My Journey

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• teamonkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  DoctorsImage

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  • mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You still need doctors, because Dr Google just thinks everyone has cancer.

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    • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Every fucking time. “Cancer or an autoimmune disease.”

      See a doctor: Oh, it’s a pinched nerve / sprain / hemorrhoid.

      Fuck Google.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Just because my medical school was in the Cayman islands doesn’t mean I’m not a real doctor.”

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• cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Imagine graduating in medecine and your employer respects you to be an expert at everything all at once that is related to the human body and being able to perform open heart and brain surgery and doing x-ray imaging and MRIs and being a gynecologist and an an optometrist and a pharmacist all at once.

  That’s what being in IT is like. You’re expected to know how to program microcontrollers to mainframes to fucking VCRs and knowing every programming language ever created since electronic computers exist as well as networking and cloud technology and databases, etc. AND you have to be certified in all these things to prove you know them on top of your degree.

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  • riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re expected to know how to program microcontrollers to mainframes to fucking VCRs and knowing every programming language ever created since electronic computers exist as well as networking and cloud technology and databases, etc. AND you have to be certified in all these things to prove you know them on top of your degree.

    So there’s a problem even worse than this: When you have all those skills and more (I do 👍) employers expect to pay you the salary of someone who knows just one of those things.

    Like, I was a professional hacker, a systems administrator (both Unix/Linux and Windows), I know networking, have administered/maintained databases, I’m also an award-winning web developer (I know the usual web stuff plus Python, Rust, and a few other things), an embedded developer (C, C++, and Rust), and I can even engineer, design, and program an entire product from scratch that didn’t exist before (see: youtu.be/iv6Rh8UNWlI?si=dG15yQlQpfNGCDal ). That includes designing/engineering the circuit board.

    Do I get paid for knowing all these things? No. If I apply for any job you know what employers say when they reject me?

    Overqualified

    So you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t!

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You dumb down your resume. Leave a bunch of that shit off. Only put what applies for the job you are looking for.

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    • chellomere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey, I saw the stellar review of your keyboard, is it possible to buy somewhere?

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• ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are actually only 12 people in the world who know how to code. The rest of us copy some variation of their code or their derived code.

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not much different to a doctor reading through clinical trials and then recommending the best treatment based on the use case. They didn’t design, develop or manufacture the treatment. They were not involved in the trials. The majority are just expected to know enough to make an educated decision based on specific, individual circumstances.

    I want my doctors to use tried and tested treatments. Not reinvent the wheel. A good doctor is one who has a high success rate.

    Yet the industry acts as though you’re not a good dev if you can’t reinvented the wheel from scratch… coz… Ignorance? Ego? Delusions of grandeur?

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    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ignorance? Ego? Delusions of grandeur?

      So you have met top programmers? Then why are you asking?

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    • riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey now… if you reinvent the wheel you can make it your own.

      …in a way that no one else will appreciate or understand, necessitating that the next person that comes along will also have to reinvent the wheel…

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      the industry acts as though you’re not a good dev if you can’t reinvent the wheel from scratch

      My experience in the industry was that you’re not considered a good dev if you ever try to reinvent the wheel from scratch.

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    • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Delusions of grandeur?

      It’s that one.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And that’s why everything sucks.

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• Panurge987@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Doctors do that, too.

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• DigitalPaperTrail@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Your code?
  copy
  paste
  Our Code.

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  • noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    change variable names My code.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You made this?

    I hade this.

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• NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Somebody told me a story once about how they went to a doctor in Sweden. They told him their symptoms and the dude started googling them.

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  • emptyother@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My doc is also googling stuff very often.

    Probably not bad. If I could have memorized the entire dotnet framework documentation, I would. Until then I will keep googling, and I will usually recognize if the solution is sound. Probably the same with doctors and health.

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    • NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Agreed, I’m simply pointing out that the comic makes it seem like programming is something you can always just Google the answers for, instead of a skill that requires honing and a basal foundation, similar to medical science or law.

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    • oldfart@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I would love to have a doc who googles instead of just trying to sound smart based on their limited knowledge

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  • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You try memorising every known disease and alment in history.

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    • NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And you try memorizing every Python library

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  • Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Happened to me once so I guess it’s not as weird as I thought.

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  • Masimatutu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Relevant: www.vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=Vn_ZkI7-IZ4

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• ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ddg unironically giving me better results than google these days.

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  • silasmariner@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I only ever use Google when ddg fails me and it’s maybe a 5% hit rate on that long tail

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    • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, and then I still use ddg to search Google (with !g).

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• bela@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • epicsninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I tried looking up some alternatives. You know, searching the web. I even checked online, but I couldn’t find anything.

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lol, this also my journey. Decades in the workforce, zero formal training.

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• m3t00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  stackoverflow.com helped me retire

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• danwardvs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know this is just a meme but school is an excellent way to have a foundational understanding of how things work, and learning to problem solve including googling.

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  • riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    a foundational understanding of how things work

    Yeah! Kids these days are learning (in school) all about containers, service discovery, AWS, production deployment strategies, password vaulting solutions, cryptographic key/password management, and most importantly: politically defensive email practices.

    Oh wait: No they aren’t, LOL.

    I just interviewed dozens of fresh (CS) college grads a few months ago and only one of them even knew what SSH was let alone anything remotely resembling basic command line stuff, Linux skills, or any of the above mentioned things.

    They sure could write a mean linked list though! 😁

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    • papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is why more places need to split software engineering into it’s own thing, apart from cs.

      Never had an intern worry about sorting algorithms, but if I could get one who knew how to use git and write tests, we’re off to the races.

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• Linssiili@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Give kagi a try, if you haven’t yet.

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  • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Definitely worth the money imo. No ads is a weird experience.

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• XEAL@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This + ChatGPT

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• wasted_in_time@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Definitely how I got through all my classes.

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