Programming professionally
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What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?
Seeing as how superheroes do not actually exist, I'd become a supervillain. My plan is to build a giant orbital peanut farm in order to manufacture a 1000 meter wide ball of peanut butter. This giant ball of peanut butter would then be equipped with airfoils, retrorockets and a heat shield. Simultaneously, I would secretly amass thousands of liters of sulfuric and nitric acid at an underground facility located in Kentucky. Using genetically engineered super-gophers, a tunnel would be created from the acid storage area into the basement of the target, and then lined with Teflon. With a big red button and an evil laugh, I would commence the Master Plan. First, the giant ball of peanut butter would be carefully hurled from orbit onto Fort Knox. With 100 meters of peanut butter making entry and exit from the fort impossible, the final leg of pipe would connect into the basement of the vault. In a rush of pure liquid evil, the sulphuric and nitric acids would be pumped into the vault forming Aqua Regia. Metal security doors pose no challenge to the powerful acids. In a few short hours all the nation's gold will have dissolved, allowing me to easily pump it out. But since I just told you the details of my evil scheme, I'd probably just get a job as an auto mechanic.
I have nothing against VB or .NET; all Turing-complete languages are respectable. It just seems that some languages attract one echelon of programmers, and other languages attract an entirely different echelon of programmers. :P
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What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?
bartender, gardener, apartment maintenance. :)
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What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?
Teaching dogowners how to teach their dog some tricks and wellbehaved manners
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What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?
I wish i was programming professionally. I am stuck ending another 12hour night shift secretly coding programs so i don't have to do so much work while my boss keeps promising me my promotion. I would stand on the roof naked and howl at the moon but it is bloody cold outside.
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I'd roam the Texas hill country absolutely naked and make a name for myself...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001That would explain the vast sheep migration to Oklahoma described in the last edition of Nature magazine. Apparently the herd hasn't learned of your new job. Congratulations, btw. Well done! :-D
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Walker, Texas Ranger, might have something to say about that...
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I think that Chuck Norris mught want to walk softly in the presence of the Outlaw Programmer. I'm not sure where I'd place my bet, but it would be fun to watch the match...
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...no, I would probably apply to vet or medical school
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I suspect that the answer in your Subject line is closer to the truth, but you opted for a more conservative answer to fit your persona. I applied for the job, but they wanted me to shave my legs. I couldn't do that, even though the tips would be great, because I'm allergic to sharp objects that might draw my blood. Having teats bigger than Cher's is a curse, but we all have our crosses to bear... :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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music and astrophysics, are you Brian May ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "Iam doing the browsing center project in vb.net using c# coding" - this is why I don't answer questions much anymore. Oh, and Microsoft doesn't want me to.
There's a bit of magic in both. :)
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I would drink beer and beat up stupid people.
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What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?
Some woodwork I guess, and simple electronics. I am attracted to the first and I have some experience with the second, but who knows?! Traditional cuisine sounds good too, and I could fight stress with veal in nice sauce :D.
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I'd roam the Texas hill country absolutely naked and make a name for myself...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001If you don't use SPF 100, your name will be Red Man.
Best wishes, Hans
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There's a bit of magic in both. :)
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
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There's a bit of magic in both.
Well, a kind of magic certainly!
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
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What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?
That's a tough one and it really depends on the reason. If you're tired and old (for programming i mean) then the next most logical thing is to step up to management if you can. Management requires both expertise on technology as well as experience on programming. Of course it takes a lot more than that but that's what it is required (mostly) from a technical point of view. If you have other reasons that physically restrict you from such an activity, well .... i really don't know what conditions you're facing (if any i mean) so i can't suggest something. In any case though, dealing with a problem may require actions that might not be as convenient.
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What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?
Be a lot happier? (Shane, relax, I'm joking :) )
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music and astrophysics, are you Brian May ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "Iam doing the browsing center project in vb.net using c# coding" - this is why I don't answer questions much anymore. Oh, and Microsoft doesn't want me to.
I don't have the hair anymore, but I wouldn't mind being able to play like him.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?
Back to my first love: cars.
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What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?
I guess if you answered anything else than programming, you might have picked the wrong profession in the first place :)
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A contractor I replaced left professional development because he got burned out of it. I'm wondering what the signs are.
What are the signs of getting burned out? Getting tired of being (approximately) 10 years ahead of the curve (in my personal case, 'Agile' type development, ORM/data layers, frameworks, TDD/Unit testing frameworks/continuous integration - I've written my own tools for them all... since back when I was at uni in the 80's...) Realising it's only the illusion of change that we have in development. Realising that you are writing the same damn apps over and over - whilst the tech changes under you so fast that you actually are no better/faster at actually delivering a working product. Being tired of running to stand still - if you study really hard *in your own time* you can just about stay as good as you were after about 5 years in the biz. In the few areas where there is design continuity, being tired of seeing all the same mistakes made all over again... (dreadful database design, over-engineering, under-engineering, 'hacking' to meet a time schedule, lack of client involvement, premature optimisation, optimising without metrics). Seeing the whole arena move in what seems like rather pointless directions - e.g. making web apps act like WinForms apps (except slower) by dint of much complex autogenerated code, seeing the database side engulfed by new tools with their own syntax and learning curve - none of which is necessary if you knwo the SQL and a programming language, seeing the proliferation of a kind of thinking that wants to do everything by ever-more config files - rather than the tool actually designed for the job (i.e. a standard programming language that everyone can follow). Knowing that going for architect only distances you so fast from the tech that you'll be out of touch even faster - and even less useful. Knowing that *WE* made it this way - we wanted a pure mertiocracy, we (when we were young) wanted a field where age and experience didn't matter so much as quickness and cleverness. Being just tired of it all.
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What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?
This[^]. ;) (I'd probably be an architect, journalist or photographer.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?
I'd train to become a tree surgeon.
