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Over 40 years of programming here, and I'm back in my prime again. Started out in BASIC on ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro/Electron. The toughest programming I did
by qingcharles 3y ago
Over 40 years of programming here, and I'm back in my prime again.
Started out in BASIC on ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro/Electron.
The toughest programming I did was writing a full texture-mapped, shaded 3D engine in x86 from scratch, aged about 12.
(I pasted my 12-year-old code into this commercial video game, although I think the texture-mapping here I replaced with Direct3D's much slower software renderer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2kdKB18c7I&t=332s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2kdKB18c7I&t=332s )
The best paid was modifying some existing source for a torrent site that brought in ~$13m.
Funny moment: putting a language I didn't know on my resume, getting hired from it on a Friday and starting on a Monday as lead developer :D (crazy weekend)
My favorite language of all time was VB.NET, but that's not worth pursuing any longer.
Right now I'm mostly writing hardcore ASP.NET in C#, running on Linux.
- bojan 3y agoI have to ask, sorry - what is it precisely that makes it hardcore?
- geraldhh 3y agoprobably the use of implicit behavior and subtle conventions
- qingcharles 3y agoIt's using every single damned feature in the thing, plus doing a bunch of stuff that has never been done with the templating system.
- pdimitar 3y ago> The best paid was modifying some existing source for a torrent site that brought in ~$13m. ...Wow. How does one even find such a gig?
- swader999 3y agoI'm not sure how to read that, did the site or did they bring in 13m?
- pdimitar 3y agoI read it as the site profiting as much, not him, but I'm still pretty curious how does one even find a gig like that.
- qingcharles 3y agoThe site brought in $13m for all of us. https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/ https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-cal...