most of what upsets people about software is a result of how, making it, you almost always have the choice between "do dozens of interesting things that will mostly work until they don't" and "do one useful, prosaic thing that will work much more reliably than the other things"
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sorry everyone, there's another option that i forgot about: you can also spend your time on flashy toys whose reliability is irrelevant because nothing of significance relies on them, then hop on Twitter to wave your dick around about ithttps://twitter.com/harrisonpartch/status/1120847380105056256 …
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you can't have done graphics programming because it isn't that way AT ALL
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i can't quite say i haven't done it but i avoid it like the plague that it is, so yeah, my perspective doesn't incorporate it much what's it like contrariwise then?
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that’s why i love being a consultant. get it up running just long enough for me to pop open my umbrella and fly away like mary poppins, disappearing into the clouds of ‘not my problem, suckers’
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beats workin'
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Where it all went wrong was when we invented ways for people to use computers without programming the damn things themselves
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