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Hello, I hope I'm posting in a place that is ok with discussion and not just question/answer. I know my question will receive some opinionated responses but not necessarily and regardless, it is something I really would like to ask people who are already working in the field.
I got into a developer's position a few years ago and it has been quite stressful for me. I feel I'm an intelligent person, I like technology, video games, programming etc. I have a passion for programming although sometimes I find it fading but I try to remain optimistic.
When I was interviewed for this position I made no effort to oversell myself. I was very upfront and honest about what I knew and didn't know. I provided code examples of what I had worked on and took a test that was assigned to me all before being hired. The position was supposed to be more of an entry level position.
At first I was really excited. So happy to finally be a developer. I wanted to learn as much as I could. I didn't necessarily want to stay with the company but I was happy to have got the position and wanted to learn all I could while I was here.
Problems soon arose and it's from these problems that I'm trying to get some insight into the industry to see what the job life is like for programmers outside of my little world/company.
The company I work for is a fortune 500 company, they are huge, all over the place, international, they're everywhere and you know them I promise, I prefer not to say though for privacy reasons. That being said, I was happy to get into this "entry level" programming position in this huge company cause I knew it would be a great learning experience.
I soon found out that I was being relied upon quite heavily and with very little guidance. My position, although I'm required to be in an office location, is virtual. Meaning, every programmer is at a different location, including my supervisors and management, and some (especially management) work from home.
One of my pet peeves is that, although I have a company laptop, and there's little to no collaboration taking place, I can't work from home myself, I have to carry my laptop with me and plug it in at the office I work at. While this irritates me alot, I can totally cope with this if the rest were ok.
My biggest gripe is the lack of collaboration, guidance, communication, and give a *@!$. I am given projects, with little to no background information, most the time via email, and that is it. I am told to ask questions if I have any. The majority of the time, my entire time spent here is one big question.
I'm trying to figure out, is this how it is where everyone works? Is it normal to hire entry level programmers, provide them with little to no guidance/training, and just assign them tasks to see if they'll still have their hair by the time it's all said and done?
This is something I'm really honestly curious about. I've been doing this for about 3 years now. I've learned things and manage to complete all of my projects on time but it's the process and the way things are managed that drive me nuts.
There are also long periods of time where I won't be assigned anything. I'm virtual so I come into an office that has nothing to do with me and sit. Sitting and waiting has been a large majority of my duties. My work life is a bit of a roller coaster. There's a very slow incline and then I'll get a project with no information or guidance and then it's a steep drop till I reach the end...
Half the time I feel it's just me, the rest I feel that it's just this place. That is why I'm on here to get an idea of what a programmer's daily job life is like.
Do you often find yourself with no resources or feel like you're kind of just there lol... I laugh but this has been the strangest and not so funny situation I have ever been in.
I also find patterns among people, ways of thinking among management. Things seem to be severely lacking. My idea is that the grass is greener on the other side but I'd like to hear from you all to see if that truly is the case or if I just need to suck it up and enjoy it somehow.
To give you an example, I was given a C# project recently, as I have many times in the past. I'm fine programming and figuring stuff out, I enjoy it, but there are times you just want to ask someone a question.
The person that was working on this C# project is no longer with us and I just found out I'm pretty much the only one that has any experience at all with C#... So me, an entry level programmer that had hoped this position would be a great learning experience is now more of a dreaded daily nightmare...
I do my best to accept and deal with the situations at hand and try not to panic but it can be hard at times. My thing is, why does it have to be like this and is it like this everywhere?
I'm not a dumb person, all I need half the time are some simple questions answered but I can't rely at all on the group I work for and it seems like they simply expect me to be Albert Einstein or something.
Then there's the guilt I feel for not knowing or feeling like I can't complete a task that gets assigned to me and fear of failure... It's just ridiculous.
Just to elaborate on the sitting and waiting. There are times I'll be assigned something, complete it, and I don't hear from anyone about anything for days or weeks. This feels like a giant waste of my time and I know it is.
Sometimes I won't be assigned anything at all so I'll email my supervisor and just say "Hey if I can help with anything let me know" and I may or may not hear back for who knows how long. I kind of stopped doing this though because now, I kind of enjoy not having anything to work on cause it tends to be stressful when I do.
My next steps are dealing with this a bit longer and spending my free time doing some coding of my own, brushing up my skills, and finding a new job. This is another reason why I ask this question because I want to hear what I may be getting myself into.
If you've read all of this thank you and if you have anything to share please do.
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
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First of all, I know it's a bit late, but welcome to the community. Know that your experience is not unique, is not even rare, but is generally par for the course. There are very serious pluses and minuses to being a dev, but let's talk about something else first: soft skills.
By and large developers tend to regard logic, efficiency, and technical ability as positive traits. This is not the case with people in the lion's share of other disciplines, and over time this leads to many devs being a bit more reclusive and less invested in the work of others; to the point where the caginess of programmers is pretty much a stereotype. Now, this caginess is not reserved for "outsiders", but rather anyone that does not meet each individual's bar for competence. This is the first primary contributing factor in the response that you've received, and don't be so self-centered as to assume that how people interact with you has everything (or anything) to do with you.
Now to where my own caginess might show: the things that you're complaining about are actually the job. Yeah, writing code is nice and all, but it's not the hard part of the job. Expressing yourself in code is a baseline, and every knowledge domain is different, so each new project will, largely, throw you right back into a pit of not knowing what's going on, not having a foundation in the subject matter, or generally not being sure of where to immediately go. This is entirely the reason we have an SDLC and why the things that may not have seemed terribly important in school are very important in practice.
You're also not expected to know everything, despite how it might feel at the moment, but you are expected to be able to figure things out that are in the knowledge domain of the company that you work for. You are expected to understand some patterns and practices when it comes specifically to engineering, but that's part of the trade. Never, ever, play "smart" when you're lost: questions are invaluable, ask them!
Learn to provide realistic estimates (the Scotty rule can help...) so that you don't always feel under the gun. Sharpen your research skills; Google is the ultimate expression of RTFM, and being able to read up on APIs or even check source on GitHub is a gigantic leg up. Utilize it without shame or fear.
When you don't have a current project, experiment. Play with a language or technology. Look for holes that you can plug. Make a space for yourself within the organization.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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It's a shame that a great answer like this that obviously took some time and effort has not been recognized an upvoted. Here's 5! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I'm unsure if I understood everything correctly. Is the following correct:
1. A Text encrypted with PRIVATE_KEY can be decrypted only(?) with PUBLIC_KEY
2. A Text encrypted with PUBLIC_KEY can be decrypted only with PRIVATE_KEY
Thank you very much for help and sorry if the question is stupid...
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Yes, those two statements are correct.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Thank you very much!
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Close. Depending on your use case, you will have a PUBLIC ENCRYPT and a PUBLIC DECRYPT key. These are completely separate key sets that are associated with PRIVATE DECRYPT and PRIVATE ENCRYPT keys respectively.
Generally, you encrypt a hash with your PRIVATE ENCRYPT key to provide a digital signature, as it can be verified using your PUBLIC DECRYPT key. For actual message encryption, your PUBLIC ENCRYPT key will be used to encrypt it so that only your PRIVATE DECRYPT key can decrypt it.
With the PKI model, you can freely hand out your public keys (or they are stored in a central repository, such as on a domain) while your private keys needs to be properly secured to prevent compromise.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Thank you very much
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Hi !
The logical to remember with Public , Private Keys is about 2 crypting channels.
From both sides, 2 differents Keys will operate.
Like all cryptos, one can be reverse , not the other.
But the A to B, B to A must transmit all datas, and verify them.
Look at what can be switch : ( What is surrounding ? )
Computer A , Computer B
Keys A , Key B
Private function crypto
Public function crypto
Clock from A(all in) , Clock from B(all in)
checksum A , checksum B
while you ensure no errors of receiver .
The work is all done.
It's "pair" working.
modified 23-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Message Removed
modified 11-Feb-18 10:35am.
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I got -50 points around for this article Improve-the-Way-of-Writing-Functions . But as per the code project documents when author gives down vote author should give proper reason. Please help me if I am wrong.
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This has nothing to do with this forum. Also, giving reasons has been debated many times and it's not going to happen because the reasons would either be rubbish or people would be put off voting.
This space for rent
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Also disclosing reasons would invite privacy issues for the #voter
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If a solved code is correct is it reevaluated ?
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People downvote for all sorts of reasons, it's annoying when your answer is given a bad rating just because the poster didn't understand\try the code, or whatever, but overall those votes are countered by the better votes you get.
I looked at the last few answers you gave though, and I guess a reason you're getting so many low grades is because you're not properly formatting the code in your answers so it is hard for people to follow. Learn how to use the "pre" tags, or paste your code into the solution box so you get a pop-up asking how you want the pasted code to be formatted and select the appropriate option.
Do this
$(document).ready(function () {
var select = $("#<%=lblMultiSelect.ClientID%>");
var senddata = select.val();
var txt = $("#<%=listBoxValue.ClientID%>");
select.change(function (e) {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "CS.aspx/GetCurrentTime",
data: '{name: "' + senddata + '" }',
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
dataType: "json",
success: OnSuccess,
failure: function(response) {
alert(response.d);
}
});
});
});
function OnSuccess(response) {
$.each(response, function (i, el) {
});
}
not this
$(document).ready(function () {
var select = $("#<%=lblMultiSelect.ClientID%>");
var senddata = select.val();
var txt = $("#<%=listBoxValue.ClientID%>"); //<
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If a persion gives wrong statement against a good answer how can provide down points
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Do not worry about points. They do not mean anything.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Thank you for your comment as well as you others are also started like you
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I am trying to browse through my articles submitted sometime back. However I am getting message as - This article is still being written and is not currently available for general viewing.
Can anyone help me how to recover my submitted articles.
Thanks
Kishan
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Have you published the article? What I think of this is that you have not yet published the article and are currently viewing the draft.
Secondly, if you have published it, and still see it: It might be because you have tried to modify it sometime in past, and you are being previewed the latest draft. To check if that is the case, go to "My Articles" and see the Drafts. You will find it there, also, if you published the article, the older version will still be visible to general public.
For future posts about Article Writing, try contacting the admins here, Article Writing Discussion Boards
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Should I have to begin with replacing ASCII with something new like Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange? Please give tips.
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Thank You for this 
Would it help in building Internet in Hindi as Chinese and Japanese did in their respective languages?
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