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nixCraft 🐧

this developer retired or resigned from software giant after 22 years 4 mos, and became a farmer. bro is living his dream. x.com/timokonkwo_/status/17853

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gary

@nixCraft duck duck goose - wasn't that a jethro tull album?

potpie

@nixCraft even more impressive considering he is a goose

((( Geekosaurus )))

@nixCraft in The Soul of a New Machine, Kidder describes the day they came into the lab and found that one of the top chip designers had had his fill of nanoseconds:

> He went away from the basement
> and left this note on his terminal:
> > "I'm going to a commune in Vermont
> > and will deal with no unit of time
> > shorter than a season."

Sandeep :verifiedroot:

@nixCraft he found out it's easier to do farming than improving windoge performance

Jago Nissi

@nixCraft decades of _performance_ engineering at m$ with nothing to show. At least you get geese from being a goose farmer.

Zergy :verified: :redpanda:

@nixCraft
What can we says? We all know that geese are less irritating than Windows Update. :rp_shrug:

Plus you can make delicious foi gras with them. :rp_hungry:

Marco :slayer:

@nixCraft I'm 20 years in and DAMN this is tempting

canleaf08 ⌘ ✅

@nixCraft In Canada and worldwide this was the way, some workers went, when Nortel was bankrupt. Astronomical growth everywhere and then Roth happened.

fullfathomfive

@nixCraft Most of us just play Stardew Valley, bro is out here living it

margrim

@nixCraft Yeeeeah—a lot of us are throwing in our tech-pro towels to go do stuff totally unrelated and uncorrupted by people's bullshit. It's a good day to have multiple marketable skillsets.

Aphrodite ☑️ :boost_ok:

@margrim @nixCraft

It’s why I’m shifting into humanistic vocations.

Being of service to my fellow humans is far more rewarding and more important than playing with hardware and software.

sharky5740

@nixCraft To no-ones surprise, the timeline strongly suggests it was architecture that broke their will.

Freevolt

@nixCraft Bro could have chosen a more peaceful animal tho...

René 🐧

@nixCraft he made the hay while the sun shine bright above, now he can rest easy.

dodothedev🦤💻

@nixCraft
Did he move to a remote town in a small valley where everyone is more or less friendly, there's ample fishing, a hat-selling mouse, a wizard and plenty of mines to explore and everyone is just a bit suspicious of the big corp?

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