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Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

Hey are you me?!

Yeah I wonder how low I will go for a job, it's not bright exactly...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    If, like me, you took it on faith (at the age of 23) that social security will be gone by the time I retire, you have been saving and investingcas much as possible. Then you can get by on low-end work.

    Remember, jobs don't really give you prestige. A job is a job. The issue is whether it can help you pay your bills or not.

    Note that Social Security is slated to not have enough money for full payments 3 years before I'm due to enroll (for full payments). You'd think I'd have earned Millions with my precognitive skills.

    ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    A bit different over here in the EU I guess, but similar too; got my apartment almost paid off, social security is guaranteed, retirement will be like 1k€/m in like 9 years...

    Hopefully RAM prices will have fallen by then 😁, or maybe we old C/C++ devs will be the new COBOL guys...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Hope springs eternal. There seems to be a strong movement to make Rust replace both C++ and C#. I should have taken python more seriously when I first saw it in Linux about 20 years ago, given the fever dream that grips the world now.

    If I can rekindle the joy I used to have in software, I am going to just do game mods and Android FOSS app development.

    Right now the thought of doing development practically gives me hives. Talk about PTSD. The thing I loved since writing assembly on a commodore 64 now brings dread.

    I suppose the fact (ha!) that I no longer have to know a programming language (but I have to have several memorized to get through the first interview) should make it easy.

    I have to admit my brief forays into local LLM assisted programming impressed me. I just can't motivate right now to "get serious".

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Remember when Java was going to replace C/C++?

    Also, machincode before getting an assembler on the C64! JMP=32 JSR=96

    IIRC...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    PEEK and POKE mostly, and typing hex codes into a special editor. Remember the games and utilities in the magazines? Also, a page of basic 2.0 code to draw a line And the amazing never before available Sprite Development.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Bresenhams line algorithm 😁, you could invert it to speed it up (Bresenhams slice algorithm)! Also: fill area algorithms!

    Fun times

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