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comicjk on Oct 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Coffee Is Hard

I like the core description of programming, but the framing - that programming is tougher than manual labor - is childish. Life is not a competition for whose job is hardest, and if it were, no one on Hacker News would win it.

Doxin on Oct 21, 2019 | [–]

> Life is not a competition for whose job is hardest

I think the author agrees, and wrote the article mostly as a response to people who think it is.

erikpukinskis on Oct 19, 2019 | [–]

> no one on Hacker News would win it.

That might be true, but it doesn’t seem like a thing you could know.

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