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Re: Do you work a job programming?
« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2011, 04:45:04 pm »
I work 8 hours every weekday as a web developer.  Today, I'm working on making a website better than it's old shitty version.  Check it out: Original / New (WIP)
Nice job on the newer version; it looks a lot better imo.

Luckily, I have a contact in Raven Software where I want to eventually work. I also have a friend who's starting a Creative Concepts company. So I will have a job in programming or at least Game Design/Development overall. As for college I'm thinking Full Sail University.
The company that my friend wants to start will be based on game programming, but I'm torn between that and enterprise software development :\

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Re: Do you work a job programming?
« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2011, 04:54:37 pm »
THe old one doesn't look that bad, but the new one is definitively  much better. I was gonna work as programmer before, but then I realized durign my studies that computer and web programming was just not for me, then I dropped out.
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Re: Do you work a job programming?
« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2011, 05:00:31 pm »
I doubt I'll ever look for a job as a programmer, just like I don't try to sell artwork. I don't want to get paid for something I do as a hobby.
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Re: Do you work a job programming?
« Reply #18 on: July 28, 2011, 05:12:34 pm »
I am just programming as an hobby, and i don't think i'll ever get a job as a programmer. Right now I'm studying science and technology, so i'm also not in the right school to become a programmer.
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Re: Do you work a job programming?
« Reply #19 on: July 28, 2011, 08:59:38 pm »
It's called the Space Center - basically where you go with a bunch of friends, and they put you in a 'ship' (read: computer lab) with a big display screen and a computer or two for everyone, and you do missions and stuff. http://spacecamputah.org Check out this site <- for more info. So yeah. What's MITRE, btw?

This MITRE. Don't confuse with MITR, I don't plan on working in one of those cancer machines.

They lately have been collecting a shitload of Haskell gurus, so I want to hang With some of these guys.  Since my two languages of interest right now are Ruby and Haskell (I'm better in Ruby; I'm still learning haskell's intermediate-advanced to advanced-expert concepts, tricks, etc.) MITRE would be my choice to further my knowledge and experience in Haskell (plus, Haskell has a growing user base after 20 freakin years, it's being used more and more in commercial, industrial, and government applications, so a Haskell programmer is a decent asset; Good ruby programmers are also decently rare compared to thins like Python or PHP programmers, so that also makes me more valuable (plus I know it very well :3) ).

Since pretty much everybody in gaming industries use pretty much just C++ (ew) and c#,  don't really have as much of a chance there, but then again it pays pretty horribly and I dont find it as fun of a "working job" -- I prefer game development more as a hobby type of thing. 
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Re: Do you work a job programming?
« Reply #20 on: July 28, 2011, 09:14:26 pm »
My answer: Somewhat.  As a seasonal associate, I sometimes have to create Microsoft Office macros.

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Re: Do you work a job programming?
« Reply #21 on: July 28, 2011, 09:19:37 pm »
I sort of do. I do a website for a teacher of mine. I am doing sort of what SirCmpwn did for that website, but its gonna look the same. its for a koi club with people in it who would probly not know how to navigate the site if i changed it. I am working on a much lighter version, because the current one was make in a WYSIWYG editor making it very... Bloated.

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Re: Do you work a job programming?
« Reply #22 on: July 28, 2011, 10:42:59 pm »
My last job was making a lunar navigation system interface for astronauts.  For my current job, I'm working at (and helping found) a new startup in augmented reality hyper-local search for mobile phones.  Fun stuff... now you know why my activity has been going downhill for a while :P
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