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Readit Newswheresmycraisin commented on Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app pimosa.app/... · Posted by u/anshrathodfr
wheresmycraisin commented on Glue Work Considered Harmful seangoedecke.com/glue-wor... · Posted by u/polyphilz
If you're planning on working there for 10+ years and you are well treated, do glue work. Otherwise do flashy stuff. First, you can change jobs any time to make it someone else's problem, and second, it you can always blame the "unglued" code for any of your own inefficiencies/f'ups.
Legacy app maintenance in an obscure tech stack is basically all that's out there
Random trivia: the creators of Doom made sure that they could complete each level starting only with a pistol and 50 rounds by doing it themselves.
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wheresmycraisin commented on You too can write a book parentheticallyspeaking.o... · Posted by u/azhenley
not the same thing...billions of people use youtube. There is no library equivalent of youtube. how many use Google Books? Even then, you need an ISBN or a publisher.
Your audience isn't a billion people
While I agree that doing is a great way to learn some things.
I have to point out the fallacy in the first paragraph. He cites a bunch of people who began working in their teen years who later went on to become famous, presumably because they started "doing" things so early. As a counterpoint, there are many millions of young people throughout history, and even now, who began "doing" at a young age and were nothing more than average, at best.
Dropping out of high school to go be a "doer" is a great way to become a high school dropout, not a prodigy.
And staying in school through college is a great way to be in debt for the rest of your life and regret having a useless degree.
I prefer a well tuned smoothing plane or a card scraper, personally.
wheresmycraisin commented on Cutting Board Designer cuttingboarddesigner.com/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Or people with a reasonable CNC machine (even prosumer grade), that takes the time to make some setup templates.
CNC would not make much easier unless you were also doing inlays. For straight repeated cuts a table saw would be 100x faster.
wheresmycraisin commented on Cutting Board Designer cuttingboarddesigner.com/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Cool tool. Very surprised there isn't a "Buy" button. Would be a natural and welcome addition.
Only very large commercial cutting board makers would be able to accommodate custom design orders from a tool like this. It would have to be extremely constrained in terms of the tools available to the ship (like the maximum capacity of sanders), availability of space and clamps, and most importantly availability of appropriate wood.