Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptions (2014)

Re:Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptio... by haliskerbas on Friday July 09, 2021 @05:06PM (#27788517)

> Nobody else constructs models in their minds that are almost purely mechanical and specific to a small problem. Every model the sales guy or manager uses has very few knobs to twist and are mostly intuitive models for which everyone has a template and practices use of every day: emotions, status, hierarchy, urgency, etc.

When we get to this sort of absolute perspective. I like to think “either everyone before me is/was an idiot, or maybe I’m missing an unknown unknown”

I’m sure other technical fields of non programming require holding more than one thought in the head at once.

Perhaps anyone constructing anything that depends on an intricate set of rules may experience the same thing.

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Re:Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptio... by avmich on Friday July 09, 2021 @05:29PM (#27788755)

In a lecture Lamport once talked about the difference between mathematical equation (where half a page is a lot) and a program (which is a sort of math, only many pages long).

> I’m sure other technical fields of non programming require holding more than one thought in the head at once.

That's not a good enough comparison. You don't see the qualitative difference.

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