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Why try so hard to learn something for which you have no aptitude, when you have other valuable skills? A 5 foot 100 pound guy shouldn’t be trying to learn foot
by anbop 8y ago
Why try so hard to learn something for which you have no aptitude, when you have other valuable skills? A 5 foot 100 pound guy shouldn’t be trying to learn football at the pro level no matter how high the NFL salaries are. Focus on what you’re good at. There will still be sysadmins by the time you are dead. Get better at your skill set so that you’ll be one of the ones standing.
- setr 8y agoIts still valuable for a sysadmins to have some ability to program/script, if only to improve his own utility and sanity (automating out trivial/mindless things); however, its not clear to me why sysadmins seem to often have trouble breaking into programming — afaict, they’re extremely similar in practice. Particularly when you accept that most of software engineering is just composing libraries, while system administrators compose programs and os’s. Both rely on incantations held together by poor documentation, arbitrary configuration, and convoluted tooling. Programming is a bit more structured in its language.. but otherwise they’re rather similar requirements (and half of why you have SEs trying to eat SAs lunch); it’s not obvious to me that the inverse task should be a significant hurdle. Or rather, the experience of an SA should translate decently into SE
- vortex_panda 8y agoI'm not sure why it's as difficult as it is for me. I'm sure there are people for whom it's not as much of a herculean task.