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A comment on Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by thrills on Monday January 06, 2020 @01:30AM (#21967018)
What people dream about doesn't really mean anything. They don't actually live and work at google, as a software engineer. They just see some kind of marketing version of "a day in the life of a software engineer at google". It has nothing to do with reality.

Every programmer I met is depressed, hates computers, and spends all of their day just pretending to work because they burned out in the first month of programming. Programming isn't a real job for actual humans. We can't do it. The market just demands it.

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Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by colonCapitalDee on Monday January 06, 2020 @03:38AM (#21967595)
Claiming that humans intrinsically hate programming is a real hot take. Have anything to back that up besides sketchy anecdotal evidence?
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