Yes, and in so doing, payed down their debt.

The online version will remark free and available. The in-person, for credit course is being discontinued. Unless you are an incoming Harvard student, this won’t affect you.

You stop that, my first digital text message was on irc. I’m not ancient yet. :)

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That’s a rather disrespectful thing to say. But I’ll play and assume you weren’t trying to be a jerk.

Sounds like you’re just still in the same boat as op.

I disagree. It’s a natural part of the cycle of learning new things, and when is software development not about learning new things?

Chill, hatred is too strong for this. Jokes are rooted in reality but that doesn’t mean that they describe the full reality.

I’ve been programming and tinkering with computing systems for a long time. Every time I start a new project with some new tech, I end up with 1000 tabs open in various mixtures of docs, AI, stackoverflow, reddit; and discord, slack; etc. hunting for answers or resolutions to similar situation to some particular nuanced problem I’m experiencing. It doesn’t mean that I’m an idiot just that I’m trying to do something that I haven’t done before.

It’s taken me many cycles to break myself out of the samsara loops of “I don’t know how to do this so I suck.” Imposter Syndrome is real but eventually we work through it to a healthy perspective of “I don’t know how to do this… yet, but I’m going to have to struggle through it to earn this knowledge.”

actually create code that works as intended intentionally, and not through trial and error / stack overflow.

When do we tell them?

You misspelled pencil in this context. I believe you meant “a fuckin’ pencil”.

Your Chiropractor sounds like they’re equally credentialed in thermodynamics as they are in medicine.

Look up the kanban method. It’s really commonly used in software engineering because there’s always so many tasks to do and very often we discover other tasks to do while in the midst of another task—natural task stacking. I’ve taken to using it in my day to day life and it’s the only way I’ve found that actually keeps some sanity to the chaos. Also, it improved my family relationships when I finally got everyone on board with it.

I relatively recently tried to replay Goldeneye. It was shocking—controller and FPS mechanics have evolved so much since then it was honestly not fun to play. While it was breakthrough tech at the time it just did not age well.

So many hours of fun into that game though; I’ll never not hold a special place in my heart for it even if it’s unplayable nostalgia now.

FPS keyboard+mouse shooters of that era have aged much better. I can still play Marathon (+2 + Infinity) (Bungie’s precursors to Halo) and have an enjoyable gaming session.

I figure I can probably convert about 10 kg into manure before it autoconverts into compost. Which is maybe even a worse problem.

Would you rather have 100,000 kg of tasty supreme pizza, or 200 kg of steaming manure?

Choose wisely.