Ocerge

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by Ocerge 26d ago
I have a CS degree and have been a SWE for 13 years but never really developed a love of coding or software in general, I just happened to learn it and be pretty good at it in 2008. But even I have lost a bit of my identity, having one of
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by Ocerge 29d ago
Of course, I just assume the responsibility for the output. I read everything and make changes all the time before I submit, but it saves me so much time source diving and finding entry points that I don't see myself ever going back.
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by Ocerge 2mo ago
I play Pro Drums mode on Rock Band 4 on my Roland kit. It's like...85% like real drums, which is close enough to when I just want to play along to something and turn my brain off. I'm probably top 100 or so and have been playing
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by Ocerge 3mo ago
My network has gotten me every job over the past 10 years, and probably will get me the rest of the jobs I'll ever have. I am fortunate to have gotten into the industry when I did (2013), if I didn't have time to build a network
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by Ocerge 3mo ago
I am when I have a deadline and tangible work to do. If I don't, I am incredibly lazy and have pretty bad executive function issues. Right now I have some pressing tangible work to do, so I've pulled 50+ hour weeks for about a mo
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by Ocerge 6mo ago
I turned off recommendations to try to reign in my screen time a bit and it's worked tremendously. My feed is exactly what I asked for, if I don't see a video worth my time then I close the app. It's better than ever in my
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by Ocerge 6mo ago
This has been my thought all along, not sure why I don't see it more. I'm not scared about being left behind, none of the tooling looks crazy enough that a few weeks of dedicated learning wouldn't catch me up.
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by Ocerge 6mo ago
You will run into thundering herd/hotspotting/pre-warmed caching issues when you have to restart. There's generally not an easy to way to switch these sorts of systems on and off, especially a relatively new system that isn&
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by Ocerge 8mo ago
I am employed (which, fair or unfair, seems to always look better to recruiters) but opportunistic. So far I have interviewed 3 times in the past year, every single one being a referral. It's definitely advantageous to have experienc
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by Ocerge 8mo ago
I work for a large video game company. I believe in escapism, it got me into computers as a child and ultimately into my career. I specifically left B2B big tech work and took a paycut just to sleep better at night. I find it difficult t
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by Ocerge 9mo ago
I've already been working at it for a few weeks now, but I want to swallow my pride and stay up-to-date on interview skills (thankfully I'm safely employed but want to make sure I'm prepared if I need to be.) I do 2-3 leetco
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by Ocerge 9mo ago
Medicine, ideally Oncology. I only made that realization as an adult though.
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by Ocerge 10mo ago
I did _exactly_ this 3 days ago after I hit a random keyboard chord on accident and brought up CoPilot (which I don't recall installing). I had held on to Windows for gaming just because I didn't want to fuss with Linux, but it w
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by Ocerge 10mo ago
I know the remote aspect is important to you, but having done this exact switch (general backend services dev -> backend dev for a big game company) this requirement is almost certainly going to hold you back. The field is bleeding jobs
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by Ocerge 10mo ago
I don't understand why you're being downvoted, you're not wrong. I think Suno being successful bums me out, I really hate it, but people that are not me love it. I can't do anything about that.
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by Ocerge 10mo ago
My knee-jerk reaction is "No" if your goal is an easy-mode career that will give you a high salary right out of college, I think that dream is (largely) dead. If you really do love CS/related fields, I think there is plenty
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by Ocerge 10mo ago
I have 13 years of experience and a Senior title, but I'm not sure if that means much. Really I have just worked on web-related problems for the last 10 years (first 2 were LinuxRT USB drivers, which I think more and more fondly of th
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by Ocerge 11mo ago
My team ships with a multi-hour CI pipeline that works 50% of the time and effectively zero local development. It's awful in almost every way developer experience-wise, but rock bottom is deeper than you think!
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by Ocerge 1y ago
This is awesome. It also brought back some anxiety from >10 years ago in college that reminds me that computer graphics and my brain do not agree whatsoever.
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by Ocerge 1y ago
Golf. I understand the image it has, and it's somewhat well-deserved, but the munis are teeming with fascinating people from all walks of life. I've made more friends in the past 5 years since I picked the game up than I did in
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by Ocerge 1y ago
In my experience: definitely not, still plenty of the same leetcode tech screens I've seen over the past decade. But I could see more in-person interviews + white boarding coming soon, it's the only surefire way to keep people fr
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by Ocerge 1y ago
Credible in terms of respected by people who want to pay you money for work: yes, absolutely. The reality is a random person who watches too much youtube who thinks college is useless now (not saying this is you OP but it's a real sub
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by Ocerge 1y ago
Well I suppose in my current position there isn't much that is cognitively heavy, it's just...a slog. In previous jobs I had a bit more financial motivation when I worked on difficult things, but I made a change last year to migr
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by Ocerge 1y ago
In terms of depending on anybody (I don't have an entrepreneurial bone in my body).
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by Ocerge 1y ago
Depends on the adversity. If it's slogging through the work week (which is my main adversity these days): My toxic tendency to remain completely independent is about all that motivates me to work. I don't have any real motivatio
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by Ocerge 1y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, we in the US are certainly not special in that regard.
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by Ocerge 1y ago
I wish I hadn't worked 2 jobs while getting my CS degree. I have lots of acquaintences and friends in my mid-30s, but no friends from college or earlier. I have a lot of memories that I can't really share with anybody who was al
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by Ocerge 1y ago
Making friends at work over the past 10 years. I know HN loves (in general, anyway) the transactional nature of work done as remotely as possible, but the more human side of work has benefited me in spades moreso than any technical work.
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by Ocerge 2y ago
YMMV, but I've noticed an uptick in recruiter messages, probably get 2-3 a week since the new year. But I have no idea about the market as a whole, and I'm sure it's still terrible for new grads.
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by Ocerge 2y ago
I think the negative spin of the title is indicative of what you ultimately need to do: try not to be above corporate beaurocracy and red tape, or do your own thing where you control what the process is like.

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