I've worked for major video game companies, and other fortune 500 companies as a software engineer, and have been told that I have lost job opportunities because I am a white male. Its almost impossible to get a job if you are a white male in software engineering these days. I'm in the process of transitioning to working on installing turbine engines in power plants though, so thats kind of neat.
I lurked cuck chan for the last few days and there were barely any death threats, a couple incitements by >1 post by this ID niggers maybe but (((they))) do that in every thread now. It was just hilarious shitposting and shill / janny mocking with tons of example code.
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My take is that programming is impossible.
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it requires high linguistic and high logical intelligence, which is indeed a somewhat rare combo. But it's got a mystique around that that isn't entirely deserved, it's like learning anything else.
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I've often wondered about that mystique thing. I work in an extremely mathematical engineering field, and while many of my coworkers are better at math and smarter than I am, they all struggle with programming stuff that seems brainlet-tier child's play to me.
Even really smart, technical people have a lot of trouble grasping code, so I guess I can see why coding has this mystical aura.
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Learning anything is impossible.
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You need to have an analytic mind that is capable of abstracting real-world problems into the realm of algorithms and data types. Journalists are people-persons; their brains are the polar opposite of the programmer brain.
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It heavily depends on how your brain is structured. Some people pick up a programming language for the first time, everything is logical to them, and they can write medium-sized programs on pure instinct. That requires a certain mix of logical thinking and creativity. If you lack too much in either department, either maths or the arts would be more your thing.
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What's stopping you, anon? Lack of self-discipline? Cause that's my greatest barrier.
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That's exactly what's stopping me from studying programming. I'm so burned out with life itself from all the humiliation and rejection I had to endure throughout my entire life that I'm NEETing it out to the max and my aim is to be as much of a useless parasite as possible - and coding is a useful skill, so that goes out of the window.