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Short answer: No I feel that programs and programming are definitely for me. I am a programming enthusiast. Longer answer: I won't be discouraged by the dumpst

Short answer: No I feel that programs and programming are definitely for me. I am a programming enthusiast. Longer answer: I won't be discouraged by the dumpster fire. I've been burned enough in the past to know that vendor lock-in is not for me. Don't waste time on flamewars. Someone once asked me "There is a book called Computers for Dummies. Why isn't there a book called Computers for Smart people?" Dig a little deeper. Dream big. Create your own platform that you control, on your own terms, the way you would want it. Don't get lost in the weeds. The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one else has ever been. — Albert Einstein

pwb25 3y ago
What I mean is mostly - before everyone almost had their own platform and style. Now everything is so streamlined
- mmphosis 3y ago
  I am not sure I follow. Do you have an example? I could say "Everyone is a consumer on $big_tech_social_media_site" and that is simply not true. "Everything" is not streamlined. Standards certainly help. There are a lot of problems that are solved, thankfully. There are other areas to explore and maybe even work on. I have lots of questions. I learn new things everyday. Today I learned the term overton window perhaps apt for this conversation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
  - pwb25 3y ago
    if you went to any software forum some years ago, most people hosted their own servers or did their own projects just for the sake of it. Now it's a lot of making some project to get into company A or solving some leetcode problems. Or learning AWS/Heroku/Azure or taking the certificates to getting more employable On the other hand I had friends in like 2005 running their own clusters of Sun Sparc servers just for fun and try it out. This type of nerdiness I didn't see in a while

pwb25 3y ago

What I mean is mostly - before everyone almost had their own platform and style. Now everything is so streamlined

mmphosis 3y ago
I am not sure I follow. Do you have an example? I could say "Everyone is a consumer on $big_tech_social_media_site" and that is simply not true. "Everything" is not streamlined. Standards certainly help. There are a lot of problems that are solved, thankfully. There are other areas to explore and maybe even work on. I have lots of questions. I learn new things everyday. Today I learned the term overton window perhaps apt for this conversation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
- pwb25 3y ago
  if you went to any software forum some years ago, most people hosted their own servers or did their own projects just for the sake of it. Now it's a lot of making some project to get into company A or solving some leetcode problems. Or learning AWS/Heroku/Azure or taking the certificates to getting more employable On the other hand I had friends in like 2005 running their own clusters of Sun Sparc servers just for fun and try it out. This type of nerdiness I didn't see in a while