My contract job is over. It lasted a hair over three months. It went pretty well for almost the entire time, then ended on a sour note
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well, now, i'm working on a new project at my new employer. and i no longer have to help people pretending to be programmers. it's always six of one, half dozen of the other, though! this time, i had to take over a project started by somebody else. man, i hate that. no offense to you and every other programmer in the world, but you guys write really messy code. heh! yes, even the ones who claim they value "clean" code.
lots of people look at my code and like it just fine. this happened a lot at my last desk job. by i pretty much never look at somebody else's code and pronounce it anything other than a headache.
I've seen good code and I've seen lots of bad code. The usual problem is people not reading what's already been done and then going off and writing their own version of some existing functionality. At least now STL is becoming well known enough that you don't see endless reimplementations of linked lists.
I wonder what code looks like at a competent place, perhaps like Google?
You know, it's funny. You are so damn good with kids. SO good. Whether they are obnoxious or excitable or draining, or whatever, you give them that wide berth that you have to give children, because they just don't know any better. You really seek to understand why they behave a certain way, and your level of curiosity about how their little brains work and how you can play to their strengths and work around their weaknesses is incredible and inspiring. But when it comes to grown ups, sometimes you have a tendency to have a zero-low tolerance policy with little patience.
I wish you could demonstrate some more of that supreme patience and gentle understanding with adults that you do with children. I know, I know, adults should know better. They should. But you never know where someone's come from, what they were never given, or what they were given too much of, what they are up against in their heads on a daily basis, that sort of thing. If you could approach adults closer to the way you approach children and have that level of
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i guess i don't disagree with any of this. but when have you even seen me around any kids? are you just referencing that series of stories i wrote about that grade school i volunteered at?
Gracie at the Hopedale house. Jakes niece that one Thanksgiving. Random incidences in public over the years. Even aside from firsthand knowledge, just the way you talk about kids is enough to get a feel for how you see them.
heh! your memory is way better than mine, so i am not surprised you could come up with incidents i had pretty much forgotten about.
i remember gracie now that you bring it up. but even with the reminder, i can't exactly recall the situation with jake's niece. all i remember is being kind of annoyed by that kid! i was thinking: her parents really need to set some boundaries for this urchin.
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lots of people look at my code and like it just fine. this happened a lot at my last desk job. by i pretty much never look at somebody else's code and pronounce it anything other than a headache.
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I wonder what code looks like at a competent place, perhaps like Google?
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I wish you could demonstrate some more of that supreme patience and gentle understanding with adults that you do with children. I know, I know, adults should know better. They should. But you never know where someone's come from, what they were never given, or what they were given too much of, what they are up against in their heads on a daily basis, that sort of thing. If you could approach adults closer to the way you approach children and have that level of ( ... )
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i remember gracie now that you bring it up. but even with the reminder, i can't exactly recall the situation with jake's niece. all i remember is being kind of annoyed by that kid! i was thinking: her parents really need to set some boundaries for this urchin.
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