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Either that or I just doxxed myself ;)
Respect! That's truly inspirational. At barely half the experience with 30 years I keep wondering about what next. I still do plenty of programming in C (which, along with Z80 and 8086 assembly, is what I started with), Python and JS with some dabbling in Go. I find the problem solving part as invigorating and exhilarating as ever. What I do struggle with is the 100x additional lines of code which will be needed to m…
I, too, have been programming for 32 years. I have thought about your question many times. My current solution is to 'play more'. Allow yourself to play, even when you are in the 100x additional part. Playing makes your passion flare up again. By play I mean to start interesting side projects, ideas, try something new.
My grandpa is ~75, started programming professionally in his early 20s, and currently works as an engineer for the University of Utah, so my hunch is that there’s more people with 50+ years of software engineering experience than you might at first suspect. Either that or I just doxxed myself ;)
what technologies is your grandpa using?
what's his opinion on javascript?
any epic kids these days stories?
In my company, we can get "Senior Developer" title after 3 to 4 year experience. What your current title?
How many jobs have you held, and what was your criteria when switching jobs (apart from any possible family reasons)?
Looking back, is there any favorite technology of yours (language, concept, anything)
Do you feel the industry is buzzword-driven to a significant extent? (e.g. things get rebranded, reinvented, reimplemented on latest tech instead of fixing and improving existing things, business value does not get better but software often gets more resource-hungry)
But I look forward to the day when I have accumulated sufficient experience to truly understand Lisp.
May the code by with you. Always.
Serious question: How do you sit and type? What chair and what angle has worked best for your back and neck all these years?
I sit in an office chair (tilted back slightly) with 3 large HD monitors about 3 feet from my eyes - I have special glasses for that range. The monitors can be switched among 3 computers, and the wireless keyboard/mouse has a switch to move from one computer to another. Most importantly, I have a dog that needs walking several times a day, and that forces me to get up and walk a couple miles every day.
The first time I said I wanted a pair of single focus lenses for the computer (so I could use my whole field of view..), I got a lot of flak about "you should get bifocals". I haven't needed to drive anywhere in the last couple of years, so I basically never where my distance glasses anymore.
lately though.. Seems like they're getting more used to the idea. Maybe more people doing it ?
In my company, we can get "Senior Developer" title after 3 to 4 year experience. What your current title?