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Is it that you love using software and hate developing software, or is it that you have a love-hate relationship with developing software? For me, most of what
by proverbialbunny 7y ago
Is it that you love using software and hate developing software, or is it that you have a love-hate relationship with developing software?
For me, most of what I hate about being a dev is the culture and who I'm working with. Though I hate getting stuck on a problem I can't figure out too.
By being able to identify what I like and what I dislike about a thing, diving into the gritty details, I am better able to steer myself towards a better future.
- anon9001 7y agoI love free software, and I hate non-free software. Writing free software doesn't pay very well, on account of it being free. Maybe I should work for FSF or Mozilla, but I'd really like to make enough in industry to be comfortable far into the future before I forfeit the chance to retire.
- proverbialbunny 7y agoWhat about free software do you like in the work place? What about non-free software do you not like in the work place? Keep increasing your awareness by responding to your answers by asking questions, breaking it down further and further. For example, I patched Squid and Apache on the job, and those are "free" software. Out of everything I've done on the software engineer side, I hated that one the most, because the code bases were difficult to navigate for me at the time.