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I've never understood these complaints about being interrupted. Unless someone is walking over to your desk every 5 min, you should be able to handle the few in
by dntrkv 10y ago
I've never understood these complaints about being interrupted. Unless someone is walking over to your desk every 5 min, you should be able to handle the few interruptions you get in a day. Also this idea that a "layperson" doesn't understand why someone shouldn't be interrupted while in the middle of something is laughable. Like programmers are the only ones that concentrate.
- Nadya 10y agoMany professions have more `write` than `read`. You're doing more and not needing to keep everything in your head at once in order to understand what you are doing. As a cook you can clear your mind of steps that have already happened - you only need to worry about the next steps in the recipe and not everything that came before it. I don't have to worry about preheating the oven as I'm flipping something that is already in the oven. It has already happened - I can forget about it! Programmers can't forget about things that have already happened because those are the most important things to remember. I'd argue the closest profession would be lawyers. Lawyerese casts "variables" (collective) all the time and you need to remember what each collective means while reading through a verbose document that could span multiple pages and references itself constantly (see the exceptions listed in §2.7 and §4.2b). You have to keep the entire document in your mind at a single time to actually be able to read and understand it properly. The "layperson" understands not to interrupt a lawyer they see reading through a stack of 100 pages on their desk. They don't understand not to interrupt the coder who has 12 lines of code open in their IDE.