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The author starts their piece off by calling all of software rotten citing their experience as a professional dev for 3.5 years. This is the first sentence of i

The author starts their piece off by calling all of software rotten citing their experience as a professional dev for 3.5 years. This is the first sentence of it.

drivers99 4y ago
I would say just look around, but it's probably because of some of the information I've seen that opened my eyes to it, so I'll point you to these two talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko The Thirty Million Line Problem / Casey Muratori
jdlshore 4y ago
Yeah, so? That's not what the article is about. It's a highly personal essay about the author's pursuit of beauty. A bit up its own ass, sure. But it reflects an immense amount of effort and real passion, and I'd prefer 10 articles like this to yet another HN couch monkey holding forth with yet another tired middlebrow dismissal.
- Karrot_Kream 4y ago
  Then just go to https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmods/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmods/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/ https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/ instead. The author posted on r/cyberDeck already. This isn't some brave new world.
snapplebobapple 4y ago
Leaves you wishing you were sentenced for 3.5 years so you could have avoided reading it.......
ctrlp 4y ago
After 20+ years as a professional dev I suppose I can safely pronounce on software development and it is pretty rotten compared even to when I started programming in the mid 1990s, which may already have been after the truly beautiful age of programming. I say "listen to the young". They are looking at this craft and they see an industry. Here is some young man trying to recreate an aesthetic experience with the utilitarian tools of his world and the HN posse dogpiles like a pack of zombies. Predictable hot takes and prostration before the machine they worship.

The author starts their piece off by calling all of software rotten citing their experience as a professional dev for 3.5 years. This is the first sentence of it.

drivers99 4y ago

I would say just look around, but it's probably because of some of the information I've seen that opened my eyes to it, so I'll point you to these two talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko The Thirty Million Line Problem / Casey Muratori

jdlshore 4y ago

Yeah, so? That's not what the article is about. It's a highly personal essay about the author's pursuit of beauty. A bit up its own ass, sure. But it reflects an immense amount of effort and real passion, and I'd prefer 10 articles like this to yet another HN couch monkey holding forth with yet another tired middlebrow dismissal.

Karrot_Kream 4y ago
Then just go to https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmods/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmods/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/ https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/ instead. The author posted on r/cyberDeck already. This isn't some brave new world.

snapplebobapple 4y ago

Leaves you wishing you were sentenced for 3.5 years so you could have avoided reading it.......

ctrlp 4y ago

After 20+ years as a professional dev I suppose I can safely pronounce on software development and it is pretty rotten compared even to when I started programming in the mid 1990s, which may already have been after the truly beautiful age of programming. I say "listen to the young". They are looking at this craft and they see an industry. Here is some young man trying to recreate an aesthetic experience with the utilitarian tools of his world and the HN posse dogpiles like a pack of zombies. Predictable hot takes and prostration before the machine they worship.