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it's been a few hours and this post finally unearthed a relevant memory back when i was a child, programming _was_ a competition. i was heavily encouraged (effectively forced) to participate in programming olympiads. i hated it so much, my career afterwards might be shaped as a reaction to that

which is to say: use libraries; document my shit; share it with others; actively collaborate instead of competing; seek out designs optimized for long term rather than "just to win this one 2 hour engagement"; probably some other things I forget

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yes!! "collaborate instead of competing" is exactly the vibe i was trying to get across. all the capitalists might be competing but hardly any of the programmers i know are. i see you doing all these things and it's quite remarkable, i appreciate your work a lot :) i'm glad this post resonated.

16/12/25, 10:58 pm0 reposts6 likes

thank you for the kind words! a point that i keep making repeatedly (though usually not on social media) is that You Can Be Like Me (If You Want). i did this to myself and others can too!! this is both a good and a bad thing, but that's what agency is for! 1/2

for better or worse, i regularly run into people who idolize me. this grosses me the fuck out on a personal level. it also makes me feel like i've failed, if only in the small task of "make the field more accessible". i do not know how to cope with this. it's been very not good for me 2/2

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tech.lgbtkulupu jyn (@jyn@tech.lgbt)Attached: 1 image > if there was a programming language meant to be written in longhand, what would it be like, and what features would it support? for loops would be written with Σ notation. SQL/LI...

yeah, i ... don't know what to do about this. it happens a lot for me too, someone reacted this way when i was shitposting about tech.lgbt/@jyn/1156874... in a chat. for a bunch of my friends as well.

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