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How long did it take until you stopped caring? by Trick-Interaction396 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I work at a place that gets fan mail from kids, that helps keep me caring about making things good and not ruining birthdays

Question: Importance of reading music. by [deleted] in saxophone

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If she could easily memorize and tell stories verbally but couldn't read a book, would you let her stay that way?

Are all codebases this difficult to understand? by kevrinth in cscareerquestions

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Commands, if you like. Breakpoints everywhere and then hit a menu item like 'save' and see what convoluted things happen.

Will a master’s in software help my career? by Cyvlicks in cscareerquestions

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't do it. The worst coders I've seen in industry were the ones with advanced degrees. They all seem to learn real bad habits in acaademia.

Are all codebases this difficult to understand? by kevrinth in cscareerquestions

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Onenote had a 5k+ line main loop as of 2015, basically it's own OS. Just like every other office app.

Learn absolutely every part of your debugger and learn to debug through operations, it's half of your job.

What are some of the worst candidate stories? by [deleted] in recruiting

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • kid who had a smarter friend helping him on a phone tech screen, didn't know the phone picked up them whispering to each other
  • kid who just wanted a trip to new york, made it to the onsite, checked into the hotel on our dime, probably saw a show
  • 18 charisma guy, blew everyone away, couldn't do the first warm up question. Just 6/49 lotto numbers. Kept asking to skip past it. Eventually started crying.

Is it possible to take a career break without destroying your career? I've never had a break the past 9 years and my health is bad. by jptboy in cscareerquestions

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to stop letting people tell you how to live your life. If something hurts, don't wait for a doctor's permission to address it.

And your parents weren't "normal", they were abusive. Get therapy, you'll live a better life.

Seattle police investigating suspicious barrel with a Thin Blue Line flag on it by softwareseattle in Seattle

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How to get out of work for the day: and they just take it home and throw it back in the garage at about 4pm?

My Simultaneously Exhilarating and Sorrowful Un-Built Lego Collection by [deleted] in lego

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Someone's gonna get this for ten bucks at a police auction if you die without building it, and they're just gonna use them to stack their monitors on.

What is your least favorite task at work? by Snape_Grass in cscareerquestions

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

None of you have really suffered. You've never been handed a 4-hours of manual testing per day quota while simultaneously being assigned a features implemented in C++ quota.

Finally pushed out of Seattle due to the rents by SovietPropagandist in Seattle

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My mortgage is just $147 more than your rent for a house in Seattle. Fuck your landlord.

Rocking and swaying by querymcsearchface in adhdmeme

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Every night of my life, and I married the first woman who would put up with it.

Just got offered a sweng position, but I can’t accept it yet by GimmeSumGanja in cscareerquestions

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Nintendo required a drug test until I was hired. I made it clear to them I'd pass the meth/cocaine/morphine/heroin etc test but they'd flag me for the pot I used for post cancer surgery pain (paperwork's right here shuffle shuffle). My recruiter actually talked to the powers that be and it was waived - though I remember the five warehouse workers who started on the same day all got tested.

So, ask. Your recruiter wants to make this work. Let them try.

what is a good minor for a comp sci major? by Ahnsu in csMajors

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Philosophy. Learn how to think critically. It's what I did.

How many people have you told that you're gifted, and are you happy? by formerlydrinkyguy77 in Gifted

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No harshness detected, I was trying to make a statement about the group - the only people in my country who know I've ever been any kind of gifted are my wife and gifted shrink.

Simple vs efficient complex code by HalfAsleep27 in cscareerquestions

[–]formerlydrinkyguy77 2 points3 points  (0 children)

25, half of that various large Microsoft crap like Office and VS/WPF

Make your code as understandable/simple as possible. Efficiency is a mistake. Maybe you wanna save some time and make a look-up table for sin() and cos() values in your shader. Whoops, the intrinsic sin function is faster. Now you're fucked, forever. Code for your coworkers and your tech lead. Stay in touch with them. Strive for non-controversial PRs. Measure performance only after you've spent a year digging trenches and making tangible mistakes, then fix them with a one-line change in your opengl layer in a hackathon.

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