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You know, it's funny, when I was a cs student I always wondered why some of my best cs professors didn't bother using the latest and greatest tooling. As I got
by wing-_-nuts 1y ago
You know, it's funny, when I was a cs student I always wondered why some of my best cs professors didn't bother using the latest and greatest tooling. As I got older I realized, my time has actual monetary value, and spending time dealing with finicky software is often not worth it. Intellij is like ~ .50c / day, and I'm way more productive with it than I am with vim (and I say this as someone who used to mostly work with straight vim in college). Maybe you don't value your time?
- toprerules 1y agoPeople in academia are notoriously disconnected from real software development, so I wouldn't use them as an example of what to do or not do. You can be judicious with your time without avoiding any inconvenience to accomplishing a goal. Inconvenience is how you find motivation and learn new things. For 50c a day you're robbing yourself of valuable knowledge and bettering open ecosystems that are themselves fulfilling ends. If you don't put a value on learning or contributing back then I don't see why'd you'd want to be in this profession in the first place.