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…I did not expect that. That escalated quickly. Anyway, what do you identify as? Okay, so first let’s do the previous or the in-between question first, which is the different archetypes. I think that’s a really interesting question, because if you go on Twitter or you’re new, your thoughts are probably that there is just web programming, and maybe there’s some other stuff, yeah, like game programming, but you’d be like, game programming in JavaScript and on the web. There’s this very myopic view of the programming world, and I bet if you ask a lot of people these days what is the most popular form of programming, they’d probably say web. If you said what contains the most amount of repos, how many percentage of repos on GitHub are web-based, they probably say 90% or some huge number. But the reality is that there’s an entire embedded robotics world. You know, you’re familiar with the ML side of things. There’s networking, there’s going to be just performance, operating systems, compilers. There’s just huge amounts of variation of all these different types of programming verticals that you can be. And so we often talk about programming in perspective of web, or something that’s pretty narrow, and I think that’s just a social construct of Twitter more than anything else, that actually I don’t believe it’s that representative of the entire programming world out there. And I think a lot of programming’s really, really fun. There’s some really great stuff. Building your own language is just a very fun experience to do. Every programmer should just do that once, just to have a completely different perspective on how things work in life. But as far as what do I do, I’ve always looked at myself as a tools engineer. So at my time, at my jobs, typically I would start off on the UI, and then they’d be like, “Okay, well hey, we need a library for this thing.” So then I’d be the one writing the library. So in 2012, 2013, I was writing a UI library for the web that can behave just like an iPad, so you can pinch and zoom on it, but it’s still a web page. Because we didn’t have any of that stuff back then. It was a canvas, had to do all the matrices operations and all that stuff to… Nice.…

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