I suppose it would be more On Brand if I had charged for them but while I tried to start a shareware business in high school (plugins for VGAPlanets) I never successfully shipped due to a) C b) worrying about parents reacting to checks in the mail from the Internet and c) C.
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(I had forgotten that! It seems like a natural thing now but “Wait people who you don’t know just *pay you* for this *thing that doesn’t even exist*; is that even legal?” was a major worry for my family and I when I got started for real.)
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“Is that even legal?” is like the platonic ideal of a disempowering question because a) most people aren’t qualified to answer it, b) smart people know that, c) the people who are qualified are expensive, and d) spoiler: answer is “Well it depends.”
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If often think what the culture of programming looked like if it looked like the culture of law: "Can you append an element to an array in Javascript?" "I've heard that it's possible but IANAP." "You should ask a licensed programmer." "It's clearly possible... except when not."
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"But I'm just trying to put this element in this array." "Whoa whoa slow down there, an array has a start and and end, and they could be the same, and clearly 'adding' an element to it is beyond your non-specialist mind." "It seems like it should be routine." "AHA but out of mem"
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We had a similar childhood!
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Wow! I have a somewhat similar story except that instead of video games there were websites
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story you have from your early childhood.
Mine is when my mom told me not to touch the electric stove when it was red, because that meant it was hot, so I made direct eye contact with her and slapped my hand down on the stove top.