My life is a joke. I'm an engineer at a lab who is forced to do work in like 4 different areas. I have a boss for each one and each one is pissed I don't spend enough time doing work in their area and at least one has threatened my job for not putting in enough effort.
One of my jobs is too make the life of this one chick easier by writing her programs that process data for her. If I was the one doing the data processing I could write the program to do it in 10 minutes, but she doesn't know how to use the command prompt so I have to write her a nice and pretty GUI. But I fucking hate writing GUIs and what the fuck am I supposed to write it in? I'd rather eat out the rotten asshole of a road killed skunk than #include <windows.h> or learn Visual Basic.
I ended up using this piece of shit called AutoIt. Wrote a GUI and all it did was call a program in C and another one that called a script in Perl. Only AutoIt is a piece of shit that likes to fuck things up on a seemingly random basis.
I can't take this shit anymore.
Is there a well paying job where I can just program in C or something?
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F r o z e n V o i d !!mJCwdV5J0Xy2A212011-11-23 2:55
You don't need windows.h, you use a Crossplatform window/graphics API like GLUT/GLFW/SFML/SDL for that
yes, just get a cross platform gui thingy that lets you use xml for the gui and shit. Once you get the hang of it, it isn't that much more complicated than reading command line parameters.
Is there a well paying job where I can just program in C or something?
You can #include <windows.h> just fine in C (MSVC). Your code will still have to obey C89. It may not be portable outside of Windows, unless you add some #ifdef's to reimplement OS-specific code.
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She probably means real embedded development, like with AVRs and PICs and such. C is as high-level as they would go, what can you do with < 1K of RAM with C++?
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I liked MATLAB. It was pretty simple to do pretty powerful things with its innate matrix manipulation ability.
I will say that Octave is a much better alternative because of including more C-style syntax that MATLAB won't allow. Plus it's compatible with MATLAB scripts. It's still a little bit slower on Windows though.
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Anonymous2011-11-23 20:34
Why not build a local web service and write the interface in html?
Python or Ruby make it easy enough to drop into C...
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Anonymous2011-11-23 21:26
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Hmmm.. This is almost a good idea, except for a couple things
It's a little joke to fuck up haskell using people. Psst, there is no job, only an invitation to come for a solicitation to Singapore in a particularly bad neighbourhood.