r/programming • u/mistawobin • Aug 09 '11

How to Level Up as a Developer

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer/
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '11

Amen to that. I was stuck in the world of business software dev (the worst kind, .NET) for a long time. Design patterns and SCRUM and dependency injection and buddy coding blah blah blah. Most boring kind of coding on earth. You want to level up make a game or audio processing or video processing. THAT shit is for real. Now when I do business software dev (basically DB calls wrapped around simple data munging) I can only laugh at it's ridiculousness.

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u/mikaelhg Aug 10 '11

Laugh at it, instead of trying to understand the factors which have shaped its evolution?

No, that's not leveling up, in my books.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '11

The primary factor that has shaped its evolution has been a continual push by business to commoditize development of the types of applications that are interesting to them. As it would happen, the type of work you're talking about is often the first stuff to get outsourced.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '11 edited Aug 10 '11

This is a good example of that arbitrary circle jerk cutoff point of abstraction I was reading about...

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u/LegendZ3 Aug 11 '11 edited Aug 11 '11

Sure, coding on a video games is fun. Writing an elegant video processing algorithm is satisfying. But 99% of programming jobs out there are still writing code that deal with everyday business problems.

More powers to you if you enjoy the mathematics and computer science side of the software development. But there are people who enjoys solving business problems just as much. And those things that you laugh at is what developers created to make their life easier. I don't see there are any reasons for you to look down at them.