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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I got my first programming job in 1996. I still have days like this.

    Today, I had a conversation with my boss about an apprentice in our team. Our senior front-end dev left a few months ago, and the apprentice has had to take on a lot of work with little guidance. Our team is very full of back-end devs with no front-end experience. During this conversation, we described our apprentice as “extremely capable but lacking experience”, and discussed the best way of getting him more experience. The conclusion we came to is that there is no shortcut here, but having good guidance from senior devs can help somewhat.

    What I’m trying say here is that what you’re describing is absolutely normal, and based on what you’ve said, you’re doing fine. You have a little imposter syndrome, which seems worse than it is because of your genuine lack of experience… that experience will come with time, and days like today are the days where you learn a load from your mistakes. You’ll probably not hard-code things like that in future, and today you gained a tiny bit of that experience that you need - well done!









  • “To honour these peerages it was not necessary to overrule HOLAC - but simply to ask them to renew their vetting, which was a mere formality,” Mr Johnson said.

    Even if this were true (and the following few sentences of the article quote multiple people saying it’s not, and explaining why) - is there any practical difference between Rishi “overruling” HOLAC and “asking them to renew their vetting”? Both would be equally distasteful. I’m not really sure what point Boris is trying to make here. I don’t see him coming out of this looking anything other than even worse than he did going into it.









  • LondonPilot@lemmy.worldtoUKCasual@lemmy.worldMonday Musing
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    1 year ago

    What was there to watch? Genuinely curious - I would never have thought to do this because I assume that one minute there were jokes in /r/funny and the next minute it was just a message saying it was private? Or was there more to it than that. Good for you for staying up for it regardless - the world needs more people as committed to the cause as you!