Knock off the childish fucking gatekeeping and go back to reddit. It’s what the wider industry uses.

python is usually the next step up in admin land

python is a pretty standard install on linux systems since so many things like you’re talking about use it

You missed one:

• To let others at least have some insight into what you’re doing so you can take a freakin’ vacation every once in a while

Don’t take issue with the platform. Take issue with companies that are so fanatical with “we’re a microsoft/java/javascript/esperanto shop!” that they’d cram it into medical devices and nuclear reactor controls before doing some sort of sober domain analysis.

Everything has its own set of problems.

Technical videos have helped me perfect my pronunciation of “umm” and “uhh.”

throw yourself to the wolves

embrace the wolves

Man, SSIS really stunk. You’d end up having to write your own components anyways and had the extra layer of making them look like pricey RAD toolkit bits to satisfy empty suits. And then you’d have to write SSIS packages that wrote SSIS packages to deal with fluid schemas from multiple teams deploying all of the time.

From a historical standpoint, there is also the bad blood of ActiveX, Flash, Silverlight and early Java applets that still leaves a bad taste in people’s mouths. It has a slightly steeper uphill battle to fight.

Generally the most supported language on the tool/platform you want to target is the best one. Like SQL on databases, JS/ES in browsers, python in data science related stuff, etc. If multiple are heavily supported then just pick the one that’s the most comfortable.

It won’t fly. Not when a popular red meat election year topic is breaking google up and one such year is just around the corner.

I can think of surgeon examples but I’ve never heard of Recruiters Without Borders. Unless it’s just CapGemini

Fintech is easy to deal with in this regard.

“do you have code samples you can share?”

“would you be happy if an employee interviewed elsewhere and used your codebase for work samples?”

It’s likely not the full story, but there were some crazy export restrictions in the 90s. Apple made a commercial poking at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjkoYlpf3EA

BBSs had fidonet in 1993, if email, usenet and irc don’t count

They use Atlanta Metro, AWS and GCP as far as I know. I want to say they own the Oregon DC but can’t remember.

A more honest code test:

interviewer: “see if you can get this project my nephew made in high school to run”

job: getting the next project their nephew made in high school to run

PREFERRED:

• PhD in quantum cryptography
• 3 years of janitorial services experience
• Proof of current therapist

Historical note: the golden age of crazy uncle email forwards made me completely reject capitalized sql statements

Nope, it’s all light theme with comic sans and small caps for me

They’re very useful for the boilerplate stuff and it’s somewhat rewarding to type out 3-4 letters, hit tab and wind up with half a dozen lines in a bash script or config file.

They tend to get in the way more for complicated tasks, but I have learned to use them as a psychology trick: if I have writer’s block, I just let them pump out something wrong since it’s easier to critique a blob of text than a blank page.