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Are you just making the blind assumption that he's a programmer?


One year means he could have spent 364 days learning how to program and do all the 1000 uploads on the final day of the year...


Or one (maybe a few, I don't know what the going rate for something like this) day working for minimum wage, a few hours to find a freelance programmer, and paying the programmer to write the upload script. Then, spend ~360 days doing whatever.

Something tells me this project was not about efficiency.


I agree, but...

One day for 1000 iterations means 86.4 seconds to upload to youtube, wait for encoding to finish, then download it.

Youtube is slower than that. :-)

Better give it a week. Maybe a month.


He could work on something else during that month. Automation!


Yes of course, but he can't take 364 days to learn to program.


I make maple syrup by hand. It requires a huge amount of physical labor, as well as a fairly expensive evaporator and as well as a small building devoted to that single purpose.

The product tastes the same as the stuff I can buy from my neighbor's maple stand for a fraction of the cost and effort. It's wholly irrational.

And I'll do it again next year.

Sometimes the joy comes from doing it the hard way.




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