I’ve learned that yeah, and me too, especially since it’s not what I studied and I can’t really give any input on research methods - they are a research group in Spatial Data Science and I’m constantly learning new stuff that’s not directly related to my work. I was hired to build and maintain software tools for their own research and help with code architecture of their own creations. I just love learning so perfect job for me!

It’s a good profession to have! ;) and I wish I could give some solid tips, but this is my first job in the academics and I ended up here by accident. I do know something though: he should not settle for public job postings only. Universities consist of multiple research working groups and many of the working groups just wait until someone who knows software well enough rolls into their team or pay a company to do the job.

Before me for past 20 years they got software devs by either someone walking in and asking if they need a freelancer or if a PhD student had previous studies/experience in software. Apparently they had never posted this job online.

Recently I got another offer from a different working group at a different university, and only because one of their employees had worked with me a year before and knew me. There was np job posting for this position either.

Maybe your buddy already knows all of that about university working groups, but thought that this might be useful info. I work in Europe but academics seem to be the same no matter where lol.

And good luck with the fight against mosquitoes! Those assholes…

PIVOT

That is indeed nice. I don’t get a much of a say in my current job so that’s why I prefer not to be part of the requirements defining. I just tell them what is possible and within what time frame when they finally come up with their final master plan that they want to define themselves (maybe I’m just communicating wrong with academic people still).

Now that looks like bliss! Perfect weather, beer, cabin in the nature, and a day full of hard work behind. And hey, the captain must sink with their ship ;) Thanks for sharing!

Glad I’m often not the one gathering the initial requirements lol!

Absolutely, love to see something more physical being made and solving physical problems too! And working on a cabin is bliss if you have a good weather! I bet it was rewarding at the end :)

And yes to both: I do like my work as well and also spend too much time here while being there!

Hey I used to stay for coffee with the marketing team of my previous employer because they were more fun!! Lol glad to hear I wasn’t the only person enjoying the comms people! I know exactly how you feel!

Probably a big portion of us, but I hope that it gets diversified. Love reading about other fields as well and enjoy looking at posts from !machinist@sh.itjust.works too on top of dev work :)

Thankfully I can, they haven’t yet followed me home ;) hope you are enjoying your work environment as well apart from micromanaging and socially awkward devs!

Ah shit I’ve forgotten the ancient tablets, ill fix that thank you!

Hmm… Smells like a windows user aswell… Look at that:

.desktop desktop.ini

Edit: fixed the filename

Yeah the workers becoming managers is always a double edged sword in my experience. They understand the work, but there is deep value with management/leadership training (which they often don’t have).

Ha I know exactly what you mean with social interactions not being the team’s strongest suit!

I also work as a dev, but for an academic working group (not software or compsci).

That’s all good, but I just want to do my job and leave work at work. I don’t want to be contacted on my free-time. Academics don’t understand this way of thinking.

laittaa foliohatun päähän: huomaan välillä, että yle julkaisee artikkelin klikkiotsikolla ja vaihtaa sen 15 minuutin päästä järkevämpään otsikkoon

foliohattu pois päästä

Järkeilin itselleni tämän olevan vain vahinko joka sattuu aina silloin tällöin, tai sitten työkaverit korjaavat välillä toistensa otsikoita jotka on kirjoitettu ja postattu kiireellä. Artikkelista kuitenkin näkyy aina että se on editoitu postaamisen jälkeen.

Edit: pakko kuitenkin sanoa, että tykkään yleisesti ylen sisällöstä ja uutisoinnista. Varsinkin MOT artikkelit on aina jees.

100%… I like my boss too, but he doesn’t understand that he is micromanaging me and that things end up taking longer. I don’t think this is a personality issue only. I think it is lack of experience and knowledge about management.

My boss was away, so I got to work in peace all week! This happiness carried over to my free-time and I slept better.

Micromanagement sucks. But let’s keep it positive: last week was nice!

Congratulations!! Sounds like an awesome week!

Yup, third confirmation that this shows up as a “limited time event” which I suspect is an ad in playstore if you search for firefox.

There is a draw.io extension for VS Code (like another comment mentioned, it looks like the main application is vs code), and the UI elements inside the open tab with grid looks like draw.io’s minimalistic dark theme.

Edit: yeah looks like it: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hediet.vscode-drawio

The screenshot you have in your post just has a different drawio theme than the default one. You can change the theme in settings of drawio.

Edit 2: Scrap that, it was proved to be obsidian based on LordeMostarda’s comment and answers below

Recently in some post someone mentioned that you can directly access the translator for free-input text by writing to the url bar:

about:translations

I tried this strategy as well, but now that I’m at a point where I can indeed communicate with natives I’ve sadly noticed that not knowing the correct article creates confusion and frustration in the listener when I try bit more advanced conversations.

For my day-to-day interactions I can omit it, but this has kinda halted my learning :(

Yeah I’ve been reading “easy german” news to form a bit more association with the words. Guess there is no way around it, got to keep practicing!

This is what I would prefer! A clear rule. But I’ve bumped into so many exceptions that have made me really insecure when I try to use the language in my day-to-day life.

That’s what I’ve been missing about language learning. The fun I had in the beginning.

Ah, there is specifically content for this kind of learning, I didn’t realize that. Thought at first that you meant simply by consuming media in that language an learning by looking up the words and base the rest on context.

That sounds like an interesting way of learning. Got to go and look into natural comprehension material. Thanks for the tips and explanation!