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Luckily I dodged the flash bullet. When I got my first programming job in 2010 and was still full of imposter syndrome trying to pick up the previous devs Ruby projects (also hate) my bosses wanted a second dev and asked my to talk to a candidate they really liked. He had a master's degree in cs and I was just self-taught. Guy only knew flash that was it. Just starting out after college and he had a master's degree in flash development.

I wrote a very long heartfelt email to my bosses saying that I would basically hate working with him and that flash was such a stupid technology that it would probably die in a few years. How wrong I was. Apple killed it a month later by dropping support on iOS and Safari. I often wonder what happened to that poor candidate and if he could get the money back that he paid for his degree.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, i got a scholarship to do a certificate course and the most important thing was asp/vbscript and literally right as we were getting to the last part of that unit microsoft announces dot net

🤦‍♂️

so i learned how to make a basic web 2.0 app with forms and shit and database backend using ODBC and then POOF in a puff of smoke goes my future prospects acruing to my new knowledge

that was probably the act of Microsoft that blackpilled me the most, until i found out what an incredible piece of shit Gates was and learned even more about how microsoft was fucking my life up as i tried to get into tech support and the number of times windows bullshit led me to spending days doing a job that should have been done in 4 hours, and i only charged for 4 hours because it shouldn't have taken that long, but yay microsoft

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Daniel Wigton 1y ago

Yay vbscript! Fun fact. The first production programming thing I did was as an soldering technician when I couldn't find engineering jobs out of college. They had me doing a tedious component testing process that took all week, the majority of time being spent on data entry. I decided to automate it, but they wouldn't let me install a c++ compiler on my workstation. So I proto-typed the whole thing in Excel using vbscript. Saved them three days of labor every time a new batch of sensors came in.

Didn't take long before they bought me a visual studio license, but accidentally got me c# instead of c++. And that, boys and girls, is how I learned c#.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

oof delegates

i tried to learn Vala at one point hoping i would one day be able to write desktop apps with gtk3

the complexity of all the things not to do with writing the app kept me from getting anywhere with it and my regular work fixing computers or whatever it was at the time, cleaning classrooms maybe, took up too much time

yeah, for me, my programming career finally started when i tried Go

it was weird at first, and my first year or two with it were pretty bumpy but it was the first language that i was able to encompass a complete, large application, because it lowered the complexity of the parts so much

that's why i use Go, because i can't sit still long enough to decode the umpteen irrelevant shits and procedures that contribute nothing to the solution

that's why i'm so stubborn about it too, you would be if you had never been able to sit still long enough to learn how to IGNORE most of the shit in front of you to get the job done

Go doesn't make you deal with irrelevant shit nearly as much

you have to do that after you make it work, then it has bugs, and then you are really programming