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Fuck computer programming as a career
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 30981074:MV8yMTQxMDExXzM2MTU0OTcyX0ExNkExNTQ4] [quote:Anonymous Coward 34448348:MV8yMTQxMDExXzM2MTU0ODk1X0EwNEZDNzUy] [quote:Anonymous Coward 18237036:MV8yMTQxMDExXzM2MTU0ODM0XzJEQTcxRjRF] When I realized even though I learned coding vb6 and came to the conclusion I was not going to work for somebody to steal my work, I did a bunch of program codes, created gui in photoshop and compiled the exe. I created a website and gave these nifty little pograms away for free to get my work out there for a time when I would code a sellable program. One of the programs was I coded a complete web browser unlike anything out at the time for download. I used this browser for a class project demonstration to the class and got an A for the effort. I was going to further develop this for intra-net usage so corporations would have a branded corporate browser for internal use. I still use some of those programs I coded and created graphics for. One is a program called DNS server that tells you when your on the internet what dns servers are connected to your pc. It had functions to clear dns and ipconfig other functions to clean up the pc. I also built a cookie buster to clean cookies and stuff off the pc. You coders don't have a clue to what your skill is worth in the world of applications to the pc user, when you build programs by your deep desire to pay yourself for your work.. [/quote] you mean you used internet explorer html rendering engine. [/quote] Don't forget he also wrote a program to execute "cat /etc/resolv.conf" but on windows using VB6 and called it "DNS server" which literally means "Domain Name Server server". This guy might be the next Donald Knuth. LOL. [/quote]
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I'm sick and tired of it. I've been programming now for well over a decade and I simply can not write another god damned line of code. It's the same shit over and over again. Make it faster, make it cheaper, make it faster, make it cheaper is all you fucking hear at work and all you see in job postings.
Why in the fuck does any of it matter? Let's run on a treadmill our entire lives so people can have a fucking faster smartphone. Fuck them.
Let's spend hundreds of billions of dollars so algorithms can trade a few microseconds faster. Fuck it.
Let's waste countless man years so the corners of windows are curved and semi-transparent because that shit really matters. Fuck it all.
Let's rewrite the same website infrastrucure in a the latest fad language every couple of years so we all can pretend to be busy bees. Fuck that.
Is there any way out of this treadmill of a life? I highly doubt it. Mankind won't stop in this path to exponential insanity until we are left with nothing but a smouldering pile of ruins we once called civilization.
People can barely keep up with their workload at the office and all the chores at home yet every day you get to work and it's MOAR MOAR MOAR.
And you know what? It's the 0.1% at the top that are *demanding* that every single thing below them cut costs, increase efficiency all so they can see a little MOAR money that they did the month before. Can they even spend the money they make? No, but they still need MOAR and it will come out of your SOUL!
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