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If you are finding programming easy doesn't that just mean you aren't trying hard enough? There are tons of unsolved problems, tools that aren't optimal, and pr

If you are finding programming easy doesn't that just mean you aren't trying hard enough? There are tons of unsolved problems, tools that aren't optimal, and products that don't work as well as they should. If fixing those things were easy for you, you would be a billionaire.

RHSeeger 3y ago
My guess would be that they are confusing "enjoyable" with "easy". I find software development enjoyable, but it can be both hard and easy at times. And sometimes hard (problem solving) is what I want to do, other times easy (knocking out code for a solved problem) is what I want instead. Alternatively, they are just in a role/job that doesn't happen to deal with difficult problems. Which is fine. Sometimes, that's what you want.
- cortesoft 3y ago
  Yeah, I clarified in another comment... it is more that I find it easy to do the hard work of programming.
cortesoft 3y ago
I believe I can solve any programming problem, but I can't solve all of them... there aren't enough hours in the day
randomdata 3y ago
> There are tons of unsolved problems, tools that aren't optimal, and products that don't work as well as they should. I'm not sure you would approach any of those with programming. Once you have solved the problem, determined how to optimize the tools, or found a way to make a product work better then you might turn to programming to implement your discovery, sure, but programming alone won't get you there.
samatman 3y ago
It's a profession. For some of us it's more than that, for some it's just a hobby, but for many it's exactly that, neither more nor less. Getting to the point where one can deliver value and find it easy, and setting the cruise control, is a reasonable thing to do. Frees time and mental attention for the rest of life. I don't happen to be wired up that way, but there are times when I wish I was.
rufus_foreman 3y ago
The things that get you to be a billionaire aren't coding issues. Take taxis for example. There were pretty restrictive laws about taxi operation. Limits to the number or taxis that could operate in a certain area, licensing issues for taxis. Now suppose you just say, "We'll ignore those laws. We'll get rich". That's not a programming exercise or an unsolved problem in software development. It's just fucking amazing. I write code. I'm good at it. But I would never in my life have come up with something like that, got it approved, and then gone through with it.

RHSeeger 3y ago

My guess would be that they are confusing "enjoyable" with "easy". I find software development enjoyable, but it can be both hard and easy at times. And sometimes hard (problem solving) is what I want to do, other times easy (knocking out code for a solved problem) is what I want instead. Alternatively, they are just in a role/job that doesn't happen to deal with difficult problems. Which is fine. Sometimes, that's what you want.

cortesoft 3y ago
Yeah, I clarified in another comment... it is more that I find it easy to do the hard work of programming.

cortesoft 3y ago

I believe I can solve any programming problem, but I can't solve all of them... there aren't enough hours in the day

randomdata 3y ago

> There are tons of unsolved problems, tools that aren't optimal, and products that don't work as well as they should. I'm not sure you would approach any of those with programming. Once you have solved the problem, determined how to optimize the tools, or found a way to make a product work better then you might turn to programming to implement your discovery, sure, but programming alone won't get you there.

samatman 3y ago

It's a profession. For some of us it's more than that, for some it's just a hobby, but for many it's exactly that, neither more nor less. Getting to the point where one can deliver value and find it easy, and setting the cruise control, is a reasonable thing to do. Frees time and mental attention for the rest of life. I don't happen to be wired up that way, but there are times when I wish I was.

rufus_foreman 3y ago

The things that get you to be a billionaire aren't coding issues. Take taxis for example. There were pretty restrictive laws about taxi operation. Limits to the number or taxis that could operate in a certain area, licensing issues for taxis. Now suppose you just say, "We'll ignore those laws. We'll get rich". That's not a programming exercise or an unsolved problem in software development. It's just fucking amazing. I write code. I'm good at it. But I would never in my life have come up with something like that, got it approved, and then gone through with it.