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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 43 points 22 hours ago (11 children)

Hot take, people will look back on anyone who currently codes, as we look back on the NASA programmers who got the equipment and people to the moon.

They won't understand how they did so much with so little. You're all gourmet chefs in a future of McDonalds.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

My first actual real life project was building a data analytics platform while keeping the budget to a minimum. With some clever parallelism and aggressive memory usage optimisation I made it work on a single lowest-tier Azure VM, costing like $50 to run monthly, while the measurable savings for the business from using the platform are now measured in the millions.

Don Knuth didn't write all those volumes on how software is an art for you to use fucking Node.JS you rubes, you absolute clowns

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