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RE: The number one guaranteed way to make money on Steem
Nice! Don't have any programming skills any more, but I should probably look into breaking steem & submitting bugreps once I am back in civilization.
Still, I am making some money proofreading/translating posts, but so far I am accepting them as SP. as you said, right now it is a good investment.
Old skills just need refreshing. I first started and got a little bit of a chance to learn how to code in C, m68k assembler, and a simple imperative language called Amiga E when I was a teenager. Some of these things never go away. Programming skills are built partly upon logic and partly upon mathematics. If you are the type who dipped your toes into it when you were young, likely you have partly kept this knowledge fresh in idle thoughts and amusements, in games, and so on. Games in particular are highly disparaged as time-wasters, but it is not many games that don't reinforce some kind of thinking skill or other. Sudoku helps you keep your arithmetic sharp, and a little boost to logic. Crosswords help you retain linguistic skills. Strategy games help you stay sharp with thinking about causal sequences. Adventure games and puzzlers keep you thinking about goal-driven activity. First person shooters sharpen your ability to observe the world around you and manage your limited resources when in the midst of hectic activity. No game doesn't improve or at least maintain some skill.
So, likely, you have still been keeping essential skills. If you have dreams of helping change the world by using your brain, you probably already have kept most of those skills alive enough that a little determined, dedicated effort will bring them back to the level you got to in the past, and let you start moving forward.
That is true, but quite a lot of word changing can be done without any interaction with computers on the low level. I actually quite like scripting languages and SQL stuff. But I mostly like to automate the system and just let it do its own thing. Set it up, see that everything works okay, and just watch the logs for unusual things.
I remember being the first person to isolate some weird rootkit bot net. Been number 1 google result for it for a year and a half or so. :-D People renting a room at our space had it on their computer, ans I noticed that the log file to count their traffic was unusually large. Some tinkering later I've found a lot of relevant stuff it did, and sent the files isolated to some people with more tech savvy. And the blog entry about this whole thing has been on goolge for a long time, with quite a few people comming into comments asking about what to do with their infection. :-D