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My pet theory of how great software gets started

(Inspired by yungporko’s Ask HN post, which got me thinking.) Pretty much every community, dojo, workplace, subculture, scene you can imagine in the modern day had a software sub-scene embedded within it. It can be as small as “that guy who does our Excel”, or as large as the scene itself . This is owing to the fantastic generality of software as a way to make almost anything more efficient, but we won’t go on that tangent now.

Pretty much every community, dojo, workplace, subculture, scene you can imagine in the modern day had a software sub-scene embedded within it. Video games get us through the day faster - pop in Call of Duty and let’s have a good time. No, the group I’m talking about are people who take the power users’ view of the software as an end in itself and wrap it back around into an entirely new thing.

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