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RE: Is coding your hobby, or your career? #11
(07-21-2018, 09:15 AM)Percent Wrote:
(07-21-2018, 08:08 AM)reGEN Wrote: Right now it's a hobby and I wouldn't mind doing it for a job. I just don't want it to be the main focus of my career, I don't want to be a "programmer".

There are many people who love programming, but when they get a career out of it, they absolutely hate it. I think that it is because when you program as your hobby, you can create whatever you want, and at your own pace; when you program for your job, you are creating whatever your boss tells you to create and there might be a deadline involved.

Yeah, I feel the same way for school. But programming isn't a thing that I feel like I can get enjoyment out of doing because it feels more like a tool to me, like you don't necessarily "enjoy" using a hammer but it's something that you just simply use if I'm making any sense at all.

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RE: Is coding your hobby, or your career? #12
(07-21-2018, 09:34 AM)reGEN Wrote:
(07-21-2018, 09:15 AM)Percent Wrote:
(07-21-2018, 08:08 AM)reGEN Wrote: Right now it's a hobby and I wouldn't mind doing it for a job. I just don't want it to be the main focus of my career, I don't want to be a "programmer".

There are many people who love programming, but when they get a career out of it, they absolutely hate it. I think that it is because when you program as your hobby, you can create whatever you want, and at your own pace; when you program for your job, you are creating whatever your boss tells you to create and there might be a deadline involved.

Yeah, I feel the same way for school. But programming isn't a thing that I feel like I can get enjoyment out of doing because it feels more like a tool to me, like you don't necessarily "enjoy" using a hammer but it's something that you just simply use if I'm making any sense at all.

I totally understand what you mean. What do you use programming for, anyway?

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RE: Is coding your hobby, or your career? #13
(07-21-2018, 09:36 AM)Percent Wrote:
(07-21-2018, 09:34 AM)reGEN Wrote:
(07-21-2018, 09:15 AM)Percent Wrote: There are many people who love programming, but when they get a career out of it, they absolutely hate it. I think that it is because when you program as your hobby, you can create whatever you want, and at your own pace; when you program for your job, you are creating whatever your boss tells you to create and there might be a deadline involved.

Yeah, I feel the same way for school. But programming isn't a thing that I feel like I can get enjoyment out of doing because it feels more like a tool to me, like you don't necessarily "enjoy" using a hammer but it's something that you just simply use if I'm making any sense at all.

I totally understand what you mean. What do you use programming for, anyway?

Most of what I do is research Windows internals and then I come up with a proof-of-concept development project that involves aspects of cyber security in some way.

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RE: Is coding your hobby, or your career? #14
(07-21-2018, 09:16 AM)Percent Wrote:
(07-21-2018, 08:23 AM)mothered Wrote: Not only coding, but everything pertaining to computing Is my hobby.

I've yet to attend a single minute of schooling In any facet of IT.

If it's any of my business, do you make any money out of your computing skills?  Smile

It's a fair and open question.

No, It's only a hobby that I'm very passionate about. When I wake up of a morning and cannot wait to perform my computing tasks, I know It's right for me. On the other hand, If It was tedious and something that "I have to do" and opposed to "want to do", then that speaks for Itself.
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RE: Is coding your hobby, or your career? #15
(07-21-2018, 09:43 AM)reGEN Wrote:
(07-21-2018, 09:36 AM)Percent Wrote:
(07-21-2018, 09:34 AM)reGEN Wrote: Yeah, I feel the same way for school. But programming isn't a thing that I feel like I can get enjoyment out of doing because it feels more like a tool to me, like you don't necessarily "enjoy" using a hammer but it's something that you just simply use if I'm making any sense at all.

I totally understand what you mean. What do you use programming for, anyway?

Most of what I do is research Windows internals and then I come up with a proof-of-concept development project that involves aspects of cyber security in some way.

Interesting. I have a goal to make my own very tiny operating system, and I am looking at the FreeBSD and the Linux kernel source code for some insight.

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RE: Is coding your hobby, or your career? #16
(07-21-2018, 09:47 AM)Percent Wrote:
(07-21-2018, 09:43 AM)reGEN Wrote:
(07-21-2018, 09:36 AM)Percent Wrote: I totally understand what you mean. What do you use programming for, anyway?

Most of what I do is research Windows internals and then I come up with a proof-of-concept development project that involves aspects of cyber security in some way.

Interesting. I have a goal to make my own very tiny operating system, and I am looking at the FreeBSD and the Linux kernel source code for some insight.

Oh nice. OSes are pretty hard magical things to me. I don't think I could ever build something so intricate.

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RE: Is coding your hobby, or your career? #17
(07-21-2018, 09:43 AM)mothered Wrote:
(07-21-2018, 09:16 AM)Percent Wrote:
(07-21-2018, 08:23 AM)mothered Wrote: Not only coding, but everything pertaining to computing Is my hobby.

I've yet to attend a single minute of schooling In any facet of IT.

If it's any of my business, do you make any money out of your computing skills?  Smile

It's a fair and open question.

No, It's only a hobby that I'm very passionate about. When I wake up of a morning and cannot wait to perform my computing tasks, I know It's right for me. On the other hand, If It was tedious and something that "I have to do" and opposed to "want to do", then that speaks for Itself.

It'd be great if you made money out of it, and quit that dreadful job of yours. You are not interested in, say, selling your compromised whatever-it-is, like that shipping thing you hacked?

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RE: Is coding your hobby, or your career? #18
(07-21-2018, 09:49 AM)Percent Wrote: You are not interested in, say, selling your compromised whatever-it-is, like that shipping thing you hacked?

That company Is pretty mediocre and barely accounts for the entities I've compromised.

What I do Is very critical and any form of exposure, Is very much the same.
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RE: Is coding your hobby, or your career? #19
(07-21-2018, 10:48 AM)mothered Wrote:
(07-21-2018, 09:49 AM)Percent Wrote: You are not interested in, say, selling your compromised whatever-it-is, like that shipping thing you hacked?

That company Is pretty mediocre and barely accounts for the entities I've compromised.

What I do Is very critical and any form of exposure, Is very much the same.

How about you go fuck yourself, then, you miserable piece of shit?

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RE: Is coding your hobby, or your career? #20
Till now it's just a hobby but who knows what the future hides.


Everyone should learn how to code, it teaches you how to think.

You don't have to be a Genius to know how to code you just need to be determined.

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.

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