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Working in IT

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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I was talking about developers in general not just c# ones! I occasionally check the job boards for jobs in Berlin due to family ties there and it is obvious that the Germans (and I guess the Dutch) are definitely really into open source software, it is all ruby on rails and PHP jobs; also Mozilla Firefox is the most popular browser in Germany. I can understand the anti consumerist sentiments I guess this stems from but it is interesting that in the UK there is not such a pro open source outlook.
 
I'm a C#/.net developer too with about 5 years experience.

If anyone knows of any international job opportunities, hit me up! =D

Been working in IT for 12 years.

Was the sacking drug related?
 
In terms of pro drug use most bosses I've had knew somewhat about my drug use. One even held my weed stash for me during the week so I didn't smoke it. Another bought me a take me to your dealer alien poster at Christmas. 8) I smoke a lot less these days...
 
i "work in it". i do support and some sales for a video hosting provider. lot's of pre-sales platform stuff but the more interesting stuff is post-sales integration stuff. we have server- side and client-side APIs so i don't code much but i have to be able to help out with api stuff in ruby, php, java and .net on the server side and javascript on the client side.

never a dull day and i learn something new every day.

alasdair
 
I'm a senior software engineer for a private outsourcing company. Did a diploma then a masters degree. The money isn't too bad and 90% of the time I work from home. I'd much rather be working in an office environment than at home.

I get to create some pretty interesting projects, some mind numbingly boring. Code over half a dozen languages, whichever the project calls for. The only stereotypes I've ever seen has always been terrible tattoo's, some kind of thick framed glasses and a poor attempt at facial hair.
 
lurching said:
Yeah I've seen your picture, Wenlock :D

Wot did you do yr degree in? CS?
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Informatics science and engineering diploma. And while I concur I have a poor attempt at facial hair (purely down to being too lazy to shave) I lack glasses or any tattoo's.
 
Fairly high-level (judging by the number of n00bs' questions I can answer) Linux / Apache / MySQL / Asterisk admin, still code in Perl and Bash cos I never got to grips with trendy languages like Java or Python. Not touched Windows since 98SE. Give me a shell prompt and I'm happy. Especially if it's a comment mark!

Procurement policy is basically "No Source, No Sale".

I write Perl scripts that pull stuff out of MySQL databases, turn it into CSV files and e-mail them to management. Who then load them into LibreOffice and colour in the backgrounds, and e-mail them to each other. That way, they can't break anything important!

One day I'll contribute something to a big Open Source project. Maybe see if libav would like the patch I created to make a new epDVD target.
 
lurching said:
Good question, where's the realtime photorealistic 8K textures? Josh is mipmapping is still a thing? Is anyone using John Carmack's streaming-texture engine?
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All that extra ram (!) most of it goes on fancy OS and background stuff on the new consoles) is allowing me to have a larger range of materials, which makes games look better than using the same amount of materials but cranking up the resolution, materials which would be mipped out most of the time due to camera distance (so yeah mipmapping is definitely still a thing). I don't think many people listen to John Carmack any more other than for the lulz.
 
RE: Carmack, he's been building up the whole head-mounted display scene over the last few years. He's probably the most influential person in modern VR research, now CTO of Oculus VR. He's speaking for a few hours at GDC http://www.gdconf.com/news/see_john_carmack_discuss_the_d.html, his keynotes are legendary as he[s quite a good speaker.
(You were maybe thinking of the over-the-hill celeb John Romero who also worked with Id in the 90s?)
 
englandgz74 said:
Fucking hell!!!!!
I'm glad I dont work in IT.... I haven't got the foggiest clue what all that stuff above means :)
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You are not alone on that score mate. It was all BBC Basic programming that came in not long before i left school. I must admit though that i wish i could do some programming, coding or whatever it's called now especially if the money is good
 
lurching said:
RE: Carmack, he's been building up the whole head-mounted display scene over the last few years. He's probably the most influential person in modern VR research, now CTO of Oculus VR. He's speaking for a few hours at GDC http://www.gdconf.com/news/see_john_carmack_discuss_the_d.html, his keynotes are legendary as he[s quite a good speaker.
(You were maybe thinking of the over-the-hill celeb John Romero who also worked with Id in the 90s?)
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Nope, I was thinking of Carmack. I'm actually working on a VR product myself at the moment and I can assure you, he's not that influential. Outspoken yes, bit not influential. Unless you have significant industry experience that suggests otherwise?
 
maxalfie said:
You are not alone on that score mate. It was all BBC Basic programming that came in not long before i left school. I must admit though that i wish i could do some programming, coding or whatever it's called now especially if the money is good
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Making my name flash up on the screen on my ZX.Spectrum was as far as I get....

As long as I know what the buttons on the defib do that's about as far as I need to go (even that's confusing when your bricking it :))
 
Josh said:
Nope, I was thinking of Carmack. I'm actually working on a VR product myself at the moment and I can assure you, he's not that influential. Outspoken yes, bit not influential. Unless you have significant industry experience that suggests otherwise?
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You said "I don't think many people listen to John Carmack any more other than for the lulz.", which I doubted since he actually is scheduled for a 90+ minute talk at GDC next month and is the head honcho at Oculus, which is one of the world's largest VR research center outside of academia, worth 2 billion dollars, as I'm sure you know :D
His work on Samsung's Gear VR too--he's doing absolutely pioneering work in mobile VR atm.

So if you seriously don't think Carmack is influential in modern VR then I'm highly interested in who you DO consider influential?

And yes, I have experience in modern VR research, or "industry" as you call it, as a DSP engineer (if that's relevant to Carmack).
 
So what I'm gathering is that in 2015 we are considering 'working in IT' to largely mean coding or software based activities ? It's an interesting change, software engineering used to be called...software engineering.

Whilst I occasionally have to make a change to the odd line on the periphery and have knowledge of some really obscure protocols ...I'd have to say, No I don't appear to work in IT :)
 
I meant games industry, but sure, if you think that's relevant.

Something which is obvious to me in games, is that quite often people who have been around since the "bedroom programming" days of development are often given more credit and authority than they rightly deserve (hi Mr Molyneux!). I think this is evidenced by the lack of good games developed by Id in the last 10+ years. I'm lucky enough to be able to work directly with the hardware developers of our headset and I'm pretty sure they're not being influenced by anything Carmack or Oculus are doing. Whether that results in a better products t or not, I guess the will tell.

(I'll ask my lead artist if he's going to Carmack's GDC lecture whilst he's over there though. Will also be interesting to see if Carmack shows up at his too I guess!).
 
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