That's the face I've made just yesterday when my friend told me she's now eligible for a subsidized IT mortgage. That thing was one of Russia's last ditch attempts at stopping skilled workers from fucking off to different countries. The problem is, she's a web designer. I guess that counts as IT nowadays, so good for her. But it's bitter to hear as sr. backend tech who never hit the criteria...

When trying to request a firewall change IT told me "ports between 1 and 1024 are reserved and can't be used for anything else" so I couldn't be using it for a pure TCP connection, and besides, there would have to be a protocol on top of TCP, just TCP as protocol is obviously wrong. I was using port 20 because it was already open...

How is software not a subset of IT?

I'm both, and while I do hate myself, I don't think it's related, so I'm not sure I get it.

(I hate computers more, though, except when they're turned off — no bugs when they're off —, but they're the only thing I'm good enough at to make a living off of.)

I try to be understanding with my software brethren. We're different sides to the whole. Ying and yang, so to speak.

That said, I've gotten some brain-dead requests from you developer types.

I'm not saying all of you are the problem, but there's definitely some of you that need to learn how things work.

This is the same between many different software development disciplines, fpga devs (or hardware devs for that matter) vs. driver devs, driver devs vs. backend dev, backend devs vs frontend devs, integrators vs everyone.

This shit is hilarious!