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rabbiteclair · 6 months

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do other fields have this thing where 80% of people who are, in theory, mid-career experienced professionals are barely capable of performing fairly basic tasks without personalized guidance, or is software development just suffering under the curse of an entire generation being told to go into the field if they want to earn enough money to pay rent

#got off work two hours late today #because i was helping somebody with such daunting bugs as #'ah see the issue here is that you sent your content-type header to application/vnd.ms-excel for some reason.'#'you told the server that you are sending it an Excel file. like. an old Excel file. and you aren't. so why did you do that?'#'ah. I see. you copied some 12-year-old code and reused it without considering what it does? well. there's your problem.'#also 'one problem I see is that you spelled company wrong. yes. it has an M in it. right. put an M there. an M. like Monkey. M'#'yes put an M. no not at the end. see how you typed 'conpany'? yes it needs to be 'company'. so just fix that'#'right. c-o-m-p-a-n-y. yes. that's where the M should go. okay but now you've typed 'cmpany'. can we put an O there? yes after the C'#and 'well the problem here is that you're retrieving a list of numbers and telling Hibernate to interpret them as a random object'#'ah it's some code you copied from somewhere and didn't change apart from the query? yeah that tracks. well. change it.'

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