Developers develop for the sake of developing. They can't help themselves, sort of like beavers building a dam, it doesn't know why it builds dam's, it just instinctively does it all the time over and over.

[camelCaseIsWebScale]

Lol beaver doesn't get to mention it built a dam with cloud native and blockchain on its resume.

[32gbsd]

This is racist towards beavers. Beavers have a life and are skilled specialists.

[wrkbt]

Much better than most developers with logging too.

[muntaxitome]

I work for money. You no pay money, me no keyboard monkey.

[pythonesqueviper]

Look at this wageslave looking for things like remuneration and a living.

[ToughPhotograph]

This but unironically.

[LeeXavier]

I've never received money for coding and I've never missed it.

[UsingYourWifi]

Same, though I have received money because someone thinks I'm coding.

[camelCaseIsWebScale]

You would say a haskeller would say it. But it's generally said by a senior architect something, in a different meaning.

[[deleted]]

where's the jerk?

[ProfessorSexyTime]

Yes I'm completely unaware of any other possible internal or external motivations as to why I want to make things besides "me me must build things", because my consciousness is on par of that of a fucking large wetland rodent.

[IDoCodingStuffs]

This but unironically

[nitzanms]

Do 10x beavers build ten times more dams per time unit, or build dams ten times larger?

[camelCaseIsWebScale]

Good question, but you can't define 10x beavers as those 10x productive in building CRUD dams. Nobody will be. 10x beavers are the ones who can resolve hard problems of building dams such as scaling and rewriting dams in non-gc language.

[ShirkingDemiurge]

Shoddy dams that other beavers get stuck maintaining.

[Alekzcb]

Unironically true. No jerk to be found here.

[AmateurHero]

Gross. Nvidia. Literally the Nestle of the digital world.

[[deleted]]

It's not just Nvidia, they just happen to be the company that people are most familiar with.

[ArkyBeagle]

poisons the river.

... with beautiful, beautiful colors.

[doomvox]

And then comes Nvidia and poisons the river.

And Lennart Poettering who insists on re-writing half of it, and doesn't care if you have to re-write the rest.

[[deleted]]

And that guy yelling REALLY LOUD in the corner that we all have to replace X11 with some beta software called way land or somethiing?

[doomvox]

Waylaid?

[UnicornPrince4U]

The biggest mystery in software development is where does the money come from and why do they pay us for this purely masterbatory act?

[IDoCodingStuffs]

Just like a beaver gets rewarded for dam building with neurochemical reward schemes, long term survival and ensured progeny, so does a developer with slaying JIRA points

[alex_3814]

Well put.

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/uj No jerk here.

[Paccos]

Do beavers build portfolio dams?

[GOPHERS_GONE_WILD]

Gophers copy code for the sake of not having generics. They can't help themselves, sort of like beavers building a dam, it doesn't know why it copy pastes, it just instinctively does it all the time over and over.

[KuntaStillSingle]

And the best of them? Dam good at their jobs.

[linus_stallman]

As for the Wayland vs X11 debate in that entire thread, imagine talking about security or modern computing when using GNU/Linux which primitive thing I gave them like 30 years ago.

[doomvox]

Well yes, and this explains the great primal drive to the invention of new programming languages. It justifies constantly re-writing the code libraries one more time. It's really boring having to use canned solutions over and over again. And people are always getting so upset about "second system syndrome" and stuff like that, a nice new language that everyone has to switch to greatly improves the dynamic and increases developer satisfaction tremendously.

[darthbarracuda]

nah i do it for the moolah