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This could be something as prosaic as “i want to code” then work as a programmer for 40 years though, right? The world needs millions of programmers rather than

This could be something as prosaic as “i want to code” then work as a programmer for 40 years though, right? The world needs millions of programmers rather than ten really good ones.

onlyrealcuzzo 5y ago
But anything can also be unique. There are millions of programmers. But how many people are working on some obscure open source project? Not everyone NEEDS/WANTS to be unique. But anyone can be. Easily. Don't give me this 7Bn people bull crap. 2^33 > 7Bn you only have to make a few choices / do a few things slightly different - and you're doing something unique. You also don't have to go things alone. You can join a group of people that are doing something unique - see everyone at Rajneeshpuram or Biosphere 2. You don't have to be Osho or John Allen. Or even Ma Anand Sheela. You can just be a part of something unique.
- quickthrower2 5y ago
  I think the word “unique” in the description is unnecessary. You can absolutely have a non-unique calling. Depending on how you categorise it though it may or may not sound unique. It’s like the are we a monopoly question: Google: we are not a monopoly in the advertising business. We have so much competition from billboards, tv ads, newspaper ads and other websites with their own ads. Local restaurant: we totally are a monopoly. We are the only Italian-Korean fusion restaurant open after 11pm in this small town!
rchaud 5y ago
What is the starting point for that thought though? Is it "I want to make this thing I have an idea for", or "I want a job-ready skill"? If it's the former, "learn to code" doesn't have to be the next step. It could be drawing up a mockup or creating the basic logic in something simple like G Sheets. From there you can go to one of the many no-code tools that can use Sheets as a data source. Seeing how far you can go with off-the-shelf options provides valuable experience, because you'll know precisely where the bottlenecks were, and can talk to a developer to understand what you need to learn to convert it to code. Compare that to jumping straight from idea phase to to a 20+ hour video course on HTML/CSS and JS. By the time you get to the CSS Box Model, you'll have forgotten why you started the course in the first place.

This could be something as prosaic as “i want to code” then work as a programmer for 40 years though, right? The world needs millions of programmers rather than ten really good ones.

onlyrealcuzzo 5y ago

But anything can also be unique. There are millions of programmers. But how many people are working on some obscure open source project? Not everyone NEEDS/WANTS to be unique. But anyone can be. Easily. Don't give me this 7Bn people bull crap. 2^33 > 7Bn you only have to make a few choices / do a few things slightly different - and you're doing something unique. You also don't have to go things alone. You can join a group of people that are doing something unique - see everyone at Rajneeshpuram or Biosphere 2. You don't have to be Osho or John Allen. Or even Ma Anand Sheela. You can just be a part of something unique.

quickthrower2 5y ago
I think the word “unique” in the description is unnecessary. You can absolutely have a non-unique calling. Depending on how you categorise it though it may or may not sound unique. It’s like the are we a monopoly question: Google: we are not a monopoly in the advertising business. We have so much competition from billboards, tv ads, newspaper ads and other websites with their own ads. Local restaurant: we totally are a monopoly. We are the only Italian-Korean fusion restaurant open after 11pm in this small town!

rchaud 5y ago

What is the starting point for that thought though? Is it "I want to make this thing I have an idea for", or "I want a job-ready skill"? If it's the former, "learn to code" doesn't have to be the next step. It could be drawing up a mockup or creating the basic logic in something simple like G Sheets. From there you can go to one of the many no-code tools that can use Sheets as a data source. Seeing how far you can go with off-the-shelf options provides valuable experience, because you'll know precisely where the bottlenecks were, and can talk to a developer to understand what you need to learn to convert it to code. Compare that to jumping straight from idea phase to to a 20+ hour video course on HTML/CSS and JS. By the time you get to the CSS Box Model, you'll have forgotten why you started the course in the first place.