The Graduate "One Word: Plastics"
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as a joke or shorthand reference when HN discusses the next big technology or career trend.
What it is
The famous scene from The Graduate in which a family friend gives Benjamin the career advice 'one word: plastics'. It is a roughly one-minute film clip.
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What Hacker News said
Cites ChrisMarshallNY · 2020-04 · on “Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming?”
I deleted my rather cynical post, about how we can "age out" of frontline programming, and will replace it with this rather sunnier treatise: Open source work. I was a manager for over 25 years. I'm a really good manager. I could probably be an ideal CTO. But I don't love it. I love writing code. As my management track progressed, I found my technical work deprecating. It did teach me to be a lot more "strategic," and "architectural" in my approach, but I found that I was sitting down and banging out code less and less. To make things worse, I kept reading about how the tools and techniques were progressing to levels far beyond what I had learned. I didn't have a "shower clause" in my employ