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by Balgair 426 days ago
It's a lot easier than you all make it out to be [0].

I'm not a 'programmer' like you all are, at best I can hack together code to get things done. I use git maybe once a year. I'm a biotech person that likes to hang out because y'all are mostly smart and the community is great here.

But man alive, this is not that difficult. Yes, it's hard to wrap your head around some nested dependancies. But it's a lot easier than any chain of protein/gene/neuron interactions. This stuff makes sense and you can edit it. My field can't really do that most of the time and it really doesn't make sense for decades (at best).

Like, I'm trying to follow along here and am mostly lost. But the few times I do know something about the code y'all are talking about, it's made out to be a lot more complicated than it needs to be.

I mean, yeah, keep that up though. Makes your bosses pay you more and lord knows those suits should be doing that and not spending the cash on rockets and shitty pick-ups.

But for real, y'all are making this out to be a lot harder than it is.

[0] this is supposed to an unpopular opinion, right?

1 comments

Isn’t this just dunning kruger? Try and build something substantial for your gene science thing rather than some notebook script or CRUD app and see what complexity you run into.