It reads like a coming-of-age story for a software developer, without the part that comes next; crushing humility as flaunted self-assumed ideals are obliterated by the need to deliver actual results that real people actually pay for.
by nativeit
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No idea what Mr. Escher would think of me, but I have his reflected self-portrait etched permanently on my forearm, behind which his metamorphosis snakes all the way up to my shoulder. I got my tattoos in my early 20s, as most probably do. My best friend's older sister lived next to us, and was an accomplished tattoo artist, and I allowed her to experiment in exchange for free work. She used diluted black ink to simulate the appearance of graphite, which worked wonderfully on MCE's self-portrait. I don't know that I'll get any more work, but here at 42-years old I don't have any regrets.
by megaloblasto
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MC Escher had a big impact on me growing up. I remember being a kid and looking at some of those famous lithographs and thinking, "oh jeez wow, ok, that's pretty cool".
by gritzko
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Author here. Sorry for the quality of the text. It was flushed out in a brief moment of euphoria when a 0.1 feature list was complete. Never edited, never checked for Markdown bugs even. (Please come later)
by kleiba
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Geez, could the writing breathe any more full-of-oneselfness?
by jochem9
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This reminds me of a story I read in an Escher biography: Escher would receive letters from mathematicians, saying that his work exactly visualized this or that theory. Escher himself did not understand what they were talking about, as he was not into mathematics. He did of course enjoy that others got so much out of his work.
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