Me right now looking for programming jobs after neglecting to memorize every programming language like a doctor memorizes human anatomy and biology.

They want to hire a dev who’s good enough to deserve a doctor’s salary but without offering the doctor’s salary. Be the best of the best at everything you can do with a damn computer but accept 50k per year or less

Do bugs in your code kill people?

@theabbie They have the potential to, yes.

@theabbie Yep, check out Therac-25 story

I would refuse the kind of work that involves my code potentially killing people.

@stackodev That why there is a hardware fail safe after Therac-25 situation, even if software mess up, the hardware would limit what software is allowed to do and hopefully avoid potentially life threatening situation. Obviously, not perfect and generally they rely on very stringent requirements and review process before approving such device/software.

Grasp of theory and googling online does make you a developer though lol

No reference manual for you ya fuck !

Flash back to the 1950s

They’re looking at a block of machine language numbers no assembler

“Fuck you bert memorize these by Tuesday or find another job !”