Endless logic puzzles.
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I'm not in IT and I'm a programmer / software engineer. I don't get why people always equate the two.
IT has different meaning in different contexts. I'm a programmer, so at work IT usually means tech support. But i've seen some job places, including my company's corporate site, include programming as part of IT. Kind of makes sense, because I'm using technology to process information
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Its like that movie Swordfish
@httpjames Back in the day I liked to dabble in Linux, and I always liked the IT people in the larger firms I worked at so I imagine it's understanding basics of code, and then a lot of googling for fixes to problems people have already dealt with, composting code with templates and tweaking it to work with the specifics of the job at hand and then taking credit for saving everything because people are dumb.
I know it's a typo, but I like the idea of composting code. A lot of it is turning to shit and has gotten moldy, so the metaphor is apt. Gotta mix it up with some fresh stuff, and turn it around every so often and you'll end up with gold if you can give it the proper time
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Well, I'm not really the truly blind here, I used to do some BASIC back in the eighties. Just introductory level shit, though. I'm talking a course taken over a summer for "gifted" kids, not even an actual full on course at a serious level. And I wasn't very good at it lol
But, I still have no clue what modern languages are like, or how they're used professionally. I've always assumed, you guys are busy entering lines of code, then compiling and testing, then punching things because you have to go back and fuck ~~up~~ with the code again.
I figure there may be ways to streamline the coding itself, maybe chunks of prefab that can be copy/pasted, or whatever.
Other than that, I suppose there's lots of coffee, coke and/or meth, and a lot of waifu pillows.
Imagine this... line numbers are no longer a thing. ๐ Yeah I learned programming in the 80's as well, the Sinclair ZX81 was my first computer. These days a large number of languages, both compiled and parsed, are based around C so it's pretty easy to jump around a lot.
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Putting text in green font colour on a terminal. During crunch time, blowjobs help finish the programming within a minute. If you're an expert, you don't actually type code, you become one with the CRT screen and gaze deep into the pixels, while your hands create code automatically at a super fast pace. Sometimes you stop for a sip of a carbonated beverage.
Saved for later โ someone remind me to check back in on this in a day or two.
Hey, check back in on this in a day or two.
Sorry. I'm a dad. It had to be done. I'm not proud of myself
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These two phrases primarily "works as designed/expected" and "works on my machine"
Some people don't think it be like it is, but it do.
It's straight up magic gibberish to me. I'm a decently bright dude and have a highly technical job in a different field, but goddamn, that shit makes no sense to me. I am, however, very grateful for the enchanters and wizards in the art of digital tongue, for without them, I my be forced to sit in silence with my own thoughts rubbing two rocks together in a tree.
The realisation of what my career would be like if I programmed professionally is why I don't have a career in IT :P
Magic
I took programming in highschool with Turing. As far as I know that's how every computer program works
Actual programming is punished by your boss, the IP lawyer, and the customer.
Backup backup backup. If anything breaks rollback till it works again.
Implement machine learning for the business process. You can afford you one raspberry pi.
Just to give the benefit of the doubt, I don't think they actually think you type in binary, I think "1s and 0s" has become a colloquialism used to refer to "programming languages" or in some cases "digital magic I don't understand." They just don't know the words python, javascript, html, bash, rust, c, c++, c#, F#A# infinity, etc.
I hope.
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