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How To Behave At a Software Company?
dawilcox writes "I'm a recent grad and am going to begin work at a software company. I want to make a good impression on my boss and coworkers. I know that performance is usually tracked, but there are also innate personality traits of good software developers that bosses just want to have around. What are those personality traits? What should I be trying to do in order to make a good impression on the people at my work?" (Appropriate side question: What behavior traits would you like your co-workers to exhibit?)
Translation: I've moved out of my mother's basement, and the world above ground is all bright and shiny. What do I do?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
If you are in anything but an anal-retentive religious GPL workplace, using vi (and putting down everybody that uses a *gasp* IDE) just makes you look like an ass. Use the appropriate tools for the job. Most developer jobs are *not* productive if all you use is vi*.
*though I've never used vi unless nano wasn't installed. Seriously, I have better things to do with my life than learn vi.
To quote the Grand Nagus from DS9
Don't. Quote. Science. Fiction.
Don't take the advice of someone who quotes it either.
Quoting fictional characters is proof of emotional immaturity, a detachment from reality, and also has escapist overtones (as in "I don't want to fucking be here. I wish I was in my perfect space fantasy world").
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Well, I see that having an ethic code is irrelevant to you. I do not use any kind of privative software. How about that? Explain to me how is that ethical choice not a respectable one?
On the other hand, I wasn't trolling on my previous post, or even talking about the specific "use this os" issue. I was talking about doing whatever is asked from you at a job. If you are a professional, or plan on being one, you'll do what you consider to be the right thing. If you'll just do whatever your corporate overlord demands from you, then you are not a professional, you are a highly trained prostitute.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Uh, last software company I worked for and ate by myself... they thought I was anti-social
Me too. Good thing I spent those lunch hours doing on-line courses ... and got promoted. No one expects the boss to be chummy with the help; just pleasant. It was much easier to mingle with my peers once I was working with some people who didn't think spongebob was cool.
Quartz Extreme and Core Image. Are there any other real reasons to spend all that money on generic hardware?
Bullshit. Quoting Shakespeare in context can be unfeasibly intelligent.
I outgrew quoting Shakespeare in highschool. I'm surprised I wasn't beaten up for it even back then. It's not a sign of intelligence and it does not take much skill if you have two braincells to rub together.
Meanwhile you haven't had to explicitly say something's fucked up, so you haven't pissed anybody off, the person that's fucking it up will be too stupid to understand the quotation,
Yeah assuming other people are simpletons is a great technique - best way I know to become a social outcast. Chances are someone that overhears will understand it. You're fooling yourself if you think this makes you clever. It makes you socially fucking inept. If you don't want someone to understand an insult keep your fucking mouth shut.
Learn how to use quotes well. It's a Nineteenth century skill that's sadly passed into disuse, probably because of fuckwits thinking it's emotionally immature.
If you're so goddamn fucking elloquent why the fuck do you have to resort to fucking swearing like the rest of us?
You know what. Keep your head firmly planted inside your own ass. If you want to sound like a tired Star Trek original series parody of Shakespeare, be my guest. I'm foolish trying to teach a cretin social grace. You want an apt Shakespeare quote. How's this: "A fool thinks himself to be wise" There you go. Can I join your fucking club now? Asshole.
Another thing: I've studied a number of Shakespeare plays. They are fucking overrated. In 300 years who knows what crappy soap opera they'll be studying at school. Stick that up your iambic pentameter.
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