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This is bullshit. There are any number of 'easy' things that need to get done. The discipline in being a grown up no bullshit engineer is to do all of these e
by mdausmann 5y ago
This is bullshit. There are any number of 'easy' things that need to get done. The discipline in being a grown up no bullshit engineer is to do all of these easy things well, without errors and with appropriate test coverage. If you are in my team, I will appreciate and reward your maturity and attention to detail. What I don't want is somebody who always want's to work on the 'interesting' problem at the expense of the small stuff. grow up.
- Subsentient 5y agoI agree with you, though sadly HN doesn't. Some days you're just beating your skull against a brick wall recompiling 3rd party libraries till 5pm, some days you get to write the big exciting part. That's life. That's the job. Accept it or move on.
- oytis 5y agoYou might appreciate it but not everyone does. Also there is a Matthew effect in play - the more boring stuff you do the less chance you have to do something interesting in the future. Because everyone on the market wants you to have experience with things similar to what they are about assign you to.