People say this but I have no idea what they base it on, I’ve never seen anyone say they wanted to become a programmer because they saw The Social Networkhttps://twitter.com/rivatez/status/1251930464530493440 …
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I seriously think those people are fewer than those pretending to be them because mythical man month and the stack overflow blogger guys say that's the only kind of person worth hiring
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in no subfield is this worse than infosec, where employees argue vehemently that they would quit if an employer tried to enforce work-life balance because they're so obsessed with their craft but also literally everyone is an alcoholic
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oldster checking in (48) I was fascinated by depictions of computers in books and TV, couldn't WAIT to touch a Commodore PET, then an Apple ][+ in 4th grade. Taught myself BASIC, then Pascal, then got a book and started poking 6502 opcodes into memory by 8th grade. >>>
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(50) The excitement of that time/age may be hard to appreciate. Saw an Apple ][, someone typed something in then went to insert mode and edited *without retyping* and I was like OMG the possibilities -- which I could make happen myself, at my age, no gatekeeper. The Future, now
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