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   Jason Gorman (jasongorman@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 06:34:41 JST Jason Gorman

   The way software development's shifted from people wanting to do it better to people wanting to get rich reminds me of how contemporary music schools shifted from people wanting to get better at making music to people wanting to get famous.

   There's a real X Factor feel to the common discourse, with lots of folks obsessing over levels of commercial success they're never going to experience - too busy preparing for hypothetical stadium tours to learn scales.

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     Jason Gorman (jasongorman@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 06:35:15 JST Jason Gorman

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     • alcinnz

     @alcinnz I watched a "tutorial" on how to build your own version of Zoom recently. Not a single word about video streaming. Half an hour about start-ups, MVPs etc.

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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 06:35:16 JST alcinnz

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     @jasongorman You're reminding of the shift in the notion of "hackfests".

     In my experience they started as events at which to code on interesting projects, but now the ideas are what matters. With Dragon's Den-style presentations, & barely any coding.

     The hackfests I like now call themselves "codesprints".

     Maybe its just that businessmen are now dressing up as "hackers"?