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> Tired of these absolutes. Now, that is a letter to new developer that I wish I had read when I was a new developer: Dear new developer, Be careful when reading blogs. A lot of st…

> just like people have autonomy over their bodies, they deserve autonomy over their software, without having to rely on a corrupt and incompetent industry The technical means you …

You should have stopped at 90 degrees ;) Without salespeople you can't sell software. Without developers, you can't make software. Since we all have to pay bills, selling software …

Your anecdote talks about taking breaks and doing dishes, but fails to talk about measures of productivity.

I sometimes wonder whether that's a better idea for these micro-optimizations, rather than looking at the assembly code and trying to coax the compiler into generating what you wan…

The original joke deliberately says "two hard problems" and then lists three. The "off by one errors" being the 3rd problem is the punchline of the joke.

Mr. Roboto

> Which goes on to prove that bottleneck isn't in writing the code. It is in reading and understanding the code. The people AI evangelists often say "typing" instead of "writing co…

That's very true, which is why I find it insulting that so many AI proponents use the word "typing" to refer to writing code. It carries an implication that if you enjoy writing co…

> I think a lot of HN truly believes that Software Developer is the only important role at their company. I doubt that. A lot of HN might have believed that some 10 years ago, perh…

I liked it immediately, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it until I saw your comment. To me, "vegetarianism" is a much better label than "organic" or "GenAI-free". People who …

What I find ironic is that "this reads like an AI" is a phrase that is rapidly losing its meaning, partly due to advances in AI, but also because it's being worn out, just like eve…

> It's like saying "we shouldn't worry about enforcing traffic laws because we need to use our resources to bring war criminals to justice" It most definitely isn't. At no point di…

I have to ask: did you read what I wrote before you replied to me? I know the question might come across as an attack, but it's not. I'm genuinely curious about what process lead t…

> All corruption is bad. This is true, just like "all lives matter" is true, and it misses the point in the exact same way. Those people you are replying to are not saying that thi…

> The structure of your code, the algorithms you choose, etc. are all dictated by the requirements. Only if you expand the meaning of the word "requirements" to encompass a full sp…

> Writing code is just means of conveyance, no? Yes, which is why I have been making the distinction between "programming" and "writing code" all this time. Programming is hard bec…

> Is writing hard? I expect most can agree that determining what to write, especially if you have an objective (e.g. becoming a best-selling novelist), can be extremely hard — but …

> What is hard about it? Young children seem to pick it up with ease. It cannot be that hard? That's like saying "becoming a writer can't be that hard, since kids learn how to writ…

> the actual programming is not the hard part We've all been hearing that a lot and it's made a lot of people forget that, although programming might not be the hardest part, it's …

Good thing he's so good at respecting rules that say he can't do things. And good thing that he's had to face the punishment for breaking some of those rules. Imagine reading what …

> Such a world still has room for unlicensed developers too -- I'd certainly be among them. Sign me up. When I started programming as a 7 year old kid, it wasn't because I dreamed …

> Left to their own devices, engineers would build the cheapest bridge they could sell that hopefully won't collapse. I don't know any real (i.e. non-software) engineers, but I wou…

> No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is. There are two reasons for this. One is that the people who make purchasing decisions are often not the …

The "not having children" part of the comment was clearly marked as a footnote attached to the quote about how children are "easily produced".