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Re:Show HN: Bel by iamwil on Saturday October 12, 2019 @11:37AM (#21233943)
There's a post about the three tribes of programming. https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/

    Tribe 1: You are a poet and a mathematician. Programming is your poetry
    Tribe 2: You are a hacker. You make hardware dance to your tune
    Tribe 3: You are a maker. You build things for people to use
alfiedotwtf falls in the first tribe. You fall in the 2nd. Different tribes have different values, and hence all the back and forth.
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Re:Show HN: Bel by dkarras on Saturday October 12, 2019 @02:32PM (#21235191)
What if I'm kind of all of them? Eternal damnation?

I've always strived to write beautiful code - for things people find very useful - in ways that push boundaries for what people think is possible with the machines we use.

I have succeeded in balancing any two of the above, to terrible detriment of the third. Never been able to juggle the 3 at the same time and this bothers me a lot. The upside is this pushes me to learn a lot, downside is I'm never content with my craft.

I'd have loved to solve domain specific important problems with a domain specific language I craft with a LISP and have state of the art performance while doing so.

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Re:Show HN: Bel by kirillzubovsky on Saturday October 12, 2019 @02:41PM (#21235254)
Love this distinction. Makes a lot of sense, and is probably a key to happiness, to both realize which tribe you're in, and whether you're trying to argue with the tribe with another set of principles.
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Re:Show HN: Bel by alfiedotwtf on Saturday October 12, 2019 @08:14PM (#21237296)
I like this :)

Programming is my poetry. Damn... that's a nice take

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