Programming is shit either way. Most programming is completely brainless, like working on an assembly line. You're writing shitcode all day for a pittance. Meanwhile real intelligent people are giving you the orders to write the code and making three times as much as you. They learned to deal with people; you learned to deal with a machine.
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I program for a living and I'm rather good at it, but I wish I was good enough (and licensed) to do law practice or plastic surgery instead (i. e. being a jew from an upper-middle class jew family).
Did you know that in NY about 3% of households have yearly budget of over $1 million? That's 1 in 30. More than half make between $500000 and $1000000.
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Anonymous2012-10-09 5:00
>>4 They learned to deal with people; you learned to deal with a machine.
Computer science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes.
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Anonymous2012-10-09 5:05
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My exgirlfriend who just graduated from Northwestern Law tells me I would have been a great lawyer (which was my intention before I decided to become a hacker [no, I'm not Jewish]).
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No, it's a half-beard, but to you it's probably a full-beard.
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Anonymous2012-10-09 5:50
I have my own startup and I've begun preferring the menial managerial tasks much more to programming, even though I loved it as a student and doing things at my own pace. I can't wait until I can have sufficient money to hire somewhat competent code monkeys to free me from this angaria.
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Anonymous2012-10-09 6:36
can't think of a better profession than getting paid to build amazing things using the most powerful tool that's ever been invented. Computing is the only craft where the human is the only bottleneck. In everything else, you have to contend with limitations of physics, money, people, and so on. I love the freedom to build things in a more exciting way than anyone believes possible. Programming is largely a search for truth. If you can close the gap between perceived rules and the actual rules, then your program can do impossible things. Programming is much like math in that way, except when your program works, it can improve the lives of millions or billions of people.
The industrial revolution just finished, and it was all about amplifying sweat. fossil fuels and giant machines produce what physical toil never could. The computer is the first machine which amplifies all of human being's greatest powers: to understand, imagine, communicate and create at level of which we never could before. That is what is needed. Our needs material and mental are met. But our thirst for knowledge, and meaning are still vastly unfulfilled. Like a throbbing wet cunt. And I'm going to fuck it.
I had years of experience in BBCode, so I thought I'd get a job in it. Now, I got to this job, first weeks I was optimizing old BBCode, everything was nice.
But then it changed. They started giving me bonerlang jobs. Don't get me wrong, bonerlang is ok language, it's just that I only have experience in BBCode. I quit the job, and now I live under the bridge. I still have a laptop though, so I can do BBCode as my hobby.
100% agree. Money is decent, but I'm slowly going insane. I sit in a cube... all alone... no one talks to me here except to assign me more work or tell me something is broken and I need to fix it... I feel sad... every day.
How do you guys find time to scrub the toilets at work? My boss yells at me if I spend too much time hacking away on ReactOS or if I let the scum build up to much.
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Programming is not computer science. Computer science is actually designing shit with algorithms and stuff.
Programming is shitting out walls of code based on a spec sheet you were given by a computer scientist.
An aside: And hacking is googling `how to I is a hacker', finding ESR's page, installing FIOC, and shitting out shit that seg faults 90% of the time and putting it on github with GPL as if anyone is going to want it, much less need it.
Reading this thread I think I'm regretting studying software engineering, is my life going to suck? Am I going to get a low paid job? Will I ever lose my virginity?