When I was 17 I was building Windows Phone apps, bad decision on my part.

mdp2021 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I also did, and had written code for/on other mobile devices before, and did write a large number of even very ambitious software for other mobile devices later.

I do not see any past constructive experience as a waste of time.

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livinglist 20 minutes ago | parent [-]

Did you write anything for Symbian or PalmOS before WP?

	▲	mdp2021 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, absolutely. (Actually, "this friend of mine" goes back to programmable calculators ;) - my very first versatile palm computing devices.)

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muragekibicho 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Incredible counterexample, but oddly relatable. I'd probably have achieved techbro 'post-economic' status earlier if I focused on Android dev instead of the shiny (and new at that time) Xamarin for Windows phones.

	▲	livinglist an hour ago \| parent [-]
		God I almost invested in Xamarin after Windows Phone got aborted, I did spend a lil time on UWP, but thank god Flutter came out not so long after that. After all these years I learned to stay away from Microsoft tech stack.

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