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You're not alone. This came up the other day here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12897284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12897284 and in that thre
by david927 10y ago
You're not alone. This came up the other day here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12897284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12897284 and in that thread, I wrote this:
... I don't love [programming]. Alan Kay is right, it's like building "an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves". There's no elegance and no higher vision. It's an Asperger profession; smart but artless.
My advice is to either try to work at making programming better or consider a move to something better.
Personally, I'm part of a group in San Francisco called 20/20 that meets monthly toward the first goal [2020salon.blogspot.com]. If I didn't see a way out, I would have left a while ago.