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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Bloody posted:

tbh I would hire anyone who knew what a class was at this point

thats me mate. thats the level youre looking at

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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
and why not too

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
if i had to do a proper interview id be stressed coz i have that imposter syndome thing but its not fake in my case

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
would my live be better if i was a coder y/n

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
mmmm

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

coffeetable posted:

it's well-paid, you can always find a job, and the barriers to entry are lower than for p much any other comparable profession

anyone who thinks software dev is a bad deal has forgotten how loving awful most ppl's jobs are

i suspect the coding market in christchurch new zealand isnt that ghreat. all my comp sci mates had to move to auckland at minimum and mostly sydney or further :(

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

coffeetable posted:

'had to' or 'wanted to'?

http://softwaredev.meetup.com/cities/nz/christchurch

http://nz.indeed.com/Software-Developer-jobs-in-Christchurch,-Canterbury

im sure auckland/sydney have better prospects, but that doesn't mean christchurch is completely dead. if the nz dev market is anything like the uk/us one, there's a severe shortage of devs and most employers will be happy with far less qualified ppl than they advertise for

that said, go along to one of the meets and see what the locals think of the job market

well i dont know about their ultimate intentions were but tbf this was like 10 or so years ago when they were leaving uni. maybe its different now? i wouldnt ahve assumed that 10- years want a lot as far as the tech world goes

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Triglav posted:

nz's been investing a lot in tech and the internet lately with grants and stuff, basically trying to prop something up instead of everyone leaving. i think most stuff's going in around auckland though yeah

interesting. i mean pharmacy is good for me but i like computers and the main software pahramacies use in the country (90% penetration :smugmrgw: ) is based here in chch. maybe i can use my pharmacy knowledge, good looks, and drunken charm to convince them to employ me to code and pharmacy and get paid mad bank?????????????

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
pharmacy software that wasn;t 100% localised would be a nightmare to deal with

it has to take into account how our funding model works and our specific legislation. also tied up to the point of sale software that manages accounts and prescription charges

i can't imagine trying to shoehorn that poo poo into an american software for example

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
its backwards software in some ways but its 99% keyboard controlled and looks like a DOS program which makes it quick as gently caress to work in

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
well idk we have our own now and it seems to be working. the other few pharmacies use a different but still nz based software. changing that poo poo is not something anyone ever is going to do

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
full?



fulla cunts like you!

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
it's the new American way. will smith did it and it was way longer than a week

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
yeah. with a son and some X-ray machines

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

the u.k. is 60 million people, it's not gonna surprise me when they can develop internal markets for vertical market software

new zealand is the size of a midsize city

imagine making millions of dollars selling pharmacy software specific to the needs of the detroit metro area

4 mill is a "mid size" city?? eh anyway I doubt they make millions

anyway gently caress you bsd for your cultural arrogance of assuming smaller nations should bow down and get the US to service our local economy. that kind of attitude murders babies

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

yeah

detroit
toronto
san francisco
st louis
atlanta

etc


it's not widely applicable

new zealand just has the good (?) fortune of being in the anglosphere

it would fuckin suck if we weren't angloshepher

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
id consider tech if the money was better but don't want to lose registration how to be pharmcy well paid tech nerd dude

run Viagra online happy time pharmacy ??

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
so they really hire chumps with just heaps of CG logos as their resume huh

I am exite

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
my work is being sold and its entirely possible that ill either end up redundant or wiorse still have to work full time :/ and idk i mean its not like i get paid poorly for being a pharmacist but you moteher fuckers are living tghe high life. i want a newer iphone before 2020, you know? maybe i should learn how to teach resuscitation training coz my wife is buying a resusc training business that reaps more money in a day than i make in a week

anyway pharmacy is nice but computers own how can i mix pharmacy and tweeting and taking drugs all at the same time, while making stacks?

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Awia posted:

start an online pharmacy

this is me irl

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
hey people still call me a chemist

one dude called me doc even :smug:




please i know moer about chemistry than all you computer folk put together

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
I just want to work in a place where I can talk about having a boner without sexual harassment lawsuits knowwhaddimean?!

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
wish my "code" was "reviewed" if you know what I mean

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
groan

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

eschaton posted:

the best book I've found for introducing OO was the first half of NeXT's "Object-Oriented Programming and the Objective-C Language" — the first half was all about OO and decomposition and stuff like that, was only a few dozen pages, and I saw it get a lot of people over the hump even without bothering with the Objective-C language parts

the successor was split into two books, the first "Object-Oriented Programming with Objective-C" still doesn't have much Objective-C stuff in it and has generally preserved the good things about the original book. it'll be worth taking some time out for the 30-60 minutes needed to read the parts on OO concepts.

also, the book was originally written mostly for people with some C/UNIX experience, which it sounds like you have, so there's still a lot of "this is kind of like ___ in C, but with ___ too."

i remember when I first "got" OO and it was a real :weed: moment.

ue4 is nice for oo coz things are objects i lIKE IT

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Bloody posted:

I don't know what any of that means so ok

gloatuing

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

still trying to come up with questions to ask people to find out if they know how to program good

get them to come on here and chat

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Bloody posted:

btw why ityool 2015 are computer graphics still a left-handed coordinate system with 0,0 being the top-left corner

so dumb

i work in 3 dimensions

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Bloody posted:

didn't read

didn't, or couldn't?

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
you know what gets my goat? having to make 2 dimensional arrays by hand coz ue4 blueprints only has single dimensional arrays

which wouldntbe so bad but it becomes clear without learning it why out of bounds access is an issue

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

it's a 3d engine. shouldn't you be using using spirtes and polygons and stuff for multidimensional structures?

I'm talking about behind scenes poo poo. data structures for keeping track of a 2d grid based map for example

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
at one stage rod rocket was played on procedurally generated levels and I had
to make a 2d data structure to construct the levels. I tried to create a quad tree in it too but I couldn't get it to work. honestly I'm amazed how far I did get

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Awia posted:

home grown

mods

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
dude i made a thread about it. it was bigger than jesus but only briefly

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
epic as in ue4?

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
cool

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

LeftistMuslimObama posted:

This comes up unironically so many times irl that I just say "I worth in healthcare IT" when people ask. Saves the sad look on their face when they find out I am not a cool video game person.

It's extra funny people we probably have 1000x the revenue that Epic Games has, and it's almost guaranteed you have at least some medical records on you in one of our customers' databases, but nobody's heard of us outside of the industry because we let our customers rebrand everything and market their Epic installation as whatever they want.

For example, University of Wisconsin calls it UW HealthConnect.

awesome. I mean I was hoping it was ue4 epic but it's not but medical is cool I sella the drugs and use computes to help records etc also not in the US OF A so yeah

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

any language without map/reduce is unusable garbage

mlyp

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Elder Postsman posted:

dang it's like fifty earth dollars

i found it for free online

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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
tell me moar

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