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Your sound like an executive too, putting emphasis on well-researched words, and mentioning things like capturing inspiration. As far as I've seen, there is li
by devcpp 14y ago
Your sound like an executive too, putting emphasis on well-researched words, and mentioning things like capturing inspiration.
As far as I've seen, there is little inspiration involved in most programming environments, just a lot of thinking.
- enjo 14y agoI'm going to assume this was meant to be insulting. A lot of that is going around on HN these days. It's really too bad. I'll just leave it at this. Isn't inspiration often the end-result of careful thought? I don't see what about an office makes it the right place for the thinking you see in programming environments. I've solved more hard problems in the shower than I have at my desk.
- dwj 14y agoenjo is absolutely right. I regularly require inspiration in order to solve difficult problems. This inspiration generally never happens when sitting in front of a computer screen - most of my ideas come when I am walking, swimming, cycling, etc. Certainly there are many dull development jobs that require no inspiration or even much thinking - I worked in many of them before I got bored to death and started my own business. If you are in one of those dead-end jobs, you're not the kind of person that enjo is talking about.
- devcpp 14y agoSorry if you found that insulting. I guess I got used to this aspetic cold language you see on HN to make emotion invisible. That's one of the things I miss from Reddit. I know there are many people like you that somehow intuitively capture these abstract concepts, and I respect that. I just find it amusing that you can notice these things even when the person is out of work. That's when you differentiate the manipulative managers from the true ones. My point wasn't particularly focusing in offices. Being pragmatic and rather emotion-less, I find programming requires more logic and method than feelings.