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Good for it's resistance, a virus now and then. Makes the immune-system work
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The only people are previous or current coworkers, my wife, and some other industry friends. I've found only people in the industry know what we do, and only some of them at best.
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Agreed, I'm in the same boat. My wife is not technical at all, but she knows exactly what I do for a living, and has a good understanding of what it entails. The rest of my family, sees no difference between me, and the guy at Geek Squad.
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I'm a Sql Server DBA married to an Oracle DBA.
We talk shop all the time. Nice to have someone to vent with who really understands. She can also answer my questions when I have to connect to Oracle.
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OT - Are you the word famous Abu Mami of Kaluach?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I love your work!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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My family have little idea about what am I doing
but obviously they don't know the brief.. and I do not expect it from them
some of my school friends are not in IT/CE field...
I remember an incidence. I was traveling in bus with my two friends; I was doing discussion on some technical issues with my friend who is also in IT firm
at that time my another friend's expressions were like below...
Me: Today there was a problem with javascript...
My friend: oh ya! what was that?..
another friend:
... javascript! what is that???
... Leave it.
... it's better to get sleep instead of this mysterious conversation.
After some time...
... oh god! they are still talking on same topic
... Thank god I am not a software developer!
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They definitely know that "I make the part of the computer that you can't physically touch" because that's what I've been drumming in to their heads for almost 40 years.
BUT they have NO concept of what I actually do, day to day. Especially since it seems to be more babysitting and management of other people's expectations than anything else.
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The wife thinks i'm a money making machine and my mates think i'm a millionaire, if only...
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My father knows what I do, know what it is about, but doesn't understand how (he was project manager of machine manufacturer, he knows about PLC and their importance, but he is a mechanic ing., so no idea about the internals)
My mother doesn't understand what I do, but at least she knows it is something difficult and that I am good at it. Her answer to "what does your son do?" is (actually I use it to answer the question too):
-Have you ever seen how cars are produced?
-Yes/no/whatever
-He makes it possible.
My brother does know what I do very well, he does it too and asks me when he gets stuck.
My GF knows about what I do, but she doesn't understand anything of this world.
For the rest... I just sit in front of a computer, and I am the one to call when something doesn't work properly in their own.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Well my wife calls me a Code slinger and understands. My director at work has not the faintest, my supervisor understands I am like a bull dog with a bone no matter what the project is it gets done. The people at work like the fact they can write it on paper and give it to me and they don't hear a no I can't, but let me look at it. People just don't understand how I am able to walk into a place and see it in my head on how to complete a mission(project). I tell them it's in the force . I see my self spending allot of time banging my head against the wall and drinking coffee until I see results. How do you tell anyone is the question. So I look at a computer and drink alot of to the rest.
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Oh, you mean the people in whose basement I live!
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My girlfriends boss thinks I can service his digital x-ray machines. Cos I 'work with computers'. And they have the word digital in the name.
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"I don't think they give a rats a** as long as I make sure to get paid at the end of the month..."
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Heh, maybe if that picture was on top of Quick Answers section, some of them would at least tried to google first...
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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deflinek wrote: some of them would at least tried to google first.
That's what you think they would do.
Signature construction in progress. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Damn you have the perfect signature - CBadger
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It is true
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My mom knows I'm a developer, that I write codes, even made a game. And she always ask me about facebook.
My boyfriend is a gamer and a RadTech. He knows I'm a developer. But doesn't have the courage to ask me what I really do. He thinks he will suffer from nose bleeding if I explain everything I do.
PS. When someone (not a member of the family or my boyfriend) ask me what I really do, I always say that I'm the one who makes coffee at the office.
That, makes my career easier to explain to others and avoid people who thinks I am a computer genius who can fix all of their computer problems.
PPS. Sometimes, some high school students go to our house and ask if I can proofread their essays, project documentation, etc..
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Karen Mitchelle wrote: He thinks he will suffer from nose bleeding if I explain everything I do. like this?
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Na uh. Can't see. Wait 'til I get home.
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Karen Mitchelle wrote: He thinks he will suffer from nose bleeding if I explain everything I do
At least he has the balls to admit it, be thankful he is not a fellow geek, can you imagine the fights over coding practices, like taking the Lounge home gak!.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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