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i've been doing it almost 40 years professionally. while i still enjoy the craft sometimes - when has it ever _not_ been a means to an end? even if that end is
by convolvatron 5y ago
i've been doing it almost 40 years professionally. while i still enjoy the craft sometimes - when has it ever _not_ been a means to an end? even if that end is scratching some non-comercial itch or looking into how to program with immutable values, there is always an end outside of the typing itself. or have I been missing something this whole time?
- emerged 5y agoI’ve always been driven by some innate urge to solve difficult problems. The job came as a fortunate artifact of that. I would be programming no matter what my job was.
- atonse 5y agoI’ve witnessed so many debates on my years about tabs, spaces, MVC, DCI, MVVM, TDD vs test first or unit, functional, integration testing etc etc (all stuff that does nothing to actually further the building or a product to deliver real business value) and even then I saw some utility but now I have no patience for prolonged debates about them cuz it just doesn’t matter. I value simplicity, readability, and the ability to iterate on features quickly over everything else.
- bambam3000 5y agoI want to use this as my LinkedIn bio!
- xtracto 5y agoBack when I was a kid, I used to code games in QBASIC and later in C with Allegro. At that time, i didn't really cared about the final form of the game. The thrill of constructing something and Learning about the technology was everything. Now, 30 years later I code to get money so that I can do things with my family and spend quality time. As time has passed I've found myself less and less interested in Learning yet another framework. A couple of weeks ago an MRI detected some old micro-infarcts (never felt anything unusual) and now I'm in Aspirin for life... deffinitely puts things on perspective.