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Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase

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Re: Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase

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Post by junon »

sneak wrote: post #48
Otek wrote: post #26

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Exactly this. Guy had a comfortable stable job for years. Probably knew codebase and technology enough to have lots of time for family/friends/hobbies. More than this story scares me how HN reacted

Having a comfortable, stable job for many years sounds like the worst version of hell one could possibly invent for people who live like I do. There are better things to aspire to than predictability whilst making someone else rich.

Only if you don't have other aspirations in life. My day job is solely to fund my personal projects that I actually enjoy. Not everyone is out to be insanely rich.

Re: Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase

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Post by morelisp »

Etheryte wrote: post #78
bowsamic wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about it would you like to avoid? I don't understand the fears that people have in this thread. To me this sounds like the Platonic ideal of a programming job. EDIT: I'll reply to my replier here because /u/Dang rate limited me (again), though I must commend him for letting me have one more comment than usual before he pushes the button ;) > I would say the ending -- the part where you are unemployed and unable…

Are you aware that rate limiting is not something a moderator goes around doing to a single person, but instead a server managing its own workload?

Hacker News has per-user configurable posting rate limits. Moderators use them.

Re: Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase

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Post by Double_a_92 »

hliyan wrote: post #52
bowsamic wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about it would you like to avoid? I don't understand the fears that people have in this thread. To me this sounds like the Platonic ideal of a programming job. EDIT: I'll reply to my replier here because /u/Dang rate limited me (again), though I must commend him for letting me have one more comment than usual before he pushes the button ;) > I would say the ending -- the part where you are unemployed and unable…

I would say the ending -- the part where you are unemployed and unable to support yourself in your old age because you invested decades of your brainpower into a highly specialised, non-transferrable skill.

That's mostly the guys fault and not the jobs fault.

Even in a bad code base you can start making things better, apply modern techniques and learn new things.

Also most of the skill you gain there is transferrable. E.g. just because you have to work with some legacy PHP project, it doesn't mean that you would suck at creating modern applications in JS. It would just take a couple of weeks to get use to it.

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