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CrazyEyeJoe  ·  3202 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Little Printf

Quite charming. I've always liked The Little Prince, and I think this was a well done take on it.

I won't pretend to have met or been any of the people portrayed in the story, though. Maybe because the type of programming I do is so different, or due to my rather limited (two year) experience? I'm in embedded software, so I've pretty much only written C professionally. I've never done any "Software Engineer" stuff, using all the latest technologies, or databases or web, or anything like that.

I feel like most of the people I've worked with were helpful and communicative. The nature of embedded software (at least that I've seen so far) is that a lot of what we used had been written by someone working at the company. There wasn't a lot of new fangled (and by extension poorly understood) software that we relied on.

To be honest, I might be wrong, I'm still quite fresh.





weewooweewoo  ·  3202 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My role right now is pretty much front-end developer for the more difficult projects at my agency- I provide a lot of solutions in projects without knowing what I'd do if something were to go wrong. I've expressed all of these archtypes in some way or another, but I feel mostly like a mix of the woman in chapter 8 and the guy in chapter 6, where all of our websites are shit and I spend all of my time pulling small miracles out of my ass. The nature of my work definitely dictates this role, though- our company is young, and I have no one above or before me to look for help.