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i'm not sure these guys are so rare... sounds pretty normal to me. :/

by jheriko 11y ago

ak39 11y ago
Maybe you are one of them! :-) It's truly rare to find techies who are more excited to see the end result in the hands of productive and happy end users than they are about the technology used to build said solutions. The trait is more a mindset, a philosophy of empathy than it is a technical skill of building software.
- sheepmullet 11y ago
  It's only rare because a) it is undervalued, and b) it is frequently out of the developers control.
- nightcracker 11y ago
  Is it weird that I enjoy both? I can appreciate really nifty code, but I also get very happy to see my code get used by other people. One is more of an intellectual satisfaction, and the other is more of an ego boost.
- lawry 11y ago
  I'd like to ask you something. When working on a project (that may sound boring like a stock-management system), and during the endless development of this (keep adding functionality the employer asks for) starting to want to use this system yourself for daily stuff (hey I have a lot of electronics that could and would profit from a stock-system to find all my shit). Oh and on top of that constantly keep having thoughts about how I could improve the flow and stuff. Does that fit into that description of "techies who are more excited to see the end result in the hands of productive and happy end users than they are about the technology used to build said solutions"?
  - Gibbon1 11y ago
    At one time I worked for a marketing guy who was not a coder nor an engineer really. What he was really good at was closing the loop by talking to people and asking questions. Because any project you have a bunch of different groups and white marketing is about getting them to reason collectedly to solve problems. So the 'from scratch guy' is a technical person that cares about closing the loop instead of working on technical puzzles inside his comfort zone. Me I have two things. I hate working on anything and then have it not ship (What I could have spent the last three months in Costa Rica working on my tan? Seriously?) And I like when I see people using the stuff I worked on. Nothing better than to see that customers are ordering your product and the company is shipping it and making money without having you to be involved.

i'm not sure these guys are so rare... sounds pretty normal to me. :/

by jheriko 11y ago

i'm not sure these guys are so rare... sounds pretty normal to me. :/

ak39 11y ago

Maybe you are one of them! :-) It's truly rare to find techies who are more excited to see the end result in the hands of productive and happy end users than they are about the technology used to build said solutions. The trait is more a mindset, a philosophy of empathy than it is a technical skill of building software.

sheepmullet 11y ago
It's only rare because a) it is undervalued, and b) it is frequently out of the developers control.
nightcracker 11y ago
Is it weird that I enjoy both? I can appreciate really nifty code, but I also get very happy to see my code get used by other people. One is more of an intellectual satisfaction, and the other is more of an ego boost.
lawry 11y ago
I'd like to ask you something. When working on a project (that may sound boring like a stock-management system), and during the endless development of this (keep adding functionality the employer asks for) starting to want to use this system yourself for daily stuff (hey I have a lot of electronics that could and would profit from a stock-system to find all my shit). Oh and on top of that constantly keep having thoughts about how I could improve the flow and stuff. Does that fit into that description of "techies who are more excited to see the end result in the hands of productive and happy end users than they are about the technology used to build said solutions"?
- Gibbon1 11y ago
  At one time I worked for a marketing guy who was not a coder nor an engineer really. What he was really good at was closing the loop by talking to people and asking questions. Because any project you have a bunch of different groups and white marketing is about getting them to reason collectedly to solve problems. So the 'from scratch guy' is a technical person that cares about closing the loop instead of working on technical puzzles inside his comfort zone. Me I have two things. I hate working on anything and then have it not ship (What I could have spent the last three months in Costa Rica working on my tan? Seriously?) And I like when I see people using the stuff I worked on. Nothing better than to see that customers are ordering your product and the company is shipping it and making money without having you to be involved.