where do people find friends do code with
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ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.
What are these "friends" that you mention? I've never heard of them. :)
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ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.
matievisthekat wrote:
but how do i get these two to join forces?
Aren't those called "your coworkers"? And based on my personal experience - as much as I like some of my coworkers, I really try not to go so far in mixing work with personal time and hobbies. Once one of them starts bleeding into the other, things can go bad. If you ever find yourself burning out at work, your hobby is gonna start to become a lot less appealing - maybe to the point where you're gonna drop the hobby altogether. And if you're only friends with someone through that hobby, and said friend shows up on a Friday evening for a coding session and you really don't feel up to it...that's when feelings can get hurt. Not speaking from experience here - I've *never* tried to get friends involved with coding. But I *have* burned out at work and that has resulted in me completely stopping writing code as a hobby. And frankly I'd rather deal with that on my own than involving some friends who might now be disappointed. YMMV.
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ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.
matievisthekat wrote:
but how do i get these two to join forces?
You don't; can't force them. I made some friends over the years in various companies, not all of them coders. I met a girl once, she's now a better coder than me.
matievisthekat wrote:
you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own
Hold on, I do not code with friends. Those are coworkers, not friends. There's a private life and a professional one. I don't mix those.
matievisthekat wrote:
it just feels like its missing something.
I bet it's bacon.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.
Maybe you can join an open-source project at GitHub, your friends there will be mainly virtual of course :-\
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ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.
I would assume you would look in your group of friends, but that's just me.
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ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.
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ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.
I only hope friends remain friends after a few sessions of pair programming. It should not happen that they start fighting over small things like variable naming, indentation, etc., and lose their friendship.
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ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.
By mentoring at local school computer clubs in our part of the world, one can share their passion and inspire the younger ones. Friendships build with the other mentors as well.
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ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.
Try Meetup - We are what we do[^] FWIW, when I wanted to learn about Android programming I was recommended to join our local Google Developers Group on Meetup. Just search for your area of interest. This turned out to be a very good suggestion as there were lots of tech talks, introduction to new technologies, study jams, hackathons and to cover your comment about how to join the forces I also met developers from almost all walks of the industry and now have many tech friends that I would not have if I had restricted myself to working in the office. As a result of Covid our meetings are currently virtual events :( (I miss the Pizza, beer and chat that went with the live meetings).
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ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.
"I code alone, yeah yeah, with nobody else." -- George Thorogood
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Maybe you can join an open-source project at GitHub, your friends there will be mainly virtual of course :-\
do open source projects look for team members or do you just kind of contribute to their repo until they consider you a part of their team?
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ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.
Careful what you wish for when embarking on a "joint project" ... if there's money to be made; there's always another relative waiting in the wings. A "personal" project is personal for a reason; something to cling to when all desert you. :((
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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do open source projects look for team members or do you just kind of contribute to their repo until they consider you a part of their team?
I think you just contribute (usually by pull-request) and then they will review your code and see if it is good enough. This is not limited to code, but can also be graphics or documentation for instance.
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ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.
TL/DR: here in the lounge at CP Are you talking irl friends - skin-on friends? If so, I've gotta wonder why. I mean, isn't this what the lounge at CP all about - coding community? We can celebrate your wins with you here - or are you concerned about trusting just whoever comes to this forum? That would make sense, so make some friends here and build up some trust.
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ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.
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I taught my friends to code. Helps to start young though.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
You or them? :)
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
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You or them? :)
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
yes.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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do open source projects look for team members or do you just kind of contribute to their repo until they consider you a part of their team?
This actually works. Have joined at least a few open source projects in my lifetime. Usually it's hard to understand a new codebase right off the bat, but open source projects are usually short on everything including testers. Report a few bugs, with helpful information on how to fix them and wait. Pretty soon you'll be family.
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ive been coding a while and ive been making friends my whole life. but how do i get these two to join forces? you only get so much enjoyment out of making something on your own. it just feels like its missing something.
I've been coding for over 30 years and never had "friends who code." However, I have lots of friends who I ride dirtbikes with - and I hooked up with most of them via FB Groups. Try that!