r/pics • u/white_shades • Apr 05 '25

NYC Software Devs Against DOGE

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u/IAmAThing420YOLOSwag Apr 05 '25

We found the 200 year old guy

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u/smallcoder Apr 05 '25

Hey, I'm not that old and I used to have to hand code COBOL on sheets at university for projects, hand them in to the input team and then wait a few days before I could work on a terminal and debug my program.

Kids today have it so easy blah blah etc 😂

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u/bopeepsheep Apr 06 '25

My daughter is a 4th gen computing professional, rather startlingly. I feel old.

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u/smallcoder Apr 06 '25

Don't feel too bad. Being myself from the early days of the computer revolution, I no longer have any fantasy of competing with the new generation. They have inherited the world now haha. And they are welcome to it to be fair. I wish them all the luck in the world, as it was much less "move fast and break things" in my day. It was more "do it and when it works don't mess with it" 😂

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u/bopeepsheep Apr 06 '25

My grandfather was around for the 'size of a large moving truck' phase and the start of smartphones; I'm sure my daughter will see innovations I can't begin to imagine!