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!
That’s surprising accurate for many developers.
This should have been an email so I could ignore it and get work done.
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.
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
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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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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.
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.Still waiting for
git goodunfortunately 😔
I don’t know if Lemmy is the best place to ask, lol
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.
I cheated, my friends are in IT lol I get to hear a lot of complaints
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/
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.
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…
Swinging between feeling like you’re a computer god, and then feeling like you’re horrible at your job.
found the programmer
Playing with imaginary Legos to put together a rickety tower.
Edit: though on reflection, a systems approach to nursing the acutely ill is exactly the same but we’re maintaining “God’s” legacy code while we try to keep someone with kidney, heart, and lung problems functioning with judicious application of fluid management, drugs, and dialysis.
Maybe what we do is closer to Jenga.
ive written a lot of code for clinicians, i have been afforded the benefit of witnessing that chaos
i have it far easier
But things get weird when the lego shapes have different sizes and you need to craft adapting pieces?
