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I'm not a great developer by today's measurements. I struggled throughout my degree and the first 4 years of my career. Especially, when it came to computer net
by Antoninus 7y ago
I'm not a great developer by today's measurements. I struggled throughout my degree and the first 4 years of my career. Especially, when it came to computer networking and algorithms. 7 years into this profession and few projects high-profile projects later, I feel like I'm just getting my legs going. What keeps me going is adopting the mindset that
software development is a lifelong craft from posts like this and HN community.
- artsyca 7y agoThe software profession has been corrupted and utterly misdirected by the entire management industry that has been built around it -- it sounds like you've got the beginnings of enlightenment brewing inside of you and I invite you to use your critical reasoning outside of the facts of your `craftmanship` and see how the algorithms and concepts of computer science apply directly to one's pursuit of ultimate understanding and personhood Look to the history of computer science and the greats that brought us to where we are now, like Alan Turing and ask yourself if this is the future they had envisioned for our calling?
- NotSammyHagar 7y agoThere was no 'calling' as those mathematicians and electrical engineers in the pre-computer ages saw it. They wanted to solve problems and build amazing machines. They did not imagine some mystical future of benevolence for programmers.
- artsyca 7y agoYes I'm sure that's what was going through Turing's mind when he solved the enigma -- let me save freaking Western civilization so I can be forced to suicide and all these millennials can come and get free lunch from their benevolent corporations