When I were a lad...

[edison]

I can't think of anything that won't get bobbed eventually, even extremely technical stuff like data science, there is a production line of statistics Phds all the way back to Beijing and Delhi.

As far as devops is concerned I am surprised that companies are willing to pay so much for engineers who know how to put a kubernetes cluster together efficiently when most of the time a simple cloud native solution would have done.

I volunteer as a mentor for an organisation called Meet a Mentor which is primarily a developer and other techies community. One suggestion I always give to people who are considering how to develop their skills is to spend as much time thinking about the softer skills as well as technical. In the long run, I think we'll see many roles and skills eventually become commoditised through a combination of over supply, outsourcing and automation. Developing skills like creativity, problem solving, innovation and communication will increase your chances of good roles in the long term. They are also the things that are harder to get from outsourcing partners or obviously automation.

[Snooky]

watch IR35 blow over, whilst working on my plan B

I'm always interested to hear what people's Plan B is - care to share yours?

[northernladuk]

I'm always interested to hear what people's Plan B is - care to share yours?

My plan B appears to be the same as yours. Nick everyone else's ideas and then try do it better.

[perplexed]

My plan B appears to be the same as yours. Nick everyone else's ideas and then try do it better.

Mine is win lottery and retire.

Hmm, would withdrawing all cash in ltd and buying lottery tickets count as "investments"?

[ladymuck]

Mine is win lottery and retire.

Hmm, would withdrawing all cash in ltd and buying lottery tickets count as "investments"?

I hope so...

[pauldee]

How many lines of code do you average a week?

Before agile I did about 10000 back in the day

Now as a PM I see about 10 from an entire team


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Lines of code are a notoriously bad metric.

A better developer will produce fewer lines of code. A better developer still will actively reduce the number of lines of code.

[GhostofTarbera]

Lines of code are a notoriously bad metric.

A better developer will produce fewer lines of code. A better developer still will actively reduce the number of lines of code.

10000 was fully optimised


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[pauldee]

10000 was fully optimised


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That's one line of code every 3 seconds, non stop, for 8 hours. I can barely type that fast, so I struggle to think that you were stopping to think about whether you were applying the best approach.

When picking up an agile ticket I can spend a good hour exploring the various possible solutions, and not typing any code: which is most performant? Which will be the most maintainable? Which will work best with with future features coming up?

Then maybe refactoring existing code to prepare for the new code, then refactoring afterwards to keep the code base clean. Often I will end up with fewer lines of code than when I started, but with a new feature added.

[GhostofTarbera]

That's one line of code every 3 seconds, non stop, for 8 hours. I can barely type that fast, so I struggle to think that you were stopping to think about whether you were applying the best approach.

When picking up an agile ticket I can spend a good hour exploring the various possible solutions, and not typing any code: which is most performant? Which will be the most maintainable? Which will work best with with future features coming up?

Then maybe refactoring existing code to prepare for the new code, then refactoring afterwards to keep the code base clean. Often I will end up with fewer lines of code than when I started, but with a new feature added.

You would not have survived in core banking days or cobol and RPG - code still running 85% of all banks world wide


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[TheGreenBastard]

10000 was fully optimised