What's your day job?

Unia · 2015-11-05 22:14:33

shadowplay wrote:

C#Coder4ever wrote:
being a student
Comp Sci?
Do they teach C or C++ in college these days? Java still a thing or have they moved to C#?

Computer Science student here. I was taught OOP in Java, but also had Embedded Software and Operating Systems courses teaching C and C++.

Hauffi · 2015-11-05 22:15:41

shadowplay wrote:

C#Coder4ever wrote:
being a student
Comp Sci?
Do they teach C or C++ in college these days? Java still a thing or have they moved to C#?

The college around here uses Java. It would be nice if it was C, but whatever.

pa$$word · 2015-11-05 22:35:33

I am a robot.

shadowplay · 2015-11-05 22:40:24

Hauffi wrote:

The college around here uses Java. It would be nice if it was C, but whatever.

I guess the jobs are in Java and C# (plus the various web frameworks - node.js, angular, etc)...there aren't many jobs in Ireland looking for C...most are in the web space, and any server-side stuff looks like Java, C# and some small amount in C++. Go seems popular with the internet-of-things and startups in general.

hhh · 2015-11-05 22:44:31

Former classical freelance violinist/violist whose transitioning into jazz/alternative. Hired today doing bicycle delivery after a couple of weeks without work, last 2 day gigs were dishwasher.

I hope we get that donation thing happening sometime soon.

Horizon_Brave · 2015-11-05 22:46:25

shadowplay wrote:

Horizon_Brave wrote:
I work at the Hardware/Software company Alcatel-Lucent. What's really neat is that Alcatel-Lucent owns Bell Labs. So in my office, at Murry Hill, there's a ton of history with the development of UNIX and the Bell telephone system. Upstairs from my desk, is Dennis Richie's old office.
Personally I work in the IMS development and integration department. But working here around all of these other engineers, developers and administrators is very humbling. If you look up the history of Bell Labs..it's a fascinating story...We created a lot in the past!
WOW...surrounded by history.
My first job out of college in 1986 was developing in C, and K&R was like the bible.....you should take pictures of his old office.....you'll be in your rocking chair some day and be able to impress the new kids with your proximity to "the R in K&R" :-)

I didn't get Dennis' but here's an image of Brian Kernighan's office! Co-Founder of C and UNIX... Brian Kerringham's Office

I'm not a huge twitter guy, but I had to post that... There's a big "Unix Lab" in the upper areas as well.

Irulan · 2015-11-05 23:14:12

I'm a
Programmar
Programar
Programer
I write code.

-Hinto

Panda · 2015-11-05 23:23:52

^ Hahaha!

BLizgreat! · 2015-11-05 23:30:39

Occupation: International pimp n player o course. ( yeah right )

Got into gnu/Linux for .... hmmmm. Recall it was one too many security issues with a window$ system. Played with a couple live session distro's back in '02 and all the most extremely tech literate people I knew were diehard nix enthusiasts.

So after like a 3dy running battle to remove a comp nasty, decided screw it, time to get serious about gnu/nix.

hhh · 2015-11-05 23:48:10

I know Ubuntu was my first Linux distro, and I know it was while I was using XP. I forget why I became interested, most likely it was because of long and tedious Windows updates.

I started dual-booting via the Wubi project, eventually installed that to disc via LVPM, finally did a real Ubuntu install (sorry, I forget the version), got frustrated when my first dist-upgrade crashed X (never heard that about Ubuntu, have you ) and moved to aptosid. glittersloth is the one who suggested I try either #! or aptosid.

And, several years later, I'm building the ISOs for BunsenLabs. I've never written a single line of code that I'm aware of (does a sed command count as code? I'm sure html/css markup doesn't).

Snap · 2015-11-06 00:00:52

Freelance sound engineer.

My addiction is borking operative systems. I spent many years on Mac/ProTools, switched to Reaper and now I'm on Linux, but barely doing anything DAW related these days. Switched to Linux (Ubuntu, what else) two years and a half ago and never looked back. I guess some day I will learn some code.

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shadowplay · 2015-11-06 00:01:00

hhh wrote:

Former classical freelance violinist/violist whose transitioning into jazz/alternative. Hired today doing bicycle delivery after a couple of weeks without work, last 2 day gigs were dishwasher.
I hope we get that donation thing happening sometime soon.

Jeez...talent to burn, as my mum would say!

Get the donation thing set up....you guys are doing a great job....i'll be first in line!

shadowplay · 2015-11-06 00:08:06

Unia wrote:

Embedded Software and Operating Systems courses teaching C and C++.

That makes sense alright...good to see they still teach the fundamentals :-)

Frogman · 2015-11-06 00:25:34

A year ago I got out after about 15 years in construction (masonry). Today I am a Systems Engineer at a great infosec services company, working with a bunch of friends and doing internal IT and building and shipping devices to our customers.

Never underestimate the power of being a life long geek, it brought me a new career. My first Linux was Slackware 3.2. Linux on 4MB RAM was a thing. ;-)

johnraff · 2015-11-06 00:46:41

Pensioner.
Packed in the restaurant a year and a half ago, but somehow those hours of indolence still haven't come. There's always something...

Started computing with Win98 on a Toshiba Dynabook with 16MB of RAM. Moved up to 192MB and did a bit of html/css/php but eventually MS stopped supporting W98 and the machine wasn't really up to running Xp...

A blog recommended shifting to Linux for such people. Tried Ubuntu (Breezy), but it was slow slow slow, left it for 6 months, discovered Xubuntu (Feisty) and from then on it's been 100% Linux. I don't think I've needed to boot up Windows even once since then.

hhh wrote:

does a sed command count as code? I'm sure html/css markup doesn't

Of course it does! Code is code, whether 1 line or 10,000. html/css isn't programming perhaps, because there isn't much of a logic flow but surely it's code, forsooth!

hhh · 2015-11-06 01:58:01

I call html/css markup, not code. But I did hack that sed command for the live-build from your examples. So I've partially written exactly one line of code (or script, I'm not sure which).

An impressive resume.

g33zr · 2015-11-06 02:37:54

I'm retired, but I do a little writing when inspired. My wife claims I spend too much time fiddling with "computer stuff like Linux." ]:D

hhh · 2015-11-06 02:41:32

^Girlspeak for "when you could be fiddling with me... or at least cleaning the gutters"?

Hauffi · 2015-11-06 03:18:44

g33zr wrote:

I'm retired, but I do a little writing when inspired. My wife claims I spend too much time fiddling with "computer stuff like Linux." ]:D

Devil emoji? LIES, it must be FreeBSD!

gako · 2015-11-06 04:03:58

I'm a busboy at a seafood place.

First linux slackware than onto crunchbang as my first Debian experience.

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