I’ve always been curious as to what “normal” people think programming is like. The wildest theory I’ve heard is “typing ones and zeroes” (I’m a software engineer)
8 hours of meetings and 10 minutes of writing code.
Nailed it!
When I was an associate level all I did was grind out tickets and write code. Now I run from meeting to meeting as a senior.
That’s no fucking joke. Please just send me an email about this meeting because it’s not really worthwhile and I just want to crank out code.
As a principal, I default ignore all meetings that’s more then 2 people, review other people’s terrible code, then refactor large swaths of the code base when I get bored.
That’s surprising accurate for many developers.
This should have been an email so I could ignore it and get work done.
Oof! So accurate it hurts.
It involves a lot of tall girls in thigh high socks, sometimes they wear cat ears too. And they do a lot of typing on extra clackity keyboards.
College recruiters be like ^
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Don’t be a bigot. Tall girls are awesome.
*(Also in case you weren’t being a bigot and were instead referring to what it’s really like to work in tech: I do know industry isn’t entierly cat girls in coding socks but most of the computers for career people I’ve known have been, so I choose to believe.)
I need to get back in the industry. Oh, for an extra clack keyboard.
Clacky keyboard… checks out
Ctrl+C
Ctrl+V
You just revealed yourself as a programmer.
Printf(“here 1”);
That’s what a real programmer does.
That sounds ridiculous. It 2024, I’m pretty sure programmers just use voice input and say the ones and zeros instead of sitting there and doing all that typing. Still not sure why they have to wear black hoodies though.
There’s a dress code. Very strictly enforced
Yes, and under the hoodies there are t-shirts that were given out at conferences. That or memes. Strict.
The guys in the hoods are cybersecurity devs
You young’uns don’t know how good you have it! In my day we had to chisel the ones and zeros by hand!
Can’t be that many on Lemmy at this point.
There are ones of us! Ones!
… and zeroes ! ones and zeroes !
I’m not in IT…
…but I did earn a degree in Computer Science.
I, too, thought it was interesting they considered programming as the IT industry. I mean, sure, you may use scripts once and a while, but that’s very different from a software developer, or someone else who works with/writes code for a living.
I don’t even code for a living, I wait tables.
There’s a decent number actually, going by Lemmy.ca census results (which will be posted as soon as we can).
The largest group is programmer/IT, but there’s lots of variety nonetheless
You learn a special type of Spanish and somehow you make MS Word come out
This one is the closest, IMO!
Is it common knowledge that programmers write code in different “languages” (e.g. Java and C++)?
My god, that’s terrible. Programmers from different countries must never understand each other. Someone should create a single programming language to rule them all ! something easy to understand, ideally -that everyone could read and write easily. Something like Espéranto, but with 1s and 0s
I knew what this was 😁
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Type some algebraic equations into a text file.
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Run it through something called a “compiler”
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Suddenly everyone knows what the fucking weather is.
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Reads code, spends too much time figuring out what it does and why the compiler is complaining about it, find out who wrote it, open drawer of voodoo dolls, rummage through them and pull out the relevant doll and stick another pin into it. A faint scream echoes through the cubicle farm. Place voodoo doll back in the drawer, close drawer, leave for lunch
There’s a reason we have a tool called
git blame.
I don’t know if Lemmy is the best place to ask, lol
It’s like building the NY subway system—you’re constantly adding on new bypasses and trying to maintenance old tunnels in order to account for new features/population. It ultimately ends up working most of the time and the daily commuters get to move from Point A to Point B with minimal interruption, but if you viewed the subway as a whole it’s a cobbled mess with lots of redundancy. Some of the architects who are currently around don’t even know where the oldest tunnels go, or why they’re there.
Wanted to give a take on it that didn’t focus on the obvious “language” aspect. I could be 100% wrong on this—I’m sort of basing it off of comments I’ve seen here or there. I know very few folks who work in tech and I work in healthcare.
Honestly that’s more like network engineering than programming, but you’re surprisingly accurate.
This is an accurate representation of tech debt.
Definitely spot on for network engineering.
Fascinatingly accurate.
I think its like trying to get a toddler to accomplish a task and it keeps technically doing what you said but in an annoying and counterproductive way you didnt even think of yet and you have to just become insanely specific about what you want the toddler to do and when and in what order with what timing
That’s actually really accurate when first learning to program. Eventually you figure out how to think like a toddler.
But then you gotta deal with the teenagers.
You tell them exactly what to do, and they do most of the time, but they can twist words and meanings to come up and do something entirely different when it suits their needs.
I cheated, my friends are in IT lol I get to hear a lot of complaints
Well idk about all programming, but I imagine hackers go through at least one keyboard a month and suffer serious finger strain injuries from typing so fast and furious.
I’m a hacker. You don’t even want to know what my monthly budget for balaclavas and fingerless gloves is.
whats worse is how hot it gets under the Guy Fawkes mask
And your voice gets so hoarse from doing the deep voice all the time
“I’m in” gets tiring to say
Why don’t u just have a script to play a recording of you saying “I’m in”. Randomly smash keys smarter, not harder.
that wouldnt work for my setup. see, i dont use an operating system; i write from scratch each time i boot up my computer. persistent storage is bloat.
I just had a really good laugh that I needed very much. Thank you!
And just like that, we’re on a reddit thread 😅
c/lostlemming
The truth hacker knows about the socks.
If you’re into custom mechanical keyboards it certainly feels like some of us are acquiring new keyboards every month even if we’re not wearing em out…
Given that I stole this from a programming community, it shouldn’t be too far off from true.
(Caveat lector: I’m not in the IT industry but I’m often messing with bash scripts and decompiled python code.)
What does “decompiled python code” mean ?
I meant “decrypted”, not “decompiled”. (When I wrote the above I was sleep-deprived.)
I mostly pick visual novels apart, to know how to reach one or another specific route. From that I’m somewhat used to read Python code - or at least Ren’Py code.
That’s cool. I had no idea there was a python variant for visual novels! https://www.renpy.org/
Swinging between feeling like you’re a computer god, and then feeling like you’re horrible at your job.
found the programmer
I would imagine it is as follows:
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Come up with ideas or goal to accomplish /be given said goal
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spend large amount of time looking at existing code or prior implementation of your stated goal.
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attempt to write or import some code tailored to your specific needs
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test and identify problem areas
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find everything fails spectacularly and start over +/- tears.
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repeat until successful or dead
They said people outside the tech industry
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