Lots of software is crafted to make me feel rage
Crafted ? More like: if it compiles, ship it.
Craft software that makes people feel something
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#162"So, I woke up today. Got my coffee, family went to sleep, and I have a free afternoon." What kind of schedule or different timezone does this author have with their family? I am trying to imagine a family that either goes to bed in the early afternoon or a person who wakes up in the evening to start their day.
That is weird enough. But also the fact that he seems to be celebrating that is odd. Avoiding to spend time with your family shouldn’t be something you enjoy.
It can be both. You can enjoy family time, and still be happy with alone time. I love getting up at 5 am, when everyone is still asleep and the house is still quiet. But I also love spending time with the family once everyone's day starts. Both are possible.
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#163"So, I woke up today. Got my coffee, family went to sleep, and I have a free afternoon." What kind of schedule or different timezone does this author have with their family? I am trying to imagine a family that either goes to bed in the early afternoon or a person who wakes up in the evening to start their day.
That is weird enough. But also the fact that he seems to be celebrating that is odd. Avoiding to spend time with your family shouldn’t be something you enjoy.
wanting time away from your loved ones doesn't seem the least bit weird to me.
Like sure you love your wife and kids, but being with them every second of every day is probably too much for most sane people. Especially if you have hobbies that demand a lot of focus time.
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> GitHub does not let you disable many of the collaboration I wish they'd allow making issues and pull requests sponsor only. Could enable a business model.
It's weird that this thread argues to keep the fun in hobby projects and you ask for the exact opposite.
Fun hobby project with the option to change that if someone offers a big enough bag of money.
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#165Does feeling anger count? If so, then Google search is nailing that!
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There are plenty of impovrished, struggling artists - it's a cliche - and especially unknown ones creating for themselves. > Everyone else needed to find menial jobs. That doesn't mean you can't create art. Anthony Trollope worked for the post office. Einstein, who externalized imagination in somewhat different way and attributed much to art, was a patent clerk. New York and LA are filled with waitstaff-artists. A fr…
I sincerely never understood the “starving artist” thing. Everyone needs to be able to provide for themselves. The whole starving artist thing always came across (to me) as someone who refused to work because… art? Art, like anything else, lines up somewhere between a hobby and a career. Similar to athletes, somehow the cream just rises to the top. You never hear about “starving athletes” I guess is what I mean.
What about anyone who is constantly performing full-time at the highest level of creativity, not particularly underfed, but only financially compensated at a fraction of what would be possible if there was adequate recognition of those abilities?
You know, the kind of recognition that can only come when good fortune also smiles on such a dedicated worker.
I guess not all that many can relate unless they are doing creative work themselves.
But that's always been the first thing that comes to mind when I hear "starving" artist.
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I have to assume that someone has no idea what I was talking about, and thought that I was making some kind of ethnic slur. Sheesh. What do they teach, these days? Do people think Moby Dick is some kind of STD? For elucidation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh He died a pauper, but his work is some of the most valuable in history.
No complaining about downvotes! lol Yes, sometimes I can't even guess why. Drunk and missed the target? Those little arrows are poor GUI.
Actually there has been a request to report suspected downvote-a-bots.
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> At the same time treating software like an art is probably not very useful. That code is (typically) not written to be looked at, but to make the computer do something useful. FWIW you can argue the same for woodworking, a chair is typically not made to be looked at but for people to sit on. I tired to think what inherently makes writing software treated less than a craft than woodworking, but couldn’t think of any…
depends on the kind of software, the visuals are part of the ux and ergonomics. ratio, spacing, how to convey state with just the right amount of visual cues. a chair is not a tool your interact with to create. now there are some software that is like this, you want to start it and forget about it as long as it does its thing while you think about your goal.
Sometimes with software the reat art has nothing to do with anything the user sees.
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#169"So, I woke up today. Got my coffee, family went to sleep, and I have a free afternoon." What kind of schedule or different timezone does this author have with their family? I am trying to imagine a family that either goes to bed in the early afternoon or a person who wakes up in the evening to start their day.
> I always use the example of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This game is so well crafted that I know people who don’t even like video games but bought a console just to play it — and once they finished, they sold everything.
I feel like with the part you highlighted and this quote here that we are reading a blog post from an alternate dimension or something.
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#170> Craft software that makes people feel something Meta, Google, and all of FAANG already did that. They crafted software that made people feel hate, anger, depression, but sometimes joy. It's nice to get those cute animal posts when doom scrolling. It's a nice break from "you're all going to die", "everyone is dumb except you", and "you're powerless". Joking aside, I do very much agree with the OP. But I also wanted…
My saying is that if you want to be able to herd cats, you need to be cat yourself.
That can require so much experience most people could never imagine it could be accomplished at all.
But if so, you could then herd geniuses, as long as they were also cats :)
When you single-handedly have to cover a lot of bases, you do what you have to do.