Do you still like to code?
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It's complicated :rolleyes:. I like coding new features, where I feel like I'm not bound by what's gone before. Unfortunately that doesn't happen too often. Our products have a lifespan of 10 years or more, so we end up spending a lot of time on maintenance. Most of the time when I'm adding a new feature, I have to keep in mind a bewildering pile of constraints, prior practice, backward compatibility, and so on. Misquoting Norm Abrams of The New Yankee Workshop, I have to "measure 3 or 4 times, then cut. And always wear your safety glasses!".
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The New Yankee Workshop
Love that show. Seems like it is not on any more. What a pity. And this old house. Wonderfully cheesy stuff.
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The thread below about programming books got me thinking about how much I still love to code even though I don't do as much as I used to at work (busy herding cats people) but still play with the new stuff in my own time. However, if I know I have some coding to do at work, I still get excited and can't wait to start. And that's after nearly thirty years of doing the job. Do you still love your job or are you getting jaded? I think JSOP is given his earlier post! :-)
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The thread below about programming books got me thinking about how much I still love to code even though I don't do as much as I used to at work (busy herding cats people) but still play with the new stuff in my own time. However, if I know I have some coding to do at work, I still get excited and can't wait to start. And that's after nearly thirty years of doing the job. Do you still love your job or are you getting jaded? I think JSOP is given his earlier post! :-)
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
and can't wait to start.
I stopped feeling that way when I got my first full-time job programming. Customers, deadlines, and silly requirements took all the fun out of it. :^)
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
and can't wait to start.
I stopped feeling that way when I got my first full-time job programming. Customers, deadlines, and silly requirements took all the fun out of it. :^)
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
That is a shame - I made a career change, purely by chance, and have never looked back and, for the most part, have enjoyed it all. I am sad when someone does not get the same sense of joy from the job they have, for now, chosen to do. :sigh:
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The thread below about programming books got me thinking about how much I still love to code even though I don't do as much as I used to at work (busy herding cats people) but still play with the new stuff in my own time. However, if I know I have some coding to do at work, I still get excited and can't wait to start. And that's after nearly thirty years of doing the job. Do you still love your job or are you getting jaded? I think JSOP is given his earlier post! :-)
I still love it. As long as it's proper coding, that is. Drag and drop coding doesn't really suit me, and herding cats (which is my role on my current project) even less. Thankfully my boss knows that I'm not a cat herder and has promised I'll be a coder on the next project.
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The thread below about programming books got me thinking about how much I still love to code even though I don't do as much as I used to at work (busy herding cats people) but still play with the new stuff in my own time. However, if I know I have some coding to do at work, I still get excited and can't wait to start. And that's after nearly thirty years of doing the job. Do you still love your job or are you getting jaded? I think JSOP is given his earlier post! :-)
I have consistently refused "advancements" into project management and other shit I'm not good at. So yes, I am coding and I LOVE coding. The old stuff, the new stuff, the bleeding edge stuff... all the stuff. And I'm 54, and have been coding for 35 years. Salary? Yeah, it's a lot lower than it would have been if I had accepted the suggestions to go the management path. But do you know what? I fall asleep smiling every night.
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The thread below about programming books got me thinking about how much I still love to code even though I don't do as much as I used to at work (busy herding cats people) but still play with the new stuff in my own time. However, if I know I have some coding to do at work, I still get excited and can't wait to start. And that's after nearly thirty years of doing the job. Do you still love your job or are you getting jaded? I think JSOP is given his earlier post! :-)
As one of the shows I loved in high school used to put it: "You bet your bippy, I do.." I started coding in college, then went on to some "real world" jobs. I tried to stay technical, but almost every company I worked for tried to push me into management. I tried management and I hated it. So I went back to programming. My biggest problem is that there are few jobs for senior citizen programmers, especially out here in the "boondocks."
__________________ Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now. © 2009, Rex Hammock
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The thread below about programming books got me thinking about how much I still love to code even though I don't do as much as I used to at work (busy herding cats people) but still play with the new stuff in my own time. However, if I know I have some coding to do at work, I still get excited and can't wait to start. And that's after nearly thirty years of doing the job. Do you still love your job or are you getting jaded? I think JSOP is given his earlier post! :-)
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Similar - I don't rec all seeing that but, then, I don't remember what I had for breakfast last week. :-)
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Similar - I don't rec all seeing that but, then, I don't remember what I had for breakfast last week. :-)
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
Similar - I don't rec all seeing that but, then, I don't remember what I had for breakfast last week. :)
It was bacon.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
[SMUGFACE] I walk to work - 15 minutes each way. :) [/SMUGFACE]
[EVENSMUGGERFACE] So do I - 15 seconds each way. :) [/EVENSMUGGERFACE]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The thread below about programming books got me thinking about how much I still love to code even though I don't do as much as I used to at work (busy herding cats people) but still play with the new stuff in my own time. However, if I know I have some coding to do at work, I still get excited and can't wait to start. And that's after nearly thirty years of doing the job. Do you still love your job or are you getting jaded? I think JSOP is given his earlier post! :-)
Jaded for me, industry is filled with experts and won't let me do things my own way.
do or do not, there is no try
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The thread below about programming books got me thinking about how much I still love to code even though I don't do as much as I used to at work (busy herding cats people) but still play with the new stuff in my own time. However, if I know I have some coding to do at work, I still get excited and can't wait to start. And that's after nearly thirty years of doing the job. Do you still love your job or are you getting jaded? I think JSOP is given his earlier post! :-)
Last year I was in a blue funk and didn't love anything much, least of all coding. I eventually stopped being so hard on myself, relaxed, and now I'm all fired up again! I love problem solving, I love crafting a simple, elegant solution, I love making an app really slick, and learning things as I implement features and fix bugs. I really, really love coding - it completes me :-O Disclaimer: I'm sole developer on a small but complex/fun little app, and the company I contract with gives me an office and a plate of cooked food every day, lots of trust, and very little interference.
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The thread below about programming books got me thinking about how much I still love to code even though I don't do as much as I used to at work (busy herding cats people) but still play with the new stuff in my own time. However, if I know I have some coding to do at work, I still get excited and can't wait to start. And that's after nearly thirty years of doing the job. Do you still love your job or are you getting jaded? I think JSOP is given his earlier post! :-)
I like everything that helps to solve a problem. If code is the right answer, I'm in. If pissing on a bed is the wish, get some Russian hookers.
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The thread below about programming books got me thinking about how much I still love to code even though I don't do as much as I used to at work (busy herding cats people) but still play with the new stuff in my own time. However, if I know I have some coding to do at work, I still get excited and can't wait to start. And that's after nearly thirty years of doing the job. Do you still love your job or are you getting jaded? I think JSOP is given his earlier post! :-)
Yes, I like to code. Not always so much at work, you have legacy code, simple code and code that comes nowhere near the quality you may expect from a professional team, but of course there are also the fun projects. In my own time I love coding! When I got a good project, like arrgh.js, I can't wait to get home and start coding, sometimes until well in the night. And then there are times when I just rather slack on the couch and do nothing :)
Best, Sander arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript SQL Server for C# Developers Succinctly Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
[SMUGFACE] I walk to work - 15 minutes each way. :) [/SMUGFACE]
[EVENSMUGGERFACE] So do I - 15 seconds each way. :) [/EVENSMUGGERFACE]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The thread below about programming books got me thinking about how much I still love to code even though I don't do as much as I used to at work (busy herding cats people) but still play with the new stuff in my own time. However, if I know I have some coding to do at work, I still get excited and can't wait to start. And that's after nearly thirty years of doing the job. Do you still love your job or are you getting jaded? I think JSOP is given his earlier post! :-)
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The thread below about programming books got me thinking about how much I still love to code even though I don't do as much as I used to at work (busy herding cats people) but still play with the new stuff in my own time. However, if I know I have some coding to do at work, I still get excited and can't wait to start. And that's after nearly thirty years of doing the job. Do you still love your job or are you getting jaded? I think JSOP is given his earlier post! :-)
I still love to code - and I've been coding for almost thirty years now. I've marked the beginning as the day when I first got a lime colored hot-air balloon to move across a blue background; I can still remember sitting on the floor in front of a 26" tv, copying the instructions from the C=64 user's manual. Those numbers were magic, and I took the bait... hook, line and sinker. Not many days after there were a plethora of things that I could move across the screen and in different colors too! So, the last thirty years I've been doing what I love, and the last fifteen with the added benefit of a monthly salary.
