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At the end of the day, the shareholders care about delivering features, gaining customers, and making money. They don’t care how software is built. They absolutely do care how software is built. They just don't weight the factors the same way you do. Product companies exist to convert software into money by providing utility to users. There's really no part of the transaction that meaningfully involves how much fun y…
Funny. Steve Jobs was all about fun. Seems to have worked out well given Apple has maintained much of the culture Steve left behind.
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Hot take: We mostly eat garbage tomatoes. "*A BLT is a tomato sandwich, seasoned with bacon.* It wasn't until I tasted my first great tomato, at the vine-ripe old age of 22, that I finally understood the true nature of the BLT (and, by extension, why I'd never enjoyed tomatoes on my sandwiches or in my salads). Here we go: A BLT is not a well-dressed bacon sandwich. A BLT is a tomato sandwich, seasoned with bacon. Fr…
I mean, I'm not much of a gardener, but Erin sure is, and I had a direct basis for comparison. Our tomatoes were better, but the supermarket heirlooms were perfectly cromulent. I think the key is just to make sure you're buying them in season, and that they didn't travel far.
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no, it makes you a great chef
I believe you reinforced the point.
produce : chef :: code : programmer
chefs use produce to create dishes of food; chefs do not generally grow their own food. the point they were making is that the code is actually the means to the end, not the end in itself. to wit: i do not write assembly.
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We grew tomatoes last summer. Over the last 2 years, something about tomatoes (and BLTs in particular) really clicked for me; we'd grown tomatoes many previous summers, and I could give a shit, but last summer I cared a lot about our home-grown tomatoes. And I totally did feel less good about BLTs I made with supermarket heirloom tomatoes! It was irrational, but I did feel that way. I get where people are coming from…
Hot take: We mostly eat garbage tomatoes. "*A BLT is a tomato sandwich, seasoned with bacon.* It wasn't until I tasted my first great tomato, at the vine-ripe old age of 22, that I finally understood the true nature of the BLT (and, by extension, why I'd never enjoyed tomatoes on my sandwiches or in my salads). Here we go: A BLT is not a well-dressed bacon sandwich. A BLT is a tomato sandwich, seasoned with bacon. Fr…
source, am Romanian.
I built a TV OS slideshow app for both photos and videos (as far as I know all the apps just go through photos).
I have no experience in Apple OSes development and in the past it would had taken me at least a week to just read enough documentation to get started.
Now? It took me 3 hours of iterating with an LLM to start from scratch developing and publish the app.
When you realize that being a great "programmer", isn't about writing the most code, but getting the job done... AI will click as another tool in the toolbox.