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OP claims: Too Long; Didn’t Learn Maintaining legacy code is boring. Copy/pasting is boring. Internal tools are usually boring. Being a code-monkey i

by edw519 11y ago

OP claims: Too Long; Didn’t Learn Maintaining legacy code is boring. Copy/pasting is boring. Internal tools are usually boring. Being a code-monkey is boring. The day-to-day always gets boring. These things are usually true when you're not building something cool and meaningful. These things are rarely true when you ARE building something cool and meaningful. So... Coding is boring, unless… You're building something cool and meaningful. That's pretty much been the way I've always seen it. Take OP's 6 headlines and add all the other stuff like: workspace equipment boss commute money and I still believe that if you're building something cool and meaningful, you put up with everything else and if you're not, you'll find a million things you don't like. What you build is the issue. Everything else rest are details.

dmethvin 11y ago
> Coding is boring, unless… you're building something cool and meaningful. The problem comes when the people doing the coding don't consider the business goal of the software to be cool and meaningful. To everyone but the programmers, it doesn't matter what tech you use to build the solution if it's not solving an important problem. So they start writing a web app with Backbone and then move to Angular and finally React without ever have created a viable product, but they feel good because they are using something that other devs feel is the coolest and most meaningful today.