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Programming career distilled.
- holy shit programming in language X isn't that hard.
- okay, I have a hammer, everything is a nail.
- holy shit there are other tools that make working even faster.
- I can solve this problem using 3 different tools I know well.
- I'm bored by learning other tools, I solve everything using my favorite tool.
- become a manager.
@mikebroberts
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Re: step 8 - you're welcome

@bobbyno
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bobbyno commented Feb 1, 2013

...

  • become a manager
  • I'm tired of going to meetings
  • join a startup to write code again
  • holy shit, no technical debt! No meetings!
  • I'm tired

@jaycfields
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I hope you guys are doing well. You're both 1-2 steps ahead of me in the journey.

@kschrader
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Stack overflow:

careerLoop {
  joinStartupToWriteCode
  if (startupSuccessful)
    becomeManager
    careerLoop
  else
    careerLoop
end

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