>>12647512Well this reply tugged at all my right heartstrings.. cheers for that.
That's a very broad field of... subfields within CS you've worked in, I'm quite impressed. You must've been at it for a few decades now from what I can tell. Your advice sounds a lot like my dad's good advice.
I first learned to code by myself in Python (my high school taught programming in C++ but it was so poor quality I understood nothing until I went for self study) and didn't really do all that much, I've always been a bare minimum kind of guy. Spent at least 10k hours in my youth on that blasted Pocket Monsters franchise.
A problem I haven't mentioned is I might've prematurely over indulged on drugs (most notably weed, but also dabbled in others). For the past few years my brain just hasn't really felt the same, but I have the sinking feeling that if I quit my synapses will "rearrange" and I'll be able to bang out quality code again. I've been able to stay off it for little more than two weeks in the past, and I always crawl right back and overindulge.
Since my first LSD trip in first year my interest in /x/-related stuff has overtaken my interest in programming and implicitly actually making money and creating a good life for myself. I understand now that the two must be in balance and it's up to me to put the weights in the right places.
