I am commenting this from a terrible strip club with friends who dragged me here. I wish I was in your position.

could you share it to us laymen internet strangers?

I mean I’m kidding around, but really, most of the time we’re making a product to sell, and then selling the product to make more of it (or a new/better version of it) so that we can sell it more… so we can make it more… to sell more…

Its just all part of the same cycle. The OP meme could equally be:

Sales/Marketing: I made this sale

[…]

Product: I made this sale.

its bullshit all the way down.

ah yes, the famously bullshit-free career of software engineering

I mean you CAN just get an evening marketing job, 8-5 engineering, half hour break, 5.30-1:30am writing marketing copy, designing campaigns, A/B testing, budget management, demand gen, lead gen, sales enablement, CRO/CPC/CAC management, Martech tool alignment, attribution tracking, SEO research, content marketing, press releases and 3P distribution tools, all of which matched against brand voice and targeting to ABM the specific ICP within each vertical.

There’s literally nothing stopping you.

If I were designing a natural language, I’d put adjectives after the nouns, so you start with the important things first

So - French?

“oh you laughed at that joke despite the fact that the bridge followed the falling action instead of preceding the punch word? Amateurs shouldn’t be allowed to watch comedy.”

it’s not just one thing though. For a non technical user, it’s nerve-wracking to worry that if you screw up the install, or download the wrong package, or configure the YAML wrong, or open the wrong port, or there’s a port conflict, or you forgot to update the software… now you’re potentially unprotected (even if that’s not the case - many will still worry).

Not to mention even if you - as I did - had to skill up to understand it, three months passes and you’re terrified to touch it because you’ve forgotten all the stuff you learned to set it up.

Same as how the majority of people don’t even change their own oil on their cars - even though it’s fairly easy.

Ah, the perfect keyboard for a quiz on queztals and caziques.

they should call it Definitely_notMalware.db for safety

that’s why I ctrl+shift+f5 for the extra powerful refresh

I use a pattern relative to the site name, with a different email address for every site also relative to the site name. The pattern means the password is always different but I always know that it is.

because I googled what distro to use and ubuntu was the one I picked randomly and I can’t be fucked to change it

I assume I am a prototypical user in that regard.

this is basically the 2000s “Code Ninja Wizard Monkey Robot” all over again.

spork!

if you can use a dictionary, play a card game like Uno, poker, gofish, cheat etc, use an index in an encyclopedia, Google, Wikipedia, and you can do high school algebra you can grasp the basics of coding.

Object Orientated Programming / classes / objects / inheritance is kinda like a card game

All Hearts are a type of card, all Kings are a type of card, a straight is a way of arranging cards, four of a kind is a way of arranging cards. That’s about as complicated as OOP needs to get for a beginner.

but it’s not in blank verse?

I think it’s so popular because secretly everyone agrees

a legend is born

The biggest high level challenge in any tech org is security and there’s no way you can convince me that ML can successfully counter these challenges

“oh but it will but it will!”

when

“in the future”

how long in the future

“When it can do it”

how will we know it can do it

“When it can do it”

cool.

It also doesn’t help that doing anything in Linux requires weird little guys like “mv” or “mkdir” or “chmod 777”