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A comment on Ask HN: What do you like about working in software?.

Re:Ask HN: What do you like about working in software? by amorphid on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:43PM (#13879134)
In every job I had before moving into coding, I hated something about some piece of software I was using, and for various reasons, I found it impossible to address that thing I hated. So I learned to code. Now when I bump into software I don't like, I can do something about it, or learn to appreciate why it works that way!
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Re:Ask HN: What do you like about working in software? by arduin0mancer on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:54PM (#13879221)
On a similar note, the joy of automating stuff is amazing.

My previous non-software job was with an engineering company and I ended up having to do stuff like manually typing values from a PDF report into an excel file.

I got so annoyed with doing this task that one day I rage-coded a parser in python that took in raw PDF data and outputted a CSV file.

The first useful thing you ever code is really motivating.

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