Burn the Programmer

Re:Burn the Programmer by golergka on Friday November 10, 2017 @12:57PM (#15671634)

Quite a lot of times, actually. It helps to work in gamedev, but I think a lot of developers can have interesting and meaningful conversations with outsiders about their work if they focus on the domain, things that they are building and problems they're solving, not the inner workings of languages and frameworks.

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Re:Burn the Programmer by icebraining on Friday November 10, 2017 @01:13PM (#15671744)

What if you write kernels or compilers for a living? Talking about a business domain is cheating :D

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Re:Burn the Programmer by groby_b on Friday November 10, 2017 @05:54PM (#15673779)

If you can't make a race condition in a device driver into an interesting story, you need to work on your story telling :)

And compilers are fascinating - you are, essentially, formalizing the act of translating between languages. Something anybody who speaks more than one language can understand.

You probably can't translate everything you do into a great story, but the basics of your field should be straightforward.

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Re:Burn the Programmer by mcguire on Friday November 10, 2017 @05:57PM (#15673796)

I got to answer the question with "I write file system performance benchmarks" once. Got looked at like I said I played with spleens for a living.

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