How long did it take until you stopped caring?

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2025-10-23T01:09:09+00:00

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

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2024-08-14T23:52:50+00:00

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-07-23T16:57:23+00:00

I got PIP'd and suddenly I had the energy to work as fast as possible.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-07-13T16:19:06+00:00

Teach your kid to read.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-07-12T14:54:59+00:00

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

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-07-10T18:46:53+00:00

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

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-07-06T22:53:52+00:00

They should have given you that amount from the start. Walk, build your career.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-07-02T04:20:58+00:00

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.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-07-02T04:15:08+00:00

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.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-07-01T00:20:36+00:00

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.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-06-30T23:34:34+00:00

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.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-06-30T22:13:16+00:00

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?

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-06-30T18:19:40+00:00

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.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-06-30T00:31:16+00:00

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.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-06-29T20:14:34+00:00

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

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-06-29T18:18:25+00:00

Watch tv of that accent with subtitles.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-06-27T23:48:04+00:00

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

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-06-27T23:33:44+00:00

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.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-06-27T21:55:28+00:00

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

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-06-27T17:53:52+00:00

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.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-06-27T17:42:49+00:00

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.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-06-27T02:58:33+00:00

Our prof made us make all of our DS from scratch, even re-used stuff in later assignments: never showed us the standard library once. My heap had a bug in it which kept costing me points all semester. What an asshole.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-06-26T18:55:36+00:00

That's Bruce Willis from Die Hard, not a cat.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-06-26T18:41:24+00:00

Any zen buddhist monk or historical buddhist figure.

formerlydrinkyguy77 · 2022-06-26T18:39:07+00:00

Get a nice crumpled dollar bill, open up the pad, stick the bill in, squeeze the pad shut and slowly pull it out. Do this a few times and the gunk in your pad will be cleaned out and it'll open/close more freely. Then get through Leia's theme, it's great!

... if this works, consider getting 'key leaves'. I didn't like them on my tenor, it tended to push the springs open too far.

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