Re:Programming Is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic
by erikpukinskis on Monday December 19, 2016 @03:13AM
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> most discoveries will be made by those who enjoy discovery, not by those who view it as a means to reach utopia.
This contradicts the common adage "necessity is the mother of invention". I am building software every day to try to solve problems in my neighborhood... you seem to be saying people like me rarely invent anything, but coders who just do projects on the weekend for fun do. Why?
This contradicts the common adage "necessity is the mother of invention". I am building software every day to try to solve problems in my neighborhood... you seem to be saying people like me rarely invent anything, but coders who just do projects on the weekend for fun do. Why?