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Re:How I discovered the underground world of credit card net... by libraryatnight on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:36PM (#36975027)
Just seems like programming will be joining the ranks of most tools. There will always be craftsmen, there will always be professionals, and then there will be the guy bolting together ice chests and garbage disposals to make margarita mixers on his patio or the kid with a duct tape exhaust rig on his Honda Civic.

I guess, to your point, it's only trouble if the margarita mixer guy is put in charge of something that matters? :D

(might be a bad example, I've known some fine engineers and mechanics that are absolutely margarita mixer guy, but hopefully my point is taken lol)

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Re:How I discovered the underground world of credit card net... by pixl97 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:23PM (#36975821)
>Just seems like programming will be joining

I'd love to know about the nirvana you've been in up till now, because working around code from numerous large companies the vast majority of it is the crappest ass crap straight from the crapper with no redeeming qualities, and it has been this way forever. I'm not saying their isn't good parts, there are general core routines that sheer need for them to be performant and non-data corrupting forced some Sr engineer to fix them.

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