I AM A SOVEREIGN PROGRAMMER!

Some more on the false idol of the "good tech job."
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[@stumbling]

Based programmer philosophy: "The most efficient code is no code at all."

[@covert0overt_810]

@@tanko.reactions176 way without way... in my journeys.. imo the the was that is and was always here was God all along.

[@shaurz]

Second best is someone else's code invoked from a 10 line shell script.

[@Levi_OP]

*programmer

[@stumbling]

@@Levi_OP *self cringe*

[@Levi_OP]

@@stumbling hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[@bobzeepl]

THEY GLOW IN THE DARK

[@Kacpa2]

You can see them when You're driving

[@Kacpa2]

Just run them over

[@Kacpa2]

Thats what You do

[@Grail434]

Just roll over em

[@mistakenmeme]

They got him

[@Nick-bl6hm]

Rip terry davis. Many tech jobs are now like finance, similar entry barriers now

[@russellzauner]

The only entry barrier to a good job in any industry is having a soul. Once you've given that up, all worldly treasures are yours to freely access.

[@covert0overt_810]

It really shows in product innovation - there hasn’t been major advancement since 2012

[@classicpinball9873]

@@covert0overt_810 can you elaborate on this? In what ways have things stayed mostly the same? I feel like if anything things have changed a lot

[@covert0overt_810]

@@classicpinball9873 if anything - we’ve devolved. phones take away headphone jack yet still the same thickness. - cant crack open and upgrade ram or memory anymore. also repair newer devices is a nightmare. lots of glue. - also the software has gotten 10 times worse. especially on release days. usually having to wait months for a proper update

[@kevin.malone]

@@covert0overt_810 And everyone still plays the version of RuneScape from 2007

[@TheOpenBSDguy]

I like elephants and God likes elephants. Rip King Terry

[@I_SEE_RED]

@@ccriztoff Glowie

[@reinoob]

I was employed by a big tech company and all i do is say that i need 8 hours for an activity that would take 3 or 4, finish it in 2 and chill the rest of the day.

[@reinoob]

@@GhostSamaritan because i already do that as a hobby, so i take my free time during working hours

[@styxrakash4639]

@@GhostSamaritan learning is one thing. And this is more for potential viewers, not you directly; but be careful if you WORK on any individual projects/personal business at your place of employment. They could claim your work as their intellectual property. Stay safe out there.

[@loudgaydollars923]

@@GhostSamaritan why would he want to risk that when the majority of new companies fail? lol

[@NukeCloudstalker]

@@loudgaydollars923 all first attempts with anything tend to fail or go poorly. Why would you want to risk playing piano? All new players suck for years on end. You're probably never going to make money playing the piano! Yet, it is still worth doing. What matters isn't how many companies you start that fail, it's how many you make succeed. It's the skills, ability, joy and meaning you take out of it that matters.

[@TheSpecialJ11]

@@reinoob Man that's the life. Reminds me of those neckbeards in the late 90s and early 2000s who were the only ones who knew how the arcane computer system worked, but had secretly automated 90% of their job functions, so they sat around in their office playing video games and maybe once or twice a day had to help somebody with something.

[@JohnDoe-jk3vv]

Default character in runescape talks about P2P AFK income generators

[@Crabbadabba]

He's a bot! There's no way we can match his automation processes! Someone, quick, report him!

[@21545]

Yeah im going to charge my grandma for restarting her router

[@hashim5945]

Luke is the tech father we never had

[@ArniesTech]

Not the tech chad we deserve, but the tech chad we need 😎

[@haveyouseenchefplis932]

*uncle

[@morpheusoneiros7704]

عربي يتابع لوك، جميل

[@ahboogle]

A lot of things we call "passive income" isn't really passive, it is just self employment. Your book business for example, only draws in customers because you have a large following you can use to market your website. That following took time to build. It will also continue to take time to maintain your social media presence so you can drive traffic to your site. Same with the book SMS product you mentioned, driving traffic to that website is not passive as it requires time.

[@Sierpina_WMG]

passive income in it's literal state is investing in dividends

[@jacksoncremean1664]

Passive income is a myth

[@Jango1989]

Indeed. Even casual stock investing requires time input to stay up-to-date with market trends. I think what Luke is actually saying is "find a way of generating income that requires the minimal amount of effort to maintain. Furthermore, invest time into learning and tinkering as this will naturally produce such paths for you". I would agree with that sentiment. Especially the last part. The most important thing you can do in tech is learn things for the sake of learning them.

[@EJ-jh1vf]

This, only way it would be passive is if it was mainly fed from ads or something on boomerbook

[@kmann100500]

@@Sierpina_WMG dividends are not passive.

[@cherubin7th]

I don't know what to do. Either I hear stupid things that don't create real value and just exploit people's stupidity (like drop shipping), or my ideas are too much work to make money now.

[@ezu5131]

Probably just keep your day job and work on putting together some "little" version of your idea in your down time...even in the corporate world, proof of concepts are aplenty before projects ever get off the ground. Simplify your goal and try to build a mini version of it, then maybe reach out to some devs for help to build it. That's my plan for the dumb ideas I have anyway. Drop shipping seems promising (money is money man, whatever keeps baby fed) but to be successful in it you need to develop a brand which can be full time job itself, a very cringey one at that. And a lot of people fail at it.

[@ArniesTech]

I tell ya from experience: drop shipping is a treasure chest. To this day I cant grasp how awesome that is.

[@shaurz]

I find it difficult to get in to the head of the normie. When I hear these ideas, they just seem dumb and I wonder why anyone would ever pay for something so stupid, so I dismiss them before I even start. I honestly can't think of any idea to create this kind of passive income website.

[@abdellatifsraiti2032]

we tend to complicate stuff

[@LukeSmithxyz]

The same girl was telling me about some insta girl she followed that makes good money selling an ebook pdf at like $15 a pop. Imagine being a normie and paying for a pdf we would immediately go to Birate Pay or Gibrary Lenesis to download for free.

[@BenTheMiller]

It's not always about the information, it's how you make it convenient and relevant to people's lives Read and or watch some of MJ Demarko's stuff he kinda lays it out. Life liberty and the pursuit of entrepreneurship is good

[@styxrakash4639]

@@LukeSmithxyz as in a single PDF? For 15 bucks? What kind of book are we talking? How. How. How.

[@rufuspub]

@@styxrakash4639 More likely a small "how to" eBook. Not everyone wants to use a website or youtube video to learn. Many people still like to have a "hard copy" that can be printed out. So something that is text, graphs, and images. Ex: how to build a wooden park bench or how to create a weather API. Should be specific single topic and clear cut instructions, no "you could do this or this". Then charge what you think your potential customers feel is chump change, i.e. throw away money like $0.99 or $2.99. Don't plan to sell huge numbers, but 5-10k if successful. Rinse and repeat on other topics. Make series of these and then you can sell a bundled package.

[@isaakarslan9485]

I find it funny that many intelligent programmers would rather work for Google or Microsoft than work for themselves. While they will pay more up front, they also demand that you put in an amount of work, which if applied toward one's own ideas, would eventually make the same or more money plus you're not reliant on anyone else. I agree Luke. Have a job if you need to eat, but always consider your own stuff the priority.

[@transforgoku]

Being an "elite/intelligent programmer" doesn't make you inmune to wage-slave mentality, even if paid 6 figures...

[@Embassy_of_Jupiter]

I don't know how anyone could live with themselves knowingly creating the infrastructure for total surveillance and manipulation

[@highvisibilityraincoat]

Having fixed income and benefits is nice. Also creativity is a factor. It's hard to convince people to pay you

[@loudgaydollars923]

well the majority of people don't have ideas lol--and the vast majority don't have ideas that are worth anything

[@gustawbobowski1333]

Many of them work in breakthrough fields with incredible scale and complexity. Self-employing yourself to do THAT is pretty much impossible. This is like laughing at scientists working at CERN for not dedicating their career to fuсking lectures at universities or being a consultant (although many of them do both... but same goes for many highly skilled google programmers).

[@swedishancap3672]

I have worked for an enterprise software company that develops cash-register, business and payment-solutions for 5 years. The reason I keep doing it is because it's comfy and because I am one of the last developers at the company that knows how the systems works so I get good deals :D

[@Phasma6969]

Do you get free food? That's pretty based.

[@meuko]

what, good deals on cash registers or something?

[@swedishancap3672]

@@meuko No, but there is included a private health insurance, retirement premiums and stuff

[@swedishancap3672]

@@meuko I also have flexible work time

[@swedishancap3672]

@@meuko the only downside is the taxes...

[@ArniesTech]

Luke: "Be a code landlord" 💪😎

[@samgould8567]

My wife and I bought that product you mentioned for my grandma. It’s the same reason why I might pay someone to mow my lawn during a busy summer and I have no regrets. On the other hand, another relative got a quote to recover data from a hard drive, and I was stunned and offended at the quote, because from the sound of it, they were asking $2k to perform a single-user boot and fsck. There is a difference between reasonable exchange of money for a service and getting completely ripped off.

[@NukeCloudstalker]

Conversely, the time invested to even know tech well enough to do such things, the interest and ability to do so, is vastly underestimated by most people that are skilled in those fields. 2k is obscene, but at the same time, it isn't exactly trivial to learn these things. Haircuts are also obscenely expensive compared to the simplicity of the work. At some level, you're paying for the time-investment and opportunity-costs others have paid to be in the position they are in, to convenience you.

[@jerre438]

I've recenty started making money literally by doing exactly what you just suggested: I recover data with a SATA-To-USB Cable, set up the system from scratch, tailored to the customers desires and needs and get paid 70-100€ for about 2-3 hours of work. That's about what I'd earn working 8 hours for my actual employer... It's ridiculous how easy it is.

[@izzya2702]

Enlighten me.

[@kelvinpina3392]

@@izzya2702 just make friends with boomers.

[@kdnsjsnzbhashhwhsbsvwhwb741]

I don't understand. "The goal is not being a corporation to yourself. The goal is finding a need that people want." Isn't that what a corporation is (usually) supposed to do?

[@SimGunther]

Corpos usually create needs that people _think_ are necessary to their business like tethering themselves to an overpriced system that distracts them without actually being productive. What "sovereign 1337 engineers" like Luke do is act on people's ACTUAL needs like getting data off their hard drive, no overpriced system tethering required. :/

[@kdnsjsnzbhashhwhsbsvwhwb741]

@@SimGunther Ok that makes sense. I guess his point, if I understand correctly, is that corporations are disconnected from reality. And we should try to do things that are of actual benefit to people. I guess my misunderstanding was due to being too connected to the matrix.

[@MrEdrftgyuji]

It is what corporations used to be before Klaus Schwab and ESG.

[@transforgoku]

Nowadays corpos create the illusion of needs and artificial trends to sell BS nobody needs, like Coca Cola for example, nobody needs that bottled diabetes to survive, and many other things, just look at big pharma and how they sold the cl0t-$hots for the ku_ng flu when the rate of survival is 99.9 for infected people, and absolute waste of time and resources...

[@kelvinpina3392]

a business not a corporation

[@ytmorgen]

Thanks for the clarification, Luke. I see what you mean, and I definitely agree that having the time to work on projects that can bring us financial independence is something all of us should prioritize if we aren't there yet, no matter how great our jobs are. And the extra emphasis on the simple, passive, and creative aspects of small business ideas was also important. Thanks again.

[@richardbrown7168]

The trouble with computer repair jobs is how insufferably needy the people who utilize them are.

[@rufuspub]

This or it is the boomer that even if you charge $10-20/job you feel like you just took there last dollar for the month and they now have to eat cat food. Despite what people think, not all boomers are wealthy. I found doing personal desktop support soul crushing and a waste of time. Its older computer illiterate people with no money and much malware problems on a 40 year old computer.

[@pranav_ahuja]

the glowies got terry early. rip he truly was the greatest programmer

[@pranav_ahuja]

@@ccriztoff no, why? And which telegram channel?

[@Alan_the_Red]

That's a bit of a stretch, he was certainly a legend though. Too bad his mental health was abysmal.

[@transforgoku]

Didn't know Terry Crews was a programmer...

[@styxrakash4639]

Terry was also the only man to beat God at Chess.

[@diegomarquez3293]

@@styxrakash4639 God went easy on him

[@proper_noun436]

Everybody wants a space alien but don't nobody wanna put the work in

[@braiinworms]

it's true; people will buy very simple things bc they all seem to think that they'll be too technologically complex for them to handle. my bf's coworkers paid me just to register a domain for them... literally took five minutes to get on namecheap and made $100... one of them paid me to log into his wordpress site and "set up https"...it took 3 button clicks.

[@derekstevens164]

Wow luke, thanks for posting this. I've been watching your videos and I'm very impressed. Good job and keep doing what you're doing.

[@EJ-jh1vf]

Compile so many side hustles that they become more than your job. One day maybe you get a wild hair 'oh i can expand x side hustle in y way'. Congrats it's making double now. I quit my job when I realized my 'side hustle' made 75% as much money with 25% of the time spent. I refuse to manage a loan slavery firm for 45 hours a week when I can work on my own time and listen to podcasts and music and make about the same money.

[@tyrellwellick5529]

My primary concern is having a stable income though. I can make these sites that you talk about that can generate passive income but that’s not a reliable source that can support a decent lifestyle in my area, whereas getting a dev job can give the income I need

[@meijiishin5650]

He’ll probably say you’re a cuck and you need to move to the country or smth lol

[@himanipku22]

I think this is why Luke advocates for people to move to the country, where the cost of living is lower.

[@muscimilieng]

That’s because you are supposed to have multiple streams of income. If one of your businesses isn’t working anymore you still have all your other income streams

[@kenny4957]

bugs meat and group pods are cheap

[@ArniesTech]

A collegue of mine actually built over 700 websites pasting his pre-built HTML bricks and he actually made a nice $$$ back in the 00's but bowadays its a fraction of that.

[@iFly969]

did I hear a mouse click at 0:20?!?!

[@shallex5744]

yes luke has a mouse for his computer

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Yeah I needed a mouse for a normie thing last week so I got one and haven't disconnected it yet.

[@albarshini490]

My man has a huge comfy black leather chair, pushes it aside, and sits on a his neighbors daughter chair. Based.

[@kmann100500]

"just be a middle man leaching off of wagies"

[@dragonsage6909]

Awesome episode, full of great advice! Thx

[@mememan9890]

I'm gonna keep my 40/hr wagie grind. Saving for retirement and owning a home so i'll be good.

[@mememan9890]

However, this is inspiring me to potentially start a malware removal service.... $50 bucks a pop lol.

[@kexec.]

c tutorial coming?

[@gadflyofhumanity_6847]

You C, in order to C real good C, you gotta C that it's NOT just the programming language syntax but the systems design, algorithms, data structures and other schmoo that lays the FOUNDATION for good wholesome code you C what I'm saying?

[@transforgoku]

Why not COBOL?

[@mysterious_czrs]

I think he said that he is not a c programmer some time ago xd

[@devonallie]

The 20% program (the free time you talked about) is what got google Gmail.

[@mauricioquiroga3706]

I liked the last part of the video, where you encourage people to spend time tinkering and learning stuff. However I don't actually agree with the suggestion of not being free lancers and instead do something like recovering data from disks or something like that. I think that ultimately whatever motivates people is what will make them do one thing or the other, but working for tech companies is definitely an enriching experience and you can learn a lot from the experience and met really interesting people along the way. I would encourage people to try to work in as many different types of software companies as possible, because you live and learn completely different things on each of them.

[@SemNikit]

NIce pretext to show off your Greek skills

[@samsu9678]

Rewriting software is also pervasive in open source. Xscreensaver existed forever,but GNOME MATE and other distros have to reinvent the screensavers with security issues for some reason.

[@wiskasIO]

Awesome video Luke. I differ in opinion in many things with with you but the video previous to this one and this one have a very important message. Many people misunderstood the point in the previous video hopefully more people git the message this time.

[@kiril-jiwoo]

Luke we are eagerly waiting for another episode of Not Related. While viewing your recent videos, some newfriends might accidentally come to the conclusion that this is a tech channel.

[@surrealbeats4487]

Wow ,What a surreal wallpaper ! .can you provide wallpaper source pls ?

[@rwevwrev]

As a Greek, I legitimately wanna know why you were typing in Greek. 😂

[@phage74]

He knows and translates ancient Greek and Latin.

[@idk-jb7lx]

Hard agree on the final part, programming jobs shouldnt be 9-6, that's counter productive for everyone. Wish more companies understood that.

[@covert0overt_810]

“Programming is 24/7/365 (366) on leap years - Company

[@ArniesTech]

I think we are heading towards fluent work schedules more and more.

[@maurov2104]

Don't be lazy bro

[@RR-fs9wl]

the accidental typing in greek killed me lmaoooo 2:24

[@MrPoselsky]

I worked as a "freelancer" before second wave of pandemic in Europe. You're just trading getting bigger paycheck because companies don't have to pay any mandatory employee taxes and also you get ZERO security (no severance check, if you're employee you get 2 additional months of work before finding another job). So you're trading all the security and bonuses for a little bit more money.

[@alonsoACR]

Did we watch the same video?

[@qCJLbggG4IWAY9nTH6o]

RIP Terry

[@mustfaaboassd]

Every time I do a good job in my work I feel like I just committed a sin , me a waje slave doing a good job for the pocket change that the rich guy drop my way

[@aichrist]

We have to be careful not to monetize things which contribute to the common good.

[@lucacamphuisen3093]

I started doing wordpress sites for companies and am earning more than ever while only doing some css to setup a custom theme. 6hrs work to finish a site, have a couple of hours per month per customer and get bank. No stupid kubernetes shit and am earning more than ever.

[@username54487]

How are you getting business though?

[@lucacamphuisen3093]

@@username54487 building a network

[@DavidConnerCodeaholic]

All great advice. Thanks for the insights.

[@CyberAnalyzer]

THIS time he ended with "Goodbye" instead of "That's all I had to say"!

[@kelvinpina3392]

Another gig was recovering people data from their damaged windows, it was basically inserting a pendrive that had like a minimal linux or other with tools for repairing the system like recovering the password, making backups. It was so easy

[@raymanovich3254]

I think that wallpaper is actually a piece of fan art for the sequels to Hyperion, yet Luke doesn't strike me as a fan of science fiction.

[@scvnthorpe__]

Genuinely considering this but, I think the next step is 'market' research As in what is it that people could *potentially* want, but at the same time really just doing a useful service at a modest fee

[@0ctoburr]

If there's a Venn diagram of employment, the circles are "companyman" (wagie) and "independent" (sovereign), with the intersection being "freelancer." As a remote wagie, there are not many differences between my current position and previous positions, both freelance and waged-office, except for not having the liability to pay the entirety of the tax bill as a remote wagie, as opposed to a freelancer. Freelancing is the worst of both worlds, in which you still bend the knee to the will of the customer or whatever boss, and pay more in taxes. As a remote wagie, I have comforts and company assistance for my tax bill, health insurance, etc. If you can provide a product as a service as opposed to service as a service, you can become a based independent, sovereign programmer, and the tax liabilities are worth it. I feel like people misunderstand the dilineation between independent, freelance, and salaryman. Ah well. I'm the wagie, but that's my two tax-benefitted cents. This entire discussion shifts with the absense of taxes, getting paid in fiat vs. crypto, and the "freedom" of doing it yourself. The major pitfall being: not fully understanding the scope of what "it" is

[@t.walker3101]

When I was a boy, I was obsessed with taking things apart and seeing how they functioned on the inside. When I discovered computers and computer programming, I realized the power to create anything from the inside-out was at my fingertips. A side story, that relates to what you said at 9:24: I had a job for a few years as a computer repair/iphone repair/electronics every-man in a wealthy, predominantly Jewish community (think -- the Great Gatsby) and we would charge customers $95/hr for a house call. Usually, my job was to go to an exceedingly wealthy, exceedingly elderly person's home, perform an incredibly simple task for someone with any sort of computer literacy, i.e. switch on the power button or change a password to some account, and collect nearly $100 for no more than 10 minutes worth of "work". Sometimes I felt guilty, but other times it was daunting, like working on the computer/network/cameras etc. of a guy arrested by the fbi for extorting a cryptocurrency ICO. But I digress; "Software is eating the world," they say, but again I think software is here to create a new world. In fact, based.cooking has inspired me to create a new cooking based software. Stay tuned anons.

[@alrightsquinky7798]

Ah jeez, Luke. I’ve been in a job for a year now that has COMPLETELY sapped my free time. I’ve never worked like this in my life, and it’s less pay than I was making previously (I changed jobs because I moved). It’s awful. Looking real closely at the exits right now.

[@sondreavik5337]

TERRY A DAVIS I FUCKING LOVE YOU MAN! Miss you a lot!

[@valeryi3374]

Finally the new video from my favorite text editor streamer lego man!

[@ComputingTheSoul]

I think the problem with this video is that if this advice were unequivocally promoted, there would be no internet nor computers to do this on. Manufacturing of lower level systems is contingent on corporations in a way that cannot be abstracted away, because the manufacturing capability requires much more than a single person, or even a small group, can muster.

[@MrRand0mGamer]

No, because people will always take up those jobs. A lot of people just need someone over them telling them to get stuff one or they'd just waste away on their own and some people genuinely do like a software company so much they will want to work for them anyways. If it does make more people leave tech jobs to be independent then that's a good thing too because it will just drive up wages in tech jobs to make up for the scarcity demand.

[@donnaken15]

"See a need, fill a need." - Bigweld

[@baldpolnareff7224]

That has always been my philosophy, taking free time to learn new skills, that's what I did with university. I didn't spend my entire time devoted to studying stuff I didn't like, I put more effort into those subjects that I felt are valuable in general, like maths and physics, did the minimum to survive with others. That allowed me to tinker with lots of stuff, especially graphics related, but also Linux and free software. Turns out I can make money off of my skills, whenever I need it. I'm an aerospace engineer and I don't feel bound by my academic title, I can do other stuff I like.

[@NukeCloudstalker]

Based and true. And based name, although I'm more of a Kakyoin-enjoyer.

[@kelvinpina3392]

My dad and I made money installing windows with pirated software (Adobe, MS Office..). Then Facebook ads (I did even made the ads the other people already had) Only thing is super evil because of how much data Facebook has about people. And I was making above the minimum wage in my country

[@alexeytelepnev9582]

im lonely

[@bialcus69]

Well said, Sir.

[@FunFreakeyy]

This was a great balanced video, talking about different viewpoints and lifestyles but bringing the essence of it together.

[@gustawbobowski1333]

There is literally one viewpoint....

[@FunFreakeyy]

@@gustawbobowski1333 Yeah his viewpoint, but it consinsts of positions that often discussed against each other. That's what I meant. Maybe other people don't see that, I don't know. But often arguments I read are more typical black/white-thinking not inbetween.

[@VoyivodaFTW1]

This is incredible advice for wealth building and maintenance

[@transforgoku]

Is Bug Bounty Hunting compatible with what you described in the video or not?

[@bluesquare23]

Yeah rewriting code is something that should be avoided. I think it happens because A) software is very malleable and B) programmers are very particular. It the, "It only sort of does exactly what I want" kind of mindset. All the more reason for free and opensource!

[@sembutininverse]

thank you luke🙏🏻

[@gustawbobowski1333]

A lot of stuff is reinventing the wheel, yet a lot of projects are breakthrough or in a new field. Not everyone is fine with scraping websites for an average joe.

[@jesusjimenes]

Thank you luke, your vídeo gave me self steen

[@StevenOBrien]

If you're basing your future on the notion that these (honestly, easy) jobs will always be there for you and in abundance, you might be in for a rude awakening at some point. There's probably going to come a point where owners of tech companies realize that 99% of the bloat in their unmaintainable codebase is unnecessary, and that they can generate the same revenue with a much cheaper team of a few dozen really good engineers working on a fresh codebase that isn't implementing fashionable new dependencies every five minutes. The fact that a (relatively) simple website like Twitter has thousands of full-time engineers should be a huge red flag that something's not right. Also: Conway's law, AI programmers, etc.

[@uzmanzawahir5410]

Are you a programmer yourself? Dumbest shit I've heard all year. These programmer jobs aren't "honestly easy", I suspect that you're just too stupid to realize how stupid you really are. I can't even address all the roundabout bullshit you just said. I hope no poor uneducated soul reads your comment and second guesses having a normal, regular job as a software developer.

[@alexrambolton]

This video is actually very inspiring.

[@tobias-edwards]

fyi Google stopped the 20% 'free time' thing for their employees a while back. From what I read at the time, the free time was affecting business targets

[@thehibbi]

My brain the whole video: "Excuse me Sir, there are 2 unread notifications!"

[@davidzhong]

Damn I lost my job a month ago where I put all my heart and effort. Now I’m broke and can’t make money at all…

[@treyvonmartin7989]

How do I start a computer repair shop

[@altermetax]

That's how every programmer feels after making something that works.

[@conceptrat]

This constant reinventing the wheel crapoly just irks me! Reuse, enhance and contribute is far more efficient, useful and helpful.

[@hezuikn]

ticket master

[@hezuikn]

@@ccriztoff im on twitter

[@blimolhm2790]

You'd appreciate being able to program with bitcoin script to develop microbusinesses. The granularity of service means that you can make products so simple and charge users less than 1 cent. The fees are a fraction of what Visa and MasterCard charge. Micropayments unlock services that were previously infeasible due to transaction costs

[@gavinvales8928]

i like the Instagram filter you've put on your webcam picture

[@theversacecowboy632]

Anyone have advice for a starting point for getting into programming? It feels like "learning to program" is about as specific as "learning a skill"

[@Asrashas]

Maybe not as concrete advice as you might want, but: I think it's more important to start with why and what instead of how. Don't learn any particular language first, but the principles. Flow control, a little bit of boolean algebra (because that's what drives flow control), loops and recursion. Because these are concepts that come up in just about any language. When you have some understanding of the semantics, it's easier to learn syntaxes. But the sad thing is: I think it's hard to learn the semantics without a language. After all, if you don't use an existing language you have to make up your own syntax to express your ideas, write them down and go over them. Depending on how you want to go, I'd say maybe either start with Python or C. In C you have to learn a bit of memory management, which I would advise you to do at some point anyways. But if you don't want to do it up-front Python is fine, I think. But there you have to be careful to not learn to many python-isms. Because then you are not learning programming, but python instead. So, as mentioned, focus on the general concepts of Programming. Flow Control (if/else, for, while), organizing stuff in functions/modules/whatever. And then maybe also some high-level concepts that are not specific to python, like functions that generate functions and fun things like that. Another important skill for a programmer, other than knowing those fundamental concepts, is knowing the available tools. That might be something like "which languages do I know, and is one of them particularly suited to the problem at hand?" or "which libraries exist that can help me with ?", as well as the ability to find and read documentation. And these primarily come with experience, I guess. Hope any of that was remotely helpful.

[@sisyphus_strives5463]

First learn how to figure out how to learn. There are forums which discuss this very topic, there are college curricula which describe the textbook being used in the course or at the very least the subject matter.

[@monkeymode72]

Don't think you'll see this, but I have some additions to make to @Asrashas advice. From my experience, the best way is learning the "practice and theory" in parallel. Swinging between the two extremes will benefit your ability in both, never scaring away from either. Put differently, "detach" yourself. Don't blindly program with bad tools because they're the only thing you know and don't get lost in academic papers to fuel your mental satisfaction. When actively working on something, make sure to read other people's code so you don't get caught up in your head, when reading on a new kind of algorithm don't forget to write out anything that comes to you. This sounds like the most trivial thing ever, but is something I wish I'd been told earlier. As for concrete directions, just pick up C, honestly. It's everyone's least favourite language for a reason because it faces you with the harsh realities of a computer, and so prefer sugarcoated toy languages (I'm looking at you python). For starting C, get something like "Learn C The Hard Way", even though C people loathe it. It will make you despise programming and you'll feel better once you're not working throught it anymore. The author's style is very radical as it shoves every possible vulnerability mitigation and unsafe practice down your throat and as a result you'll subconsciously avoid writing a mess. The next step would be looking for programs you care about and want to work on. What do you need? What bugs you in your conputer usage? You'll know soon enough. Now you'll only need to get working. Don't force yourself to finish your program the same week you started. Don't add features you don't need. Just writing anything at all that works and without wasting too much time will make you better than most programmers nowadays. The devil hides in the details. Don't be afraid to reinvent the wheel. Some use cases just can't be covered by forking a library. Your best bet is writing simple wrappers but very occasionally you'll have to get your hands dirty. Technical blog posts suck, don't read them. Prose is for conveying abstract concepts that model your thinking. Once again, RTFM. 500 pages of LaTeX documentation by Knuth, its creator, will make you understand how to use it correctly, unlike some random lengthy online course. Thick manuals have the advantage of being concise and let you look up anything you need without distraction. I apologize if this sounds lile gibberish, but this should be enough to get you started. Remember, nobody cares about your project euler solutions, only what you bring to the table.

[@satyabratagiri3370]

This vid will add a lota of value to my life IF and ONLY IF I implement what I learnt.... But will I 🤣🤣🤣

[@uuu12343]

Luke is becoming like Eli the Computer Guy lmao

[@MarkZiemann1]

Build your own business - simple as that!

[@zorgate]

What's a wagie humiliation ritual?

[@bvbianca]

based

[@packmandudefake]

09:54 - moment, when Luke realizes that people know about Mental Outlaw being his 2nd channel.

[@FIIRdesu]

Instructions unclear. I quit my job, now im stuck in a toaster.

[@xander-on-the-earth]

The advantage of freelancing is the ability to live for yourself. Developing own projects is just a side effect, a particular property of this.

[@wonggran9983]

8:46 Luke, I think girls want you to notice in yourself the amount of technological sophistication and complexity you have on your computers.

[@tonymiller5841]

Basically. Make the most money you can selling as less of your soul as possible and invest those money into acquiring passive income, land and property and independence.

[@devstige5152]

what os you use?

[@Meleeman011]

man i should find more api sites lol.

[@ducksies]

Please make a thumbnail-making tutorial

[@dw4270]

Rest in peace to the legend in the thumbnail.

[@Optimus6128]

2:24 Typing in greek LOL. Are you greek? Or needed the character set for something else?

[@not_herobrine3752]

man is probably an apl user in his spare time

[@Klayperson]

his side hustle is translating manuscripts and shit

[@shoelesswhale]

It's all about bundling and unbundling

[@FlavourlessLife]

Hey Luke, why do you think so many programmers are developing an anti-tech philosophy these days? I have some ideas but would be interested to hear what other programmers think.

[@meuko]

Why do people working at maccie d hate eating at maccie d? Environment breeds anti-environmental behavior.

[@gregorybrannan7202]

Programming is magic? Have you read "Off to Be the Wizard" by Scott Meyer?

[@nourway3639]

Can I get your wallpaper