Re:Yes, But What Have You Done?
by j_baker on Monday May 10, 2010 @11:41AM
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I agree with this part:
"I believe there's a healthy balance all programmers need to establish, somewhere between...
1. Locking yourself away in a private office and having an intimate dialog with a compiler about your program.
2. Getting out in public and having an open dialog with other human beings about your program."
...but I'm not really sure I see the point of the rest of it. Jeff points out that most programmers are introverts (which I have my doubts about, but that's a different matter) and that #1 is no problem. So then why is he spending most of his time talking about upping the amount of time we spend on #1?
Personally, I'm of the opinion that we as programmers do too much. It's fashionable to complain about people who talk and think more than they do, but we forget that it's also important to take time to reflect on what we've done so we can learn to do it better. Whether that be in the form of group discussion or introspection is another matter, but the moral of the story is not to do too much.
"I believe there's a healthy balance all programmers need to establish, somewhere between...
1. Locking yourself away in a private office and having an intimate dialog with a compiler about your program.
2. Getting out in public and having an open dialog with other human beings about your program."
...but I'm not really sure I see the point of the rest of it. Jeff points out that most programmers are introverts (which I have my doubts about, but that's a different matter) and that #1 is no problem. So then why is he spending most of his time talking about upping the amount of time we spend on #1?
Personally, I'm of the opinion that we as programmers do too much. It's fashionable to complain about people who talk and think more than they do, but we forget that it's also important to take time to reflect on what we've done so we can learn to do it better. Whether that be in the form of group discussion or introspection is another matter, but the moral of the story is not to do too much.