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how to build the foundations of an everchanging building in an everchanging environment. not specifically directed to the parent comment, but it lead me to wri

by slx26 8y ago

how to build the foundations of an everchanging building in an everchanging environment. not specifically directed to the parent comment, but it lead me to write this: I think the discussion here is too focused on business/productivity. I feel like different people have different approaches to coding. Some of us really need to write beautiful code, and we are ok with "wasting" a lot of time thinking about fluff until we recognise that it really is fluff, or come up with interesting ideas simply because we spent time thinking about something. Maybe you care about the end result, maybe you care about the code, maybe you care about both. And even when you care about one or another, you do it in different ways. We start optimizing algorithms, then we build frameworks and "optimize" workflows, and then we want to optimize the approach to coding. But I don't think that's universally doable as with algorithms. We end with great insights and confused discussions.

goldfeld 8y ago
That clicked a lot, the first sentennce, if code architecture is like a building with many extra dimensions then programming has this quantic challenge of getting beyond the fourth dimension of time to an intuition of how to build the foundations and subsequent DSL design levels of the code building's own future state, as if the future state exists in the present along with all other possible building states (that fit project[ed] constraints), since time is not a restraining cognitive concept in those higher dimensions of architectural mathematic representation.
gmueckl 8y ago
I like playing with ideas and code as much as the next guy. But I have this distinction between things I do to learn and things I do to create results useful for others. For the later I need to find efficient ways to create what I need to create or I will take too long and the need is gone and my time is wasted. Ultimately I want to be able to tell the world that my work had a positive impact in some form. I do not want to be the guy who did useless things. This is my main motivation these days.

by slx26 8y ago

goldfeld 8y ago

That clicked a lot, the first sentennce, if code architecture is like a building with many extra dimensions then programming has this quantic challenge of getting beyond the fourth dimension of time to an intuition of how to build the foundations and subsequent DSL design levels of the code building's own future state, as if the future state exists in the present along with all other possible building states (that fit project[ed] constraints), since time is not a restraining cognitive concept in those higher dimensions of architectural mathematic representation.

gmueckl 8y ago

I like playing with ideas and code as much as the next guy. But I have this distinction between things I do to learn and things I do to create results useful for others. For the later I need to find efficient ways to create what I need to create or I will take too long and the need is gone and my time is wasted. Ultimately I want to be able to tell the world that my work had a positive impact in some form. I do not want to be the guy who did useless things. This is my main motivation these days.