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Interesting anecdote. Reminds me of that expression that goes something like "If you choose a career in something you love, it no longer becomes work". Pretty s
by JTon 11y ago
Interesting anecdote. Reminds me of that expression that goes something like "If you choose a career in something you love, it no longer becomes work". Pretty sure I butchered that, perhaps someone can sweep in with the proper quote
- AndrewKemendo 11y ago"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life"
- ChuckMcM 11y agoInteresting how this sometimes plays out though, a colleague of mine loves writing operating systems has found the number of people who want to do that steadily decreasing to the point where it becomes challenging to find paid work. I've suggested to him that the new "operating systems" are unikernels and microservices but he's been at it so long that he sees those as hosted applications rather than operating systems, and he has been at it so long, many of the views are ingrained deeply.
- marssaxman 11y agoI ran into that problem with compiler development a few years back. I still love it and I'm still good at it, but there's nobody* left paying people to do it. The funny thing about the applications vs. operating systems idea is that I think you're both right. We're just shifting the system stack over by one level of abstraction while doing the same old things we've always done and always will do: the hypervisor is the new kernel, the virtual machine is the new process, and paravirtualized PCI devices are the new POSIX. (*I would have to be homeless and begging on the street before going back to Microsoft and Visual Studio would start to sound like a good idea, and Apple has become such a black hole that I have no idea whether they still employ compiler people or not.)
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- JTon 11y agoThanks. Reading this quote and my original side by side makes me cringe. This is a great example of the importance of language and writing skills
- davito 11y agoWhichever way, we get the quote. The Butchered was a bit digestible