FP9: The ability to dig and dig
A friend liked the comparison of programmers and artists on the parameter of observation. The question arose, and what programmers are more developed than other people?
Artists are more or less similar to each other in skills, and programmers have more specialization, one has one developed, the other has another.
Jobs, said that there is no other kind of activity like programming, where the average specialist and high-class specialist would differ so much, that is, the difference in efficiency by orders of magnitude, Jobs seemed to call the number 25 times. The coolest comic book draper can produce two pages a day, at a rate of one. One cool programmer replaces dozens, if not hundreds of ordinary ones. Linus, for example, is one review of the entire Linux kernel. All patches, all strings, millions of lines of code. He even created a guitar, just to take no helpers and keep doing everything himself.
The problem of programmers is that everything that they have developed is practically not applicable outside the screen. By attention, I meant observant, there is also attention as concentration, which, by the way, programmers also have. What does the programmer need? In a heap of code, sites, text, pictures, find one, the most cherished phrase or word that he needs now, so he learns not to notice too much and look for his essence. Go to the invisible goal. Dig up deposits of useless information. But the artist does not need the essence, he needs to draw the same and the main and secondary. And the driver, and passenger, and the wheel, and dusty trail from the wheel.
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I also had an article about the "programmer", as a kind of advanced class for some qualities. But to formally describe what these advanced skills are, I have not yet succeeded. Need to think! There is no hope for other people, only programmers will save the world! (Unless, of course, notice its existence).
Artists are more or less similar to each other in skills, and programmers have more specialization, one has one developed, the other has another.
Jobs, said that there is no other kind of activity like programming, where the average specialist and high-class specialist would differ so much, that is, the difference in efficiency by orders of magnitude, Jobs seemed to call the number 25 times. The coolest comic book draper can produce two pages a day, at a rate of one. One cool programmer replaces dozens, if not hundreds of ordinary ones. Linus, for example, is one review of the entire Linux kernel. All patches, all strings, millions of lines of code. He even created a guitar, just to take no helpers and keep doing everything himself.
The problem of programmers is that everything that they have developed is practically not applicable outside the screen. By attention, I meant observant, there is also attention as concentration, which, by the way, programmers also have. What does the programmer need? In a heap of code, sites, text, pictures, find one, the most cherished phrase or word that he needs now, so he learns not to notice too much and look for his essence. Go to the invisible goal. Dig up deposits of useless information. But the artist does not need the essence, he needs to draw the same and the main and secondary. And the driver, and passenger, and the wheel, and dusty trail from the wheel.
')
I also had an article about the "programmer", as a kind of advanced class for some qualities. But to formally describe what these advanced skills are, I have not yet succeeded. Need to think! There is no hope for other people, only programmers will save the world! (Unless, of course, notice its existence).
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/264043/
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