I am a software developer currently working in PHP technology for 2 years. I am also pursing my M.S Program. I decided to Change my Technology to Java in my existing company.
When I requested my Manger on the same, he said he would support me for a change but he listed out some Impacts , Change...
Didn't we have a "are diverse skills good or bad" question?
I'm wondering if we should close as a dupe of a "canonical" Q like that or just close it for being the billionth "should I use language X" question on the intertubes
@Chad I certainly hope you don't leave. We may not always agree, but people like you with a relentless standard for quality are what keeps sites like this from falling into the tresh
@BenBrocka I was thinking of posting on meta a, "we need to downvote more" post for this reason.... sometimes it feels like there are very few people who use their votes to go after this standard of quality....
The culture on this site is just not solidly one which only accepts good answers as being "accepted" - it's quick to downvote really bad answers but the whole host of mediocre ones seem to be accepted by Workplace culture
@enderland Yeah, I'd love to see it move more towards at least being very critical of more mediocre answers. Unlike sites with complex topic matter, it's very easy and not very useful to spit out a mediocre answer. We just want the best of the best more or less
NDAs are common, everyone should understand that. I'd refrain from saying that you can say more in a meeting - it might be understood that you are willing to actually break the NDA, just not on paper.
However, consult your NDA with a lawyer. In many countries (notable exception is USA) attributi...
The difference is if you go to another company you'll be going with either 2+ years experience with PHP as a PHP developer, or zero years experience with Java as a Java developer.
Since Java and PHP aren't as close to each other it's likely to be viewed as a completely different language by fut...
Software development is constant learning. Knowing multiple languages is in my opinion a necessity. When you "switch" from PHP to Java, you don't forget PHP. You gain more knowledge, you don't lose any. Learning new language in a familiar environment (same company) is somewhat easier than getting...
just a sampling off the recent few questions. none of these answers are above mediocre
We are incredibly susceptible to the broken window problem here, because there is no objective standard for what quality this site has (how do you "answer" fully a question here?)
@enderland I believe there's a quality problem in terms of questions and answers. More community flags and votes are needed to shape the community; otherwise mods act on best judgement -- and get called out for acting unilaterally -- or don't act -- and get called out for allowing anything goes. Neither helps the site.
@BenBrocka the difficulty with DVing mediocre answers is this takes much effort. In my experience, it's about 10-x more time consuming than DVing bad answers and 3-5x than upvoting good ones
to DV mediocre answer I usually have to read them thoroughly (otherwise I can be mis-took profound but not too flashy stuff for mediocre one), plus often also evaluate other answers posted to find out how much original thought is there worthy keeping. This takes more time
yes. Yet another reason why I am tolerant to these (to be precise tolerant in not searching for these - if I see one, I downvote quite easily) - the reason is new posters can (and do) learn through practicing inevitably doing posts of differing quality. Downvoting here wouldn't help much...
@BenBrocka ...imagine yourself as a newbie, would you perceive DV as helpful, when DV happens in answer you invested quite a lot effort
...I for one wouldn't and that's why I tend to abstain
...unless of course I notice it somehow. :) In that case, I just DV
@BenBrocka non-newbies right. I don't have pity to these but again don't dspecifically search for mediocrity because as I mentioned this indeed takes much effort
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