joshlegs

so what you're saying is no matter how the healthcare system is designed, the healthy (or maybe just wealthy?) always end up paying for the rest?

> In fact, physicians are so bummed out that 9 out of 10 doctors would discourage anyone from entering the profession.

OP missed a perfect headline opportunity: "9 out of 10 doctors recommend not becoming a doctor."

But seriously, we wonder what's wrong with healthcare. I seriously believe it's because of the lawsuit-happy nature of patients nowadays. Yeah, something could go wrong during your surgery, or your diagnosis for that matter. But that's an inherent risk in having something wrong with you that you need checked out.

from what I've seen, the term 'devops' is generally used to pay a developer less than you would otherwise while getting more from them. I'm not sure how the math of that works out, but based on what I've seen, that's what happens.

These are some pretty good points. I got lucky in a few ways, but i'll tell my story. I was a journalist for five years, but had always written code for fun. I ended up becoming friends with a former programmer for a large software company who had recently started his own consulting shop. I showed promise as a developer, plus I had other skills that they could use. It was only a 3 person shop at that point, but they were able to find several smaller contracts that I could take on, while also having me help on larger contracts in Rails. I kept at it (and have been at it for about 18 months now). I feel like i'm just now coming into my own, so to speak. i know a popular framework relatively well at this point, and while I don't know all the nuances of several basic web technolgoies yet, I'm still studying them (also, you never stop learning even if you're an expert).

the bottom line is that I found a place that would nurture me as a developer because I had promise (probably like you, if you do it for fun), and I had other skills that they could simultaneously use. By putting my understanding of journalism/communication/marketing to use, I was able to bring in some really nice contracts, and now I'm working on a popular social networking application in Django.

So, I guess what I'd say to OP is to find all your strong points, find places that those skills are also relevant at, and "dual-class" so to speak (if we're going the RPG route here). This way you are leveraging your abilities three different ways: past experience, future promise, and current strengths.

oh: and one thing i forgot to mention. HANG OUT IN IRC, a lot. The people there are incredibly knowledgeable and can often help out or give you advice really quickly

i dont even know if all that made sense. but hopefully it helps some

.... did .... did you crosspost this from reddit ???

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22nhb2/six_prog...

Oh, god I do these exact same things. Also don't have a formal computer science education (went with journalism). While I'm confident in my abilities and knowledge, I always hedge because I'm 99% sure that I can't be 100% sure on anything.

Trying to figure out the right balance between deference and confidence is hard

>Ignorance and ability are not as correlated as people like to think they are.

thank god there are people who understand that. It's amazing to me the number of people who equate the two. Equally ridiculous is the tendency of programmers to spew advice such as "Read the fucking wiki (or documentation)". That really doesnt help newbs who are just barely figuring out the right way to Google things. The thing about being able to find some instructions on how to do X is that it's predicated on actually knowing that instructions are out there somewhere.

boycotts are fine. the problem is that people are taking personal issues and making them into corporate issues, and that's what is not OK.

a person's private life and professional life are SEPARATE. You shouldn't punish Mozilla employees for things the person at the helm does IN HIS PRIVATE LIFE

because respecting someone's beliefs == respecting that person. you can think the the beliefs are stupid, but you can still respect them.

I really think that people need to understand the difference in personal and professional life. In fact, the tendency to make the two collide is one of the biggest problems with this whole stinking country. People have personal lives, and they have professional lives, and others really don't need to go about trying to confuse the two.

takes electricity to get it there, though

I would guess the other commenters are jealous that their problem solving skills don't get as much attention. "No, this kid was WRONG!!!" is a way to justify that they are better thinkers, and therefore relevant. In a day and age when everyone has to justify their own existence, I suppose it's not that surprising really.

but what if you're one of those devs who likes to work naked ?

i think this is actually part of the business model a few newspapers are trying to take on. More of a 'gently encourage' people to buy subscriptions rather than a hard and fast 'Brick Wall' paywall. From what I hear, it's working pretty well.

I think you have a lot of good points. Let me just point out that aggressiveness in management is present IN EVERY INDUSTRY KNOWN TO MAN. I faced it pretty hard in the news business. Just because your boss is aggressive, and he's a man, AND you're a woman, doesnt mean shit for evidencing sexist behavior. People need to realize that aggressive management != sexism.

I'm so fucking tired of this so-called "more opportunities to succeed" thing i keep hearing about. such a load of crap. you make your own opportunities. Period. That's been true of my life and everyone i know.

I was totally hoping this was a cool browser game

What? Why is this posted here? (maybe for people hoping to promote their business on tv news? As a former reporter, i'd advise anybody hoping to do so against hoping to do so. it's a real shot in the dark as to whether youd get tv -- or newsprint -- time for your business. some news outlets have business segments or sections, but they can be really hard to get into too, especially for technology companies)

I read this as "What the terminal will look like in the year 2048."

I was clearly wrong in my interpretation

That post really irks me. Granted, S.O. encourages you to answer your own question, but this guy would have been much better served by a blog post. A Q&A is not the appropriate format for him to ask a question when he has no need for an answer. Seriously, blog it, dude.

I'm pretty sure one of my high school friends is an engineer at that compnay. He lives in boston and told me he's working on batteries for a company backed by Bill Gates. That's pretty awesome

hey can i join the channel? what's the pw? .....

idk what you're working on, but i'm currently working on a ~100mb app. It's pretty big, and i've never had anything like what you're talking about. are you sure it's not hardware related?

can you cuss in their irc room? That's always the litmus for me.

really have to agree with you. why would you ever spend time writing some functionality that someone else already has, unless what's out there is just total shite.

Sweet. Now that we have professional athletes advocating that people learn how to code, it completely validates programmers everywhere ....

You get 10 points for describing my last managing editor. he was the most incompetent worker i've ever met. The news editor was second most.

So I got to speak with Bob Goodlatte a few times before. I generally considered him a generic shmuck, but this legislation is pretty impressive. Kudos, Bobby.

And, the point of putting this here was ?

it was good on my laptop too, but annoying. some things can be too fancy