your roles.
I'm fine with that here. Unfucking those nightmares is amazingly profitableSpecmaster wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 7:50 pmThat my friend is easier said then done, as you should know better than most judging by some of the steaming piles of shit coding that you have had to unravel in some of your roles.
When I raised this point (in relation to the policy to make us wear full PPE all the time; if you don't know the appropriate PPE for the situation, you shouldn't be on a building site), I was told "We aren't allowed to discriminate".
Frankly you could extend that to "most management", and I think most companies would experience a huge productivity boost overnight.
It is little to do with academic vs apprentice.Specmaster wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 8:53 pm That is very true, so often it is management who stand in the way of progress, and from personal experience it tends to be those who came into into the role from an academic route rather than from the shop floor with actual knowledge of just what the job requires based on experience rather than a text book.
Not just management. Marketing too.Specmaster wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 12:21 am Wish I could say that subsequent prime ministers have been better, but I'd be lying if I did.
Change "academic" for breeding, my interpretation of breeding is someone who went to one of the universities or Eaton for example and comes away with an air of entitlement, an air of arrogance. I know better than you because I've been to this or that (insert name of establishment) and I'm going to tell you what to do and how to it even though I've no actual experience of work let alone how to do the job that you do.
I have come across many people in management like that from actual managers all the way through to directors. In reality none of them generally stay in a company longer then about 2 years as they move on before they get pushed. Why, because they generally get the positions because they promise the moon on a stick and then when they work out that their methods of getting the moon on a stick are not working, they find someone to blame, force them out, and so the process repeats time and time again and when all the experienced personnel have gone and all that is left are the ones who that person recruited and the moon is still not on the stick, it then becomes clear where the problem actually is and they suddenly resign before getting the push themselves.
Such people have zero regard for others they only lookout for themselves and don't care about who they trample on, or what state they leave the companies in after they move on, they use everybody and every company they get involved with as a means of getting to their ultimate goal and trousering as much money as they can along the way. Does that remind you of anyone at all?
I'd have thought that selling these things for $12 was more nuisance than it's worth, given the overheads and the number they are likely to sell. If it came to be a major problem affecting most customers, word would rapidly get out on the interweb of how you could make your own, by cutting it from a piece of plastic sheet.
A lot of it was written when coding was less of a worked out art. It started out with a limited specification which it met. It may have been intended as a quick flaker. It was added to by various people in various ways over the years and it was never designed to do what it ended up doing. No one had the time or courage to rewrite it.Specmaster wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 7:50 pmThat my friend is easier said then done, as you should know better than most judging by some of the steaming piles of shit coding that you have had to unravel in some of your roles.
Yes, If IRCC I think Louis Rossman said much the same thing in one of his videos.mnementh wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 5:17 pm The key is easily replaced with a 10mm wide slip of cardboard or anything opaque. Just Gurrgle "HAKKO Key Hack". Alternately, you can permanently disable the keylock by removing the phototransistor or applying a bit of heat-shrink tubing.
EDIT: Oh, wait... yours has the USER/SUPERVISOR key setup; that needs a bit of cardboard actually shaped like the key, or heat-shrink over both phototransistors to bypass as above.
The key you have appears to be printed... the one that came with my similar station was opaque blue plastic. I'd suggest you return it as it doesn't work and get your money back.
Everything aboot the UI on this family of soldering stations is absolutely for use as a production soldering station; it is intended to have temp set by a supervisor and then not fucked with by assembly monkeys. Said UI is also anti-intuitive and blows goats in general; the key gets in the way of using the buttons on some models FFS.
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at least yours didn't come with the "flaming inferno" option...
