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MONSTA!!

MONSTA!!

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How many people on here work in some form of IT job? There seems to be a few, I've been a .NET developer for nearly 12 years and despite bring sacked a couple of times it does seem to be a job that you can get away from its drug usage in.
 
What do you class as IT ? it was once quite clear who was in IT and who wasnt, not I'm not so sure
 
MONSTA!! said:
I've been a .NET developer for nearly 12 years and despite bring sacked a couple of times it does seem to be a job that you can get away from its drug usage in.
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Why? Cos in dotnet the garbage collector's gonna take care of all the hard crud anyway? Cos you're in the safe managed JIT compiled hands of the dotnet CLR? C# sure sounds cushy to me.
(I'm not in IT but I have to use C (C99) on regular basis)
 
Im a c# developer too. Not too sure how druggy as a group we are although there is definately a developer subtype who are into S.F. and psychedelics. You can get away with a lot of shit being a developer as a lot of managers don't code and there is a bit of an expectation that developers are odd. Also there is a big shortage of developers looking for permenant work.
 
MS is pretty aggressive here (Holland) with lots of schools teaching C# instead of Java now, and the large business shops kneedeep in dotnet. My preconception is that .Net is the new Java with lots of bland corporate codemonkeying (Enterprise Resource Planning behemoths etc), at least that's the stereotype over here. The common corporate C# shop here is not what I'd associate with people into psychedelics or being any kind of odd! Again..stereotyping :/
 
lurching said:
MS is pretty aggressive here (Holland) with lots of schools teaching C# instead of Java now, and the large business shops kneedeep in dotnet. My preconception is that .Net is the new Java with lots of bland corporate codemonkeying (Enterprise Resource Planning behemoths etc), at least that's the stereotype over here. The common corporate C# shop here is not what I'd associate with people into psychedelics or being any kind of odd! Again..stereotyping :/
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It is what it is, you invest time learning a stack, I can develop in a LAMP environment but I much prefer the MS stack, plus all its adding such as SS/IS/RS/AS and of course azure. The development environment is the best in the industry and there is an under supply of good devs.

I did Java at Uni like everyone else, now there are millions of Java developers with few jobs in the marketplace.

As for coding C all day, fuck that I have better things to do with my life.

But yeah the expectation that debs are odd helps. Most of my coworkers are mid 20s and smash the lot on the weekend. I can't think of a drug that I haven't taken at work, some like acid really didn't help, but benzos, speed and heroin really help you get shit done ?
 
I'm a hobbyist programmer, or used to be, but I wouldn't want to work in IT. Too much competition over too few jobs, at least in my part of the country.
 
Allein said:
What do you class as IT ? it was once quite clear who was in IT and who wasnt, not I'm not so sure
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Tis true.

I'm a CG artist working as a 3D environment modeller and texturer for a well known game developer, but I don't consider that I work in IT. I work with a bunch of programmers though (C++), and I don't consider that they work in IT either. The tech support guy who manages the file and mail servers and fixes my PC when I have problems with the network, he probably works in IT I guess?
 
I prefer to say I work in technology, IT seems to hark back to the days when companies (maybe a few still do) have IT departments who's sole purpose was to fix your desktop and tell you to switch your PC off then on again.

Now almost everyone has to use a computer of some sort in their work even if it's just to log there hours or job completion.

There was a time ( in a land far far away) when there was a real distinction between hardware and software, even that's gone to the extent you can't even fix a modern car without having computer skill that would have committed you to the doctor who watching, D&D playing confines of said IT departments in the mid 90s.
 
Everything is computerised nowadays. I couldn't do my job without knowing a little bit of IT.... I'm an absolute beginner compared to most on this thread though. Some things you wonder what the point of it is but some computerised systems are amazing and save lives. Like those AED defibrillators that they have in public places.. Basically. You just connect two pads and switch it on...the computer will then analyse the ECG trace and deliver a shock automatically if the person has a shockable heart rhythm (usually only VF on those machines)... It's set up so someone with no medical training can literally save someone's life another computer takes all the decisions for you.....they should have those in ALL public places IMHO....
 
MONSTA!! said:
As for coding C all day, fuck that I have better things to do with my life.
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Fair enough. I'm the same! I'm forced to use some C and CUDA (GPU programming) and the odd bit of x64 assembly for what I do in high-performance numerical/DSP.
Also, some FORTRAN(95). MATLAB for prototyping, tho I'm looking to switch to Python (numpy/scipy) for that.

But I don't code all day, that would do my head in.

It's just one part of the R&D cycle
 
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lurching said:
Fair enough. I'm the same! I'm forced to use some C and CUDA (GPU programming) and the odd bit of x64 assembly for what I do in high-performance numerical/DSP.

But I don't code all day, that would do my head in.

It's just one part of the R&D cycle
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For all the sense that made to me it may have well been in Japanese.. Haha!! :)
 
Kota said:
I'm a hobbyist programmer, or used to be, but I wouldn't want to work in IT. Too much competition over too few jobs, at least in my part of the country.
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Depends. I also thought you were into medicine? If you have the science AND programming skills you can be very useful in fields like say bioinformatics or computational neuroscience (these two are growing very rapidly).

Often this is also more interesting work than being a "coder for hire" building random corporate stuff (for which there is indeed more competition), as you are combining your specific domain knowledge with the hands-on blue collar software engineering.
 
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Josh said:
Tis true.

I'm a CG artist working as a 3D environment modeller and texturer for a well known game developer, but I don't consider that I work in IT. I work with a bunch of programmers though (C++), and I don't consider that they work in IT either. The tech support guy who manages the file and mail servers and fixes my PC when I have problems with the network, he probably works in IT I guess?
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On a similar note, any idea why the textures in modern games are still pretty low-res considering the fact that the newest consoles have 8GB RAM each? The PS3 and 360 only had 512mb, right?
 
englandgz74 said:
For all the sense that made to me it may have well been in Japanese.. Haha!! :)
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It's silly jargon for the tools that I use to for example do math that analyses the defibrillator's ECG trace. DSP = digital signal processing: in that case it's grabbing an analog signal (heart pulse), converting it to digital, and doing math on the numbers that represent the (1-dimensional) waveform.
 
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