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Comment by Swizec | Hacker News Reader

Speaking as an old school basement nerd (coding since middle school, 90’s): If I can do cool things with code _and_ get paid, I’m gonna go do that. Business constraints make it feel much more interesting than writing code in a vacuum.

Also money is nice.

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> Business constraints make it feel much more interesting than writing code in a vacuum.

You never write code in a vacuum do you? You always have some kind of goal.

I should hope not. Even if your body could withstand the low pressure, you'd suffocate very quickly.

I don’t know dude, this one time I wrote a LOLCODE compiler into a Babel macro.

https://swizec.com/blog/lolcodetojavascript-compiler-babel-m...

It was pretty fun.

Also this other time I wrote a nodejs script to keep my computer at a specific temperature because our office fridge kept freezing my carrots.

https://swizec.com/blog/i-built-a-node-app-to-thaw-my-favori...

  > because our office fridge kept freezing my carrots.

That sounds like a goal to me

That's quite nice! You may wish to look into implementing a PID controller, so as to avoid overshoot (your carrots become too thawed initially) and unnecessary oscillation about the setpoint (meaning you are wasting energy on cooling and heating cycles that in the end cancel each other out, where you could have kept the temperature nearly constant during that time). I loved juicing carrots so much my face turned orange from the beta-carotene.

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