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None of that experience translates to programming work imo

• agumonkey 5y ago
  It does teach you about effort and pragmatic productivity, which is a general skill. I've spent years trying to design code that would give me some benefits but in reality they were taking too much time for low use-case value. When you have time pressure, you write code very differently. You aim at the smallest patch that can solidly implement a feature. It minimizes code changes, patch size, bug introduction, time spent, client happiness. Also mentally beneficial to see tiny regular results.
  • Graffur 5y ago
    I argue that those things are a different skillset and don't have overlap with the previous examples.
    • agumonkey 5y ago
      Strange, to me its obvious. When you have to be tight you learn to be tight, you aim for faster, leaner operations.