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This is exactly the reason why I avoid any "Java/Android/iPhone" job out there. I code software in Python on Ubuntu machines. Simple bike rides. The build tools are either non existent (Python) or are old friends (make/automake/cMake), the IDE is a bash and a vim, like a handle bar and pedals. Git, much like vim, is a mastery in itself but when the disciple reaches a certain level most of the annoying things make sense and work as desired because how they are. The Zen of Unix and the Tao of Testing are my companions. Nothing disturbs my chi.

What I am trying to say so eloquently (or not) is that maybe the problem is not the modern development world but the developer. The idea that you need just another tool to solve a problem, that is what is flawed. Skill and balance and a set of powerful, basic tools, that is what solves the problem.

parent erikb 12 years ago

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