To young zoomers or millennials

1    11 Jul 2019 20:18 by u/aCuriousYahnz

If you plan to do this for a living, please make sure you understand how to google questions you have, look through the code repository, or look at the other projects you've been told you could use as examples. Continually asking people to come over and walk you through shit without you trying at all makes me want to bash a fucking hole into your face.

13 comments

0 u/earlymac 11 Jul 2019 20:22

Are these interns? Never had even a jr. dev do that. They'd write shitty ass code that requires a hundreds rounds of review, but at least they'd try.

0 u/Morbo 11 Jul 2019 20:23

To add to OP's advice, please also attempt to figure things out even just a little bit if you do ask for help. If you've done nothing at all and expect a senior programmer to do your work for you at your desk, then expect them to bash your face in. Your attempt does not need to be 100% successful, but it should be more than simply doing nothing at all and expecting complete help. You will not learn if you do not try to solve your own problems. We don't want to do your job. We learned to use our resources and knowledge pools so you need to do so as well in order to grow as a programmer. If you don't we will bash your face in.

0 u/snafu 11 Jul 2019 20:39

By Eric S. Raymond: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

0 u/HoneyTrap1488 22 Jul 2019 22:48

ESR is a confirmed brainlet.

0 u/RustyEquipment 11 Jul 2019 20:52

fuck that

all i need is

Cout -> Hello Faggots

0 u/galabad71 12 Jul 2019 01:03

and refrain from making comments like "I'm and engineer AND and a woman".

0 u/Troll 23 Jul 2019 12:59

Even worse is: "I'm a transgender diversity officer!"

0 u/obvious-throwaway- 12 Jul 2019 21:44

Fuck Jewgle, manufacture your own chips, write your own operating system in your own programming language. You won't need anyone's help after that.

0 u/8NA5SWF92O 15 Jul 2019 02:02

Probably sounds insane to most.

Regardless, it's what I would recommend too. Particularly, the low level stuff. Got to learn logic gates and flipflops, ALUs, control units, CPUs, ISAs, operating systems and so on.

That'd put you way above the riffraff.

0 u/Riotnaut 17 Jul 2019 03:27

I just finished building a programmable logic array that controls a finite state machine. This particular one had over 10,000 "circuits" with 96 input gates. I realize now more than ever I am limited by my understanding of programming, the logic array is merely a parallel of my understanding of logic structures, it's been rewarding and Im curious as to what can be built with even more knowledge and hard work

0 u/roznak 14 Jul 2019 15:54

If you plan to do this for a living...

I want to add, "If you plan to do this for a living, you have to learn 50/365/7/24 so no more social contacts, no more free time, no more relaxed moments". It is basically a life sentence.

0 u/HoneyTrap1488 22 Jul 2019 22:51

Continually asking people to come over and walk you through shit without you trying at all makes me want to bash a fucking hole into your face.

Seems like you're the victim of diversity hires.

... make sure you understand how to google questions you have, look through the code repository, or look at the other projects

If anything, that sounds like having very low standards. I would even let such people use a butter knife, let alone a compiler.

0 u/skyleach 14 Sep 2019 00:21

but... "Senior" engineer automatically means you know the answers and I am used to immediate gratification and handholding!!! /smh