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As a child, I would go to the library and bring home stacks of books on UFOs, magic, cryptozoology, and the like. I am always amused by the fact that so many of
by gunnario 12y ago
As a child, I would go to the library and bring home stacks of books on UFOs, magic, cryptozoology, and the like. I am always amused by the fact that so many of my colleagues in software development were just like me and claim to have had similar interests. Maybe a coincidence but I think there is definitely an underlying interest in arcane subjects.
- TheSpiceIsLife 12y agoI don't find it at all coincidental that software developers write and speak in 'code'. Software development literally is esoteric - "intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialised knowledge or interest". Given there are 7 billion people on the planet, there's a lot of software developers kicking around at the moment, but they still represent a tiny fraction of the population. I think we tent to forget are concepts in the IT world that are so highly abstract they seem like magic to the average person. I'm a metal fabricator by trade, every day my mind boggles that we have tamed electricity to be able to fuse metals flawlessly. The number of things that have to come together to support the modern world is "magic" to me in a romantic sense. Engineers, software developers, hardware developers, technicians, and trades people have literally assembled this world (the built environs) from dust (raw materials in general).