On 12/12/13 10:21, monarch_dodra wrote:
> I'm actually baffled to hear that someone of your caliber has is not a
> professional programmer. Passion and theory alone will only get you so far...
> (IMO).

I don't know if this speaks to Andrej's situation, but you'd be amazed at how much it can matter in some countries that one doesn't have a degree or a "professional" qualification.  Somehow an actual record of excellent work doesn't cut it in some places.

> So, I hope you land yourself that job.

Me too -- good luck! :-)

2013 was a very bizarre year for me; I ended up doing three things I never expected that I'd actually do: 1) got a dog, 2) joined a church, and 3) started writing a book (on D!)

My todo list for 2014, remember most of these probably won't actually get done:

* get my finances fixed up after a weak 2012 and downright awful 2013. I might have to get a new job but I really don't want to do that. I like writing D from home, just my D clients don't have the cashflow like they used to :(

* Finish my D book in time for dconf. This is well ahead of the publisher's schedule, but they said if I can write it that fast, they'll move things up. Right now though, I'm barely keeping up with their deadlines so idk if this is realistic.

* speaking of dconf, I *might* even go this year, and visit my parents while i'm on that side of the country. But I've never been on a real airplane before and I kinda like it that way so we'll see.

* I want to get back into blogging. Been saying this for years but I really should actually do it. Same with writing some games, I really really want do write the RPG that I learned how to program to write one of these days!

* My candidates for std.net.http and arsd.minigui should be finished at some point too.


lol it is like my whole life revolves around D. But the rest of it I'll just do as it comes.

On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 14:28:41 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 12/12/13 10:21, monarch_dodra wrote:
>> I'm actually baffled to hear that someone of your caliber has is not a
>> professional programmer. Passion and theory alone will only get you so far...
>> (IMO).
>
> I don't know if this speaks to Andrej's situation, but you'd be amazed at how much it can matter in some countries that one doesn't have a degree or a "professional" qualification.  Somehow an actual record of excellent work doesn't cut it in some places.

I think it is more of a stereotype nowadays. Still true for some extremely conservative areas like banking but in general companies become increasingly aware of fact that they simply can't afford that attitude anymore because of global lack of programmers. It has changed a lot as long as I have been observing the industry and I am only doing it for ~6 years.

On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 16:21:38 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
> * Finish my D book in time for dconf. This is well ahead of the publisher's schedule, but they said if I can write it that fast, they'll move things up. Right now though, I'm barely keeping up with their deadlines so idk if this is realistic.

Really looking forward that one :) Need moar books!

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 03:28:35PM +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 12/12/13 10:21, monarch_dodra wrote:
> >I'm actually baffled to hear that someone of your caliber has is not a professional programmer. Passion and theory alone will only get you so far...  (IMO).
> 
> I don't know if this speaks to Andrej's situation, but you'd be amazed at how much it can matter in some countries that one doesn't have a degree or a "professional" qualification.  Somehow an actual record of excellent work doesn't cut it in some places.
[...]

My dad was wise when he advised me, many years ago, to pursue higher studies in spite of the fact that at the time I'd already mastered assembly language programming and could easily pick up any language in a short time. He told me that just because I had the ability doesn't necessarily mean people would recognize it, and that having that piece of paper (i.e., a degree) to show would open many doors. I'm very thankful I took his advice.


T

-- 
Meat: euphemism for dead animal. -- Flora

On 12 December 2013 14:24, Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@webdrake.net> wrote:
> On 12/12/13 11:48, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>
>> Sě, non č affatto buono.  Most of my recent friends (and my partner)
>>
>> have moved from Spain or Italy in the last year or two.  The street I live on has quite literally turned into a little italy.
>
>
> Quite apart from any other reason, you get loads of people coming to Brighton for the language schools, no?  But the sad thing is almost all the talented young Italians I know are considering when and how they should move somewhere else.
>

That we do - my Spanish neighbours actually only planned to stay in the country for a year to learn English.  They have since decided to stay for a further year, so I'm quite interested to see where they will go with this delaying... :)

On 12/12/13, Dicebot <public@dicebot.lv> wrote:
> surprisingly got accepted. Moved to Berlin. Have discovered that I completely dislike Germany / Berlin but working with D is just too good to just move somewhere else :)

What didn't you like about Berlin?

On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 11:07:43 UTC, Francesco Cattoglio wrote:
> On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 10:51:29 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> On 12 December 2013 10:48, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org> wrote:
>>> On 12 December 2013 10:36, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>>>> La situazione corrente chiaramente non è buono ... :-(
> Diciamo non buona abbastanza ;) I like Italy a lot, don't get me wrong, but I think I need a decent experience somewhere in "northen" Europe if I want to find any good chance for professional growth.
>>>> Where in Italy are you based, out of curiosity?
> Milano right now. But no, I don't support neither Milan nor Inter :D

Doh, there's also some company (*cough cough*) that is actively using D in production right here in Milan... *grin*
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Paolo

On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 19:45:25 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> I thought we'd enjoy a bit of reminiscing of the past year and talk
> about our plans for the future, whether it's something personal or
> D-related that anyone is willing to publicly talk about. It should be
> a fun topic, or so I hope! :) So let me begin..

Well this is a hard one.

I lost a great girlfriend (not unforeseeable, she's Japanese (I'm not)). Interviews didn't end in a job offer. And I was the Best Man at my friends wedding (oh, wait, I think that was a good thing).

I continue to start projects which I know I'll probably not finish, and only gradually improving the others I've started.

It isn't all bad, I did start blogging about my adventures (I still need to get use to telling people what I'm doing, now that I'm on Planet D I'm scared to tag something D that may only vaguely relate). In general things are good, just nothing big to point to.

2014

I'm looking at submitting a talk about LuaD. I know I can do a good job, I just need to dedicate time to it instead of reading reddit, playing games, and watching movies (obviously D newsgroups get to stay).

My new project manager is actually willing to put my programming knowledge to use. Though it sounds like I'll have to do some translation from D to C#. There is quit a bit of opportunity here.

Along with LuaD stuff I hope to get more teaching material written for D. I think I'll have to re-evaluate my choice to only make useful examples and at least start with examples which demonstrate an idea.

I'm also highly considering making it out to Dconf2014. I don't usually like spending lots of money, but I no longer expect to be flying out to Japan and this should be totally worth it.

On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 03:33:23 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> I'm looking at submitting a talk about LuaD. I know I can do a good job, I just need to dedicate time to it instead of reading reddit, playing games, and watching movies (obviously D newsgroups get to stay).

Please do. LuaD is awesome, but you probably know that already. :)