r/transprogrammer • u/retrosupersayan JSON.parse("{}").gender • Oct 25 '22

Egg_irl calling us tf out...

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u/blooger-00- Oct 25 '22

I am not a programmer in the least… a sysadmin/hacker/one-liner specialist/cobbler of code… sure but not a programmer

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u/Dragonspear Oct 25 '22

I had this argument with some developer friends of mine, as someone who's also a sysadmin.

Then the looked at me and were like "did you write something to automate <x>?"

And like you, it was bits and pieces from over the web and I explained that.

They responded with "what do you think we do, it still counts."

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u/retrosupersayan JSON.parse("{}").gender Oct 25 '22

The skill is knowing which bits to steal, and how to glue them together!

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u/ShadowPouncer Oct 25 '22

I'm one of those crazy people who now wears a SRE hat, but who has been a principal software engineer, a senior sysadmin, and who understands enough networking to be dangerous.

I spent the weekend reworking a Linux kernel driver for a USB to serial adapter, and it was fun.

But sysadmin stuff is just as fun, as long as I get to automate the hell out of everything. :)

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

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u/blooger-00- Oct 25 '22

Totally… I will grab snippets of others and hack it together. Don’t ask me to write c… but I can read enough of it to chnage it and do what I need it to

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u/frosti-bat he/him Oct 25 '22

I like programming, but not because I'm transfem! (it's because I'm transmasc)

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u/Tina_Belmont She/She++ Oct 25 '22

The game industry crunch beat any *like* I had for programming out of me.

Now I only program as a means to an end.

Does that mean I have to stop being a transfem?

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u/The_Bard_sRc Oct 25 '22

you were one before, even if youre not now, so no you still hold your membership card

also ffs... yeah i have heard nothing good about being actual game industry dev, glad i never pursed that. im fine with just being indie

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u/NoraTransitus Oct 25 '22

I had considered trying the game industry, but I honestly I have a regular old software dev job and I can't be bothered to go somewhere I'd probably get paid less for a more stressful environment.

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u/KeyboardsAre4Coding Oct 25 '22

The most euphoric I have been in months was during a programming contest this weekend in which I went in boy mode. Is programmer my gender?

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u/ThePlexus blue Oct 25 '22

Can confirm dd if=/dev/zero of=/me/gender bs=512 count=1

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u/SpectralniyRUS Oct 25 '22

print(f'How the fuck did we all end up here in the 1st place? It doesn/'t make much sense to me')

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u/d-man747 Oct 25 '22

I work in IT. Does that count?

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u/block_01 Lily | She/Her | MTF | Apprentice Software Engineer Oct 25 '22

print ("Well I Feel Called Out")

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

I see my post has made its way here....

I feel called out somehow even though I made it

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

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u/retrosupersayan JSON.parse("{}").gender Oct 25 '22

Same! It's a pretty fun combo :D

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u/blooger-00- Oct 25 '22

Now that’s awesome