Awesome programming jobs
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Scott Dorman wrote:
removing staples from various ferrets?
staples? easy. it is catching the cheetah that is the hard part
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
jgasm wrote:
it is catching the cheetah that is the hard part
:laugh: Very true!
Scott Dorman
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Scott Dorman wrote:
removing staples from various ferrets?
Now that would be stepping on my toes.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Now that would be stepping on my toes.
Hmmm...but we can always count on you to re-staple. ;P [edit]And that will help keep Chris busy. :)[/edit]
Scott Dorman
Microsoft® MVP - Visual C# | MCPD President - Tampa Bay IASA [Blog][Articles][Forum Guidelines]
Hey, hey, hey. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Banzai
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Most of us have average, maintenance-type programming jobs. While they mostly pay well, they don't make for legendary status. If you are one of the few lucky ones to have an "awesome" jobs envied by the masses of programmers, tell us a bit about it here.......
I'm lucky enough to run a company with a bunch of really talented developers. The work's great, and our clients are fantastic (on the whole). Some of the work we do is incredibly challenging, but it's all good.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Most of us have average, maintenance-type programming jobs. While they mostly pay well, they don't make for legendary status. If you are one of the few lucky ones to have an "awesome" jobs envied by the masses of programmers, tell us a bit about it here.......
Well, I'm currently working for a games company as part of my university course, and it is awsome. For those interested, the company is Eutechnyx. There's always something interesting to do, features to add, bugs to track down, and if you stay late you get free food :rolleyes:
My current favourite word is: Nipple!
-SK Genius
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Scott Dorman wrote:
removing staples from various ferrets?
staples? easy. it is catching the cheetah that is the hard part
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
Nah, that's easy. All you need is some sticky backed plastic, a xylophone, two wingnuts and the rear drivers wheel of a children's car (doesn't matter which one). The rest is Scooby Doo.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Well, I'm currently working for a games company as part of my university course, and it is awsome. For those interested, the company is Eutechnyx. There's always something interesting to do, features to add, bugs to track down, and if you stay late you get free food :rolleyes:
My current favourite word is: Nipple!
-SK Genius
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Considering that question as superficial... after all it is nothing more than that.. I have a "job" where no one envies me, perhaps apart from not knowing what I'm working on next. No one knows me, no one cares, and only results in real terms (aka cash first and potential sales second) are of any importance. Love of the job (read: lifestyle) is the only pre-requisite to that goal.. I love going to conferences and watching the speakers sell their next book or next job or next tech. You know, as if it wasn't invented or even better-than-now hammered topic 10, 20 or 30 years back.. Evangelists and exhibitionist are most intriguing, they are certainly more entertaining than estate agents, but still estate agents alike. So screw the so-called 'legends', if you need a reality check dive into expert open-source libraries of less egotistic or inhibited engineers. So no one envies me, and I feel best that way.. I'd suggest instead of worrying of 'average', you do your piece to your best and get hubmle when someone does it better. And don't forget that some of the most clueless programmers, architects and fashion chasing Goks are exactly on the boards here, at CP.. There are exceptions, but you'll take ages to figure out who they are.. And if you think you are one of the top, just look at something like boost.org, and make sure to touch down quickly and safely.. That applies to the entire C# 3.0 and 4.0 (although they nicked one of the boost guys) and JDK 6.0 brigade.. Envy and big-headedness is the root of all evil, and most of the unknowns can still take on any CLR guy there is out there in their own field and 'engineering'.. so you tell me if it can possibly be more fun than that. Go on, name your legends and think about their names real hard in value/engineering/scientific contribution rather than technology sales or blogging skills .. I believe you can always be surprised with alternatives out there by 1000s of those unknown people who only bother responding with substance and none of the such mediocre and usual MS or better put Java-induced utter blx.. Have fun :) Regards, Angelina Brad Jolie
User of Users Group wrote:
hat applies to the entire C# 3.0 and 4.0 (although they nicked one of the boost guys) and JDK 6.0 brigade..
User of Users Group wrote:
and most of the unknowns can still take on any CLR guy there is out there in their own field and 'engineering'
User of Users Group wrote:
none of the such mediocre and usual MS or better put Java-induced utter blx..
seriously? his post originally was about super star programming jobs. never were the words C#, MS or Java used. so you brought them up to what? trash on them...like you always do in all your posts.... just an observation! we're still buddies right? :cool:
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
modified on Monday, November 10, 2008 4:37 PM
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Out of interest, what elements of the game do you work on? Language? How big is the company?
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Most of us have average, maintenance-type programming jobs. While they mostly pay well, they don't make for legendary status. If you are one of the few lucky ones to have an "awesome" jobs envied by the masses of programmers, tell us a bit about it here.......
I have a small team (3 of us) working on "whatever you want Paul" within a 150 strong telecommunications research division of the local university. The only bit that sucks is writing reports for the people who fund us. But it is a small price to pay for the money they give us to try (and often fail.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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The Man wrote:
elaborate a little on what 'running code project' entails?
Herding us cats. (Just checking that you know you are on The Code Project and that the guy who answered you is the head honcho main dude numero uno.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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I have a small team (3 of us) working on "whatever you want Paul" within a 150 strong telecommunications research division of the local university. The only bit that sucks is writing reports for the people who fund us. But it is a small price to pay for the money they give us to try (and often fail.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
sounds awesome. i like the academic setting. it's a lot of fun.
Paul Watson wrote:
The only bit that sucks is writing reports for the people who fund us.
better than reporting to "share holders"
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
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Any games we may know that you can name drop? Gear of War 2, Fable II, Fallout 3, StarCraft 2...
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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sounds awesome. i like the academic setting. it's a lot of fun.
Paul Watson wrote:
The only bit that sucks is writing reports for the people who fund us.
better than reporting to "share holders"
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
jgasm wrote:
i like the academic setting. it's a lot of fun.
Well, I'm getting the best of both commercial and academic worlds in this position (half the research company is research the other half is "commercialization.") Academics can be pretty piss poor at Getting Things Done. They also focus a lot on publications and personal accreditation rather than project progress. Sometimes I miss having a direct customer beating on my door :)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Most of us have average, maintenance-type programming jobs. While they mostly pay well, they don't make for legendary status. If you are one of the few lucky ones to have an "awesome" jobs envied by the masses of programmers, tell us a bit about it here.......
Well, right now I have a very interesting, good paying job. It scares me to death. I am working with a company that (among other things) converts code from one language to another (actually a couple others). We have a compiler and code emitter (C# output). This is a little busted, and not so easy to fix, so we are building a suite of tools that work around it. The company are letting me take the long term approach (it's a couple year project, and we will be re-using the technology to translate other programs). I am able to affect the way the company runs. I have pretty free reign over how my team does things. There are lots of interesting problems to sole. They are free with the technologies they let me pursue. They let me work from home a lot. I get to run a pretty good group of people. Why am I scared? Because I could always loose it, than I would have to find another job, and it will not have all these perks.
Silver member by constant and unflinching longevity.
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jgasm wrote:
i like the academic setting. it's a lot of fun.
Well, I'm getting the best of both commercial and academic worlds in this position (half the research company is research the other half is "commercialization.") Academics can be pretty piss poor at Getting Things Done. They also focus a lot on publications and personal accreditation rather than project progress. Sometimes I miss having a direct customer beating on my door :)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
Paul Watson wrote:
Academics can be pretty piss poor at Getting Things Done.
oh yea. definitely can! it's amazing how the lack of a bottom line can slow down productions.
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
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Any games we may know that you can name drop? Gear of War 2, Fable II, Fallout 3, StarCraft 2...
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
Big Mutha Truckers 2 - Truck Me Harder! :laugh: http://www.eutechnyx.com/ourGames/[^] That's very close to not KSS.
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Any games we may know that you can name drop? Gear of War 2, Fable II, Fallout 3, StarCraft 2...
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Most of us have average, maintenance-type programming jobs. While they mostly pay well, they don't make for legendary status. If you are one of the few lucky ones to have an "awesome" jobs envied by the masses of programmers, tell us a bit about it here.......
I can't compete with Chris. But once in a while my job has a boom. It's usually at least 'smokin!' however 9 days out of 10 I'm just winging it. :-D pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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i SOOOO want to work at this place!!! i want to work in marketing because of this game description: "Enter Pimp City, where bling is king, and style is everything. On these streets, if your car isn't fully pimped out, you'd be better off walking. You and Xzibit will take on the challenge of hooking up your homies, and transforming their hoopties, buckets and beaters into the hottest whips on the street, while redlining through the highways and alleyways of Pimp City. You choose the mods, you choose the route, but pimpin' ain't easy. It will take speed and style to hook them up. Do you have what it takes to Pimp Their Ride?"
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
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Considering that question as superficial... after all it is nothing more than that.. I have a "job" where no one envies me, perhaps apart from not knowing what I'm working on next. No one knows me, no one cares, and only results in real terms (aka cash first and potential sales second) are of any importance. Love of the job (read: lifestyle) is the only pre-requisite to that goal.. I love going to conferences and watching the speakers sell their next book or next job or next tech. You know, as if it wasn't invented or even better-than-now hammered topic 10, 20 or 30 years back.. Evangelists and exhibitionist are most intriguing, they are certainly more entertaining than estate agents, but still estate agents alike. So screw the so-called 'legends', if you need a reality check dive into expert open-source libraries of less egotistic or inhibited engineers. So no one envies me, and I feel best that way.. I'd suggest instead of worrying of 'average', you do your piece to your best and get hubmle when someone does it better. And don't forget that some of the most clueless programmers, architects and fashion chasing Goks are exactly on the boards here, at CP.. There are exceptions, but you'll take ages to figure out who they are.. And if you think you are one of the top, just look at something like boost.org, and make sure to touch down quickly and safely.. That applies to the entire C# 3.0 and 4.0 (although they nicked one of the boost guys) and JDK 6.0 brigade.. Envy and big-headedness is the root of all evil, and most of the unknowns can still take on any CLR guy there is out there in their own field and 'engineering'.. so you tell me if it can possibly be more fun than that. Go on, name your legends and think about their names real hard in value/engineering/scientific contribution rather than technology sales or blogging skills .. I believe you can always be surprised with alternatives out there by 1000s of those unknown people who only bother responding with substance and none of the such mediocre and usual MS or better put Java-induced utter blx.. Have fun :) Regards, Angelina Brad Jolie
Are you one of those government "programmers"?
MrPlankton
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