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Quitting engineering to pursue art full-time

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Re: Quitting engineering to pursue art full-time

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Post by margalabargala »

fragmede wrote: post #24
paulcole wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YC startup idea: AI generated-articles designed to give computer programmers dopamine hits when they get to correct a small error/issue/discrepancy. Like Zyns but distracting. Maybe it’s like a reward. Fix a tough bug and your manager sends you an article where you get to point out that the author is incorrectly using “strawman fallacy.”

Zyns?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyn_(nicotine_pouches)

Re: Quitting engineering to pursue art full-time

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Post by antirez »

Well, he is using code as a tool, as a mean to reach his goals. I believe this is the best way to write code, after all. Should almost be the only sensible way. It's just that in 2024, having a programming job is 90% of times doing things you don't care with tools you don't want to use. The problem is not programming itself.

Re: Quitting engineering to pursue art full-time

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Post by ein0p »

datadrivenangel wrote: post #20

Reminds me of the classic: "Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there's always the opportunity to remove my finger with a table saw, but nobody asks me if I can add an RSS feed to a DBMS, so there's that :-)" https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149...

Could they add AI to that table saw so it removes fingers more efficiently, that’s the pressing question we’re facing today.

Re: Quitting engineering to pursue art full-time

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Post by fragmede »

margalabargala wrote: post #31
fragmede wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zyns?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyn_(nicotine_pouches)

Thanks. That's what I found via Google but I don't use them so I wasn't sure of the connection and that it wasn't some app or library that the kids are using these days that I hadn't heard about.

Re: Quitting engineering to pursue art full-time

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Post by helboi4 »

Bruh I was just opening up my computer to apply for a CS masters to advance my career as a languages & humanities degree holder turned SE who always wanted to do art. Now I'm back to thinking I should try and work on art until it can take over my career.

It's sort of upsetting that doing something I'm bad at (SE) makes me more money than anything I'm good at. Feels like it traps me.

Re: Quitting engineering to pursue art full-time

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Post by theideaofcoffee »

free_bip wrote: post #18
doytch wrote: post #5

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I think the argument here is that hate (which is a subset of passion) is not the purely negative thing that we immediately think it is. Especially in art. When people _hate_ art the art has served its purpose. Art's intention (to paint with heinously broad strokes) is to create emotions and drive thoughts. That's a very different intention than a product/service and they shouldn't be compared in that sense. But also:…

Arts intention is whatever the artist makes it out to be. If an artist wants their work to be loved, not hated... Well then this doesn't really apply does it

Even if the artist wrote their own citation of a work saying "I intended it for it to be loved, and that's the only correct interpretation", it's still not correct if one subscribes, as I do, to the literary-focused "the death of the author('s authority)" once they release it. They really don't get a say how it's taken once someone else perceives it.

I think the parent's free use of 'hate' stands in for a conflict in emotion and interpretation this way, and less it being completely despised or loathed.

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