Daily reminder that programming is a waste of time and a mem

>>56620610
You mean Software Programing is a meme career.

Get on the micro controler train and save your life!

>>56620610
I've lived in Austin for the past 7 years and his description of Silicon Valley as a grey, soul-crushing place that engineers commute to fits this city perfectly.

did you even read the article? it's talking exclusively about silicon valley

Who the fuck dreams of working for Google?

>>56620935
pajeet, normies, and woman

>>56620610
> Daily reminder that programming is a waste of time and a meme career.
How many layers of software some paid person wrote are you using right now without even counting all the communication infrastructure on the way across the internetz?

> You will be disappointed, family.
Shit, you think other careers are more fun? You can work just as much and get paid less.

Try serving shit in a restaurant or cleaning the streets or fucking being that police dude who gets to sit in the entrance of some absolutely pointless to guard building 'cause it is US policy. Never mind working in a single position in a fucking loud and unpleasant factory line or on some stinking freight ship.

Or just watch videos about it. You'll be fucking glad that it's just a soul-sucking boring cubicle job, because at least you get home with a good pay check that lets you have some freedom at some point.

>>56620610
> For seven years, I lived in a permanent bubble. I was surrounded by people whose minds were occupied 24 hours a day by some new app they were designing or building, or gossip about certain “hot” company going public.

Sound like absolute geeks with no life and probably 40 year old virgins

Anyway, silicon valley sounds like the most terrible place to live on earth.

>>56621032
>being this baited

>just start a business and move to thailand bro

>>56620610
yea brah just learn how to hustle and u will be a millionaire EZ

>>56621168
Most places outside your life experience are. I can tell you living in the Valley for 15 years has been quite nice. But then again pulling good income plus having a spouse who does too helps a lot.

>>56620610
The link says that working in the valley makes you a corporate drone, instead of letting you live life and develop business skills.

I'm on my fourth year in the Valley, and I'd agree. I wouldn't say that's necessarily bad though.

I don't want to start a business, interact with clients or manage projects. I just want to work on interesting problems.

>almost everyone is the first world owns a computer (or two)
>more own electronics in general
>more businesses going digital
>"software is a dead end guise"

>>56621370
What do you do with your money?

It's a highly sought after career with a relatively high pay.

Do what will make you happy, anons.

>>56620962
This is exactly why Google is quickly turning to shite and everyone on the know should avoid their services.

No, it's not because it has women and indians working there. It's because of the ideologies being pushed there that led to it and will continue to deteriorate the internet.

I really really wish I could post here without using recaptcha but unfortunately it's not possible.

News flash, jobs fucking suck. That's why they have to pay you to do it.

>>56620610
Oh look, it's another one of those "don't listen to those guys, listen to meeee! I'm cool!" guys.

>>56621527

Nothing, I don't have time to spend it.

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>>56621307
>>56621600
>this much denial

Found the codecucks. Enjoy looking like a nu-male in a few years.

>>56621564
What ideologies are the, pray tell?

>>56620610
thanks for the post, animeNEET.

>>56621567

Yeah, but they have a real benefit to them too: you can't lose money on them. You don't have to take risks. You go to work, you get paid, you go home and fuck your wife, play vidya with the kids, and you never have to worry "what if the business fails". Worst case scenario, you find a new job.

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In general I like software development, I've been doing it a few years now, but I do have some issues with it as well. This guy has kind of silly complaints about "not changing the world," I think these are actual issues you might have.

1. Jobs are clustered in cities. This is true for most jobs but it seems especially true in software development. Other fields like medicine, law, your trades, education, agriculture, etc. are needed in small towns. Software development isn't "needed" in small towns, at all. So most companies choose to locate in big cities, that's where most people live and that's where the talent is clustered. I just don't like living in the city.

On the other hand, this is one of very few jobs that you can do completely remote, if you find that sort of position.

2. Experience is valued a tremendous amount. There's definitely an aversion to hiring junior devs even when you factor in the pay difference. I kind of lucked out and found a good place without too much difficulty, but that's not the case for everyone.

3. I think this is probably the most rapidly changing field you can possibly work in. You have to work to keep up with trends, you have to stay informed, more so than any other line of work probably. You have to be comfortable with constant change.

4. Sitting down in the same place ~40 hours a week becomes draining. You really have to put forth an effort to get movement in every day and you have to work in a place that gives you breaks or you will go nuts. Again, I lucked out, but you read horror stories.

In the end it's a job, it's one of the better jobs you can have, but you have to have realistic expectations. If you really want to work with computers at this level you will find a way through the minefields.

>>56621418
good goyim

>>56622220
best comment in thread. 100% agree. in a similar situation

>>56622220
Thanks. I can relate to (2) and (4).

I moved away from CS and software development because living in a city sounds fucking horrible.

>>56620878

Can you elaborate? I'm interested in what's happening to Austin

Yeah who cares about working a job, just follow your dreams of going to Peru with nothing but the clothes on your back and starting a llama farm!

This is the most fucking stuck up post I've ever read in a while.

>>56621564
>it's not possible

For free it isn't.

https://www.4chan.org/pass

>>56620962

I know the "pajeet" thing is satire and all, but it stopped being funny a while ago. Now it's just racist. You can stop already.

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>>56623512

> Seven years anywhere in memeca

> police shoot 13yo black kid with pellet gun
> cant tell the difference

Why don't you just arm your police with pellet guns, they wouldn't even notice if they weren't firing them off like rag-heads

> Spying on everything
> Starts wars with our neighbors

> Still isn't relevant

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>>56620610
whatever man just give me my good pay

>>56623061
Nothing at all is happening in Austin. Much like how the guy describes Silicon Valley in that article, Austin has this sort of mythical allure that has been perpetuated by a vocal minority who romanticize this city as a sort of hipster Shangri La, where you can arrive on a greyhound with nothing but the clothes on your back and instantly land a comfy job writing cool apps while working on a career in music or art on the side.

There's nothing here, dude. This place is a mosquito-infested ghetto with crumbling infrastructure. None of the engineers actually live here either, since anyone who could afford to commute peaced the fuck out to the suburbs a few decades ago. The only people who live in the city proper are boomers, illegals, and hipsters who have convinced themselves that they love it here.

We do have some kickass Chinese food though.

>>56624569

Huh, I used to live in Austin growing up and really liked it there. I've heard of Austin being flooded with people from cali who are looking for lower property taxes and whatnot, but I didn't know that the economy was that dead.

Where would you recommend I live when I get out of college for comp sci? Are there any good cities left?

>>56620610
>I spent 7 years as a low level programmer and I didn't change the world!

What the fuck was this guy expecting?

> "I'm not going to live long enough to be briefed on everything" was how one Super User put it. The other recounted that for his initial briefing, he was escorted into a tiny, dark room, seated at a small table and told he couldn't take notes. Program after program began flashing on a screen, he said, until he yelled ''Stop!" in frustration. "I wasn't remembering any of it," he said.

> Twenty-four organizations were created by the end of 2001, including the Office of Homeland Security and the Foreign Terrorist Asset Tracking Task Force. In 2002, 37 more were created to track weapons of mass destruction, collect threat tips and coordinate the new focus on counterterrorism. That was followed the next year by 36 new organizations; and 26 after that; and 31 more; and 32 more; and 20 or more each in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

- http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/1

> Among the most important people inside the SCIFs are the low-paid employees carrying their lunches to work to save money. They are the analysts, the 20- and 30-year-olds making $41,000 to $65,000 a year, whose job is at the core of everything Top Secret America tries to do.

There's plenty of jobs spying on the significant 93.4% of the world's landmass

>>56624621
I'm willing to concede that Austin would probably be the lesser of two evils when compared to SV. Honestly, having a place out in the burbs wouldn't be that bad. There have been some nice tract houses going up out there in the last few years.

Also, all that talk about Califags shitting the place up is so fucking true holy shit. Around 2009 is when we started seeing them, middle-aged hippies and crackheads arriving by the thousands, loitering everywhere and lighting up in family restaurants and shit. Haven't seen too many of them around lately; I heard a lot of them fucked off to Denver when weed was legalized there a few years back.

Programming isn't that bad but it's not that good either. It's just a dull trade, nothing more. It's just like working as a secretary or human resources or data entry or any other dumb job where you sit down and do what other people say for 8 hours.

>California sucks
who'd thunk?

>This guys having his midlife crisis

>I don't need big companies, I'll create my own innovative start up!
which is just going to either be purchased by a big company or become a big company or die

>>56623512
Don't you have tech support tickets you should be answering?

>>56624881
Snowden was pulling in 200k with a community college education. Seems like these spooks are just a bunch of suckers getting paid 65k and under.

>>56625007
This is only true if you're a junior or bad programmer.

git gud

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So he literally wrote this article so dumb college kids would give him money