Wow C64. Those were times, my first serious program was written for C64 and was helping me to solve math problems from school. I was lazy enough already to spend some time writing programs to not have to work later :D But I agree, people are not interested in how they get the result, only in getting result. I suppose rising complexity of machines is partly at fault, but current education model sucks too.
Amen, current education system in all the western world is a huge problem. Lazy people are the best inventors! Years ago I wrote some code to import excel data into InDesign. A client had always the same catalog to create twice a year, they had all the content in Excel and usually took a month to copy the data and one of the client's secretary needed to be there helping. One year they were very late 'cause the usual trade show was anticipated and they needed the catalog, so I wrote the code and in a week the catalog was ready. The client wanted to pay me 1/4 of what he usually payed 'cause I worked less... I learned the lesson and I started to need 5 to 6 weeks for the next catalogs... still using the software, keeping his secretary busy doing nothing and I just enjoyed free time faking some work when he was around! He went bankrupt after some years obviously.
Wow C64. Those were times, my first serious program was written for C64 and was helping me to solve math problems from school. I was lazy enough already to spend some time writing programs to not have to work later :D But I agree, people are not interested in how they get the result, only in getting result. I suppose rising complexity of machines is partly at fault, but current education model sucks too.
Amen, current education system in all the western world is a huge problem.
Lazy people are the best inventors!
Years ago I wrote some code to import excel data into InDesign. A client had always the same catalog to create twice a year, they had all the content in Excel and usually took a month to copy the data and one of the client's secretary needed to be there helping. One year they were very late 'cause the usual trade show was anticipated and they needed the catalog, so I wrote the code and in a week the catalog was ready. The client wanted to pay me 1/4 of what he usually payed 'cause I worked less...
I learned the lesson and I started to need 5 to 6 weeks for the next catalogs... still using the software, keeping his secretary busy doing nothing and I just enjoyed free time faking some work when he was around! He went bankrupt after some years obviously.