Purely by necessity I started my career working 24/7 tech support for a few years.
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Purely by necessity I started my career working 24/7 tech support for a few years.
It didn't seem that way at the time but it's hard to overstate how formative that experience has become.
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RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116170661640263540
Purely by necessity I started my career working 24/7 tech support for a few years.
It didn't seem that way at the time but it's hard to overstate how formative that experience has become.
@deech i wonder if that's a trend. i spent a few years doing help desk work and traveling to people's homes to fix their computers.
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@deech i wonder if that's a trend. i spent a few years doing help desk work and traveling to people's homes to fix their computers.
@d6 Do you consider it formative?
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@d6 Do you consider it formative?
@deech certainly gave me an appreciation for the diversity of how people used their computers and optimizing for what they wanted them to do (vs what software makers wanted them to do)
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@deech certainly gave me an appreciation for the diversity of how people used their computers and optimizing for what they wanted them to do (vs what software makers wanted them to do)
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@ross one house i go to they are having a lot of strange problems and data loss. at one point i joke that maybe someone has been storing powerful magnets next to their computer. the husband says "you mean like this?" and pulls a huge magnet out of his pocket. turns out he works in salvage and uses the magnets at working testing for ferrous metal @deech
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@ross one house i go to they are having a lot of strange problems and data loss. at one point i joke that maybe someone has been storing powerful magnets next to their computer. the husband says "you mean like this?" and pulls a huge magnet out of his pocket. turns out he works in salvage and uses the magnets at working testing for ferrous metal @deech
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RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116170661640263540
Purely by necessity I started my career working 24/7 tech support for a few years.
It didn't seem that way at the time but it's hard to overstate how formative that experience has become.
@deech I spent the first several years of my programming career writing and maintaining the software that I and my teammates used every day in our daily business (which was not technology). My first programming job started as a data entry job for a small company. Because of this, I have always tried to build software that helps people leave work on time. I also tend to stay at any given job for several years, so if my code was badly written, I suffer for it.
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