To be fair, probably most of us here on HN write software to put food on the table. Don’t pooh-pooh our careers.

kylemaxwell an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Both can be true: we can have different preferences about what we're doing to put food on the table and what we're doing when we build something on our own for other reasons.

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sfpotter 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

He didn't pooh-pooh anyone's careers.

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otterley 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The way it's worded comes across that way.

	▲	foresto 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have spent a good deal of my life writing software to put food on the table. I didn't interpret any of what he wrote in the way you describe. Perhaps you could explain why you did.