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I got the chance at work recently to work solo on a small, greenfield project, where I was fully in control of all the pieces and the problem space was small. I
by GordonS 7y ago
I got the chance at work recently to work solo on a small, greenfield project, where I was fully in control of all the pieces and the problem space was small. I could do it any which way I wanted.
Gods, it was wonderful!
As I've moved up the ladder and worked on complex enterprise systems, with umpteen integrations, overly-strict SAST systems, enforced 90% test coverage and the like, I seldom feel the "joy of code". It was good to feel it again!
- Ididntdothis 7y agoFor a while I worked in video decoding/encoding. That was true engineering. I loved reading up about cache and assembly and then applying this knowledge to our code. It was ok to work on one function for weeks just to get 20% speed up. Now I do enterprise and it’s just horrible. Between dealing with stakeholders and 3rd party systems that barely work there is no room for systematic engineering.
- burntoutfire 7y agoMay I ask why did you move from codecs into enterprise software?
- Ididntdothis 7y agoI was never an expert in video and during 2008 my company went down. The only position I found after a while was doing C#/.NET. Outside Silicon Valley there are not too many hardcore dev roles anyway and in addition I feel a lot of that work is done in Asia now.