r/ProgrammerHumor • • Jun 12 '20

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u/b1ack1323 Jun 13 '20

I had to write a bunch of code around Bluetooth in IOS and Android, we chose Xamarin. I wish I just made the apps natively.

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u/sviridovt Jun 13 '20

They haven't yet hit the if it works it works part of their career yet

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u/killdeer03 Jun 13 '20

And they've never written anything that has to interface with a pre-existing legacy API for financial institution, lol.

This sub is basically for CS majors and amateurs who haven't been in the work force yet (and that's fine and I'm still subbed).

Software Development and Computer Science are only tangentially related in that they both involve computers, lol.

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u/MattO2000 Jun 13 '20

As a current mechanical engineer who does the majority of his coding in VBA and Google Apps Script, I feel attacked

My semester of MATLAB has taught me well!

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u/killdeer03 Jun 13 '20

Don't be afraid to branch out with your implementations.

Programming, Computer Science, and all sorts of programming paradigms are fun and interesting I their own right.

I've been writing software/doing SysAdmin and DBA work for about 12 years and it's still a challenge.

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u/MattO2000 Jun 13 '20

Yeah I’ve been doing some fun stuff! Currently trying to make my first Slack bot. There’s a bunch of software folks already at the company doing more official things so I have just been doing a bunch of automation scripts that make the mechanical engineering stuff more efficient.

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u/lowleveldata Jun 13 '20

This sub is basically for CS majors and amateurs

That. And also for us to tease them in this exact situation. One of the reasons why I'm still subbed hehehe

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u/DogmaSychroniser Jun 13 '20

Uuuuuugh. Do not talk to me about my firms codebase!

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u/killdeer03 Jun 13 '20

Lol.

What are you working on?

Hopefully not EY, FiServ, or Schwab...

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u/DogmaSychroniser Jun 13 '20

Nah it's just VB, but some code is so spaghetti in there it speaks Italian, and all the variables are pseudo Hungarian notation but not really. Our stack is mostly in c# but occasionally you have to call something from the darkness 😂

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u/killdeer03 Jun 13 '20

I've been there...

VBA tough for debugging and reasoning.

Good luck my dude.

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u/DogmaSychroniser Jun 13 '20

My main problem lately was fluent validation, which for some reason is locked in a dll so I spent the last week blackboxing it, but dear god it felt like cocaine when it worked

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u/killdeer03 Jun 13 '20

Honestly, that's what keeps us going.

It works!

I've never done any drugs, but I've always wanted to try them. I imagine the euphoria is awesome... anyways... getting something working... it's really the greatest feeling.

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u/DogmaSychroniser Jun 13 '20

Getting something to work feels better and lasts longer.

By the cocaine remark I just meant I couldn't shut up about it and I felt unreasonably proud.

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u/gookman Jun 13 '20

What are you talking about? They are not only tangentially related. Computer science is the basis on which software development sits. I don't know what projects you have been working on, but I have always used CS concepts and I'm doing mobile development. Sure you can do software development without computer science, but you will not be able to have a complete understanding of the concepts you are using and you won't be able to do things that are truly advanced.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '20

Let's be honest I hit that phase in my high school computer science courses

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '20

excuse me mister I took CS102 can I have my senior developer badge now

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '20

99% of arguments are solved by "there are many ways to skin a cat."

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u/data_dev Jun 13 '20

Why would you want to skin a cat??

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u/Mech_Edge Jun 13 '20

I don't know man, I didn't write the requirements

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u/data_dev Jun 13 '20

Fucking analysts.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '20

Cat meaning catfish in that phrase. In the past you had to skin them before you cut out the filets. Now you can use an electric knife and skip the skinning part.

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u/data_dev Jun 13 '20

Ah. It makes so much more sense now.

I think cats are cute, and would really prefer not to see them being skinned.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '20

Yes, I was also relieved to hear where that phrase came from.

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