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Re:I worked with a newbie programmer who pretended like a se... by saltcured on Monday October 03, 2022 @04:23PM (#33073158)
I think that is right. But while some people might hear "hermit" and think of a hermetic monk, "mountain man" connotes more wildness. He might fashion his dev tools from the pelts of whatever animal he slaughtered last winter...
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Re:I worked with a newbie programmer who pretended like a se... by satisfice on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @05:22AM (#33078090)
It's important to reflect, once in a while, about how BIG the world of software tech is. It's like a galaxy, with whole globular clusters in it that see the world entirely within their own Node.js or Lisp or whatever perspective.

I love HN because it is the one best way I have of tasting the incredible depth and diversity of that world. On the one hand it gives me a feeling that I know very little about software development... but on the other I realize that my own specialty (software testing as social science) is little understood by others. I'm a decent star within my own cluster.

So, maybe everyone who reads HN has a similar experience, no matter where in the galaxy they call home.

(Except that people who work in big teams on popular products are more in the center of the galaxy)

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