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Re:I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer by duiker101 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @07:30PM (#24173368)
No. This is gatekeeping at it's finest. You can say that while they stream they are working on their social media presence more than the codebase, but streaming per-se doesn't stop them from being "real coders".

Everyone codes however they want. What works for you might be different for someone else. And wanting to do it while interacting with an audience or streaming themselves creating something they already know how to do are all completely fine things.

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Re:I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer by ZinZirconium on Saturday August 15, 2020 @08:11PM (#24173602)
Yes. It's gatekeeping borne of jealousy. Keep introverted nerds in tech. Extroverted marketeers took our technology and perverted it into social media.

Woz said of his time building blue boxes purely motivated by intellectual curiosity:

> I was so pure. Now I realize others were not as pure, they were just trying to make money. But then I thought we were all pure.

Tech is so impure today it reeks. Bring back the hackers who build things for fun. Bring back the nerds who don't care to make money.

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