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If you would've lead in with your background I might have been more careful ;) Just rubbed me the wrong way the way you wrote it, so i wrote my response in a si

by nom 6y ago

If you would've lead in with your background I might have been more careful ;) Just rubbed me the wrong way the way you wrote it, so i wrote my response in a similar manner. Good software is equally intricate and complex as many other fields that superficially seem more complex, like Rocket Surgery. Unfortunately it has changed a lot over the last 20 years. Just learn to use these libraries, go to a bootcamp and call yourself fullstack developer. Few people even know what instructions per second even means. Deliver 300MB chat applications or 40GB Games to your customers and call it a day. Good software development is more than an art or craft, it is seriously hard and takes a lot of experience and it is NOT relaxing at all. It is rare, unfortunately and it's just frustrating to see the decline over the last 20 years.

ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
Point taken. I am used to being around folks that know my deal, and am sometimes too casual in my interactions. I suspect that we'd probably get along, IRL. I got a gander at your site, and it seems that we have a hardware interaction background. I'm deliberately trying to reduce my scope. I worked for many years in a fairly major-league Japanese corporation, as part of a big, distributed team. The company was a hardware company, so a lot of our software was designed to either play with, or be embedded in, hardware. Nowadays, I like to try keeping it to apps for Apple devices. My apps tend to be a fair bit more ambitious than you'd normally see from a one-man shop, but they are still fairly humble, compared to what our teams worked on. However, I feel that the quality of what I do is better than before; mostly because of my craftsman approach. If you knew the company I worked for, you'd find that ironic.

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If you would've lead in with your background I might have been more careful ;) Just rubbed me the wrong way the way you wrote it, so i wrote my response in a si

by nom 6y ago

ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
Point taken. I am used to being around folks that know my deal, and am sometimes too casual in my interactions. I suspect that we'd probably get along, IRL. I got a gander at your site, and it seems that we have a hardware interaction background. I'm deliberately trying to reduce my scope. I worked for many years in a fairly major-league Japanese corporation, as part of a big, distributed team. The company was a hardware company, so a lot of our software was designed to either play with, or be embedded in, hardware. Nowadays, I like to try keeping it to apps for Apple devices. My apps tend to be a fair bit more ambitious than you'd normally see from a one-man shop, but they are still fairly humble, compared to what our teams worked on. However, I feel that the quality of what I do is better than before; mostly because of my craftsman approach. If you knew the company I worked for, you'd find that ironic.