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Any Software Engineers in the TA community? (pg. 3)
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| JEO |
| Oh stop beign so pedantiec. |
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| Jon_Snow |
| quote: | Originally posted by JEO
Oh stop beign so pedantiec. |
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| JEO |
Is there a pedo joke lurking somewhere there? I'm way too caffeinated to actually focus on finding it.
| quote: | Originally posted by theqlogic87
So I've been learning code and all that jazz.. Software engineering.. Would like to know some quick Pros & Cons about it? I enjoy sitting in my computer all day so the hours I have to put in don't scare me.
Do share your experiences :) |
What have you learned so far? If you really are interested, try getting an internship somewhere to see if that's the kind of thing you'd like to do — just don't expect to be doing the most interesting stuff there first thing.
If you're serious about it, it's kind of a bumpy road Most programming jobs are nothing I'd call fun or creative, unless you get really lucky and actually get to work on something interesting, not Java backends or similar crap.
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance-M
And software engineer means learning forever. |
Somewhat true, too. Whether you take it as a negative or a positive thing is up to you. This is what I consider the biggest pro. It's interesting.
One big con is that you'll be either sitting on your ass or standing still for many, many hours every day. I'd really love to combine two jobs, where I could work my current job every other week, and do something physical the other. |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
| quote: | Originally posted by JEO
Oh stop beign so pedantiec. |
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Touche. |
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| Floorfiller |
I also work in a BI department.
Work is work.
It doesn't matter what type of office work you do it's all the same.
the employee dynamic is always going to be what it is.
there are plenty of stupid people in IT departments just like there are plenty of stupid people in customer service departments.
as long as you are smart and capable and work for a company that appreciates it's employees its a good situation. |
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| Lagrangian |
The software engineers I relate to know how to manipulate memory addresses using assembly language, or using a drawing board with a simple stack or queue--using a few adders and multipliers. They understand computational complexity; logic synthesis; predicate calculus. They Use BDD and ROBDD aswell as Acyclic and cyclic directed graphs aimed at algorithmic optimization...of every system or decision making endeavor they ever encounter. They understand Shannon Expansions; Forests and Trees.
See Software Engineering is not front end UI/UX whatever the those soft tech idiots in SOMA are working on...web development is not Programming.
A real software engineer is proficient with c# and .NET. He can build his own c/c++ libraries and call upon them using a hierarchy of modules. The software engineers I know, can implement exotic Singleton patterns aswell as dependency injection. They know about co-routines and routines to balance the payload. They know how to obfuscate code.
You are simple a bottom feeder. |
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| JEO |
| And there you have your biggest con, I think: people who never really passed their Dunning-Kruger phase are pretty abundant in software. |
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| Psyshell |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dykes_on_Jay
You sure you didn't lose out on that job for other reasons? |
Mate, read my post again. |
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| planetaryplayer |
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| Lagrangian |
Hey guys, went away to SF this weekend. I had a free night at my preferred hotel.
Back in the valley, coding again. Check out this article
http://venturebeat.com/2015/04/05/d...-in-california/
If you are talented, ambitious, and a bit artistic or passionate, move to the Bay Area. Pack up, eat noodles for a few months, leave your honky town and join this vibrant community. Your race or gender is irrelevant here. |
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| enydo |
Hopefully you still have water in 5 years and are able to afford the rapidly, exorbitantly inflating costs of living.
Have fun!
| quote: | Originally posted by Frenkieee
I don't really think I want to be working with them, no, because I don't think my work ethic will be as good with them as it is without them. But I'd like to be able to ogle them strutting around the department, or in the cafeteria :)
I don't go to trance/techno parties anymore, mostly disco and deephouse parties. And let me tell you.. hot girls are the rule :cool: |
This whole comment is so incredibly gross, congratulations.
| quote: | Originally posted by r5a
yup. i work in IT as a support engineer fixing networks and servers.
i dont think ive ever seen a chick working in a datacenter or near IT. unless it was sales.
sales IT bitches can get it |
Oh wow another horrid individual. |
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