Ekaitz Zárraga 👹
@Shamar @enkiv2 @Wolf480pl @jcbrand I agree with this post but what I wanted to point out is that software, from the professional part of it, is trying to mimic the industry. Thus, nowadays, in general, it's more similar to a chair than to a novel. The reason is that it was forced to be like that.
It's better if we spend our free time writing novels than doing chairs because: 1) it's more funny 2) probably is more enjoyable for other individuals
And I think that's the point of the article too
Ekaitz Zárraga 👹
@Shamar @enkiv2 @Wolf480pl @jcbrand And software engineering is not only about the quality of the delivered (software) product. It's also about the synchronization of the delivery and the control over the production process.
The industry was really upset with the artist-like development of the early beginnings of the programming because the delivery times and quality were completely out of control. Industry loves control.
Ekaitz Zárraga 👹
@Shamar @enkiv2 @Wolf480pl @jcbrand
The cool thing is the "failure of software" is for me like the "Renaissance of software". It's the gold era of software development and the gold era of the computing probably.
That's the kind of software I wish to develop nowadays.
I'm not a software engineer, and I don't really like to. I prefer to be an artist programmer. ;)
Tsundoku Psychohazard
@ekaitz_zarraga @Shamar @Wolf480pl @jcbrand
To bring back the 'big vs small cooking' metaphor:
We will never see canned spaghetti carbonara that tastes like home-made spaghetti carbonara. The sauce is literally soft-boiled egg.
This makes spaghetti carbonara absolutely useless to the forces of Big Cooking. Spaghetti carbonara cannot be google-scaled.
However, as a home cook, this makes it even more valuable to know how to make it: it's something you can't get cheaply from another source.
Tsundoku Psychohazard
@ekaitz_zarraga @Shamar @Wolf480pl @jcbrand
The point of 'big and small computing' is that too often programmers make the computing equivalent of assuming that spaghetti carbonara must taste awful because it can't be canned.
Being aware of the difference in needs between industrial-scale and human-scale processes is a prerequisite for avoiding this kind of confusion.
Shamar
@enkiv2 @ekaitz_zarraga @Wolf480pl @jcbrand
Spaghetti alla Carbonara is not something everybody know how to cook... confess, you have been in Italy, right? :-D
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