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This being on the front page of hacker news is embarassing. Low substance post that is misleading if anything - I was hoping for a career reflection. Not a low-quality "pat on the back" post of no value

Talent 9 months ago

Why is that weird? The author is obviously impressed by writers, given they have an interesting in writing themselves, so it makes sense to use writers as an example.

And why is writing a less valuable profession than another job? Writing is also "doing a thing" - it just so happens to be a profession for some, a great one for those who are skilled and gifted at it.

This reminds me of "Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. (https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/good-programmers-worry-abo...).

From Linus Torvalds:

"git actually has a simple design, with stable and reasonably well-documented data structures. In fact, I'm a huge proponent of designing your code around the data, rather than the other way around, and I think it's one of the reasons git has been fairly successful […] I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important.

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Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."

This comment makes no sense. How has Threads failed? It's literally the #1 free app on the App Store right now and has been for a while.

How is Paul Graham not an actual writer? He has written some extremely influential essays that have reached outside of just Silicon Valley.

Agree with not using mocks and following PRY especially. Oh man - it's so easy to want to make code so neat and clean with perfect reusable classes and tests, but honestly, its more effort than its worth in 99% of cases.

I use YouTube Premium 90% of the time now for this reason. All the remixes and other indie mixes that I listen to are on YouTube and YouTube has so much more that I find it a hard value proposition to beat.

It really is! I didn't go back and click on the homepage til I read this comment, but the vibes of it are amazing.

Do you have a link? I get no such outputs. I just tried asking about the Heian period and went ahead and verified all the information, and nothing was wrong. Lots of info on the Fujiwara clan at the time.

Curious to see a link.