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What have you been expecting as Junior Developer? Especially in large company, there are lots of smarter people there, you are just starting. Sometimes people n

by ozim 14y ago

What have you been expecting as Junior Developer? Especially in large company, there are lots of smarter people there, you are just starting. Sometimes people need to be a little more humble, than thinking that on start they will be doing new android features right away. I've worked for similar big cos as junior, did not like it also and runned away. But someone has to do the dishes...

coldcode 14y ago
Any technology company that still uses Active-X for anything should be avoided, no matter what.
- ozim 14y ago
  Believe me there are far worse things in big co than Active-X. You would be surprised how Excel can be abused...
- bruceboughton 14y ago
  I'm sure even Apple has some criticial, internal application in finance or some other part of the corporate structure that they bought from a vendor that uses ActiveX.
- corresation 14y ago
  Any technology company that still uses Active-X for anything should be avoided ActiveX is apparently still really big in South Korea for some reason - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120507/12295718818/south-korea-still-paying-price-embracing-internet-explorer-decade-ago.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120507/12295718818/south-... Nonetheless, if a firm has committed to Windows (which alone is a problem, but assume they've done that), it is perfectly fine to use ActiveX for systems. IE is simply a runtime, and having to use the IE runtime for some internal systems -- get the hell over it. As others have said, blog posts like this are never professionally constructive. While some readers might sympathize with the writer, most will wonder if the problem is really with the writer (the old http://www.despair.com/dysfunction.html http://www.despair.com/dysfunction.html). There is an unavoidable smell that the writer might be toxic. Which of course the writer can disregard. I've burned bridges and never had an ounce of concern because I understood that I was burning bridges and embraced that. If the author is doing that knowingly, then brilliant for them.
yesimahuman 14y ago
I think humility is even more important in a startup than a big co, since being a stubborn arrogant fool doesn't help you respond to reality. However, the fact that young developers are making such amazing things right now pretty much disproves that "moving up the ladder" is necessary for great software product work in 2013. Times are seriously changing.
- obviouslygreen 14y ago
  I think humility is even more important in a startup than a big co, since being a stubborn arrogant fool doesn't help you respond to reality. While I'd agree with your logic on its own, the reality of (east coast) startups does not seem to match, at least based on the articles and accounts we most often see here. Humility, a very valuable trait, seems almost totally absent -- unless the bulk of those doing the actual work are so humble as to cower under their viciously self-promoting cofounders. Which I suppose is entirely possible.

by ozim 14y ago

coldcode 14y ago

Any technology company that still uses Active-X for anything should be avoided, no matter what.

ozim 14y ago
Believe me there are far worse things in big co than Active-X. You would be surprised how Excel can be abused...
bruceboughton 14y ago
I'm sure even Apple has some criticial, internal application in finance or some other part of the corporate structure that they bought from a vendor that uses ActiveX.
corresation 14y ago
Any technology company that still uses Active-X for anything should be avoided ActiveX is apparently still really big in South Korea for some reason - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120507/12295718818/south-korea-still-paying-price-embracing-internet-explorer-decade-ago.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120507/12295718818/south-... Nonetheless, if a firm has committed to Windows (which alone is a problem, but assume they've done that), it is perfectly fine to use ActiveX for systems. IE is simply a runtime, and having to use the IE runtime for some internal systems -- get the hell over it. As others have said, blog posts like this are never professionally constructive. While some readers might sympathize with the writer, most will wonder if the problem is really with the writer (the old http://www.despair.com/dysfunction.html http://www.despair.com/dysfunction.html). There is an unavoidable smell that the writer might be toxic. Which of course the writer can disregard. I've burned bridges and never had an ounce of concern because I understood that I was burning bridges and embraced that. If the author is doing that knowingly, then brilliant for them.

yesimahuman 14y ago

I think humility is even more important in a startup than a big co, since being a stubborn arrogant fool doesn't help you respond to reality. However, the fact that young developers are making such amazing things right now pretty much disproves that "moving up the ladder" is necessary for great software product work in 2013. Times are seriously changing.

obviouslygreen 14y ago
I think humility is even more important in a startup than a big co, since being a stubborn arrogant fool doesn't help you respond to reality. While I'd agree with your logic on its own, the reality of (east coast) startups does not seem to match, at least based on the articles and accounts we most often see here. Humility, a very valuable trait, seems almost totally absent -- unless the bulk of those doing the actual work are so humble as to cower under their viciously self-promoting cofounders. Which I suppose is entirely possible.