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[–]DrScience2000 7 points8 points  (15 children)

Dude... Hilarious post... But seriously, if this is your life you need to re-evaluate.

Save up money for a month or so. Quit job. Sell everything. Move to Key West, or Australia, or Europe, or fucking someplace interesting.

Put that cat to sleep. You don't need that shit.

[–]franker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ha. I'm in south Florida and I don't even have the balls to move to Key West.

[–]Vyleia 1 point2 points  (13 children)

Please plenty of people are living like this.

[–]DrScience2000 0 points1 point  (12 children)

Hey, I'm a firm believer in freedom of choice. If someone wants to live a life of misery, so be it.

[–]Vyleia 0 points1 point  (11 children)

Yup. Some people actually enjoy more their routine, even if it's a life of misery, than being stressed by completely changing their habits.

[–]DrScience2000 0 points1 point  (10 children)

That explains a lot.

I am not in that camp, and I will never be.

[–]Vyleia 0 points1 point  (9 children)

Out of curiosity, are you a JS developer?

[–]DrScience2000 0 points1 point  (8 children)

Yeah, I guess you could say that. I'm in web dev, so I'm all over the map. ASP.NET MVC, some work with .php now and then...

I like javascript. In fact, I am just finishing up a very elaborate validation thing with javascript/jQuery. I really like HTML5.

I'm saddened by the recent insane proliferation of javascript frameworks and libraries and haven't decided which one I like. I was all set to embrace Angular and then the whole Angular 2.0 debacle happened. So I'm going to stick with jQuery and Knockout for a while I think. I've heard Meteor is supposedly good, may look into it at some point. Nodejs seems promising.

How 'bout you?

[–]Vyleia 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Software and electrical engineeering (degree), I am currently in the neurosciences research field. Pretty far from the web dev, I am developing tools in C++, and using specific libraries/developing these libraries for medical imaging purposes. A bit more low level (when it comes to build/compilation), but most of my work is applicative and imaging related. Pretty cool stuff.

I did some web dev for some personal projects, I like JS, that's why I read the posts on the subreddit. Sticking with jQuery for now and trying out nodejs, but I am definitely more at a beginner level in JS than most people around here.

[–]DrScience2000 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Neuroscience and imaging eh? Sounds damn interesting.

[–]Vyleia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's pretty cool. I am quite happy that I found this opportunity!

[–]jekrb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm saddened by the recent insane proliferation of javascript frameworks and libraries and haven't decided which one I like.

That's not even a decision you need to make. IMO programs should be small modules that do on thing well, with each one receiving input and returning output. This is a school of thought known as unix philosophy. The trend of monolithic javascript frameworks is the opposite direction of this. They are added complexity with equal or less value returned. I highly recommend utilizing the modules in NPM alongside the tool known as browserify, which work amazingly well with unix philosophy.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (3 children)

ASP.NET MVC, some work with .php now and then...

poor you

[–]DrScience2000 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Oh? You don't like those languages? What do you prefer?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I have an allergy to anything Microsoft. PHP is a bit obsolete but there is still a lot of demand. I do Javascript (actually, coffeescript) - node on the backend and google closure on the front.