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Re:Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? by munificent on Monday April 13, 2020 @11:06PM (#22862400)
It's like you have to constantly keep learning, but nothing you learn really matters in any deep way. It's just new names and APIs for the same stuff, month after month.

Imagine if you were a woodworker making furniture. You make the same furniture every day and love your craft. But every month, someone shows up, takes all your hand tools, and replaces them all with a set that are mostly the same but slightly different and all have completely different names.

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Re:Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? by omginternets on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:03AM (#22863961)
1000x this. One of my pet peeves is the idea that all learning is equally worthwhile. It's possible to waste one's life "learning" the inane and shallow, and it's a suffocating experience when it happens.
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