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Love the OP's attitude. It's perfect for anyone looking to explore computing as a medium. The HN comments they quote (shipping for customers, and avoiding poin
by ssivark 5y ago
Love the OP's attitude. It's perfect for anyone looking to explore computing as a medium.
The HN comments they quote (shipping for customers, and avoiding pointless homework) come from a very different perspective -- where the medium being explored is not computing, but rather the process of satisfying specific human needs in the context of a "market".
Both have their own value; it's just that they're completely orthogonal in intent and worth not conflating.
- jfoster 5y agoThe quote attributed to me was on the topic of "challenging projects every programmer should try": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21790779 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21790779 It's not that I would recommend every project must have customers, but I do think that most programmers will learn & grow tremendously if they take on a project where they are trying to directly satisfy a set of customers. It came to mind because whilst there's a tendency to focus on projects that are technically challenging or interesting, I think such a project would perhaps prove even more challenging, albeit in very different ways.