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This is interesting. Why drummers? I know programmers are drawn to music and languages as other interests, but you seem to have something specific in mind.
by solarmist 4y ago
This is interesting. Why drummers? I know programmers are drawn to music and languages as other interests, but you seem to have something specific in mind.
- walleeee 4y agoSpeaking as one, a drummer must have something called limb independence, which means the right leg might be playing one pattern on the kick drum, left leg a different pattern on the hihat (or a double pedal etc), who knows what's going on in the hands, and yet it all has to come together and sound synchronized. This doesn't seem so different, conceptually, from managing mental models of several independent processes doing various things on various schedules, while making sure the whole distributed program acts coherently to produce the expected output. Just a theory! I don't know how much the two faculties really overlap.
- raxxorraxor 4y agoThe drummer part wasn't meant that seriously. Just that a spin loop of an embedded system that controls a machine has a certain rhythm to it with very precise timings. Perhaps I am just under the illusion that my programs are some form of ballad. Thinking more on it I would be quite afraid if my µC starts any kind of solo.