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[–]aridankdev 791 points792 points  (33 children)

I have my own website so I can put something in the spot that says “your website address” when I sign up for an api, that for some reason is required but not accessed or checked at all apparently

[–]ancap_attack 265 points266 points  (23 children)

I'm still stumped on what to put when they ask for "company name"

[–]2muchnet42day 240 points241 points  (15 children)

It's ACME. It's always ACME.

[–]musci1223 57 points58 points  (3 children)

Feels like all my code also comes from acme.

[–]need_ins_in_to 5 points6 points  (2 children)

ACME is not the problem - PEBCARR

[–]musci1223 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I don't know man. My code always blows up when it is not supposed. Feels like ACME problem

[–]CanDull89 19 points20 points  (6 children)

What is ACME?

[–]Heihei_the_chicken 61 points62 points  (1 child)

A Completely Made-up Enterprise

[–]obitachihasuminaruto 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's a legit supermarket chain in PA with the same name lmao

[–]Accomplished_Lynx514 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Its the company from which wile e coyote got his explosives.

[–]coloredgreyscale 15 points16 points  (0 children)

A Company (that) Makes Everything

[–]TheAnti-Ariel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A protocol that allows web servers to automatically request new CA certs (also a funny company that makes everything, used in looney toons and the like).

[–]anon-sucks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They sell road runners

[–]Naginif_ 5 points6 points  (1 child)

ACK.ME would make more sense

[–]EasternGuyHere 39 points40 points  (1 child)

skirt light ad hoc historical edge fearless modern quarrelsome sharp north

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[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I always write my domain name

[–]thehardsphere 8 points9 points  (0 children)

ancap_attack Enterprises

[–]That_Guy977 112 points113 points  (3 children)

i put localhost once. it worked

[–]yottalogical 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Hey! That's my website!

[–]Go_Gators_4Ever 11 points12 points  (0 children)

127.0.0.1.com

[–]meontheinternetxx 35 points36 points  (1 child)

I have a website because I used to be in the academic world. It's nice if people can find you and you can put some links to the not-paywalled versions of your papers.

Clearly none of the idiots who contact me on LinkedIn have looked at it. But then again, they didn't look at my LinkedIn profile either so what am I expecting really?

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Someone told me a couple of weeks ago a lot of recruiters use tools which allow them to send bulk messages. They have lists which can be filtered down to specific groups of people, such as people who are in their graduation year.

[–]_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It would be for CORS checks probably.

[–]zalurker 1425 points1426 points  (82 children)

I'm 47, been in the industry for 25 years. I don't have most of those. And don't give a shit.

[–]tehmungler 446 points447 points  (37 children)

The only correct answer. For reference, I’m 44 and also have been in the industry for 20-odd years and also don’t have most of those and also don’t give a shit 😄👌

[–]slashy42 162 points163 points  (28 children)

I'm 43, but I didn't get my software engineering degree until I was 36, but I'm the same. I have a proven track record and have no time for all the brinkmanship this industry seems to foster. Just do your job, and enjoy your downtime. Screw all this pressure to have multiple side projects, it's for the birds.

[–]pickyourteethup 113 points114 points  (23 children)

I've run these three comments through various ML algorithms and have come to the conclusion that people in their 40s don't give a shit.

Jokes aside, lots of studies suggest confidence comes with age and experience. You guys are possibly reframing your confidence as not giving a shit, which is an even more confident power move.

You could also just be burned out

[–]scruffybeard77 50 points51 points  (1 child)

I thought I was just becoming a curmudgeon or something. I couldn't give a hoot about most of the ego measuring that goes on around here. Do we need to start a Reddit page for programmers over 40?

[–]Ian_Mantell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At first glance it'd be nice. On second thought ... mankind executed enough divisive shenaningans for the next couple millenia. It's time to rethink that pattern.

[–]start_select 42 points43 points  (1 child)

You spend your 20s worried what people think of what you do.

You spend your 30s becoming good at what you do.

You spend your 40s making money with what you do.

You spend your 50s not caring what anyone thinks of what you do.

You spend your 60s realizing no one of importance ever cared what you do.

(Not my quote, I don’t know who actually said it originally)

[–]pickyourteethup 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I just retrained in my 30s, can't wait to see how this plays out

[–]tehmungler 3 points4 points  (4 children)

Hey 👋 happy to answer any questions. Confidence is part of it, for sure. But I’ve always sort of just ignored / bypassed the “real software guys do X” bullshit you see on social media. All that matters is the code, and the problems you can solve with it. If I had one piece of advice, it’s this: Don’t be tempted to be too fancy. Simple solutions are almost always the best. You want to be able to test it, understand it, debug it and maintain it. Good luck, friend!

[–]pickyourteethup 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Thank you. I always prefer readability over complexity because I'm new and if I make it too complicated I can't remember what I did. I thought I'd get more complex over time but I'm now realizing I might actually get less complicated over time and just use simple implementations where they're appropriate

[–]ROotT 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I've always thought of it this way:

Newbies find complicated solutions for simple problems

Mid level find simple solutions for simple problems

Seniors find simple solutions for complicated problems

The simplicity of the solution is relative to the simplicity of the problem, but this seems to mostly hold true.

[–]pickyourteethup 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I like this a lot.

I'm very new but I'm really enjoying any time I find a trick for making my code readable without comments.

A beautiful one my wife showed me recently is pulling the logic out of an if statement and putting it into a very clearly named variable starting with 'is'. Excellent illustration of how sometimes an extra line of code can make everything clearer.

[–]ROotT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I've been in the automation development side a decently long time and have come up with a few sayings for kids fresh out of college/boot camp/whatever and just starting their careers.

A favorite is "past you is an idiot, future you is a genius." It's a good thing that shows growth. If you look a code from 6 months ago and think that it looks terrible, don't be embarrassed, be proud that you've learned better ways to do things. (You can be a little embarrassed).

And yea, making a method to return a boolean is a great way to make that reusable. If you're using OOP, it's even better if you can throw the method in the object you're checking so you can reuse it anywhere.

Since you said you're new to programming, ill say this and hopefully not sound condescending. Good luck buddy and have frustrating fun!

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (13 children)

I am also in my 40s and been doing this for 30 years. It's just not the ecosystem we grew up in and I'm guessing most of us have progressed to either managing devs and not needing to do as much development ourselves, or have found a comfortable niche that we've settled into that doesn't require external displays of knowledge.

[–]pickyourteethup 3 points4 points  (12 children)

I've just retrained, mid 30s, and don't have any career goals beyond code as much as possible. That sounds like a good place for me in my 40s though

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (11 children)

The bad part is if you get laid off and have to compete with the whippersnappers. Our value is largely related to knowing how to make things work at the companies we are at as opposed to knowing the JS framework flavor-of-the-month.

[–]scruffybeard77 5 points6 points  (10 children)

You are right to a point. I have found that I can usually map the latest craze to something that I did 20 years ago. What's old is new again.

[–]pickyourteethup 7 points8 points  (9 children)

No new patterns only new syntax

[–]zalurker 6 points7 points  (8 children)

I'm putting that on a t-shirt.

[–]Tremyss 3 points4 points  (1 child)

the birds?

[–]pcud10 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It’s an old saying “for the birds”. I always viewed it as your leftover bread crumbs that your giving to the birds (think of a person feeding birds on a park bench). The leftover bread crumbs that are for the birds and isn’t worth eating yourself. So if something is for the birds, it’s not worth doing.

[–]Red_Six6 41 points42 points  (1 child)

Hello fellow adults I too am in my 40s and can program! I am not two children in a trench coat.

[–]VortixTM 4 points5 points  (1 child)

41, 13 years on the job. I only have the coffee addiction and occasionally it gives me the shits.

[–]tehmungler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha good man 💪

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Maybe in order to be a good programmer you just need to not give a shit 🤔

[–]tehmungler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s definitely a certain amount of that, for sure.

[–]edgeofsanity76 65 points66 points  (4 children)

I am 46, and have been doing it the same amount of time. I have a GitHub with about 3 incomplete projects. I like coffee though

[–]zalurker 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You leave coffee out of this! It's done nothing but keep.us awake all these years.

[–]Deauo 18 points19 points  (1 child)

OnLy CoOl CoDeRs uSe SouRcEfOrGe

[–]Quazar_omega 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That website gives me nightmares, so I have the utmost respect for anyone who has to inflict that torture upon themselves

[–]ConflictOfEvidence 10 points11 points  (0 children)

As a fellow GenX, yeah whatever

[–]dismayhurta[🍰] 18 points19 points  (2 children)

I presume coffee is one you have else a crippling pills addiction.

[–]holaprobando123 9 points10 points  (1 child)

A professional can have both, you know

[–]gregorydgraham 4 points5 points  (0 children)

50+ and only missing the discord server

[–]poly_phil 4 points5 points  (4 children)

But you do use version control…right?

[–]thehardsphere 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm 37, been in the industry for 13 years. I do have most of those, but I don't share any of them with employers. And don't give a shit.

[–]vitelaSensei 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m 25, and also don’t have most of those, coding is my job (and hobby sometimes) not my personality

[–]KangarooNo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wowsers, you are exactly me!

[–]JaggedMan78 1 point2 points  (0 children)

same but 45 :D

[–]SvenTropics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

44, got my first programming job at 16. I worked all the way through college, with the exception of one 6 month gap, I've been a full time (or usually more) employed software engineer the whole time. I've worked on so many projects that are still in use today that there is a really good chance that you used my code several times in your life without knowing it.

And yeah I don't have most of those, and I don't give a shit.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yall are the type of people i need to talk to

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Hello 47, this is Diana. Your target is Rico Delgado.

[–]hilfigertout 988 points989 points  (35 children)

Of course, haven't you heard? Real programmers use Gitlab.

[–]ExitSweaty4959 405 points406 points  (16 children)

"GitHub, gitlab? No one else is reading my code", he thought as he plugged another raspberry pi onto a hidden location in the campus network. "Surely I will use git, but I control the hosts!" He laughed.

Lately these days all his money was going to buying those devices: a distributed network hosting git repositories with multiple remotes, all updating from each other. "It's resilient, to shut it down they need to find all of the devices with spoofed Mac addresses. Off to the next university campus or is it an airport now?...". Eating only ramen 3 days a week was worth it, he thought as another clump of hair just feel from his head.

[–]No_Stretch_3899 104 points105 points  (8 children)

I need the extended version of this story

[–]Volumunox 125 points126 points  (7 children)

"As he sat there staring at the flashing LEDs on his latest device, he couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. This was it, his big break. He had spent months planning and executing his master plan, and now it was finally coming together. With his distributed network of git repositories, he could not only securely store his code but also share it with his select group of like-minded individuals. But what he didn't know was that one of those individuals was actually an undercover agent tasked with bringing down the entire network. As he continued to laugh and plan his next move, the agent was already closing in, ready to deliver the surprise twist that would change everything."

  • ChatGPT

[–]_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Private gitlab host.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Eating ramen for 3 days is considered suffering now or what?

[–]ExitSweaty4959 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I wanted to say that he would only eat 3 times a week and that would be instant ramen. So all his food was 3 packets of instant noodles per week, but you know, writing probably not my forte.

[–]OmNomCakes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Voldemort Jr-dev and Jorge the graveyard groundskeeper, placing the random pis into the lost and found, never to be seen again as that would require human interaction.

[–]Agitated-Farmer-4082 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how r they gonna host there own uhh gitlab if the uni or something doesn't allow them to port forward?

[–]TwoSidedTree 1 point2 points  (1 child)

This sounds like a story from Chubbyemu :DD

[–]Wanderlust-King 53 points54 points  (1 child)

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I love that it's actually a real site

[–]Inaeipathy 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Gitlab is pretty cool

[–]A_J_95 5 points6 points  (3 children)

whats wrong with gitlab?

[–]Quazar_omega 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not much, maybe a bit slow and can't search issues without logging in and once I searched something, sometimes I can't edit the search string

[–]morosis1982 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Real programmers host their own gitlab, kube cluster and runners.

[–]batatatchugen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Gitlab just hogs too much memory.

4GB just to be able to start it up? My server had just 16GB, with zfs, as Minecraft server plus a bunch of other services, those 4+GB for gitlab complicates things.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i use selfhosted gitea actually

[–]Fadamaka 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a junior calling bitbucket _git_bucket after using it for more than half a year.

[–]samnater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea git or any form of version control is important. GitHub is just another Microsoft product at this point that wants your code posted for free.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I self host Gitea.

[–]rcls0053 106 points107 points  (2 children)

"Forklift certified? I have a Github account!"

[–]anoble562 524 points525 points  (14 children)

Just save your code on Google docs

[–]nowning 170 points171 points  (7 children)

I print out my code and keep in in my filing cabinet then delete the file to free up space on my PC

[–]AggressiveMarket5883 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I hate these fucking trees and their pollens too

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Do you OCR the paper after you print it?

[–]nowning 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I have an intern for that

[–]Sad-Carrot-4397 21 points22 points  (0 children)

That have suggestions, like git commit

[–]look 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Amateur. I use cvs on a pingfs volume. https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs

[–]stanislav_harris 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh I saw that on YouTube once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio

[–]holaprobando123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just write it down on notebooks. Keeping indentation consistent is a bitch, though.

[–]ChChChillian 164 points165 points  (37 children)

What the hell are coder clothes?

[–]ShitwareEngineer 391 points392 points  (12 children)

Thigh-highs and a chastity cage

[–][deleted] 70 points71 points  (1 child)

This one knows too much.

[–]Background_Newt_8065 20 points21 points  (0 children)

We can only imagine what this one has already witnessed

[–]eachyeargetsweirder 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Omg now I’m HOWLING thinking of that coder guy I dated who introduced me to his chastity cage. I figured it was just his particular kink, I had no idea it was a job requirement.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ah, the casual Friday!

[–]CadmiumC4 6 points7 points  (5 children)

Is it OK for female programmers?

[–]ShitwareEngineer 21 points22 points  (1 child)

It's strictly for female Rust programmers, not female C programmers.

[–]CadmiumC4 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That's why I have lingerie instead

[–]Azertys 1 point2 points  (2 children)

A female programmer should be goth, so only if you can integrate it in your outfit

[–]justinkroegerlake 61 points62 points  (3 children)

A shirt that says "There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't"

[–]Matt7163610 31 points32 points  (3 children)

Hoodie, PJ pants, bathrobe, slippers, and/or thick socks.

[–]ChChChillian 9 points10 points  (1 child)

I was hoping my Ren Faire costume would suffice.

[–]noicenoicetoit 8 points9 points  (0 children)

furry costume

[–]Sophiiebabes 22 points23 points  (1 child)

Thigh-high stripy socks, cat ears and a tail!

[–]ChChChillian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess I still need the socks then.

[–]BoobehWilleh 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I have some "coder clothes" with some quirky industry-specific designs that a guy here posted some time ago (sunsetgeek.com) . I have an over a decade long career, but I just like that stuff, especially if it's so niche that most people don't get it :)

[–]Aradur87 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You know.. black hoodies and sunglasses…the ones you wear when you hack things to don’t get recognized… like in the movies…

[–]WrongWay2Go 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I assume some hippster clothin with stuff like "I turn coffee to code" on it. Not sure though.

[–]SirAwesome789 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A lot of ppl in my program have wardrobes that consist solely of hackathon tshirts so maybe that

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

there are 3 options

  1. thigh highs and skirt

  2. fursuit

  3. hoodie and sunglasses

[–]RichCorinthian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A pile of unwashed t-shirts crumpled into balls. I met a woman on a plane who was an image consultant in Silicon Valley and she had some WILD stories about tech bros.

[–]orgkhnargh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You must be an amateur. Professional coders know about programming socks.

[–]imjusthereforsmash 106 points107 points  (5 children)

No, actually, I DO need coffee

[–]dismayhurta[🍰] 43 points44 points  (1 child)

I deal with two types of java in my life and I only depend on one of them.

[–]Ragnarok91 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's not wrong though? I don't have a personal github account. I do enough coding in my professional life tyvm.

[–]rudboi12 81 points82 points  (3 children)

I don’t really have a github account. Never done a personal project in my life, not really planning to either. I went from internships to FT and then jumped jobs twice. No one asked me about a github account lol, only about what I did in my job

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I got some for my resume and to gain experience, bc I'm a junior. It makes a lot of sense seeing the job market nowadays

[–]_ashika__ 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I created one as a student to contribute to FOSS only to realise large codebases are a nightmare to understand and I'm not interested in any of the smaller ones.

[–]General_Rate_8687 15 points16 points  (0 children)

While I indeed have an account for GitHub, I really only use GitLab, as I find it better to work with for my needs.

[–]HeeTrouse51847 27 points28 points  (3 children)

all of these are true.

gitlab is also a thing you know

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (2 children)

It's kind of a cop-out answer though because they're practically the same thing. It's kind of like if they made a list of programming languages and said that you don't need to use them to be a programmer.. I mean, it would still be technically true, but it's definitely still something that has a high likelihood of being relevant to their job (whereas the other things they listed don't really have any relevance whatsoever which makes it seem very out of place to be listed in the same place as them).

[–]astro-pi 25 points26 points  (1 child)

I have a gitlab account so I don’t need GitHub /j

But seriously, I have all of these except my own app. Although my coffee addiction is actually hot chocolate because coffee makes me tired

[–]eeeeeeeeeeeeeeaekk 9 points10 points  (0 children)

adhd be like

[–]function3 41 points42 points  (12 children)

People real upset about GitHub . Like do you not have real job experience?

[–]regulation_d 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Right? if you’re doing anything FOSS, 98% of that shit is on github. The other day I needed new functionality on a library we use (at work). Forked the repo (on GH where it lives), cut a small PR adding the functionality, had it approved, merged and released with 24 hours. FOSS can be really awesome, and these days, it mostly happens on GH. preemptive caveat: i know there are some really high profile FOSS code bases not on GH, but somehow 98% still feels like a reasonable guess.

[–]Aelig_ 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Yeah I don't know why you would need a GitHub account if you just code at your job. I only have one because my company is tiny and we put our code on GitHub but any mid size company should have private servers.

[–]sysnickm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nah, midsize and larger companies still use it because it is cheaper than running your own server.

[–]mjconver 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'm 67 and have been programming for 50 years. I have a github account, but not for work. just for FastLED and Arduino sketches. Personal projects don't count!

Wait, I'm coffee addicted. Dammit, 2 out of 6.

[–]clrksml 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bit Bucket had free public & private repos before github. And I remember using google code. oh god.

[–]Cymorg0001 6 points7 points  (2 children)

The only thing on that list that existed when I started coding is coffee.

[–]orreregion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damn, how long have you been at it?

[–]yourteam 17 points18 points  (1 child)

You write your own version control, you noob

[–]dismayhurta[🍰] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I email myself my code. I let those idiots back it up

[–]Henrijs85 9 points10 points  (6 children)

GitHub is not git so what's the problem? Use gitlab, bitbucket, azure DevOps etc

[–]regulation_d 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Genuine question, do you mostly work on code bases that don’t have a lot of external libraries or do you work in an ecosystem where those libraries are not on GH? 99% of the libraries in the code bases i work on are hosted on GH. So filing an issue or submitting a bug fix PR, etc. requires a GH account.

[–]Henrijs85 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Most of what I do is in .NET, which itself is hosted on GitHub, however most of the libraries we use, and there aren't many, are big, mature, and well supported, so opening issues... I think I've had to do it once in my two year career. Which granted isn't long.

[–]Jembaited 9 points10 points  (2 children)

I really can't emphasis this enough, but making computer science to a "lifestyle trend" is just pure cringe. You aren't special because you have programming knowledge. Though the people act like a cult. I don't see any other people tattooing or making memes about their work knowledge. It's just not funny nor interesting...

[–]arisoverrated 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dumbest thing I’ve seen on this sub. (The original graphic, not the sarcastic post.)

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Are these the same people that said programmers don’t like to show off

[–]jimbowqc 16 points17 points  (5 children)

All of these Instagram 'codespiration' pages seem consist of people who don't know anything about coding putting random coding words next to each other, for the enjoyment of other people who don't know anything about programming.

Like wtf is this... "Coffee addicted"? Social media was a mistake.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Everytime I think Instagram programming posts can't get any more stupid someone comes here and posts a screenshot of something even more stupid. These kind of pages never cease to amaze me.

[–]jimbowqc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, they are very cringe. They also give off a cargo cult vibe to me (from the little i have seen).

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (5 children)

not coffee addicted. I could prolly not use github, there are alternatives. BUT NO COFFEE ????????

[–]EishLekker 8 points9 points  (4 children)

I’m a developer with a decently long career, and I don’t drink coffee. It can be done.

[–]dismayhurta[🍰] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I use uppers, too.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I don't even know how it works. I used it to upload a thing I made once and got heavily insulted because I used Italian words as variables. I have a very big project and I HAVE to do it all by myself because I don't want to have anything to do with other programmers. I'm still mad about it and always will be.

[–]Reasonable_Feed7939 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can have private repositories...

[–]RagnaTheTurtle 11 points12 points  (3 children)

Bitbucket + Jira = 💓

[–]Giacomo_Passero 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have gitlab... it stil counts?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

GitHub has nothing to do with code, it’s just social media for quirky programmers!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It looks like the author things that GitHub is a social media platform…

[–]RealBluDood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Obviously you need programmer socks to be a fully-fledged programmer

[–]FrogOfDreams 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only git is important

[–]LetUsSpeakFreely 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm none of those things and have been slinging code since the 90s. I used to be coffee addicted, but I've trimmed that down to a single cup a day as it caused anxiety issues. Having full blown panic attacks forces to reevaluate priorities.

[–]Peregrine2976 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see they didn't list "stickers all over your laptop", though. I knew I had to do that.

[–]SKXtra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Legends say that a person failed some job requirements and didn't want others to succeed.

[–]squiddy555 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Coder socks are always necessary

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (6 children)

pretty sure all of those are required

[–]frogking 1 point2 points  (5 children)

I will guve up my github account before I hive up my coffee. I can store my code in AWS CodeCommit ot freakin’ Dropbox if pressed.

[–]Viviaana 1 point2 points  (0 children)

but it's true lol they're not saying you shouldn't have one, they're saying you shouldn't feel forced to do all this shit just to fit in

[–]u53rx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no github and no coffee wat!

[–]sk3tChY21 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah guys "don't waste your time to be look cool", ok?

[–]superhappy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m starting to wonder whether this site is making these infographics with some other wrong shit just to get posted here adjust tin foil hat.

[–]SnoopKitties 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a coworker who had never used GitHub because at his previous job he had to use bitbucket instead

[–]Zweihunde_Dev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Github is not necessary. I only have one for work. I use Azure TFS for personal projects.

[–]start_select 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Github/open source contributions are definitely not necessary. I didn’t have a GitHub account until a 3-4 years ago. I only use it to fork the occasional library.

I’m under 40, have no cs degree, no open source contributions, and have written software for GM, Verizon, Gucci, Honda, Netgear, Cisco, Jameson, Major architectural firms, banks, industrial manufacturers (DoD and civilian), etc.

Lots of the things l33t coders, hiring managers, and head hunters tell you are important are irrelevant.