I’ve always been curious as to what “normal” people think programming is like. The wildest theory I’ve heard is “typing ones and zeroes” (I’m a software engineer)
8 hours of meetings and 10 minutes of writing code.
Nailed it!
That’s surprising accurate for many developers.
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Type some algebraic equations into a text file.
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Run it through something called a “compiler”
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Suddenly everyone knows what the fucking weather is.
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That sounds ridiculous. It 2024, I’m pretty sure programmers just use voice input and say the ones and zeros instead of sitting there and doing all that typing. Still not sure why they have to wear black hoodies though.
The guys in the hoods are cybersecurity devs
Ctrl+C
Ctrl+V
You just revealed yourself as a programmer.
Printf(“here 1”);
That’s what a real programmer does.
It involves a lot of tall girls in thigh high socks, sometimes they wear cat ears too. And they do a lot of typing on extra clackity keyboards.
I got news for you buddy…
Don’t be a bigot. Tall girls are awesome.
*(Also in case you weren’t being a bigot and were instead referring to what it’s really like to work in tech: I do know industry isn’t entierly cat girls in coding socks, but most of the computers for career people I’ve known have been.)
I need to get back in the industry. Oh, for an extra clack keyboard.
You learn a special type of Spanish and somehow you make MS Word come out
This one is the closest, IMO!
Is it common knowledge that programmers write code in different “languages” (e.g. Java and C++)?
My god, that’s terrible. Programmers from different countries must never understand each other. Someone should create a single programming language to rule them all ! something easy to understand, ideally -that everyone could read and write easily. Something like Espéranto, but with 1s and 0s
Given that I stole this from a programming community, it shouldn’t be too far off from true.
(Caveat lector: I’m not in the IT industry but I’m often messing with bash scripts and decompiled python code.)
What does “decompiled python code” mean ?
I meant “decrypted”, not “decompiled”. (When I wrote the above I was sleep-deprived.)
I mostly pick visual novels apart, to know how to reach one or another specific route. From that I’m somewhat used to read Python code - or at least Ren’Py code.
I don’t know if Lemmy is the best place to ask, lol
Well idk about all programming, but I imagine hackers go through at least one keyboard a month and suffer serious finger strain injuries from typing so fast and furious.
I’m a hacker. You don’t even want to know what my monthly budget for balaclavas and fingerless gloves is.
whats worse is how hot it gets under the Guy Fawkes mask
And your voice gets so hoarse from doing the deep voice all the time
“I’m in” gets tiring to say
I just had a really good laugh that I needed very much. Thank you!
If you’re into custom mechanical keyboards it certainly feels like some of us are acquiring new keyboards every month even if we’re not wearing em out…
A cross between Latin and algebra.
Close. Add the game Twister, and you’ve got it.
I would imagine it is as follows:
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Come up with ideas or goal to accomplish /be given said goal
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spend large amount of time looking at existing code or prior implementation of your stated goal.
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attempt to write or import some code tailored to your specific needs
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test and identify problem areas
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find everything fails spectacularly and start over +/- tears.
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repeat until successful or dead
They said people outside the tech industry
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Imagine a poorly lit room. The smell of coffee permeates every inch while the Baba is You soundtrack is played on repeat. Five to fifty monkeys sit in desks and attempt to bind whatever devils are necessary to invoke the magic their leader demands. sixty three percent of their effort is actually just browsing social media and posting memes in niche online communities, but they still manage to get stuff done.
Playing with imaginary Legos to put together a rickety tower.
Edit: though on reflection, a systems approach to nursing the acutely ill is exactly the same but we’re maintaining “God’s” legacy code while we try to keep someone with kidney, heart, and lung problems functioning with judicious application of fluid management, drugs, and dialysis.
ive written a lot of code for clinicians, i have been afforded the benefit of witnessing that chaos
You have super cool sunglasses and a chair where a needle goes in your brain… right?..
I assume it’s looking for that one space that should be a semi-colon in a sea of garbled letters.
This is 100% accurate.
