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> Programming used to be hard, and not everybody is as smart as you are. But some people are willing to learn brutally hard.
by aleph_minus_one 2y ago
> Programming used to be hard, and not everybody is as smart as you are.
But some people are willing to learn brutally hard.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoContext here is "bicycles for the mind", a metaphor that was talking about people in general - it's not "bicycles for the minds of 0.001% of the population dedicated enough and lucky enough to be able to invest large amount of time to master the arcane arts of writing code, in an antagonistic environment, as software vendors try to prevent them from doing it".
- aleph_minus_one 2y agoLearning to ride a bicycle is also hard work. :-)
- TeMPOraL 2y agoFair enough :). (As a father facing the challenge now, I wonder if it's harder for the kid or for the parent...)