you break your arm
you ask the doctor when it’ll heal
“don’t be ridiculous that can’t be measured in time”
oh sorry
“it will take 8 points to heal”
uh what does that mean?
“doesn’t matter it’s not accurate anyway”
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engineers are so far up their own butt sometimes
@ThePrimeagen This mindset change for me has worked wonders. My degree is Mechanical Engineering, so my link to being great at software is problem solving and desire to understand first principles. Ability to learn and execute comes when you start believing you can accomplish mostly anything
Programming is chaotic magic. There are no rules. You ask a game dev “Can the player summon a giant demon that bursts from the ground in an explosion of lava?” and they’ll say “sure, that’s easy” and then you’ll ask “can the player wear a scarf?” and they’ll go “oof”
🌟 Seven days until #AdventOfCode 2022! 🌟
Please buckle your IDE and keep your arms and legs inside your programming language(s) of choice until the puzzles come to a complete stop.
@APompliano@ThePrimeagen is my pick for CEO. Why? He has shown, time and again, the real edge over your competitors is being preproduct, even preidea. He would never let us build anything to finish - we would always be on the bleeding edge of tech in our quest for blazingly fast performance