marlowe221 @ marlowe221 @lemmy.world

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Thanks for posting this. I’ve been thinking about picking it up.

I’m the “makes commits to Azure DevOps because that’s what his company uses” user, so mine looks a lot like number 4.

Those games are so good

Yep, my birthday is very early in April. Having two Easters in the same year of my life happens from time to time.

I’ll take my Motorola Razr back from the early 00s.

Whether I do Captain Kirk impressions with it in the privacy of my own home is my business…

I second this one. LEGO is really well made, the sets are well designed, and the instructions are some of the best you’ll ever see in any build-it-yourself product of any kind.

Well, the bar was low…

Ah, I see you too have run code in Azure Functions…

I agree, but knowing it’s from Norway makes me feel more comfortable with the idea of using it than if it was made in the US…. (And I’m American…)

Look, I don’t print the packaging. It’s the one spiced with cinnamon and cardamom.

I prefer the Stash brand.

Yes, and I like it.

But I’m really more of a Chai tea man.

I’ll be honest. After Starfield, I’m not entirely sure I want them to do it…

I the context of Linux and self-hosting “prepping” is usually more about maintaining services you find useful in a way that you can do it yourself, as opposed to relying on Google or Amazon (etc) who could pull the rug out from under you at basically any time.

That’s awesome. Very 1960s Star Trek, in a good way.

The Shire

This person knows what they are talking about.

I’m the same in that I was in elementary school when the NES was “the thing to have”… but I don’t think we could afford it at the time.

When I asked my parents for an NES for my seventh birthday in 1989, I got a 2600 and 40-ish games instead. Years later my mom told me she bought the whole thing at a yard sale for about $40.

It wasn’t the latest and greatest… but I didn’t care. I loved it. I had a great time exploring the cartridges, most of them had manuals to go with them, and playing with my dad.

An uncle would later give us an old 386 PC and I played DOS games on it.

I did get a SNES around 1992, so I did have my fair share of Nintendo as a kid. But I certainly didn’t start there and knew that there was more to video games than Nintendo.

I was still playing my 2600 and SNES when I graduated from high school, along with playing CRPGs on the family computer too.

It’s the best one!

I hope my first reply didn’t come off as defensive - I did not mean for it to. I think I actually agree with you to a large degree.

I agree that most bootcamps/YouTube courses are probably not enough by themselves, in most cases.

I switched careers in my late 30s. So, I had over 20 years at the hobbyist level to build on. Also, law school definitely taught me how to teach myself things. For me, YouTube and Udemy were a big help to fill in gaps and help organize things I had been learning in a more piecemeal way over the years.

But you’re right - it’s so important to continue learning things after entering the profession. I have made a lot of efforts to try to do that, including going back and learning concepts I have been told are part of most CS degree programs.

So, I’m trying!

Yeah… I’m a software engineer that came to it from a non-traditional path. I did finish college, law school, and practiced law for years before I switched careers.

But I was always a serious hobbyist in IT/programming since I was a kid. When I decided to switch careers, yeah I did a lot of learning (filling in gaps) on platforms like Udemy and YouTube. You can learn a LOT on those platforms if you do a little work and figure out who the reputable instructors are. I found it to be a lot of very practical instruction but also plenty of CS theory available too.

Turns out, it’s a lot like college - the experience is what you make it in many ways.

I have a senior engineer position these days and, sure, I still have a little imposter syndrome sometimes. But my co-workers who have CS degrees insist I’m not missing much and that they often forget I don’t have one until I make a self-deprecating joke about it.