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- Author: Prog21.dadgum
- Full Title:: Do You Really Want to Be Doing This When You’re 50?
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Career Tips,
- URL:: https://prog21.dadgum.com/154.html
- Read date:: 2025-02-27
Highlights
To me, there’s an innate frustration in programming. It doesn’t stem from having to work out the solutions to difficult problems. That takes careful thought, but it’s the same kind of thought a novelist uses to organize a story or to write dialog that rings true. That kind of problem-solving is satisfying, even fun. But that, unfortunately, is not what most programming is about. It’s about trying to come up with a working solution in a problem domain that you don’t fully understand and don’t have time to understand. (View Highlight)
large scale, high stress coding? I may have to admit that’s a young man’s game. (View Highlight)