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If software engineering was available as a monastic vocation, we'd probably have a lot of significantly higher-quality software available. I would much rather u
by wyager 4y ago
If software engineering was available as a monastic vocation, we'd probably have a lot of significantly higher-quality software available. I would much rather use something written by a stylite with an esolang compiler than shat out by 100 poorly-coordinated javascript devs at MEGACORP.
- defenestration 4y agoThere is a truth hidden in here. I would love to spend time at a monastry and code.
- nemo1618 4y agoYou can! I spent a week co-working at MAPLE (https://www.monasticacademy.com https://www.monasticacademy.com) earlier this month, living among monastics and participating in their practice. Honestly, I didn't get a lot of programming done, but that's probably because my goal shifted rather quickly from "get a lot of work done" to "take advantage of this rare opportunity to develop my meditation practice." Still, I think it'd be a great environment for focused programming: you're in a quiet, beautiful setting, your meals are taken care of, and you're surrounded by people who are diligent, respectful, and committed to solving important problems.
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- bardan 4y agoCoding in the scriptorium, no less.
- don-code 4y agoYou may enjoy reading Neal Stephenson's _Anathem_.
- wyager 4y agoI certainly did!
- ThrowawayR2 4y agoI dunno about monastic programming getting a lot of takers. Don't forget that there's usually a vow of poverty involved; fully loaded Macbook Pros or decked out 16 core Threadripper workstations are not part of the picture.
- pvillano 4y agoSome software can be written on a raspberry pi. Truly accessible software should be able to run on anything, for example, government web sites. Someone on here developed a site that a homeless person was able to submit a form using a PSP.
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoHowever, a communal Mac Pro may be part of the infrastructure. It's a vow of individual poverty, but that doesn't mean the monastery itself does not contain riches that its monks have access to but do not privately own.
- ticviking 4y agoThe vow of poverty tends to mean not accumulating real estate or a retirement account. The tools of a trade and other personal necessities are allowed. Different monasteries enforce this different ways
- bardan 4y agoI'm imagining it more like the work suckless do. Simplicity, beauty. Multiple cores are an extravagance.
- ticviking 4y agoI’ve often wondered at the validity of pursing a vocation as an Oblate and supporting myself by consulting and providing software “lovingly made by monks at prayer”