Message from @shadowedROM
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you can do plenty of programming without gadgets
and have lots of fun
oh in that sense
yeah
I guess
yeah, the devices tend to lock you into a particular paradigm or some specific language / libraries / dialects and you end up fighting hardware and getting distracted
rpi is different since they're mostly transparent and you can treat them like another machine
but arduinos and fpgas and stuff, not really transferrable and in the end not worth it
general processing almost always wins in the long term
unless you're writing password crackers or something
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
sorry i'm a bit of a killjoy
but I have a neckbeardy giant box(es) of hardware I've accumulated over the years so it's kinda speaking from exp
no no, this seems practical what you're telling me
I'm paranoid about finding work anyways
So anything that helps is good
yeah it's all fun and games until like... you're fighting some stupid hardware bug or wasting time with some bogus line connection
devops is "hot" or whatever. learn saltstack or coreos or something.
easy job in most metro markets
everyone wants to save money and replace oldschool admins.
I see
don't do web programming. shit is terribad.
Networking debugging always makes me think of thise: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
I do mostly web programming :/
NodeJS is fun
if you're good enough at it you can make good scratch but don't get stuck is all
What should I move to?
it's a treadmill
you move to whatever is trendo
Isn't the web getting trendo?
RoR was popular 5 years ago and now it's shiet right
Everybody is making SaaS stuff
yeah idk i'm probably biased.
what do you work on nowadays?
infra stuff, the meta task of spinning up lots of your SaaS webapps
and keeping all the plates in the air, monitored and not pwned by the worst enemy: ourselves
accidentally pwning your webapps?
it happens
people aren't that good
I got a piece of software running in the wild