As we come into 2020, I am now pretty sure I picked the wrong career. If I had known what computers were going to become, I probably wouldn't have wanted to be a programmer. It is definitely no longer a career for people who take pride in their work.
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For example, it is not possible for me to ship a game to a consumer and have it not, for example, randomly stop in the middle of them playing it for Windows to put up a message that their OS needs to update. Period. End of story.
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The analogy to a carpenter would be if they could only build their, you know, chair on top of legs sold by IKEA that broke the minute you sat on it.
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Is there no good software in the world just because operating systems and hardware don't always work the way we want them to?
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I worry you come to learn hard truths about carpentry.
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There are other cases though, embedded or other kinds of defined hardware that you control and program on top of, consoles, probably more stuff. You can pick projects that run away from those problems is some sense. But I see the sentiment :(
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You can make it as good as it can be within the environment though. And a carpenter isn't in control of the environment the furniture is placed in either. Very rarely does a piece of furniture perfectly match the other furniture, and an imperfect floor can still cause a wobble.
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Sounds like you should start a new endeavor to combine hardware philosophy with an operating system wholly compatible with that hardware... ...but many have tried and failed such attempts.
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