It is satire but I think people like this are heros. Not doing the flashy fancy stuff but keeping the world ticking over nicely.
I don't think it is satire. Or reality has become the satire. This seemed entirely real to me.
Poe's law strikes again!
Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase
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#553Man spends entire career convincing himself the reason he keeps job hopping is because everyone else is writing crappy code. Karl Hackerman shows up to each meeting complaining. He seems sour that he hasn’t been given the go ahead to rewrite the system in Rust. He knows a lot about bleeding edge frameworks and best practices and always seems annoyed that he can’t use them at work. He thinks it’s because everyone else…
I did not expect to wake up and be attacked like this. Not even a warning. Savage. Good thing I'm not in my 40s yet, still time to recover from my wayward path.
Yeah this is ruthless. On the other hand, I feel ok with my present course because the intermittent chance to use new shit is the only thing that keeps me interested anymore. That and the exorbitant pay, I guess.
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Your skills don't age like your physical body does.
That is true, but the rapid change in the tech industry makes "skills" mean something different than it would in, say, woodworking. Once you learn woodwoorking, you're going to be good at it (until you lose strength, flexibility in your fingers, etc). In our industry, to 'stay at the same place,' you continually have to learn new technologies, new concepts, etc.
Computer programming isnt like woodworking though, its all in the mind
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#555Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your skills don't age like your physical body does.
You are saying it like skills aren't contained in that physical body.
You can program using a blow stick if you have to. Its a mental ability not a physical one. Unless you get dementia you could do it forever
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Why do people feel they can make sweeping assertions about other people's experiences like this? You don't know anything about the lives of the billions of childless people out there. Many of us have livestyles that wouldn't be possible if we had children, and our "moments without kids" are totally, incomparably different from your moments without kids. The smugness of people with kids is just annoying.
> The smugness of people with kids is just annoying. The ability of people without kids to have a firm belief on how they’d feel with or without them is also astonishing. I doubt people with kids are smug about it. It’s just been life changing for them, and to some extend they must regret that other people will never get to experience that, especially if they were initially hesitant too. Anyway, fully agree it makes…
> The ability of people without kids to have a firm belief on how they’d feel with or without them is also astonishing.
First he tells me how I feel, now you're telling me what I believe?
I don't know how I'd feel if I had kids. What I do know is that I "fully appreciate my moments without kids".
If a non-parent told you that you can't truly enjoy your free time because you have kids, wouldn't that be a bit rude?
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#557Earlier quoted context omitted.
People with kids have also been people without kids at some point in their life. So I'd guess they know both perspectives. I didn't read their comment as smugness.
Maybe I should be smugger about myself having kids, but it was really meant as nothing else as a lightheaded remark. From my own perspective of course - there is clearly my (nick)name over it.
Sure, and if it was just your comment it wouldn't annoy me. But these sorts of comments about non-parents from parents are constant. I totally parents that they enjoy having kids--why is it so implausible to parents that I can equally enjoy not having kids?
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Ah, the ol' liquidity spiel. One wonders how markets were even possible before HFT...
Markets were possible. But what about the current offering of ETFs and similar products? Despite all the fancy talk, many HFT firms are just market makers for the products that enable average joes to invest well and cheaply. You don't have to be that old to remember how terrible the experience used to be, and how easily even sophisticated individuals were ripped off at every point of the process.
> You don't have to be that old to remember how terrible the experience used to be
I guess I'm not old enough. What was the system like? How did sophisticated traders get ripped off?
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Its not a mischaracterization, its a projection: if you don't do something that parent commenter believes is important then you are not important. Moral : before starting new job always ask parent commenter are this new job is important for him?
That’s not an accurate summary of my beliefs. Maybe this would be clearer: If you want to be interesting, choose to do something interesting. Luck is rarely the limiting factor in your creative output.
Thanks for explanation.
> If you want to be interesting, choose to do something interesting.
Interesting for who? For you or for someone else?
Re: Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase
#560I swear this guy exists at every company I've ever worked. He's the guy you go to when you find some legacy code which you have no idea how the hell it works and end up getting a 2 hour history lesson into a decade of company politics and failed replatforming projects. They're hard not to love.
I recognize the parody about me. ;) Do you know why I am giving you the two hour history? First, I recognize that I need human interaction, but do not really like people. Second, I am hoping that you will learn & understand instead of just memorize & regurgitate so in the future you can resolve it yourself instead of bothering me. Now, go away; I had my week's fill of socializing. /joking - or am I?
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