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i start in 3 weeks and looked up my manager on linkedin, the only guy in the city with that name currently works at this companies big rival
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Valeyard posted:i start in 3 weeks and looked up my manager on linkedin, the only guy in the city with that name currently works at this companies big rival hmmm maybe he switched companies and hasn't updated his linked?
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so it turns out the other source of what I thought was memory corruption was in fact the atmel studio terminal inserting literal \H when I hit backspace in the input box and causing an overflow of my command buffer on the device
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surebet posted:he still managed to rack up thousands in billables which i'll be going over because there's no loving way stuff like changing 100 pictures from 10mp to 640*480 should take 3 hours when you don't do any actual work on them you just know he opened and re-saved each one individually
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Luigi Thirty posted:so it turns out the other source of what I thought was memory corruption was in fact the atmel studio terminal inserting literal \H when I hit backspace in the input box and causing an overflow of my command buffer on the device holy poo poo I knew embedded IDEs were bad but that's p bad
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eschaton posted:holy poo poo the thing on the other end of the serial line has to know you hit backspace somehow
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eschaton posted:holy poo poo well it's visual studio with a bunch of embedded stuff bolted on and it's better than loving eclipse I heard Xilinx's tools are godawful but I'm not enough to get into FPGAs as a hobbyist Barnyard Protein posted:the thing on the other end of the serial line has to know you hit backspace somehow it doesn't actually send the line of text until you press send and there's no indication or option that this is taking place, the character is just deleted in the input line. Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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surebet posted:so we have a new web dev i've been worried about my hirability, this gave me hope, thanks
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surebet posted:so we have a new web dev lol
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Barnyard Protein posted:hmmm maybe he switched companies and hasn't updated his linked? while this is probably the answer, there is also the outside chance of some other fuckery going on since it looks like he worked here 7 years ago
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eschaton posted:you just know he opened and re-saved each one individually yeah that's obvious, but still it boggles my mind as to how it takes so long even doing that
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surebet posted:yeah that's obvious, but still it boggles my mind as to how it takes so long even doing that lovely computer + closing and opening photoshop for every pic
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surebet posted:my local market is 50-75$ for a junior dev and 100-150 for a senior on a contractual basis, dude bid 45 why on god's green earth would you install "Image Resizer for Windows" here code:
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 21:34 |
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imagemagick is proof that god loves us and that all image manipulations can be done on the command line
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 21:35 |
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also its really aesy to record macros in photoshop, and then you can drag and drop a bunch of files onto a macro droplet and have it Just Work
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you can also do it in like a 5 line Python script
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none of those options lets me bill 3 hours tho
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A good indicator that somebody is a particularly bad programmer is when he or she doesn't think to use programming to solve a repetitive task. I was in a graphics class once and we had to make an object in a washer shape. I used some sines and cosines and came up with a model whose polygon count was controlled by a constant. Then I got into the lab and saw everybody else's version. A few of them used graph paper and typed in the coordinates. A bunch more calculated the values correctly, but did it by hand, then typed them in. Edit: Dessert Rose posted:none of those options lets me bill 3 hours tho Good point.
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horse mans posted:why on god's green earth would you install "Image Resizer for Windows" we're talking about osmeone who unironically uses microsoft frontpage, i'm guessing this is not a particularly sophisticated comptuer user we have here
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Dessert Rose posted:none of those options lets me bill 3 hours tho no, it just means you don't do 3 hours of work
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surebet posted:so we have a new web dev holy poo poo that's impressive
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CPColin posted:A good indicator that somebody is a particularly bad programmer is when he or she doesn't think to use programming to solve a repetitive task. when i was still learning to program on a c64 (i was uh 4? 5?) i was reading some book that was trying to explain how to POKE a sprite into memory, and they explained how to calculate the starting memory address for the sprite (base memory addr + some offset whatever) and then when they showed the code they just wrote in the exact same equation! it was two constants added together, but what they said by way of explanation stuck in my head hard. something to the effect of "yeah you could just add this up yourself, maybe on a calculator, but the computer is just a fancy calculator, so why do more work than you have to?" it's advice that has served me well ever since. don't ever do anything for the computer, the computer is there to do things for you
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CPColin posted:A good indicator that somebody is a particularly bad programmer is when he or she doesn't think to use programming to solve a repetitive task. I was in a graphics class once and we had to make an object in a washer shape. I used some sines and cosines and came up with a model whose polygon count was controlled by a constant. Then I got into the lab and saw everybody else's version. A few of them used graph paper and typed in the coordinates. A bunch more calculated the values correctly, but did it by hand, then typed them in. look at this loving math nerd *everyone in your class probably
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Soricidus posted:we're talking about osmeone who unironically uses microsoft frontpage, i'm guessing this is not a particularly sophisticated comptuer user we have here I used front page to make some sites and charge money for them in 1997 when I was in high school
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fart simpson posted:tizen is a crappy knockoff of anroid tizen is android, but with all of the components that actually work replaced with things that don't work
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Janitor Prime posted:look at this loving math nerd Pfft whatever, man, that washer was round as poo poo.
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CPColin posted:A good indicator that somebody is a particularly bad programmer is when he or she doesn't think to use programming to solve a repetitive task. I was in a graphics class once and we had to make an object in a washer shape. I used some sines and cosines and came up with a model whose polygon count was controlled by a constant. Then I got into the lab and saw everybody else's version. A few of them used graph paper and typed in the coordinates. A bunch more calculated the values correctly, but did it by hand, then typed them in. it's always worth putting in real effort if the future dividends are paid in laziness
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AWWNAW posted:I used front page to make some sites and charge money for them same but dreamweaver
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AWWNAW posted:I used front page to make some sites and charge money for them there are many people who try to keep doing this, forever one of my high school friends dropped out of a cs degree, freshman year, because he already knew frontpage
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CPColin posted:A good indicator that somebody is a particularly bad programmer is when he or she doesn't think to use programming to solve a repetitive task. I was in a graphics class once and we had to make an object in a washer shape. I used some sines and cosines and came up with a model whose polygon count was controlled by a constant. Then I got into the lab and saw everybody else's version. A few of them used graph paper and typed in the coordinates. A bunch more calculated the values correctly, but did it by hand, then typed them in. it's me lol
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CPColin posted:A good indicator that somebody is a particularly bad programmer is when he or she doesn't think to use programming to solve a repetitive task. I was in a graphics class once and we had to make an object in a washer shape. I used some sines and cosines and came up with a model whose polygon count was controlled by a constant. Then I got into the lab and saw everybody else's version. A few of them used graph paper and typed in the coordinates. A bunch more calculated the values correctly, but did it by hand, then typed them in. does "use programming" include "adding the keypress sequence for the task to a new bind in your .ahk file and then mashing it"
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and problem #3 was that my cheap Chinese breadboard had a continuity problem causing strange behavior
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NihilCredo posted:does "use programming" include "adding the keypress sequence for the task to a new bind in your .ahk file and then mashing it" yes
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As a Millennial I posted:there are many people who try to keep doing this, forever i don't even feel bad laughing at this.
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well ok maybe the depression and drug abuse had something to do with it too
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i'm sure a lot more will come along that way with that kind of decision.
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my major is not computer science because 18-year-old me thought they were just going to teach me how to program for 4 years
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I interviewed at a startup today and a 40 year old man referred to my work history as "gigs." I really wanted to say "please don't use that word for that" but I want them to like me so they make me an offer I can leverage it to get more money elsewhere.
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40 yo at a startup posted:how do you do fellow kids
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daily reminder that i am a bad programmer: spent days trying to hunt down an IMPRECISERR in my cortex-m4 code, found some random blog post that had a bit to set in a register to turn off out-of-order execution, used that to find the problem... and it was this:code:
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