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What's boring is your aproach. Even if that part of the desired outcome is true (it's not though, as it rarely takes into consideration long term benefits and
by Xeamek 3y ago
What's boring is your aproach.
Even if that part of the desired outcome is true (it's not though, as it rarely takes into consideration long term benefits and focuses purely on "instant gratification"), people who go to online programming forums as HN are hobbyists. And hobbyists do care about tools. You can't expect enthusiast to have this boring approach of someone who simply want to finish job on passable level and get the fuck out of office as quickly as possible.
And even if you are not a hobbyist, using a computer to do your/some job for you is literally what programming is about. So dismissing the topic of improving that process with better tools is simply ignorant
- Capricorn2481 3y agoA nice, bad faith read
- Xeamek 3y agoHow is this bad faith?
- laputan_machine 3y agoYou're assuming I'm not a hobbyist programmer (I am). Or that I don't take into account future requirements (I do). That I only care about a passable level of software (I am a big proponent of software craftsmanship... see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36586248#36587807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36586248#36587807, and also my original comment talked about maintainability...) In a hobbyist mentality, go wild! Do whatever makes you happy. In a professional, business environment I want to deliver outcomes first, my personal happiness comes from delivering those outcomes so it matters less on the technical choice.