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> An amateur film student making an artistic film to tell a story

And consequently these movies are mostly irrelevant because they only appeal to a tiny fraction of people.

They are about as irrelevant as someone writing a unix tool in Rust, pushing it to github, and linking to it in an email to a hiring manager.

Right, do people actually do that? Like to get a job? I’ve never looked at side project portfolios when hiring. Like unless that hypothetical rust tool was completely salient to the role and it was seeing critical adoption it’s basically not signal.

I doubt people make indie films specifically targeted at getting a job either.

I don't really understand your point then, I think both are equally irrelevant. If you thought that was going to be a gotcha because I place programming on a pedestal or something you misjudged critically.

> I think both are equally irrelevant

That is my point. They are analagous and equally relevant: no more. No less.

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