282 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 7 Mar \ on: Some thoughts on what's worked for me in my first ten days here meta
Good post. I can relate to your experience with markdown. I learned it here and it also reminded me of learning html. Happy you've found the place.
Thanks! Glad (but not shocked) that other learned it here.
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Always pleasantly surprised that folks outside of tech field learned HTML or even Markdown. Most people have a mental block and many in my field like to pretend we are all scientists or wizards. We aren't. At least I'm not. Most of us just have a bent towards knowing how stuff works and/or math. Usually comes down to tolerance. How much nonsense can you tolerate. I'd rather stare at code than legal documents any day. I don't know how attorneys do it. The money helps I imagine.
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My daughter's a late millennial (born in the mid-90s), and let me tell you, and entire swath of that generation -- techies and artists alike -- learned HTML because of Tumblr.
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I guess we're all wired differently, but legal documents are in English. Code seems much more challenging. I will say that there's nothing more mind numbingly boring than reading some long legal document. Verbose bullshit. I did it for years to support myself. I don't miss those days.
My very limited, basic, connect the dots exposure to coding makes me think it's a hell of a lot of fun, but I'm sure everything can become drudgery if you have to do it.