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the most useful thing i learned in school was how to read/write x86 assembler
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i have a real interview for a real actual job tomorrow and i could not be more nervous its frustrating because i'm a C guy mainly i mean i can code a complex C program in my sleep without looking at a single reference and i can do C# and java too but i don't know them nearly as well and the job posting doesn't give a clue what i'd actually be using it has the usual C/C++/C#/Java/Perl/JavaScript/SQL/XML/HTML mumblemess of every programming language that has does or ever will exist and is it too much to ask that you let me know ahead of time what it is you actually epxect me to know
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Apr 30, 2012 21:42
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BonzoESC posted:if it's a place you want to work for, they'll ask you about problem-solving and how you would do something from a high level im 28 years old with a wife two kids and a mortgage, i have an english degree that put me $10,000 in debt and never got me a job, and a CS degree that cost me another $5000 to teach me virtually nothing i didn't already know and i have no paid work experience in the field "place i want to work for" is literally defined as any place willing to pay me $45,000 or more regardless of how crappy the work is sorry i didn't meanto interrupt im just having a miniature freakout
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Apr 30, 2012 22:07
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Janin posted:man, don't worry, if 45k is your goal then you can get there by fogging a mirror.
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Apr 30, 2012 22:36
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trex eaterofcadrs posted:man you can make 45k just by being not retarded with excel/access also you guys live in very different job markets 
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Apr 30, 2012 22:44
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ahhh spiders posted:also $5000 for a university degree seems cheap, are you in europe or somewhere that actually thinks people should be educated and while yes I learned plenty from cormen's book I learned practically nothing from the teacher "teaching" it but the general worthlessness of cs programs is a whole other thing
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Apr 30, 2012 23:20
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CaptainMeatpants posted:going to school for computers was literally, sincerely, unambiguously the worst decision of my life afterwords: congratulations, here's your degree, we hope you enjoy wiping your rear end with it s t e m tell your kids hey sure it sucks but let me tell you it could always be worse!!!!
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May 1, 2012 00:39
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rotor posted:people got too many fuckin degrees imho i loved every second of my higher education except for the total bullshit 400 level mccarthy witch hunt english seminars but cs education is seriously directionless and schizophrenic and if you spent any time studying it on your own 50% or more is serious "well duh" territory
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May 1, 2012 04:23
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rotor posted:if i see a guy with no degree and a guy with two bachelor degrees, its a safe bet the guy with no degrees is the smarter of the two. id say it's a safe bet mr. two degrees has a broader base of knowledge but that may end up being a positive or a negative thing depending on what you want him for anyway I'm just a big dumb liberal snob since I think everyone should have a classical education not to further their job prospects but simply to enrich their lives
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May 1, 2012 04:58
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Otto Skorzeny posted:how well do you speak latin and greek? for instance how would you translate the following:
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May 1, 2012 05:08
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Otto Skorzeny posted:i'm trying to learn it myself although mostly for different reasons. it's kind of a mindfuck how loosey-goosey the word order is and how all the crazy declensions make up for it. vocab is way easier than grammar on the whole if you want to really get english grammar you need a firm grasp of both latin and chomsky imho
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May 1, 2012 05:21
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trex eaterofcadrs posted:sounds like someone needs to get a new book
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May 1, 2012 06:26
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trex eaterofcadrs posted:...says the guy who is begging for 45k *fingers crossed*
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May 1, 2012 16:03
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Werthog posted:re: programming languages compiler design is rad, getting my compiler to the point where ti could produce an actual .exe file was one of the most satisfying experiences of my entire life
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May 1, 2012 20:35
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somebody loving hire me already im a loving genius
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May 8, 2012 21:51
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sorry forgot to mention im tethered to bumfuck az does that make a difference???? o thou defense contractors please bestow unto me thy sweet sweet government money
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May 8, 2012 22:00
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JawnV6 posted:commute to chandler? three hours one way if i lived anywhere near maricopa county this would be much easier and yet i would hate my life even more! this job im going for is java jsp tomcat kwakkey i was like holy poo poo its shaggars dream job 
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May 8, 2012 22:07
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Dr. Honked posted:there has been a disturbance in the spergosphere lately because micro$$hatf refuse to support c99 in visual studio It is a little frustrating that VS doesn't support C99 but they say their customers aren't demanding it and in all honesty who can argue with that logic? As Raymond Chen says all features start out with -100 points and why waste time implementing something your customers don't want? Anyone seriously doing a lot of C coding these says is probably not using VS anyway.
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May 17, 2012 05:37
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Gazpacho posted:someone who wants to write a windows app in c just likes pain i guess, they're def not doing it to make money Fun fact COM is implemented in and was designed to be usable from C and if you never write a COM server at least once in pure C you're officially a dumb gay baby. Also on the book topic, "The Practice of Programming" by Kernighan and Pike is a great one.
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May 17, 2012 06:09
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ugh all this schooltalk makes me want to post a small novel about how ridiculous my entire cs education was but nobody cares so ill just say this: my intro class did not feature any programming langauge at all, it did not even feature computers. only "pseudocode" written longhand on paper. and something called "structure charts" which im still not sure what they are (aside from pseudocode statements written inside little boxes) but they are definitely NOT flow charts which are evil.
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May 22, 2012 23:43
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i start next week at my new job doing java and i keep thinking to myself hmm i should brush up on my java or something but i don't do it because honestly it's loving java how hard can it be
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May 27, 2012 23:57
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i don't think that'll be my responsibility but ~~you never know~~
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May 28, 2012 00:02
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trapped in southern arizona, pls send help and/or non government jobs
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Jun 28, 2012 21:22
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salted hash browns posted:Yeah I mean I like python but I'm not going to defend it's "speed and scalability" because it's not gently caress yeah fortran
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Aug 15, 2012 18:25
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this is kind of like how every C book in the world is this giant fuckoff doorstop brick of a tome while the only one worth reading, K&R, is a thin svelte little pamphlet that still tells you every single thing you need to know about the language burn all doorstop tomes forever
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Aug 28, 2012 17:57
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cygwin is the most pointless poo poo on earth if you want lovely linux trash quit lying to yourself and just use linux, that's all
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Sep 2, 2012 00:51
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yaoi prophet posted:yeah basically i dont know what counts as tricky things with memory but old consoles are full of bank switching and custom chips cuz u know they fucken had to if you want to gently caress around with any kind of hooking another process and loving around inside its internals the way to go is DOS since that's basically how every single program worked anyway
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Sep 9, 2012 00:30
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I been writing a lot of JavaScript for work lately and man that's a crazy language I mean its not that bad really but I have this weird feeling that its like creeping crud to where the more JavaScript you write the more JavaScript you have to write does anyone know what I mean ?????
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Oct 10, 2012 06:00
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Shaggar posted:Once ur a web "dev" you're tainted forever. right now im the only one working on this project so i have to do everything the java parts are so nice and easy and fun but everything else is a gigantic pain in the rear end right now im fighting with sql server 2005 and really wishing we were on 08 or 12 so i could use table valued parameters to stored procedures the whole thing is a clusterfuck because the app we're replacing was a mess of horrible architecture that was hard or impossible to modify so our customer wants "everything in the database so it'll be easy to make changes!" 
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Oct 10, 2012 20:08
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If you've never written a compiler from scratch you are probably gay and or stupid
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Oct 11, 2012 20:05
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Shaggar posted:checked exceptions and stored procs ftw. the rightest post
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Oct 17, 2012 20:38
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unlike you big whiny babies i like my job but that may be because for the last three weeks ive been flying solo and not having to deal with anybody else's stupid fuckups and that all comes to a screeching halt this monday  im also terrified for this project to end because i havent heard of any new work coming our way and the last thing i want is to be put on support detail for our primary product which si a big steaming pile of legacy crapola if anyone is in the san diego area and your company can pay for relocation, there's two things you need to know: a) i'm brilliant and b) i'll suck your dick for the job and i'm not even kidding
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Oct 20, 2012 23:40
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Modafinil is pretty great but I can't do that stuff anymore
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Oct 21, 2012 02:05
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AWWNAW posted:I have to interview a developer tomorrow what sort of coding test should I give them coding tests are stupid and a waste of time ask real questions that require paragraph-length answers about concepts that are crucial to your business and or your project not only will this reveal whether or not the individual actually understand those concepts--as opposed to is he or she merely able to poo poo out some crummy code on command--but it will also demonstrate whether the candidate posesses actual communication skills which are too often sorely lacking best of all it saves everyone the indignity of trying to draw curly braces on a white board and no trick google questions about light switches or escaping from a blender or you will surely burn in hell forever
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Oct 23, 2012 01:33
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javascript is really a perfectly fine language, it's the loving dom and everything related to it that makes you want to eat a loving bullet
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Oct 24, 2012 06:22
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Shaggar posted:no its not stop saying this. its a scripting language that was designed for opening and closing a browser window or maybe displaying an auto updating clock. its not a programing language. yeah I mean its perfectly fine at what it's for, which is glue between your backend and the browser. anyone who uses it for more than that is an idiot and anyone who wastes time with something that "compiles" to javascript should be shot in the face
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Oct 24, 2012 14:39
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Gazpacho posted:i thought about moving to atlanta for a while but half their available jobs that dont require clearance are video tech (already done it) and the other half are hospital IT (no) getting a clearance isn't that bad, I have awful credit and copped to prior drug use and I still got one you just need a few months lead time and some good explanations for any derogatory information and not be a current and active gently caress up of course
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Oct 25, 2012 17:40
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java isnt great and it isnt terrible it kind of just is.
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Oct 25, 2012 20:33
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Zombywuf posted:I got worried about this for a moment http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Not-Good-Enough-for-Paul.aspx anyone who describes anything as "full of fail" is a retarded whiny baby fit only to work the drive thru window at mcdonalds
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Oct 26, 2012 20:38
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tef: the worst poster
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