platistocrates

This comment section is depressing. We take ourselves too seriously.

There was another starcraft mod called Golems Evolution that was almost an idle clicker, but you had to choose how to evolve your army. Would love something like that.

Speaking from experience... Degrees are not at all required in software engineering. Passion & skill are sought after in early career developers, and years of experience will suffice in more advanced engineers.

what's cool is, it doesn't even feel futuristic anymore.

One wonders if individuality is just an anthropocentric social structure.

The author makes the point that bullshit jobs shouldn't exist in capitalist systems, since they are inherently Darwinian.

There is a misconception that "Darwinian" is the same as "efficient."

Darwinian simply means "what can be sustained will be sustained until they can't be sustained anymore."

Which is exactly why layoffs happen in economic downturns -- those bullshit jobs just can't be sustained anymore.

So you're saying you worship the God of Tetris?

https://youtu.be/Alw5hs0chj0

Have you considered some people actually ENJOY the work, leisure, convenience, busy-ness and thrill of fast paced modern life?

In what other era could I instantaneously, from the comfort of my home, despite a raging pandemic, inform you of your ignorance?

Technology is as essential to utopia as milk is to milkshake. Your cynicism has destroyed your sense of LIFE!

The internet is educating you! Wake up! You live in the future!

Criminals also profit from legitimate businesses. This comment is irrelevant.

There is no such thing as a victimless crime.

Oh but the brain isn't clearly delimited. You think with your gut, your spinal cord, your hormones. Even your eyeballs preprocess information before passing it up to your brain. :)

Apologies. It's actually "fuga" and "fugo", no hard "g"

Coincidence that "fugga" in hindi and "fuggo" in gujarati mean balloon?

~ means "approximately".

If youre a solo dev, sure, why not?

Yes.

Sure, but hope never really cares about statistics.

Better than being cynically apathetic.

Civilizations don't die, they fragment and reform. The analogy of an organism is being stretched too far.

Sure but why post this on HN?

I don't see any conflict here. Idempotency is not a silver bullet and cannot fully replace state tracking, but it adds simplicity where appropriate.

Ive never heard that said by altman/graham, but i highly (highly) recommend working a few years before starting your own company. Otherwise you won't have the context or the understanding to deal with issues as they come up.

Frankly I'm shocked hearing this sentiment. Would you trust an inexperienced developer to architect a production ready system?

Businesses are infinitely more complex than software. Why would you trust yourself to run a business with no workplace experience at all?

"Try writing java without an IDE."

But why would I ever want to?

I live in downtown Toronto, 3rd largest city in NA. Am a developer and business owner. I drink milk pretty much every day.

Thank you for sharing, it touches on a lot of topics that most programmers dont hear about. It's the kind of article that doesn't gain much traction around here. I enjoyed it.

Long time lurker here. Created an account just to say that I agree with this comment.

As far as I can tell, stoics believe that being an excellent man (or woman) is the purpose of a man (or woman). Just as being an excellent horse is the purpose of a horse, or being an excellent chair is the purpose of being a chair.