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That is amazing. One thing I often see is that enthusiasts and professionals spend too much of their life and energy working with an inferior set of tools such
by rolltiide 7y ago
That is amazing.
One thing I often see is that enthusiasts and professionals spend too much of their life and energy working with an inferior set of tools such that they are very dismissive of people expressing themselves faster with a better set of tools, solely because the discipline is no longer required
I am personally all for people being able to express themselves more effectively
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y agoAs an enthusiast and a professional, I see a lot of people spending more time building a "better" set of tools and/or arguing about the merits of various trendy tools (hello HN) than actually writing code. If all you ever do is the same kind of thing over and over again (say, build CRUD web apps with the same stack), then sure, go nuts and optimize so you can deploy with a single button press from your IDE. But if you're in a role where the stuff you build varies wildly -- say, any type of startup where you are the dev team or a significant fraction of it -- then diminishing returns sets in very fast. Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1205/ https://xkcd.com/1205/
- scarejunba 7y agoThe beauty of selling tooling is that if you can sell the tooling, the "how often you do task" is multiplied by number of customers and so you get way more value.