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I worked full-time as a programmer for over 30 years, and, as I answered in the survey, mostly enjoyed it. Due to my condition, I cannot work in the industry any longer, but I still mostly enjoy it, even though it does take me at least 20x as long to accomplish anything. I do find an added sense of accomplishment whenever I get anything working due to the extra effort I have had to put into it.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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I do code the whole day at work, okay yeah maybe i go to to the toilet, CP or smoking but my main activity is (aside from planning, designing and stuff) coding. So i guess at least a good 70% of my yearly workload goes to that.
It is fun! Everybody has bad days but i confirm you, as soon as coding ain't fun anymore i'd switch the job because sitting in front of the pc coding the whole day i'd die if i wouldn't enjoy it 
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
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I've been coding professionally (== for money) for over 35 years.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Ok, with such a bait I can foresee the huge YES response...
Joke apart, at my job we are a huge open office. And there often some people on the other side of the floor having humongously laugh every 30 seconds.. (particularly today)
I find that very annoying! 
wonder whether this is a common reaction or not...
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Shout "ha ha ha yourself!" at them.
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Yes you are.
BTW, it is same for me as well. Many a times people will either be talking ever so loudly to each other or will be on a phone call and put it on speaker. It is horrible. This is the reason I have ear phones on for most of the day at office.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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As far as I've noticed , Usually people of lesser worth talk loud & laugh loud (@ work).
They do these to make their presence felt , which is otherwise NIL through other productive means.
I can really talk in lengths of what I've observed with these people.
And the other type, very much related to the above one, Usually walk into the office with all noses up. They tend to follow all rubbish body-language principals that teaches you how to walk confident, how to f*art confident & be all ass-ertive. Bullsh*t!
Super Lloyd wrote: I find that very annoying!
And yup it does. And it's not about getting old. It's about getting more sensible. When I was going through similar BS, I walked up to the director & requested him to do something about it. The message was gradually conveyed to the people who were doing it and ultimately the main character who created this nuisance habitually, was fired. (Lol he wasn't fired for laughing loud but for under performing continuously, you see the connection? )
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
modified 30-Nov-16 0:47am.
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Cheers!! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Feeling vindicated!
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You are exactly right. Makes me think of this fellow I work with. He uses all the buzzwords, has CIO magazine delivered to the office, and throws out F'bombs about once an hour. Yet you ask him to do something, it never gets done and I get stuck doing it.
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Vunic wrote: Usually people of lesser worth talk loud & laugh loud (@ work).
The HR and the marketing droids are usually the worst offenders.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I dread this word "HR". The most useless part of any technology company.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Vunic wrote: "HR". The most useless part of any technology company.
FTFY 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Lol thanks. I had actually worked on different types of companies. Even the ones with the assembly line productions, interacting with contract labors. I feel HR definitely had a role there, there'd been a lot of labor issues everyday, right from cafeteria to sanitation. None of the worthy employees dare spend time on these trivial issues. HR shines there.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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If you haven't throw on them some hard object, you are still young!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: If you haven't throw on them some hard object, you are still young!!!
And if you've tried to, and failed, you are ready for old fartdom
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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HAHAHA I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN BRO!
HAHAHAHA
HAHA
BRO 
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Run![^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Begone, servant of Mordor!
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Did they just change the Matrix? I had a deja-vu...
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The agents are coming for you.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Empty vessels, and all that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm surrounded by people who must be at phone to do their job, and a sales department with very little to do apart from talking about soccer and fantasoccer.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Super Lloyd wrote: becoming
Are you sure that is the right word? 
Seriously I suffer with you. 9 months back or so I fired off a rant right here demanding suggestions on things to buy [headphones, baseball bats, etc]. The place was driving me crazy so in the end I quit. 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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If I you had to ask that question then you probably are.
But if you want to be sure, take a loud music test[^].
Old or not, open space is  .
Perhaps you should invest in good pair of headphones. I did it.
Good luck!
Mislim, dakle jeo sam.
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