Comment Re:Always looking for passionate programmers (Score 1) 533
I also wrote a rather interesting multi-stage asynchronous media pipeline that emulated Java/C# interfaces in C++, but that never made it past the prototype stage.
I love writing code and working on hard problems, but do I feel like working on them for 80 hours a week, every week? No, I enjoy having a life outside of work and a separation of work and home life is necessary.
So much this. I enjoy solving difficult problems, but I also enjoy a not using a computer.
Nor do I currently have any active open source projects on my Github account; because you know, I spent over ten years working on Syllable and frankly that was more than most people do in a lifetime, so I'm O.K with that.
Happily the sorts of companies I work for are O.K with that too, and prefer to judge me on my experience and work I produce professionally, rather than an irrelevant body of work that I produced in my spare time.
Finally, the team point out that since the technique makes few assumptions about the languages themselves, it can be used on argots that are entirely unrelated.
Once again, Star Trek is ahead of the curve.
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The irony.
System admins don't need and generally aren't capable of making C-langauge source changes for using software in normal configs.
That's news to me. I think you might underestimate sysadmins.
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.