Programmers are fucking lazy

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It’s a common joke that a programmer would rather spend a week making a bash script than copy paste the same file twice and be done with it in two minutes.

isn't that the antithesis of laziness? spending more time to do something "right" than it would normally take to do?

efficiency is not laziness, it's efficiency.

I object to the semantics of this discussion. The argument seems to be:

1. Automating things is lazy

2. Laziness is bad

3. Therefore, automating things is bad.

Both 1 & 2 are true in a sense but not in the same sense, so the result doesn't follow.

Actually if you read the whole post it's more like:

1. Programmers are lazy 2. So they automate stuff 3. Why are we even so lazy? 4. Does hard work even bring benefits?

I'm assuming the 500 error is a meta statement. Brilliantly played.

Apparently my caching somehow got disabled ...

Yes, yes we are. A programmer who is not a /little/ lazy is a bad thing.

There are lazy programmers and there are "lazy" programmers.

> Most importantly, hard work makes you stupid.

I'll respond to that when the author has a real job.

I've had a real job and it always felt attacking problems with bruteforce (ie. something not working? add moar manpower!) just made things worse.

As in, it's better to step away and go for a walk, than to pound away furiously at the keyboard.

The article discloses many naive misconceptions about the world. Revisit it in ten years or so and maybe by then you'll have changed your approach to unsupported generalizations.

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