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Too true. The "teenager who likes to play a lot of video games and therefore enrolls in a compsci undergrad program" is an extremely common pipeline. Not too m
by missedthecue 6y ago
Too true. The "teenager who likes to play a lot of video games and therefore enrolls in a compsci undergrad program" is an extremely common pipeline.
Not too many teens choose a career in programming because they want to build a robust framework that allows construction of large-scale analytical queries on unstructured data.
- merpnderp 6y agoYeah, writing boring HR software pays a whole lot better than game programming because one brings you joy and the other makes you a nihilist.
- atombum 6y agoBased on what I've read about working in the games industry, joy is fleeting between ridiculous crunches, which seem to be nearly ubiquitous.
- souprock 6y agoIMHO, neither is the most interesting work. There are some really interesting jobs writing software for machines with life-and-death consequences. Imagine knowing that your software is implanted in a human, or that we rely on it to prevent a huge pipeline from exploding.