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As a lawyer, I find the law (which is supposedly 'logical' and 'rational') to be highly absurd at times. It's unavoidable, given that the law heavily involves h
by knighthack 2y ago
As a lawyer, I find the law (which is supposedly 'logical' and 'rational') to be highly absurd at times. It's unavoidable, given that the law heavily involves humans.
I am in part drawn to software development and programming, because it's logical and comparatively rigid (at least programming itself is, if you take away the environment/ecosystem/cults that develop around the idiosyncracies of different languages). I find programming very far from absurd.
I am therefore surprised to see software programmers claiming that software development is absurd - and that woodworking could somehow be less so.
The grass is always greener on the other side. (And I still can't accept that programming itself is absurd.)
- taysix 2y agoYou are correct to a point. Programming is not absurd until you involve the humans! Your end users will end up driving you crazy.
- ornornor 2y agoI guess programming itself isn’t absurd in the same sense that law isn’t absurd if you look at it through the lens of logic. But that’s only a very tiny part of the art… what breaks the camel’s back for many of us is all the BS around it coming from management, investors, clueless middle managers, political business people, overcommitted salespeople, and the constantly changing tooling so that something you wrote 6–12 months ago won’t run today anymore without a variable amount of change and effort. Not to mention the layers upon layers upon layers of abstraction that make the whole thing inscrutable. I think that’s what a lot of us are fed up with and mean with “programming has become absurd”