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Originally Posted by Xenophon
This is a comment made mostly by folks who have never written any significant pieces of software. I've been a semi-pro musician; I've been a professional programmer; these days I'm a software researcher. Trust me, writing software is most definitely a creative endeavor!
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oh, I'm a software developer. I came into the field because I found the subject of computer science fascinating. Knuth, the Bach of computer programming (rather than organ programming)...
Unfortunately, your daily IT job has no science nor glamour about it at all: it's just about mindlessly squashing bugs reported by users or building yet another form/report using lame commercial tools chosen on the basis of whose manager gets more buck for it. Menial creativeless work using standardized tools handled by standardized cheap workers with barely any true compsci knowledge.
why do you think I come here all day long to pester you guys?
now, software research, that's certainly creative work. Unfortunately, just reserved for a few elite...
