abaracadab

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by abaracadab 5y ago
I have spent thousands of hours honing my software craft outside of work/school hours. I guarantee you most folks working those minimum wage jobs are not doing the same in their field. If they were passionate about it (whether front of
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by abaracadab 5y ago
Some folks would say the same thing about software development sucking. I think it probably depends on which restaurant you work at and on your skill set and ability to thrive in that fast paced environment. The difference is that software
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by abaracadab 5y ago
Don’t forget your pentium and DOS collection! Air-gapped of course.
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by abaracadab 5y ago
Technology is often simultaneously an art, science, and business. Now, I’d imagine for any creator the art and science portions are the more interesting bits. But what you’re talking about is technology as a means to some financial end (whi
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by abaracadab 5y ago
Honestly a lot of folks should assess the value that big tech provides. We survived the 90’s running MSDOS backing stuff up to disks. And storage is cheap. Cloud this-and-that is great in theory but in practice it makes things too complicat
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by abaracadab 5y ago
So it sounds like skill + luck: key in the hole gives random chance of winning. Honestly, these kind of lawsuits are ridiculous. People need to sue General Mills for false advertising instead because sugary cereals causing diabetes; or an
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by abaracadab 5y ago
This makes sense to be domain specific. But it’s all in the realm of what interests people. Personally, I like to code, I like to draw, I enjoy maths, music and many other things. All of those skills actually augment each other: geometry ai