Your experience is probably worth a lot less than you think
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Techcrunch[^]:
Do you work in software? Do you have more than a decade of experience? You do? I’m sorry to hear that.
"It is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn."
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Techcrunch[^]:
Do you work in software? Do you have more than a decade of experience? You do? I’m sorry to hear that.
"It is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn."
That means there’s a strong possibility that much of what you know is already obsolete. Much of what I have learned in the technical realm is certainly obsolete. I haven't coded in 6502, Z80, 8086, Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, C, or C++ in ages. But much of what I've learned about writing documentation, debugging, creating flexible architectures, smacking junior devs around, wishing I could smack managers, realizing I love working remotely, making accurate time estimates, designing good UI's, and getting skilled at teaching others, those are things that never become obsolete. Some sadly never. Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
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That means there’s a strong possibility that much of what you know is already obsolete. Much of what I have learned in the technical realm is certainly obsolete. I haven't coded in 6502, Z80, 8086, Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, C, or C++ in ages. But much of what I've learned about writing documentation, debugging, creating flexible architectures, smacking junior devs around, wishing I could smack managers, realizing I love working remotely, making accurate time estimates, designing good UI's, and getting skilled at teaching others, those are things that never become obsolete. Some sadly never. Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
What he said. The syntax is the easiest part of coding.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Techcrunch[^]:
Do you work in software? Do you have more than a decade of experience? You do? I’m sorry to hear that.
"It is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn."
Priority management, clean code, design best practices, problems solved (aka a base of problems for which one can find similarities)... that is experience and it is worth decades of formal education. Als it depends on the field, many programmers today simply patch things together by using big clunky frameworks and have no real problem to solve: when was the last time you developed an algorithm, instead of pulling a library with an algorithm and integrating it into some kind of monster?
DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Priority management, clean code, design best practices, problems solved (aka a base of problems for which one can find similarities)... that is experience and it is worth decades of formal education. Als it depends on the field, many programmers today simply patch things together by using big clunky frameworks and have no real problem to solve: when was the last time you developed an algorithm, instead of pulling a library with an algorithm and integrating it into some kind of monster?
DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
den2k88 wrote:
when was the last time you developed an algorithm,
in my previous job, every new project (automation)... now... I write a lot of emails :sigh: But I see my family every afternoon :jig::jig:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Techcrunch[^]:
Do you work in software? Do you have more than a decade of experience? You do? I’m sorry to hear that.
"It is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn."
Something to be said about jumping onto any new bandwagon that comes across - like React mentioned in the article, or LightSwitch, or XAML or ... Some things though never change - the guy down the hall writing bash scripts have been doing it for 20 years. The Oracle or SQL server DBA job didn't change much in the last 20 years either. The C/C++ I walked away from 15 years ago, I had to get back to with Mobile Games. So “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” - there is just not enough time in the day, need to use some discretion and prospective.
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Techcrunch[^]:
Do you work in software? Do you have more than a decade of experience? You do? I’m sorry to hear that.
"It is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn."
To Jon Evans - You are utterly wrong... Everything! I have learned is important (even I didn't used it for years, like 6502 Assembly or COBOL) as it is the solid base of everything new I will learn tomorrow... This is the base that enables to me to write PHP for production on the very same day I saw it ever first! Let see how would you write articles your brain wiped clean (on a second thought it probably will not change nothing - you write BS even with your brain intact)...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
