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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: More Funny Stuff From Joel
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Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote at 10:05 this Saturday (GMT):
> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
> wrote:
>>Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote at 20:38 this Friday (GMT):
>>> Le 14-06-2024, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>> Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
>>>>>Le 09-06-2024, Tyrone <none@none.none> a écrit :
>>>>>> On Jun 8, 2024 at 7:42:16?PM EDT, "Joel" <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What purpose does coding that serve?  I can code, I choose not to
>>>>>>> because everything's already been coded, by someone else.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What an extremely naive thing to say. 
>>>>>
>>>>>You seem surprised. Is it the first time you read a message from Joel?
>>>>
>>>> I may not have the IT skills you have, but I know my way around
>>>> computers, everything I need to do has been coded by someone, I never
>>>> find that I would need to code myself.
>>>
>>> It's not about the technical skills. It's about the naive way you see
>>> things. If everything had already been coded, there would be neither new
>>> programs, nor improvements of old programs. Which is just plain wrong.
>>
>>Also, there's always going to be a small niche that you need filled. I
>>know I have a bunch of stuff I made after being frustrated I couldn't
>>find anything online (or by just cobbling together existing programs in
>>a bash script :P)
>
>
> I do understand that people have needs like that, and it's conceivable
> I would too, it's not like I couldn't code, I just haven't encountered
> that need apart from mIRC scripts in a long time.


Fair. I haven't written a complex one like upload.sh in a long while..
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