AngryFace4

Everyone will tell you Python is great for beginners. I don’t really see why, I think it’s because systems like conda and pycharm hide a lot the underlying ugliness of version and package management. If you want my recommendation as a 15 year systems engineer that works on basically everything… I’d just go straight to JavaScript. It’s the most portable language (runs natively in the browser), it’s got amazing package management in node, it’s got the biggest community support by far, and it can do basically anything except 3d gaming engines.

is it worth learning how to code a job career for long term?

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AngryFace4@reddit

Kinda… but the barrier to entry is gunna be higher than it was. We used to need like 10-20% of our people just being basically code gofers, now it’s really important to be able to think at an architecture level… but it’s really hard to know if you’re capable of doing that without beginning with raw code… It’s certainly a pipeline conundrum.

Title: I'm confused as to why people only grind leetcode and learn fullstack.

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AngryFace4@reddit

I graduated in 2010, I’m a senior systems architect at my company. I’ve interviewed probably hundreds of people and the only time I’ve ever seen the words leetcode are on reddit and twitter. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone speak that word. Maybe because I’m east cost us? I dunno.

Title: I'm confused as to why people only grind leetcode and learn fullstack.

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AngryFace4@reddit

I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone with a leetcode account. And if by “fullstack” you mean web, then it’s because browsers are the most portable environment.

The use of AI for side projects

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AngryFace4@reddit

I am lucky to have learned programming before Ai. If I started over again I would find it hard to not use it. But I cannot imagine a world where I’d be a senior architect if I hadn’t spent 10 years just gridding away without it.

Why are Apple CPUs' single core speeds so much faster than everyone else?

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AngryFace4@reddit

“Everyone can do it” as long as you have a 15 year relationship with tsmc where you’re given first right of refusal 100% of the yield on any given year lol.

Do software engineers actually get work-life balance?

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AngryFace4@reddit

If you’re good, you can do whatever the hell you want whenever the hell you want. Work hard early in your career and become an expert in something niche and important.

Is 16gb RAM enough for coding?

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AngryFace4@reddit

8 gigs is enough for coding… except if what you mean by coding is running an agent that is continuously indexing your million line repo… then you may want to have 128 gigs.

Is HTML a computer language?

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AngryFace4@reddit

It’s a markup language. Meaning that it gets interpreted by some thing that is specifically meant to read it, in this case the Browser.

Would you say it's good practice to write semicolons even if the language doesn't require it?

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AngryFace4@reddit

Yes.

I'm learning how to code, but I was wondering if someone could explain what GitHub is

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AngryFace4@reddit

It’s a file system that’s on someone else’s computer. One that is particularly configured for code presentation

What exactly is a framework?

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AngryFace4@reddit

sometimes the words "framework, dependency, module, package..." are all uses kinda synonymously. Often, a framework is more accurately described some kinda module or configureable code that then helps you perform another task. For example, Mocha could be considered a framework for test reporting, Jest could be considered a framework for test architecting. Fastify or Express are frameworks for API development React is a framework for frontend development.

Do AI tools actually help you learn programming, or do they make you dependent on them?

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AngryFace4@reddit

Ideally you’d have a fundamental grasp of systems design and data structures before you dive deep into AI usage. The primary purpose of AI is that it alleviates the need to remember pesky language-specific syntax. You should never be surprised by the code it produces.

I Just Tried Cursor & my Motivation to Learn Programming is Gone

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AngryFace4@reddit

Ai produces text. The engineer produces architecture, design, infrastructure, organization… etc. these areas are much harder for an AI to take over because they require an understanding of the world

Where do you store your reusable code snippets?

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AngryFace4@reddit

Probably in a directory called utilities inside the project.

Anyone here who got C's or D's in CS school?

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AngryFace4@reddit

We’re not a rare type of person, but most of us get beaten down thinking they’re incapable before they have the means to do the turn-around. Maybe they find drugs or some other sort of way to cope.

Anyone here who got C's or D's in CS school?

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AngryFace4@reddit

It’s actually a difficult question to answer why. I’d say in large part is was apathy, lack of discipline, and various ADD symptoms. I don’t think there was ever a time I was good at school, except for math, which I was in an honors program for since 4th grade. It was a weird experience because I can distinctly recall on several occasions where other students would think I was the over achiever in class, probably because I would enthusiastically participate in the class lessons and answer a lot of the teacher’s questions. I’d show them I was getting a bad grade and they’d be really confused. I almost never did homework, and in my school that was like an automatic 30% off, so if you didn’t have perfect tests you’d be getting a D just from that fact.

Anyone here who got C's or D's in CS school?

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AngryFace4@reddit

From 21-27 I lived with my parents, and yeah it was pretty lame, nobody wants to do that, but I saved all of my money. I took one class per semester at community college and my entire social life was Word of Warcraft. When I went back to 4-year I stopped working. Tuition was something like $5500 per semester. It was a small town so renting a 1br was about 500/month. I drained my bank account at that time but…those two years were really fun.

Anyone here who got C's or D's in CS school?

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AngryFace4@reddit

Yeah. There are a lot of young men and parents of boys that struggle like I did. Intelligent but confused and lost about the world and how it works. I often tell my story to them. It’s important that these people hear it.

Anyone here who got C's or D's in CS school?

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AngryFace4@reddit

Yep.

Anyone here who got C's or D's in CS school?

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I failed out of high school and then later failed out of college. I worked in restaurants for about 7 years then went back to college at 28 and finished at 30 with a 3.8 gpa. I got my first job in programming making 40k It’s now 10 years later, I just today renegotiated my pay to 180k. I’m one of the top non-management roles at my company.

People always say that there is so much to learn, but is it really?

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AngryFace4@reddit

Tauri-/Electron-

I’m still waiting for it to “click”

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AngryFace4@reddit

It took like 4 years of school and 6 years of industry for me to “see the matrix” I’m a decently intelligent person but I have a crap work ethic. YMMV

Devs who successfully transitioned to self-employment - how did you do it?

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AngryFace4@reddit

Self employment is more “political” than company employment. You need to constantly sell yourself.

Should I stay in Window or switch to another OS?

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AngryFace4@reddit

Windows is annoying because it doesn’t use a Unix-style terminal and it has different rules around file management than other OS’s The biggest annoyance I find is the lack of a Unix-style package manager. None of this actually makes programming “harder” per se. But when you get to the point where you are deploying something you’ll have to learn bash scripting and Linux commands anyhow… which at that point will feel foreign if you came from windows. Personally I think using a non-windows system is preferable.

Tech Leads: How to team build when entire team is anti-social/socially awkward?

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AngryFace4@reddit

I love my work and I like the people, but I find that when people gather in groups the whole thing goes down hill fast. The conversations become really surface level and boring.

Tech Leads: How to team build when entire team is anti-social/socially awkward?

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AngryFace4@reddit

God please no.

Being different from the programming stereotype: is it possible to be successful in the field?

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AngryFace4@reddit

Do you specifically want to be a programmer? Because I’m pretty sure you could, but there also a lot of roles in tech that are not programmers. Such as Product Owners and stuff. Good/bad product owners make or break a project.

Is single player game development a front-end project or back-end?

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AngryFace4@reddit

I would say the same, but I’d also add that as programmers we should be able to understand these abstract concepts at a higher level and draw metaphors between them.

Will I Get Hired as a Junior Developer at 30?

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AngryFace4@reddit

I graduated at 30 and was hired. That was 9 years ago though.

How many of you have self-taught yourselves software engineering and would you recommend it?

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So here's the breakdown... 1. If you have to ask on reddit "is it worth it to self teach software" - then you are probably not a candidate for self teaching software. This is something that takes an eccentric amount of obsession on the topic. People in this category probably would be doing rather than asking/ 2. College is generally a good idea for anyone and should be considered the "standard". However, a lot of people feel like they they can't even write basic programs out of college. This is fairly normal. College places a lot of emphasis on the fundamentals of data structures, computer theory, networking, security and all the "science-y" parts of computer programming. You will not get a lot of "practical" experience in most colleges. 3. Bootcamps are a decent middle ground... but it's tricky. A lot of these are scams, and they will teach you the "vocational" side of programming. You will need to self teach data structures, designs and computer theory if you want to go further into your career.

Are there any online games that can help you get better at programming, problem solving, or abstract thinking?

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AngryFace4@reddit

The concept of "doing a thing to get better at a different thing" is ... at best a very nuanced topic, at worst it's basically a useless endeavor. That said, a game like Factorio will teach you a lot about planning, modularization, space constraints, refactoring, and it even has electrical-style programming built into the later stages of the game

I'm disappointed in learning to code

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AngryFace4@reddit

I mean… plugins are a thing

What does learning data structures and algorithms actually mean in practical terms?

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AngryFace4@reddit

It means understanding that pretty much everything in the world can be described by data.

What’s the most underrated programming language that’s not getting enough love?

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AngryFace4@reddit

Zig and Elixir or Gleam (I personally prefer Gleam but Elixir has more eyes on it) they're not "hidden" or "secret" they're just new and haven't blown up yet. I think these languages will probably define our future.

What Low Level Language is good to learn.

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if graphics/game is your target, perhaps look at Odin instead of Zig. But yes, zig is used in graphics programming.

Whenever expert programmers are asked how to get better at programming, they usually say, 'Just program.' They tell you not to watch videos or tutorials but to use documentation, Stack Overflow, and read articles about what you're working on. Why is this good advice?

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AngryFace4@reddit

People learn differently. You should just do things. Whether you watch videos and then do something or read docs and then do something... the common path is just doing something.

Do programmers ever get to that point where they're confident they can solve every error that comes there way?

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AngryFace4@reddit

So... There's two things going on here. The things you're facing now as an intern, given enough time on that language/stack and enough effort, you will solve the issues, and you will get to a point where you will have an intuitive understanding of where the issue exists in a stack that you are used to working with. However, there will always be new stacks and need error schemas that will completely blow your mind. But again, if you spend enough time there you will develop that intuitive understanding. TLDR; all stack errors can be learned given time an effort, but there is an infinite number of stacks that you could possibly work with and there will always be things you don't have any clue about.

Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy"

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AngryFace4@reddit

The way you are phrasing this makes me think you’re not all that sure about how companies operate in a given market. When people and business are mad at a company that F’d up in some way, that company now has to make a decision how to proceed. Are enough people mad that it could impact the company economically? Then the company will probably make some gesture public ally to demonstrate that the problem is fixed. Otherwise, maybe the company has too much market share and is an effective monopoly and decides to do nothing? Well then people will cal their congressmen. Otherwise if everyone forgets about it next week then did any of it even matter?

Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy"

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AngryFace4@reddit

Well it depends on the public’s response, and what the board of the company wants to do to demonstrate to the people that they’ve dealt with it. I presume that the tens of millions of people that missed flights, had server down time and whatever else are emailing furiously calling for the gillotine. Personally I find all that stuff kinda silly but… that’s basically what happens.

What's the worst thing about Linux in its current state, in your opinion?

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AngryFace4@reddit

That the zig kernel isn’t ready yet.

Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy"

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AngryFace4@reddit

This is the only answer and it’s why CEOs get paid what they get paid.

What is real life use case for functional programming?

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AngryFace4@reddit

Are you saying that Haskell is the language the class uses to teach functional programming? Ok so… functional is just a methodology for thinking about a problem. No matter what language you end up in the functional paradigm will be relevant. Haskell is a pretty rare language but… your skills will transfer. Still it’s useful to come out of college with a broader language skill like JS or something.

If you could start learning programming from scratch again, what would you do differently?

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AngryFace4@reddit

Probably spend more time just making literally any commit instead of staring at walls. Many many hours staring at walls in between tickets.

Picking your first programming language is like picking a starter pokemon

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AngryFace4@reddit

Weird example because the starters are pretty strong.