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I feel like the invasive advertising & misleading brands on offer from "cloud" technology companies completely obscure what my life is really like. The "corporations = people" mentality is freaking awful for a goofy person who's trying to avoid coming off as too businesslike.

I tell my friends all the time that tech isn't all it's cracked up to be. I had to give up more or less my entire life to get enough homework done to get my job. Perhaps my friends understand as much but my family certainly doesn't. I've learned to expect everyone resenting my opinions on these things.

There is no cloud. It's just a blob.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

You sound like a pretty social person, cberg.

Is programming fulfilling you?

It can but it's not likely to do so today. Normally I'm actually an engineering software QA tester, today though I must rewrite some Python. Or not. I prefer hacking & scripting to programming in most cases. I don't really write much code, I'm more into what it all does.

I left the office in order to run some errands & I'm not sure I'll do anything more. I need to take an actual break before I'm honestly prepared.

Who am I kidding? I need more time around people who know me before I'm actually ready for anything at all. My ability as a coder is limited by my ability to relax (or not).

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Well at least I got drunk about this on a Thursday.

_________________
"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Hypervigilance, for lack of a better guess. The stress keeps me on my toes, which in itself is familiar. I've had far more stressful jobs before so there's something of a dangerous precondition.

Part of all these technical disciplines for me is expecting myself to absorb all the necessary info before I even realize I'm done studying. I'm trying to avoid applying my absurd standards to loved ones.

_________________
"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

It was quite surprising to me to find out how there so many people out there who have no clue nor the least idea what a programmer/developer does, nor about software development, maybe because I always knew what it is even way before my career shift to serious programming.

Concrete example of a chat:
-What do you do?
- I am a programmer
- What does this mean?
- Programmer... I develop applications, software.
- Like how?
- You see all these apps on your phone, even the websites you browse? It’s the programmers who create them.
-Ohh I see.

They probably think it’s the devise that makes the apps, I dunno.

Everyone understands what doctors do, even those who have no idea about biology, but for some reason Programmers are unknown soliders. The society overall doesn’t appreciate them much, they are just a bunch of “geeks”, despite their creations are part of everyone’s daily life.

Programming is more abstract than doctoring.....that's why people understand "doctoring" better than "programming."

That, too.

Medicine has been around for millennia and is a regular part of traditional life. That's why there's such a thing as folk medicine but not folk programming.

Sure we have that! It's called hacking.

_________________
"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos