[ SECRET POST #2363 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2363 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 118 secrets from Secret Submission Post #337.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: How frequently is your job represented in media or fandom

[othellia]

Computer programming.

I don't think it's actually featured by itself as just "programming" that much. Pretty much every time it gets brought it gets brought up with hacking, which - even though I'm not as knowledgeable on that specific side of things - is still laughable. I mean, viruses aside, I'm not sure I've ever seen two of the most common hacking methods (phishing and SQL injection) featured as a legitimate way to go about things.

Cat Street handled it pretty well. At one point the main programmer's computer gets unplugged and he gets mad at losing hours and hours of work which was kind of just like "you did not save at ALL during these past several hours? how were you compiling and testing your code? don't tell me you were typing for hours without ANY tests in between because that shit is guaranteed to have at least one overlooked bug. control+s and multiple copies. if you're really as awesome as this comic makes you out to be, they should be your friend by now." But later he cooled down and admitted to the main character that he'd been stupid for not doing all of the above, so I forgave that.

Re: How frequently is your job represented in media or fandom

[aubry]

I always think programmers are the invisible heroes of most Dick Wolf/Jerry Bruckheimer style procedurals. Every time they use computers for something ridiculous I always wish we could have a show about the poor dudes who had to come up with software.

Just imagine them. "Today we have to work on an app that will work if somebody needs to be able to 3D model the trunks of two cars, then overlay them and highlight the points in common where ball-bearings would land if dropped from three feet while travelling due east over tarmac at 60kph. All based on the license plates. With a retro BASIC GUI, but 3D with lasers."

I want that show. I really do.

Re: How frequently is your job represented in media or fandom

[othellia]

YES.

Or like a mock reality challenge elimination show where they give some ridiculous requirements and the coders have from 10pm to 6am to making a functioning program, and 75% of the shots are just of them typing at the keyboard and the other 25% are them crying in front of the camera about how it was just working a second ago and now they can't find what's wrong and they tear apart their entire program (while the camera crew zooms in on a single misspelled variable name) and start all over again with only an hour and a half to go, and Heidi Klum is a judge because reasons. And in the final episodes they start going to all these exotic locations to amp up the drama only to whip out their computers and start typing again.

Either programmers or novelists... the format could honestly work for both.

Re: How frequently is your job represented in media or fandom

[aubry]

That would be epic.

Do you think we might be dorks? Are we dorks? Because I would watch the crap out of that show.

(And then stop, step back, and imagine the fandom...)

Re: How frequently is your job represented in media or fandom

[othellia]

NGL, the idea's been in my head for awhile. I'd just finished watching one show or other and was like, "Being on a show like this would be interesting. Huh, none of my skills - outside music - fit the reality show model at all. It'd never happen... but what if it did."

And it would be epic. Or horrible. Or some unholy combination thereof.

(Well, considering Honey Boo Boo has her own devout following...)

Re: How frequently is your job represented in media or fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Let's be honest though, this is a perfect encapsulation of computer programming:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/fasttalking-computer-hacker-just-has-to-break-thro,32000/

Re: How frequently is your job represented in media or fandom

[othellia]

Yes. That is exactly how every day at work goes. (And definitely not "ah... fuck, which .js file is the one that has this function in it and where in this horrendously cluttered file system did they put it?")

ETA: Talk about the wonders of coding. I tried to put the parathesis stuff in a small font size tag, but apparently dreamwidth comments don't support that? Or something? But the font tags in the allowed HTML list? IDEK. It's past midnight. I'm going to bed.