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I'm not trying to feed the troll here, but I feel it should be noticed that this is a hacker community, and hackers don't generally dig fence post holes all day

by dbz 17y ago

I'm not trying to feed the troll here, but I feel it should be noticed that this is a hacker community, and hackers don't generally dig fence post holes all day, trenches, or lay bricks all day. I'm sure some do, but programmers, who program for a living, need to be in front of a computer of some kind. Not all hard jobs involve labor. I'm guessing you've never had to sit in front of a computer and think logically for a week -getting very little sleep all the while. If you had, you would not only have not written that post, but would learn that thinking, and not moving while you think (limited movement), can be stressful and hard to say the least. Well, that's my two cents, and from my point of view, and I am sure others share it, when you said "But physically, if you're saying 'computing' is hard," I dare you to do something some of the greater "computers" (people who computer) have done. You know, like make an operating system from scratch without ever seeing code of one, you know, like Steve Jobs did, for example. Ok. I hope that didn't come out as a rant, and if it did, I apologize, but think about it, computing can be hard.

MrEs 17y ago
Sure devving is hard! I've most certainly had my share of ~100 hour weeks, no doubt they are horrific! They ruin you! (My partner doesn't enjoy them either :P) And I'm sure whatever crazy devving sessions I've endured, they are but a drop in the ocean compared to what people a required to pull off when they are taking the first steps in a start-up. However it’s actually a topic that my best mates and I talk about quite often! How lucky we are that we can sit in our air condition offices all day, drinking coffee straight from a coffee machine, with our nice 26” LCDs, a plant beside us and our high back chairs... While others we grew up with come home wire sore backs, sun burnt, trash hands that just constantly hurt. Heck quite a few have even lost fingers. Sure our computer jobs can be stressful but that’s why we do it, for the kick, we have the drive, we love the challenge. Yea no shit nobody on here digs fence posts... they wouldn't be bloody winging about sitting in a chair all day if they did ahahah. Surely some of you have had ACTUAL REAL, physically hard jobs in the past? While putting yourselves through university or the like? I had some SHOCKING jobs going through uni from kitchen hand to digging bores/water holes on farm land in outback Australia. Maybe that’s where my appreciation of what a physically intensive job means, stems from? My point is.. How lucky are we!?! Anways, watch me get down voted to hell because this isn't what others want to hear about our 'precious lifestyle'. But I fail to understand how your body can get SORE from sitting in a cushy chair for 15 hours a day ... !? WTF!
- jodrellblank 17y ago
  Anways, watch me get down voted to hell because this isn't what others want to hear about our 'precious lifestyle' Watch you get downvoted for being unhelpful, unsympathetic and trollish. Maybe that’s where my appreciation of what a physically intensive job means, stems from? Why are you talking on and on about physically intensive jobs when the OP is not saying "It's too much effort", he's saying "it's wrecking my wrists and it should not, what am I doing wrong?". Yea no shit nobody on here digs fence posts... they wouldn't be bloody winging about sitting in a chair all day if they did ahahah They would if their family survival depends on income from sitting typing and they can't type because of knackered wrists. But I fail to understand ... That's a failure in your understanding.

by dbz 17y ago

MrEs 17y ago

Sure devving is hard! I've most certainly had my share of ~100 hour weeks, no doubt they are horrific! They ruin you! (My partner doesn't enjoy them either :P) And I'm sure whatever crazy devving sessions I've endured, they are but a drop in the ocean compared to what people a required to pull off when they are taking the first steps in a start-up. However it’s actually a topic that my best mates and I talk about quite often! How lucky we are that we can sit in our air condition offices all day, drinking coffee straight from a coffee machine, with our nice 26” LCDs, a plant beside us and our high back chairs... While others we grew up with come home wire sore backs, sun burnt, trash hands that just constantly hurt. Heck quite a few have even lost fingers. Sure our computer jobs can be stressful but that’s why we do it, for the kick, we have the drive, we love the challenge. Yea no shit nobody on here digs fence posts... they wouldn't be bloody winging about sitting in a chair all day if they did ahahah. Surely some of you have had ACTUAL REAL, physically hard jobs in the past? While putting yourselves through university or the like? I had some SHOCKING jobs going through uni from kitchen hand to digging bores/water holes on farm land in outback Australia. Maybe that’s where my appreciation of what a physically intensive job means, stems from? My point is.. How lucky are we!?! Anways, watch me get down voted to hell because this isn't what others want to hear about our 'precious lifestyle'. But I fail to understand how your body can get SORE from sitting in a cushy chair for 15 hours a day ... !? WTF!

jodrellblank 17y ago
Anways, watch me get down voted to hell because this isn't what others want to hear about our 'precious lifestyle' Watch you get downvoted for being unhelpful, unsympathetic and trollish. Maybe that’s where my appreciation of what a physically intensive job means, stems from? Why are you talking on and on about physically intensive jobs when the OP is not saying "It's too much effort", he's saying "it's wrecking my wrists and it should not, what am I doing wrong?". Yea no shit nobody on here digs fence posts... they wouldn't be bloody winging about sitting in a chair all day if they did ahahah They would if their family survival depends on income from sitting typing and they can't type because of knackered wrists. But I fail to understand ... That's a failure in your understanding.