Quit Programming and become a Farmer

http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/fin/

The guy rants about the industry and how it is garbage. So he goes and grows stuff on his acreage (wow that's a solution to the problem) and hunts game, digs trenches and ditches. Sounds similar to the guy who quit the industry to grow coffee beans, remember that story?

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Programmers Going Their Own Way

Niggers Going Their Own Way

GNU's Not Usable.

The weak grow food for the strong.

The weak write programs for the strong.

>>1

The net result of all this is that we have data centres occupying many hectares, filled with computers that are architecturally identical to a Packard Bell 486 desktop running MS-DOS long enough to boot a crippled and amateurish clone of Unix circa 1987, and an endless array of complex, kludged-up hardware and software components intended to hide all of that. I would ask for a show of hands from those who consider this progress, but too many are happily riding the gravy train this abomination enables.

Sounds good to me. Whatever works.

OCD anal retentive perfectionist isn't happy. Me, slightly less anal retentive, write my shitty programs, and enjoy it.

^ I don't think he's looked at this objectively - look at all the improvements that have been made to power saving laptops and tablets that turn off and go to sleep. Server rooms are indeed a bunch of MS-DOS like computers running bug prone C language programs on monolithic kernels, but what about all the advancements that have been made with power saving laptops and tablets. How about the fact that the internet, has created the ability to do scientific research much quicker by accessing science journals online instead of by postal mail.

>>9

How about the fact that the internet, has created the ability to do scientific research much quicker by accessing science journals online instead of by postal mail.

Yeah, after you give your money to the parasitic Jew so that he lets you through his paywall.

>>10
dubs

Sounds like he took himself too seriously for an industry that does give a shit about him. I'm glad he had the good sense to realize this before wasting away his life on yet another web-api.

"People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to advance those disciplines." [ http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/advice.html ]

This dude is right. The industry today is a giant circle-jerk. Honestly, I don't see why you'd _want_ to major CS. Most schools are either sucked into the 'job hype' or are stuck in the 90s. Focus on a domain and learn CS and programming on the side.

Xarn quit programming to become a carpenter.

>>12
I just want to program for its own sake. I find "applied" programming distasteful and offensive. Programs should be written for the same reason a god creates universes - for their own sake. Applying programming to some quotidian mundanity in the real world is degrading.

Live life like a monk - earn enough for your daily bread and lodging so you can spend your time programming. After food and lodging has been secured, all you need is programming to achieve satori.

>>14

a god
universe(s)

begone, pagan scum

>>15
Nonsense.

>>12
CS is not a course in programming. You should not study CS for the sake of becoming a programmer. You should study CS if your goal is to learn the mathematics of computation.

>>16
Nonsense.

>>14
How romantic. The starving artist martyr. Martyrism is one of the biggest plagues on humanity. Yes, go dedicate short, meaningless life without a long term strategy. Self-sacrificing is reserved for the stupid and abled. Which brand is your kool-aid, btw?

>>17
I explicitly state CS _and_ programming because they are different. And due to the industry, many schools confuse the two. Why would you want to major in CS (at the schools)? I'm saying to master some other discipline and learn CS _and_ programming on the side because the 'goal' is futile in its own right. It turns into a giant stagnation/circle-jerk. The software community is filled with shitty dev tools and other things to stroke-your-own-egos/scratch-your-own-itches, yet actual progress are far rarer by comparison. Like the OptiKey guy ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLkyORh7vKk ) solved a low hanging fruit. Now, imagine if you already had expertise in another domain. What low hanging fruits could you solve?

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There's a tired cliche amongst writers. The novel about young novelists by a young novelist. Don't be that fucking guy.

>>10
Agree that it is hard to obtain a lot of scientific data online, but there is maybe 50 percent of it available in free PDF files, and the other 50 percent locked away in "pay us first" journals. Someone has to pay scientists to do the work, though, either through government force, or capitalist markets. Are you suggesting we get rid of money altogether and use something similar to utopian Zeitgeist society (see youtube video)

>>14

do you change your oil in your car for the sake of it? that gets boring pretty fast. At some point you will realize that your computer has to do something useful for yourself, society, or your family, or your fellow programmers. Just programming for the sake of programming eventually gets dull. Haskell programmers tend to program for the sake of it, rather than providing anything truly useful - you might want to try that community until you get bored of "side effects are evil! computers are not meant to do anything useful!" tripe. Hint: a casio calculator has side effects.

Do you change your oil in your cdr for the sake of it???

my cd rom drive doesn't have any finger nail clippings jamming it up so no oil needs to be changed ( jammed ) )()))()((