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Re:Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017) by non-entity on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @08:34AM (#21269654)
> esoteric details of various parts of computers (i.e. you get to see computers more realistically than idealized), the more depressed you get about the current state of software development.

Honestly the most depressing part is hearing all these older guys talk about the really cool problems they worked on during the dawn of modern computing, knowing I'm just gonna be writing shitty business apps till I retire

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Re:Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017) by wolfgke on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @08:41AM (#21269708)
> Honestly the most depressing part is hearing all these older guys talk about the really cool problems they worked on during the dawn of modern computing, knowing I'm just gonna be writing shitty business apps till I retire

You can do this cool stuff at night and weekends (I do!).

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