Re:Ask HN: what was the worst life/programming choice you ev...
by GFischer on Monday December 03, 2012 @07:52AM
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Life: Not being frugal, spending too much, getting into consumer debt and a too-expensive rent contract, which shackles me in my current job and prevents me from fully pursuing my dreams.
Programming: staying at a company that works with Visual Basic, not learning Ruby/Functional Programming/jQuery/any modern stuff basically.
I'm fixing point 1, which will free me to fix point 2 hopefully :)
Re:Ask HN: what was the worst life/programming choice you ev...
by RollAHardSix on Monday December 03, 2012 @10:36AM
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Life: Thinking a Community College to Uni route would be an easy transfer (I had the grades and extracurriculars to get into any Uni I wanted, but had no $$$ at the time), having a daughter at 18 with a (w)itch, this list is growing as I type so I'll stop now ;)
Programming: Taking a job at a company where the Web department is in the Marketing Department,and only our 2-man IT department has access to writing anything more then HTML/CSS. Politics.
Re:Ask HN: what was the worst life/programming choice you ev...
by jamesjguthrie on Monday December 03, 2012 @12:33PM
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I was unable to get a decent job, all I could get were telesales jobs.
I'm close to finishing up my Bachelor's now, I could graduate in June and throw myself full time into my business or I could do next year too which would be my Honours year.
Re:Ask HN: what was the worst life/programming choice you ev...
by anujkk on Friday December 07, 2012 @01:47PM
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Life : Nothing in particular as such. May be because I am a guy who finds positives even in so called "Worst decisions". They teach you something and help you get better. May be wasting 3 years doing job in a big Indian IT company. I should have get into startups earlier so that I could have failed earlier, learned earlier, improved earlier. If not in my own startup, I should have worked in some other startups instead of wasting my 2-3 years as ABAP developer.
Programming : Not testing my code properly(I only do manual user testing). I still don't do it. I find it too boring. May be I'm too lazy to do that.
Programming: staying at a company that works with Visual Basic, not learning Ruby/Functional Programming/jQuery/any modern stuff basically.
I'm fixing point 1, which will free me to fix point 2 hopefully :)
Programming: Taking a job at a company where the Web department is in the Marketing Department,and only our 2-man IT department has access to writing anything more then HTML/CSS. Politics.
Programming: Thinking I could learn C++ architecture as I went and end up with a successful project.
I'm close to finishing up my Bachelor's now, I could graduate in June and throw myself full time into my business or I could do next year too which would be my Honours year.
Programming: Ignored the benefits of testing for way too much time.
Programming: Trying to create a framework that generates code.
> Any particular reasons?
Its a personal thing based on my lifestyle and might and not apply to everyone.
Programming : Not testing my code properly(I only do manual user testing). I still don't do it. I find it too boring. May be I'm too lazy to do that.
Programming: Switching majors from Computer Science to Economics (figured programming jobs would all be outsourced)