Terminal_Monk

I was and still a very passionate person towards tech and programming. Everytime I build something I genuinely am happy that I solved a problem. I'm 34 now and almost 11 years experienced. What helped me is that developing this maturity that no matter how passionate you are about something, if it becomes work, you will come across phases where you absolutely hate it. It's part of what work is. To compensate this, I was doing side projects but the side projects also scope creeped and burned me out. I think what truly helped me is to have this sense of detachment from work. I go to work do exactly what was expected from my role, and to do that I am willing to wear all sorts of clown makeup and dance on top of donkey. When the workday is done, I detach myself completely from work. I don't think much about work. There are a variety of things you can do. And this also changes from time to time. I was and still am a gamer. So I play games. I got into simracing a couple of years ago so doing that gave me something new to learn that is not again something in tech. I do some 3d printing from time to time. Spending time with my family, and recently I've also started travelling. TL;DR; do not seek passion or beauty in work. Do not seek peace in work. Work is work. U just do it for paying the bills. Also develop a hobby that's unrelated to coding to get your mind off it. And also if the current company's pace is too much, maybe try a different company

Not sure big companies will accept this as experience. It's illegal to be employed at 16 in many countries.

That's glad to hear. Must be nice. Lol.

All it takes is one stupid ass executive though. Like while you are very valuable there are really some dumbass people on top who would think they can do it all with AI or some shit. I've seen really talented people who were founding fathers of the systems let go for cost cutting reason because they were given 300k/year etc. good that you are in a nice place but also, constant vigilance.

And ask cursor to write that service just for irony

this aged like milk LMAO

I'm trying to understand what is in it for Visa and Mastercard. Like aren't they effectively reducing the amount of games that could have possibly bought and hence more money for them? or is it some pure right wing executive decision?

wait what? anything marked as Adult? So If I have a rick and morty themed game in itch, its not allowed?

I'm gifting my Manager this on a T-shirt and a Poster so that she can learn from it

This is true. I had COBOL as part of my undergrad. Never used it. I'm 31. Couple of my classmates got hired in some company after undergrad to maintain some really old COBOL code. They must be rolling in millions now

This is the shit I want to happen to all those idiots who say straight people can't act homosexual roles. It's literally called acting.

When I was 21, I was that young programmer who was scary good. Now I'm 31 and I see young programmers who are way better than me with learning new tech(LLMs I'm looking at you), but at my level, the required skills are not grinding and coding but rather coming up with better solutions to problems, architecture, managing cross product interoperability and so on and I feel I still have a lot to learn in that aspect. I no longer chase around frameworks and languages because those eventually get irrelevant as you go up(as long as u are up to date in your expertise of course).

They are Indians. So They are south Asians. Calling Indians Asians is like Calling Mexicans and Brazilians Americans. Even though its technically the truth, no one goes by like that. Edit: I realise im UK Indians are considered Asians but Indians almost never consider themselves as Asians. It's similar to someone from UK saying "oh no I'm from UK" when asked "are you European?"

wait is that a bad thing? for the past year ive seen a lot of fb folks moved to reddit and made it toxic with so much gatekeeping/politics and low key tiktok/insta reels. Im glad we can weed of such people.

wait till we drop the .exe domain.

Oh you mean that jobs don't pay what they used to? Yeah true. When you said most are going for significantly less, i thought you meant people taking new jobs that are paying less than their current jobs. But yeah i recently got a new job on Jan after only being 9 months in my old job. I got hired for 88% hike in my 9.month job but when i was trying to switch around q4 2022, people were even not ready to give my current salary because they are being conservative. Fortunately after some hard grind i found a job that pays what i want but yeah the conservative mindset is real

I'm not sure about this. Maybe its a country thing. Not sure which country you are from. Honestly, I can hardly imagine a Senior developer going and finding a job for less than what he/she was earning unless they have some serious financial crunch and got laid off. If you always have liquid cash to go 6 months(or even 3 months) without a job, and try daily, by applying and preparing for interviews there is 9/10 chance as a senior developer you will get a better job. for mid developers, its actually even easy because most mid developers are IC roles and its actually easy to get a job compared to Senior devs

I was undergrad at 2009 and this is my case too. Our school(highscool) classroom only can accomodate 50 students but there were 72 students who took CS/Math major because of the money. Only 10% of them really knew the difference between a CD and a DVD

That's not true. Even when companies are very conservative, a good developer gets better jobs. Maybe it'll be hard but not impossible. I got hired in peak hiring spree last year but the company i worked wasn't my cup of tea, so i started looking again in just 6 months. Now the market is bearish. I hardly got interview calls even when it was referred by people i know. But it's not 0. I got 2 interview calls in the place where I get 10. But regardless, i got a job with a fairly good hike

This is actually true. I know a lot of HRs personally who confirm this. Depending on the size of the company, they do this from time to time.

10,000 engineers? Are they building the fucking Matrix?

True. We see many examples of this all the time, there's a hurricane in a city, flood in a state and everyone just comes together, help each other feed each other etc but when life gets a bit more comfortable, people don't care or just become greedy and want more comfort.

Star Trek’ proves the much-maligned common man and common woman are ready for the 23rd century now, and they are light years ahead of their petty governments and visionless leaders.” - Gene Roddenberry.

Even federation had prejudice to sentient Androids. For a long time they were treated as second class citizens. Even after laws were made to acknowledge their rights. A Klingon respected Data more than any federation citizen(apart from enterprise crew)

I honestly believe that we can never be UFP unless there's a evolutionary change in humans. It takes a lot for humans to have the values of federation.

This. We've had ground breaking tech im the past. 9/10 times the problem is some big corporate capitalizing on it and pushing humanity backwards

You talk like architecting and writing maintainable code and solving a problem are two separate things. in real world, they most probably have a lot of overlap. I worked for a company whose product was live streaming solutions. Scalability and reliability were THE problems we needed to solve and architecting modular, maintainable code was basically the main ingredients for such a system. When you are writing a software where 20 million people will be live streaming FIFA finals, The problem is not just coding the live streaming app but all the bells and whistles around it. Competitive programming undervalues the bells and whistles and only concentrate on the solution and more importantly how fast you come to a solution. It is not bad on its own but being good in competitive programming alone really adds no value to a person who writes software that is used in the real world.