RonSijm

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[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Since others already suggested mostly on-topic suggests, here's an alternative suggestion:

Instead of looking specifically for a mentor - look for an open source project that you can help with. Ideally one with a discord or something to it's easy to be in contact the the lead dev. A lot people don't mind mentoring juniors, but in my experience it doesn't happens that explicitly - "be my mentor" - and it might sound like you're asking them a lot.

If you invert it into "Hey I wanna help you with your open-source project, but I don't really know what to do, what your expectations are, how to implement a specific feature" - then you're offering to do work them, instead of asking for something. And implicitly you'll get mentorship in return.

And "real" projects probably also look better on your github / portfolio than only some dummy projects for learning purposes

[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sorry to be skeptical - but does this really do anything? It's nice, I guess, but it mostly just seems like marketing.

They already had a program for Open-Source Projects and a program for Developer Recognition - And maybe some other programs that I've missed.

And if you check the Github Stars Profiles - it's just 76 people. A lot of whom I suspect would already quality through one of their other programs

[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yea, I agree.

Also what's the point now? At least a couple years ago we got a pretty cool t-shirt. Now we're just getting a digital badge..?

[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 41 points 8 months ago (3 children)

40% of you are getting paid for this...? 🫠

[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't really work all the time, because large files or large commits are lazy loaded on scroll, so what you're searching might not have loaded yet

The code search does a server side search

[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No, not some internal company, just Microsoft being Microsoft. So all Windows pipelines. They also have Linux based pipelines so not completely all pipelines.

But given that a lot of people build dotnet stuff on Azure, the 'windows-latest' image is usually the default. So a lot of pipelines

[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's not a Discord bot, it's a Slack RSS App / RSS subscription.

Event Source: https://status.dev.azure.com/_event/543117809

It's pretty useful 'for work' because occasionally you'll get notifications when parts of infra might be down (like your build server)

[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It’s more the fault of the implementation and documentation.

Yea sure. Though it's slightly XMLs fault for allowing that kinda implementations. Every random thing is in it's own obscure namespace with 20 levels of nested objects in different namespaces, and if you get anything wrong it barely explains what's wrong, and just refuses to work.

It's mostly WCFs fault. I just automatically associate XML with nightmare flashbacks of implementing WCF stuff

[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Uh-huh... ever tried to integrate with a poorly implement WCF service? Like communication from a Java service to a dotnet service through a WSDL?

I'll take a json API over XML any day

[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 21 points 8 months ago

At some I added logging to a thread pool, when it gave up on child-threads, it would be logging things like

"Child 123 is being aborted"

Not the best of phrasing for people that didn't know what that was about...

[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

Omg it’s sooo daammmn slooow it takes around 30 seconds to bulk - insert 15000 rows

Do you have any measurements on how long it takes when you just 'do it raw'? Like trying to do the same insert though SQL Server Management Studio or something?

Because to me it's not really clear what's slow. Like you're complaining specifically about the Microsoft ODBC driver - but do you base that on anything? Can you insert faster from Linux or through other means?

Like if it's just 'always slow' it might just be the SQL Server. If you can better pinpoint when it's slow, and when it's fast(er) that probably helps to tell how to speed it up

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