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Bit flipping
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RE: Bit flipping
My current job is to sort out the code at a famous biological institute. Apparently the funders insisted that their code be sorted out. The bio-informaticians sit there making digital faeces that is grossly inefficient and can't in any way be combined with any other code or changed in any way. I have to come along and spend months refactoring it before I can even make a simple change.

I had considered getting into biology myself but I realised that even if I went off and did a degree or MSc I'd still be sorting out crappy code from bio-informaticians that can't code because there is such a great need for it. And the need is only ever going to grow because they can write crappy code faster than anyone can refactor it.

So once again in my career I'm doing software engineering for other people with fulfilling scientific careers even though I don't get the chance to do any science myself. I actually find software engineering really boring and tedious. I'm thinking of leaving science all together.
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Bit flipping - by SteelCurtain - April 23, 2016 at 10:30 pm
RE: Bit flipping - by SteelCurtain - April 23, 2016 at 10:40 pm
RE: Bit flipping - by SteelCurtain - April 23, 2016 at 11:04 pm
RE: Bit flipping - by Jackalope - April 23, 2016 at 11:30 pm
RE: Bit flipping - by SteelCurtain - April 23, 2016 at 11:37 pm
RE: Bit flipping - by Jackalope - April 23, 2016 at 11:45 pm
RE: Bit flipping - by Tiberius - April 23, 2016 at 11:40 pm
RE: Bit flipping - by I_am_not_mafia - April 24, 2016 at 3:22 am
RE: Bit flipping - by SteelCurtain - April 23, 2016 at 11:42 pm
RE: Bit flipping - by Tiberius - April 23, 2016 at 11:55 pm
RE: Bit flipping - by SteelCurtain - April 24, 2016 at 12:01 am
RE: Bit flipping - by SteelCurtain - April 24, 2016 at 12:05 am
RE: Bit flipping - by Jackalope - April 24, 2016 at 1:19 am
RE: Bit flipping - by SteelCurtain - April 24, 2016 at 1:46 am
RE: Bit flipping - by ErGingerbreadMandude - April 24, 2016 at 3:04 am
RE: Bit flipping - by Jackalope - April 24, 2016 at 3:10 am
RE: Bit flipping - by ErGingerbreadMandude - April 24, 2016 at 3:22 am
RE: Bit flipping - by I_am_not_mafia - April 24, 2016 at 3:34 am
RE: Bit flipping - by pocaracas - April 24, 2016 at 3:41 am
RE: Bit flipping - by Jackalope - April 24, 2016 at 4:46 am
RE: Bit flipping - by pocaracas - April 24, 2016 at 5:42 am
RE: Bit flipping - by Jackalope - April 24, 2016 at 7:21 am
RE: Bit flipping - by pocaracas - April 24, 2016 at 7:38 am
RE: Bit flipping - by Jackalope - April 24, 2016 at 7:42 am
RE: Bit flipping - by I_am_not_mafia - April 24, 2016 at 7:28 am
RE: Bit flipping - by Jackalope - April 24, 2016 at 4:57 am
RE: Bit flipping - by I_am_not_mafia - April 24, 2016 at 4:03 am
RE: Bit flipping - by SteelCurtain - April 24, 2016 at 4:10 am
RE: Bit flipping - by Jackalope - April 24, 2016 at 7:25 am
RE: Bit flipping - by Jackalope - April 24, 2016 at 7:41 am
RE: Bit flipping - by Alex K - April 25, 2016 at 8:59 am
RE: Bit flipping - by J a c k - April 25, 2016 at 12:12 am
RE: Bit flipping - by bennyboy - April 25, 2016 at 8:09 am
RE: Bit flipping - by I_am_not_mafia - April 25, 2016 at 8:24 am
RE: Bit flipping - by bennyboy - April 26, 2016 at 4:56 am
RE: Bit flipping - by KevinM1 - April 26, 2016 at 9:52 am
RE: Bit flipping - by pocaracas - April 26, 2016 at 9:55 am
RE: Bit flipping - by SteelCurtain - April 25, 2016 at 8:12 am
RE: Bit flipping - by SteelCurtain - April 25, 2016 at 8:42 am
RE: Bit flipping - by Angrboda - April 25, 2016 at 10:38 am
RE: Bit flipping - by KevinM1 - April 25, 2016 at 10:32 pm
RE: Bit flipping - by bennyboy - April 26, 2016 at 4:48 am

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