I'm guilty of creating solutions for problems that don't exist, or just toying around with technology without any real purpose. But I don't see any harm in that. I work in software development and...
I'm guilty of creating solutions for problems that don't exist, or just toying around with technology without any real purpose. But I don't see any harm in that. I work in software development and make real things there. If you're a professional then you necessarily are solving real world problems. All of my other time with computers can be as unproductive and obsessively niche as I want.
Title is misleading and click baity despite the author toning it down. It's less about recovering from a computer science education and more about avoiding the toxicity of the software development...
Title is misleading and click baity despite the author toning it down. It's less about recovering from a computer science education and more about avoiding the toxicity of the software development community. It's a reasonable set of things to do.
I dont think its specific to computer science. The internet in general has some very extreme takes that are often presented as normal for people in the know in any hobby. Just stop taking...
I dont think its specific to computer science. The internet in general has some very extreme takes that are often presented as normal for people in the know in any hobby. Just stop taking everything too seriously and arguing about things that ultimately dont matter to your personal life and move on to other things.
Do they? Any kind of art seems like a magic to me, to be honest
Do something artistic. Write songs or short stories, sketch, learn to do pixel art. Most of these also have the benefit of much shorter turnaround times than any kind of software project.
Do they? Any kind of art seems like a magic to me, to be honest
For real. I dipped in and out of this space for a bit and there's not much to gain from it but lots to lose. Especially in a career in this field, people don't want to work with someone who...
It's far too easy to get wrapped up in discussions of the validity of functional programming or whether or not Scheme can be used to make commercial applications or how awful PHP is. The deeper you get into this, the more you lose touch.
For real. I dipped in and out of this space for a bit and there's not much to gain from it but lots to lose. Especially in a career in this field, people don't want to work with someone who gatekeeps languages or methodologies. It took one real incident for me when working with someone like that to realize I never want to be that guy.
I'm guilty of creating solutions for problems that don't exist, or just toying around with technology without any real purpose. But I don't see any harm in that. I work in software development and make real things there. If you're a professional then you necessarily are solving real world problems. All of my other time with computers can be as unproductive and obsessively niche as I want.
Title is misleading and click baity despite the author toning it down. It's less about recovering from a computer science education and more about avoiding the toxicity of the software development community. It's a reasonable set of things to do.
I dont think its specific to computer science. The internet in general has some very extreme takes that are often presented as normal for people in the know in any hobby. Just stop taking everything too seriously and arguing about things that ultimately dont matter to your personal life and move on to other things.
Do they? Any kind of art seems like a magic to me, to be honest
For real. I dipped in and out of this space for a bit and there's not much to gain from it but lots to lose. Especially in a career in this field, people don't want to work with someone who gatekeeps languages or methodologies. It took one real incident for me when working with someone like that to realize I never want to be that guy.