Be Kind To New Programmers

Content I've interviewed a lot of people over the last year (Java), and my favorite test is to throw a Stack Trace at them and ask them to figure out what the problem is. The answer is actually quite clear, however. Half of them don't know it's called a stack trace. Some don't know what they're looking at (BYE!). Several focus on the wrong section of proprietary code. Some ask to "open a debugger". however the answer is right there in plain english if you just read the method names. Many don't realize the line numbers are RIGHT THERE, and then start focusing on the lines ending with "Compiled Code". Then there are the ones who work their way up from the bottom, starting with the application container code, and lose their minds. Some who figure out what is happening don't have a solution to prevent it from happening. No, I'm not sharing the trace; suffice to say it's been reviewed by more than 5 of my peers and they all passed. Like Reply 1h Edited I mean, it isn't hard to eliminate people with a coding question. Do you find it impossible to teach people how to read text stack traces, or is this a skill without which they will be unable to do anything of use, or do you just not want to hire anyone? 1 am serious. 1 can come up with dozens of useful programming skills I can test a candidate on that most perfectly skilled programmers would fail. Start with eliminating people who can't code at all. Then find out what they can do that could be useful. If I have 5 people who can already take a printed out stack crash dump, I probably don't need another, and if I do, a qualified candidate can be taught that skill by someone who knows it in under a week. Then again, maybe you work for Stack Trace Inc, and your entire job is looking at stack traces. If so, by bad. Like Reply 22m

Content THIS DEVELOPER HAD A BAD WEEK Tried Everything: AdMob FB Audience Network iOS Integration 22 views Bobby Bob to Google Mobile Ads SDK Developers Sep 21, 2023, 2:15:07 PM (yesterday) I have tried posting to Stack Overflow, paid two people from Fiver, cold emailed eight strangers, and posted elsewhere online, and am still stuck... what is a bid payload? We are trying to integrate Facebook Audience Network (FAN) ads into an iOS app, using Google AdMob as the mediation partner. Unfortunately, the FB sample code they've provided shows how to integrate the deprecated Waterfall method, when FB now only supports Bidding. This is the code that is used to load a Bidding FAN ad in iOS: private func loadFacebookAd () adView? .removeFromSuperview ( ) let ad FBNativeAd(placementID: "PLACEMENT ID") ad.delegate self TODO: - Initiate a request to load an ad. Where does it come from? ad. loadAd(withBidPayload: String) ChatGPT claims that the BidPayload can be fetched upon loading a Google ad, in the callback: func adLoader( adLoader: GADAdLoader, didReceive nativeAd: GADNativeAd) ( but I am not seeing any property with a name resembling BidPayload in the Google Ad response data. Where on earth does this BidPayload string come from?! !!! HELP! HELP HELP MEEEEEE!!!!! I ProdrammerHumor.io

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The divine hierarchy of debugging has been revealed! Your buggy code is the vehicle stuck in mud, while you're just the helpless dog watching from below. Meanwhile, the real heroes pushing you forward are: StackOverflow (the backbone of modern development), some random blog post from 2007 (written by a programmer who's probably retired on a beach now), and occasionally God himself when that 15-year-old forum post miraculously solves your exact issue. The most accurate representation of programming I've seen since my code last worked by accident.