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Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 02:05:51 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

What's that XKCD that talks about how software developers tend to look at other fields and go "huh, how hard can it be? you just ..." and then later (best case) figure out "huh, this stuff is hard".

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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 02:30:55 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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  - Sexy Moon
  @Moon Silicon Valley seems entirely built around this phenomenon these days. I don't think any other field has it to that degree.
  
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- Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 02:30:56 UTC Sexy Moon
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  @clacke i always thought software developers got unfairly maligned for that because everybody does that.
  
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- Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 02:30:58 UTC Sexy Moon
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  @feld @clacke it's true, we even do that for things in our own field. I remember reading a blog saying "everyone tells you not to run your own email, but i did and it was easy" and then a year later he wrote a followup on how he wasn't doing it anymore.
  
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- feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 02:30:59 UTC feld
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  Software developers seem to be more inclined to write a blog about it anyway
  
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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 02:33:26 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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  @Moon It is true though that it's not *exclusive* to CS. I was looking for it because of the Elon Musk minisub thread.
  
  He did start his fortune on software though, so edge case.
  
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- rellik moo (idlestate@toot.cat)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 02:33:40 UTC rellik moo
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  @clacke
  https://xkcd.com/1831/
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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 02:36:06 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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  @idlestate That is exactly the one. Thanks!
  
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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 02:36:27 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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  @idlestate That's kind of the reverse. Ignorance is on both sides. =)
  
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- rellik moo (idlestate@toot.cat)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 02:36:28 UTC rellik moo
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  @clacke
  there are a lot of adjacent ones. See, for example
  https://xkcd.com/1425/
  
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- Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 03:00:35 UTC Sexy Moon
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  @clacke we shoot off our mouths more and i know personally i used to be guilty of thinking i could do anything. on the other hand software is used in basically every business now so we have a good track record!
  
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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 03:00:39 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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  @Moon Software in every domain works the best when development was informed by actual domain experts. =)
  
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