[HN Gopher] Worship of Tools and Weapons (2012)
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       Worship of Tools and Weapons (2012)
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2022-10-12 19:58 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | bootcat wrote:
       | wow wonderful read,
        
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       | whatshisface wrote:
       | Given that a lot of programmers put more effort into configuring
       | their environment than they do into using it, maybe we need
       | someone that teaches the lesson opposite to this one.
        
         | tomjakubowski wrote:
         | That can be a fine decision, just as long as the total time
         | cost works out so you're still delivering on time. In my
         | experience time spent on building tooling to help me solve
         | problems gives good payoffs. I was convinced for a while to
         | _avoid_ doing that and it put me in a worse position long-term
         | on some projects.
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         | Often, building the tooling reveals hidden parts of the
         | problem.
        
         | conorcleary wrote:
         | Playing around with older Linux distros and the innovative user
         | interface modifications and enhancements were some of my best
         | spent hours out of all of them.
        
       | kodah wrote:
       | > Surely, such a practice of revering articles that form an
       | important part of one's life, must rate as unique in the ancient
       | world. This is the ethos from the Rig Veda that has survived and
       | become the bedrock of Hindu and I dare say Indian culture and
       | life. A practice and heritage that today's consumerist generation
       | could do well to imbibe.
       | 
       | Seems like a bad take. It implies that _everyone else_ doesn 't
       | respect the tools of their trade by virtue of being a consumer
       | society. This is a strawman.
       | 
       | Consumerism doesn't mean a programmer who buys a very powerful
       | laptop can afford to just throw it away. It doesn't mean that
       | people who drive vehicles for a living don't take care of them.
       | 
       | It does mean that things that are seldomly used are often made to
       | be used fewer times. The feature that is planned obsolescence
       | could seem like a consumerist virtue, but really it's a feature
       | of greed and at times a complicated calculation of perceived
       | consumer value juxtaposed with the cumulative cost of components
       | in a device. More simply stated it's what the market will bare
       | for costs.
        
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