I'm not in IT and I'm a programmer / software engineer. I don't get why people always equate the two.
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IT has different meaning in different contexts. I'm a programmer, so at work IT usually means tech support. But i've seen some job places, including my company's corporate site, include programming as part of IT. Kind of makes sense, because I'm using technology to process information
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Saved for later โ someone remind me to check back in on this in a day or two.
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Putting text in green font colour on a terminal. During crunch time, blowjobs help finish the programming within a minute. If you're an expert, you don't actually type code, you become one with the CRT screen and gaze deep into the pixels, while your hands create code automatically at a super fast pace. Sometimes you stop for a sip of a carbonated beverage.
It's straight up magic gibberish to me. I'm a decently bright dude and have a highly technical job in a different field, but goddamn, that shit makes no sense to me. I am, however, very grateful for the enchanters and wizards in the art of digital tongue, for without them, I my be forced to sit in silence with my own thoughts rubbing two rocks together in a tree.
Some people don't think it be like it is, but it do.
The realisation of what my career would be like if I programmed professionally is why I don't have a career in IT :P
Magic
Actual programming is punished by your boss, the IP lawyer, and the customer.
Backup backup backup. If anything breaks rollback till it works again.
Implement machine learning for the business process. You can afford you one raspberry pi.
Tedious af.
Waiting for code to compile and deploy is a productivity killer, but it gives me short breaks
Only if you're writing code that someone else wants you to write in a language you hate because your paycheck depends on it. As a side gig for your own pleasure with roughly total autonomy, it can be very fulfilling.
I took programming in highschool with Turing. As far as I know that's how every computer program works
Just to give the benefit of the doubt, I don't think they actually think you type in binary, I think "1s and 0s" has become a colloquialism used to refer to "programming languages" or in some cases "digital magic I don't understand." They just don't know the words python, javascript, html, bash, rust, c, c++, c#, F#A# infinity, etc.
I hope.
I appreciate the GYBE reference
They've probably seen Assembly code and that looks quite like binary if you don't pay much attention.
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Copy/paste someone else's code into your own project then play games/watch anime for a while.
Are you sure you're not already a programmer?
I think programming can be a pretty dull task, where you spend hours over hours copy-pasting fragments of code from former projects and/or from other sources, adjust it to your needs, run it, remove the bug, run it again and find the new ten bugs over and over again.
But you get to wear a black hoodie and a mask.