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"These annoying, jaded horse-drawn cart builders, cautioning youngsters from getting into the field in 1908."
by fastball 3mo ago
"These annoying, jaded horse-drawn cart builders, cautioning youngsters from getting into the field in 1908."
- imtringued 3mo agoExcept the point of the jaded person is that building transportation vehicles is a bad industry to get into, because there is a massive switch from cart building to automobile and truck building on the basis that it has become impossible to build a full automobile as a single person.
- fastball 3mo ago"Graphics programming" is definitely not equivalent in scope (in the analogy) to "the entire transportation vehicle industry".
- howLongHowLong 3mo agoIf that jaded horse-cart builder worked at Studebaker (or Peugot or Durant-Dort which became General Motors) it would be bad advice, bc they turned into a car company. Many cart companies did, bc the people with the knowledge of suspensions, etc developed those skills in cart making