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I just developed a ridiculously well performing graphics driver for the ESP32 that just blows the doors off of Adafruit's but uses ESP32 specific hardware SPI acceleration features.
And I did it in a couple of days, going from knowing nothing about the display device and little about the raw API for doing SPI over the ESP32 to doing fully asynchronous I/O over the thing.
And for the most part, my code ran when compiled, even after all the bit twiddling and low level calls and pointer ops. I only segfaulted a couple of times and both were for reasons that effectively amounted to a typo.
I'm on fire. Gosh I love being back in the swing of things. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Keep on swingin'
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Quote: Boys keep swinging
Boys always work it out
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honey the codewitch wrote: Gosh I love being back in the swing of things.
Wholeheartedly agree. Just graduated this week (yea, I'm late to the party). Felt good to have the time to finish up an article after so long even if it's a pretty niche one 
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If you steal someone's coffee is that a mugging?
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Not if it's a demitasse; then it would be a Midnight Espresso.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I've bean thinking about that and it nearly brew my mind. It mad a mocha-ry out of my reasoning so I'll just latte it go for now.
Is the mugger cupalbe for the crime?
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and would they be a caffeined?
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First they are led away with decaf's on them and then they are caffeine'd to a cell.
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Dunno, I never steal coffee; too dangerous, they call anything a coffee nowadays. Could be a machiatto with saybeans and extra cream. Could be a vanilla latte with brown sugar. A frappucini with unicorn sprinkles.
If I want coffee I play safe and get a plain coffee.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Denis Leary on Coffee[^]
As with all things Dennis Leary related, it should be assumed it's NSFW due to swearing ... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: As with all things Dennis Leary related, it should be assumed it's NSFW due to swearing ...
Very recognizable internal dialogue, even with the "pull your pants up".
"NSFW" has a very low threshold there? The only ones who don't encounter such things are politicians, because they have to be PC (and don't work).
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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DL tends not to be SFW, but it's been a while since I listened to that particular monolog - so I erred on the side of caution!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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As George Carlin is?
You may have saved a future politician reading this thread, because they need be spotless.
I ain't, and those are learning moments. But boy, did I meet a lot of "NSFW" @work
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Bingewatching now, good call.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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If you steal my coffee - the angels will weep for you! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Yes, my first reaction.
Then I read again.
"If you steal coffee"
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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If you steal my wife's coffee, you're probably signing your own death sentence.
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Here I am again. I don't know if you remember me, but it's me who is always complaying about my CS degree. In the beginning my courses were challanging and I even wrote about it here, but I was working hard and systematically and I came to a point where my classes started to feel like there were going in slow motion, they became more worthless and worthless. I stopped to go to lectures because they are just waste of my time. We are taught obvious things that anyone can learn in five minutes for a almost a half year. In one week I can finish 800-pages programming book or complete two 8-hour tutorials or more while the teachers still show us how to draw an UML-diagram.
I thought I could force myself to keep going, but after I started my first group assignment I said to myself: "Enough is enough". I ended up in a group of people who are totaly not intrested in porgramming and have zero knowledge about it. And I'm not talking about writing bad code. No, they can't code at all. If you show them maybe they do, but they do it as if a nazi forced them to do it and they just write some code that doesn't even work, only to get rid of me. They have better grades than me but It's me who has to teach them and explain to them the basics of programming that we had exams of. I don't even know how they came so far. I guess they copied and pasted the code or asked someone to do it for them - because they are con artists for sure.
So my question is: What does my degree exactly proving? I learned everything by myself. This school didn't teach me anything - the same goes for my classamtes who can program, they already could do it before they got into this circus for college and the rest of my classmates are just lazy con artists who will take their degree thank's to group assignments which are usually done by one hard working, programming intrested and passionate slave. Because if you ask me I would never ever employ half of my classmates. I don't even know if they can define a variable. They act like if they were kidnapped by aliens, went through medical experiments and than after a month were released still uncoscious and forcly put behind a computer monitor at some university and here they are and they have no clue why they are there and what happens.
If you ask me I don't really care as long as they dont waste my time and sabotaging me. But they do. I have to sit together with them and waste hours after hours listnening to them talking none programming related stuff and pretend I can't program because I have to be "good teamplayer" and wait one month for them to write and "int" and another month to write variable name and another month to define it . I'm bored to death I could use those hours to learn another programming language, do my own projects... work as a freelancer and make money. I feel that I don't need my degree at all. It's just wasting my money and time and stopping me from actually learning my profession and progress. Because I can't evolve in this environment. Now I'm filling up my portfolio and I will soon look for a job, and if I get it, I don't know if I want to torture myself and come back to my college. What do you think? If I get a job, do I have to worry about not having a degree or do I have to keep wasting my money and time just for this useless paper?
PS: I know that I will not always prorgam that much at my work and I still have to put up with lazy co-workers and waste time at the meetings but at least I get money for that and I can pay off my loan.
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The main reason for getting a degree is that some employers won't hire you without one. But this seems to be getting less and less so. And as you're finding, many degrees are now way overpriced, not to mention that many universities drag in nonsense that has nothing to do with your subject. Even some companies do that now. But if you can find a job that you think would be make you happy, I'd say go for it.
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Greg Utas wrote: The main reason for getting a degree is that some employers won't hire you without one.
As an acquaintance of mine has put it: "A college degree is a modern white collar union card. It's neither a necessary nor sufficient condition to prove you can do the job; but just like in great-grandpa's day without ex a plumbers union card there were a lot of job sites you won't even get a chance to talk to the hiring manager without one."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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In the past year or so, I ran into an uptick of jobs require the degree. I don't have one so was passed over. The degree is pretty much useless on what you will be doing.
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The degree shows that you can take a hard task and stick with it for several years. Once you're a senior dev, your resume should be able to do that (assuming you're not a serial job-hopper or keep picking bum companies and get downsized over and over again); but the bigger the company the more likely HR is an immovable object without a brain.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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That sounds good. But is not always the case. I have 20 + years of Senior Dev experience. I have ran into a number of companies that would even talk to me without a degree even with a Secret Clearance and creating a project from scratch that is still in the market. Fortunately not all, I just landed a job as a Lead Dev. Many companies HR is really IR (Inhuman Relations). It is HR that in many times make the degree mandatory. The could
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Member 14971499 wrote:
So my question is: What does my degree exactly proving?
That you are capable of starting AND FINISHING what you started. That, not the degree itself, says lots about an employee.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Yeah, see it through, even if it wrecks you! Lets go for another Phyrric victory!
David Crow wrote: That, not the degree itself, says lots about an employee.
Yes, that he learned to shut up. That's why I don't have a degree 
If you looking for someone who pleases you, then I'm not it. And nice enough, my first job, one of the question interviews was wether I could hold my ground if I knew I was right. Question was asked by my boss-to-become, and he imposing and been in the military. He also made it very clear that he would not accept weeks of whining about decisions made
Arguments were short, factual and to the point.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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