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Don’t You Know Who I Am?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is true, but also IT is a huge place there is an insane amount to learn. So really you spend an incredible amount of time in the "valley of despair". Basically anyone who brags about their skills is VERY suspect. This person is an iOS developer, which is a great career, but the title of the article is phrased like she was at least Linus Torvalds. I'm sure she had little say in this, but whilst a reaction like this is never justified I can see why people made fun of it. Also it was clearly written by someone who has no idea what the words mean. Unless I'm mistaken MIPS is a cpu architecture, you can't program in it. You can write machine code "for" it. So yeah I can see why people assumend these claims were lies.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They assumed these claims were lies because they are sexist.

I work in tech. I taught programming at university. And guys think I have no idea what I am talking about when I am the person correcting their f*ing babies homework. I had men come into my office asking me when the Sys Admin is back in office.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They assumed these claims were lies because they are sexist.

...which is stupid because you don't pick MIPS and ObjectiveC if you're just flexing your hobby skills. From the language choice alone I knew she was a developer.

[–] MoonshineDegreaser -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MIPS is processing speed. Definitely needs programming

[–] scutiger 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MoonshineDegreaser 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But it needs programming right?

[–] ElmAndYew 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but I wouldn't recommend it.

(I didn't enjoy Assembly in college and I haven't written it since)

[–] MoonshineDegreaser 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is one of the problems I find with computers. Same acronyms meaning different things

Million Instructions Per Second

Microprocessor Interlocked Pipeline Stages

Both relate to processors and it's dumb

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well not really as such. MIPS is a CPU, yes it has microcode, but for argument's sake, let's assume the person in the article is not a CPU designer. I'm sure in the slightly sassy reply to internet trolls where he listed every achievement she could think of, being a CPU designer would've been mentioned.

So you can write program FOR a microprocessor. You can either do it in a very low level way, for example writing assembly or even byte code to a CPU directly, or in a very (well relatively) high level way, for example the Net Yaroze development kit for the PS1 (I hope the ps1 WAS a MIPS. The PS2 definitely was). Basically saying that you can "Program in MIPS" makes no sense as such, and to anyone who knows almost anything this hurts the credibility of the article simply.