Shopee To Reportedly Retrench Food Delivery & E-Payment Staff In Southeast Asia, Will Offer Support

[Ody_2004]

1 minute ago, Starry said:

 

Why can't they just apply an automatic  X% discount to every checkout during the sale period? Make it easy la......

They just hope buyer/pple missed entering the promo code/discount code and these platform benefitted from it..

Just like credit card waiver.. every year need to contact them to waive and they will..

[Stary]

3 hours ago, Turboflat4 said:

You hit the nail on the head here.

I know a "best practice" for the IT industry is to make your code well-commented, well-documented, well-structured, and hence easily understandable and maintainable by all.

Sure. Whatever.

That's a surefire way to get your job made redundant, possibly farmed out to the 4-letter acronym of which I shall not speak.

Hell, nah, kids, make your code as ridiculously obscure as possible. Preserve your job security, and if the company axes you anyway, they *will* be punished for it as they have to rebuild the codebase.

I mean, look at COBOL - there are *still* jokers being hotly sought after for that legacy piece of shit simply because large organisations that still creak on have been built on that old fossil. It's a horrible language with horrible coding syntax and features, and yet human fossils retain their marketability based off it.

Slightly tangentially, this is my absolute favourite example of obscure programming. I might have written this, except I would've commented it even more obscurely. 😁

 

I have been doing Python recently  for fun  ,  and it was way easier to code than all those past legacy languages that I learned 30 years ago. 

The kids are lucky that they have python today. 

Edited June 15, 2022 by Starry

[Etnt]

25 minutes ago, Lala81 said:

dunno how to code. but learnt something new today. Obfuscator..

erm, typical doc handwriting can be a form of obfuscation.

but @Turboflat4use fountain pen one, so penmanship should be quite tok kong or super obfuscated.

Edited June 15, 2022 by Etnt

[Ody_2004]

1 minute ago, Etnt said:

erm, typical doc handwriting can be a form of obfuscation.

just curious.. can another doctor read the other doctor handwriting? 

[Etnt]

1 minute ago, Ody_2004 said:

just curious.. can another doctor read the other doctor handwriting? 

i dunno, but that's why I find nurses amazing since they need to read so many docs' handwriting.

[Ody_2004]

4 hours ago, Sosaria said:

Seems to be a big churn happening in the job market. No fear. Some industries/sectors dying for lack of manpower. Just go for those mid-career skillsfuture training can switch to aviation or healthcare, 2 sectors that desperately need manpower now.

mmmmm.. i specialized in high end service training.. wonder if i can switch to train flight stewardess? 😁

But seriously would like to switch to aviation but seem my age and lack of qualification wanna be LAME oso hard..

I got a ex-staff left and join as a ATC controller. Big responsibility.

[Ahwhye]

4 hours ago, mersaylee said:

No wonder the lastest delivery was a whole messy affair...😅

I got a shopee item reached sg like 10 days ago, somehow can get rejected by the collection point I chose, now still stuck in some lalaland delivery hub for a week already...

[Stratovarius]

58 minutes ago, Starry said:

I have tried to buy during those sale period, but their interface is so confusing that I have no idea where are the sale or how to claim it.  Dunno claim what coupon la, then every hour different coupon or dunno what stuff.

Why can't they just apply an automatic  X% discount to every checkout during the sale period? Make it easy la......

All these e-comm stores seriously need to apply Design Thinking into their UX/UI design to make that customer journey easy and pleasant.

If you are confused then these e-commerce platforms have achieved their objective. Qoo10 was very straight forward and look where are they now.🤣

[Sosaria]

41 minutes ago, Ody_2004 said:

mmmmm.. i specialized in high end service training.. wonder if i can switch to train flight stewardess? 😁

But seriously would like to switch to aviation but seem my age and lack of qualification wanna be LAME oso hard..

I got a ex-staff left and join as a ATC controller. Big responsibility.

LAME and ATC involve long period of training, exams, interview by authorities etc. before can pass out and work. Not unless you are still young. Once hit 30s or more, not worth it. 

Can try technician, training is shorter but starting pay is really the pits unless you shine and get promoted to higher responsibility quickly. 

Edited June 15, 2022 by Sosaria

[Stratovarius]

55 minutes ago, Starry said:

I have been doing Python recently  for fun  ,  and it was way easier to code than all those past legacy languages that I learned 30 years ago. 

The kids are lucky that they have python today. 

Yeah. All the young kids now know Python. Only old people know visual C. Lol.

[Ody_2004]

Just now, Sosaria said:

LAME and ATC involve long period of training, exams, interview by authorities etc. before can pass out and work. Not unless you are still young. Once hit 30s or more, not worth it. 

Precisely my point loh.. the govt said can mid career switch.. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........

can lah.. be machinist.. check engine blade.. check bearing.. overhaul interior panels.. toilet.. all these don sound as a career switch.. or i missing some job/position a 50s year old can switch to? Even as a trained engineer who out of the industry say 10 years not easy to find a position..

alot of time employer will measure their ROI.. to train a mid 20s/30s compare to mid 50s.. the choice is clear..

 

 

[1fast1]

1 hour ago, Ody_2004 said:

just curious.. can another doctor read the other doctor handwriting? 

Sometimes I can't read my own. 😂

[1fast1]

1 hour ago, Starry said:

I have been doing Python recently  for fun  ,  and it was way easier to code than all those past legacy languages that I learned 30 years ago. 

The kids are lucky that they have python today. 

Python is really, really easy to pick up. Another one that's not hard with regard to syntax is php, but it's mainly used in server side (back end) scripting for web design/development so you wouldn't go out of your way to learn it unless you're also picking up HTML, CSS, maybe Bootstrap and Javascript/JQuery etc. With some SQL for good measure to handle your databases.

The worst example of a modern language that I've (sadly) become familiar with is Java. It wasn't difficult for me to pick up because I've been coding in C from a young age (also BASIC, Pascal, some Assembly etc.). But the whole OOP (Object Oriented Programming) thing just passed me by as I never bothered to pick up C++. 

So the verbosity and complexity of the syntax really threw me for a curveball. 

Even a simple print (or printf in C) statement is, wait for it, System.out.println().

But the worst is the main function (or method as it's known in Java speak). Take a huge breath and repeat after me:

public static void main(String[] args){}

Or as I do it, shout out every word with feigned gusto and end with ARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!😂😂😂

Edited June 15, 2022 by Turboflat4

[Etnt]

9 minutes ago, Turboflat4 said:

Python is really easy to pick up. Another one that's not hard with regard to syntax is php, but it's mainly used in server side (back end) scripting for web design so you wouldn't go out of your way to learn it unless you're also picking up HTML, CSS, maybe Bootstrap and Javascript/JQuery etc.

The worst example of a modern language that I've (sadly) become familiar with is Java. It wasn't difficult for me to pick up because I've been coding in C from a young age (also BASIC, Pascal, some Assembly etc.). But the whole OOP (Object Oriented Programming) thing just passed me by as I never bothered to pick up C++. 

So the verbosity and complexity of the syntax really threw me for a curveball. 

Even a simple print (or printf in C) statement is, wait for it, System.out.println().

But the worst is the main function (or method as it's known in Java speak). Take a huge breath and repeat after me:

public static void main(String[] args){}

Or as I do it, shout out every word with feigned gusto and end with ARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!😂😂😂

try kotlin

[1fast1]

7 minutes ago, Etnt said:

try kotlin

Thanks. I've done some very basic Android development, and I know Kotlin is strongly favoured there. I still tend to use Java as I'm familiar with it, but I believe Kotlin is more concise and I might spend a few hours picking it up. Still, the biggest issue I have with developing apks is the bloody instability and bugginess of Android Studio. I know there are other IDEs available but I've just been toiling on with this piece of crap haha. 

Edited June 15, 2022 by Turboflat4

[Lethalstrike]

6 hours ago, Turboflat4 said:

You hit the nail on the head here.

I know a "best practice" for the IT industry is to make your code well-commented, well-documented, well-structured, and hence easily understandable and maintainable by all.

Sure. Whatever.

That's a surefire way to get your job made redundant, possibly farmed out to the 4-letter acronym of which I shall not speak.

Hell, nah, kids, make your code as ridiculously obscure as possible. Preserve your job security, and if the company axes you anyway, they *will* be punished for it as they have to rebuild the codebase.

I mean, look at COBOL - there are *still* jokers being hotly sought after for that legacy piece of shit simply because large organisations that still creak on have been built on that old fossil. It's a horrible language with horrible coding syntax and features, and yet human fossils retain their marketability based off it.

Slightly tangentially, this is my absolute favourite example of obscure programming. I might have written this, except I would've commented it even more obscurely. 😁

 

Such professionalism 😁

I think my mechanic adopts your modus operandi, as almost always after a repair was done, I would have to return to him shortly after to sort out another problem 😁

[1fast1]

2 minutes ago, Lethalstrike said:

Such professionalism 😁

I think my mechanic adopts your modus operandi, as almost always after a repair was done, I would have to return to him shortly after to sort out another problem 😁

I aim to please!

That's why my customers always come back with "Please, can you fix this?" 😁

[Dafansu]

3 hours ago, Ahwhye said:

I got a shopee item reached sg like 10 days ago, somehow can get rejected by the collection point I chose, now still stuck in some lalaland delivery hub for a week already...

possibly the collection point is full, happened to me once, but so far the rest all ok.