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I'm getting tired of this take. There's such as thing as programming for the joy of programming. You can love a clever algorithm with no "business value". Code
by vgel 5y ago
I'm getting tired of this take. There's such as thing as programming for the joy of programming. You can love a clever algorithm with no "business value". Code can be beautiful and fun to write without being useful, or optimally-useful-per-unit-of-time-invested.
- kazinator 5y agoWork on iteresting¹ X, not interesting² Y! ───── 1. to me, not necessarily you. 2. to you, not me.
- finiteseries 5y agoYou’re pretty much in agreement with the article from my POV. “Work on interesting ideas, or ideas that you are genuinely interested in” is the bolded message. Spending time painstakingly beautifying your impl of a clever algorithm or, like the author, homegrowing the 8000th iteration of a PM tool with kanban functionality instead of working with k8s/cassandra/<tech> just to have worked with it. Kinda feel like we all end up doing this naturally most of the time after a few years or so, and they’ve just decided to write it down tbh.