{"id":620,"date":"2006-01-16T12:58:47","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T12:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=620"},"modified":"2006-01-16T12:58:47","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T12:58:47","slug":"sadly-i-fall-right-into-this-niche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/sadly-i-fall-right-into-this-niche\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadly, I fall right into this niche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An amusing commentary about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/archives\/2006\/01\/13\/213613.php\">the difference between being a programmer and a computer guy<\/a>.  I understand completely where this is coming from, and unlike the author, I fall directly into the problem area of being a &#8220;computer guy&#8221; instead of a programmer.  <\/p>\n<p>At times I have found myself asked to help with some problem or another with a home PC.  Usually I try to dodge the questions, because as I have said many times, I like to use computers but I absolutely loathe working on them.  I mean I just don&#8217;t usually enjoy upgrading\/troubleshooting home PCs and their problems.  It&#8217;s generally a huge time-sink that hardly ever seems worth it.  The cases on my home systems are generally never opened up for any reason.  I buy a system from the store, bring it home and plug it in.  Software is my problem, and that&#8217;s usually something I have lots of patience for (I have to since that&#8217;s usually 95% of my day job, too).  I regularly tinker with the systems at home, but the hardware remains the same.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong:  there&#8217;s a vast difference between working on server-class hardware in the server room at any client and bent over underneath a dusty desk at home with a butter knife for a screwdriver and a mouthful of curses.  When the hardware is designed with maintenance in mind, I usually don&#8217;t mind maintaining it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, just my 2 cents on this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amusing commentary about the difference between being a programmer and a computer guy. I understand completely where this is coming from, and unlike the author, I fall directly into the problem area of being a &#8220;computer guy&#8221; instead of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/sadly-i-fall-right-into-this-niche\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-a0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}