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rafaelbeirigo

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As a Brazilian, I believe the problem is that we have a culture of "gratitude" towards the government. We quietly and silently thank God that we received whatever benefit and pray that they will keep giving us that. But a tiny bit of economical education, and an open eye to the frequent corruption scandals teaches one that there is more than enough money for a decent salary for academic workers.

Yesterday I spent the entire day working on a lib to create repos in Github from inside Emacs. It was the first time in 3y that I had touched it. When googling, I saw potential candidates that were much better than my simple one. But I kept going, for the pleasure of making my own thing. I learned a lot, and felt very accomplished, even if, at the end, it was messy, and I'll have to go back and reorganize it. It feels like making _my_ thing, even if it is drawing my copy of Monalisa.

The only easy way to make a living is to sell.

Intelectual work like writing, researching, teaching, etc. despite being important, don't have intrinsic appeal such that people naturally and voluntarily put money on it. We are not built like that.

This is where institutions like universities, governments, etc. come in.

Aging programmer 4 years ago

"I have no idea about how effective pair programming is. My desire to discover it is zero."

Sculptors, painters, writers are with you in this one...

It's very challenging to share creative space/material