Charlez Petzold had an amazing speech at NYC.NET Developers Groups on the state of programming in the Microsoft World. A must read for every developer and thanks to Bill Evjen for pointing it out on his blog.
There are geeks and then there are GEEEKS. This referenced editorial seems geeky in upper case, like GEEKY.
Here is the difference between the geek and the GEEK. Geeks often tend to define their environment with the tools and technologies they embrace. These tools and technologies are important to them and every single bit of these details are important to them, regardless of how mundance they might be.
GEEKS, on the other hand, take everything geeks have to offer and put it at a top most priority over everthing else in this wide world. As an example, GEEKS will always believe that certain style of writing code is more important to everyone life regardless of how unproductive, time consuming, and honestly mundance the detail might be. At the same time, a certain other style of programming, which is proven to be productive, simple, easy to to use, easy to maintain, and frankly better for the companies that are trying to finance creations of the software applications; are looked down upon only because of mundane detail that don't make anyone else's life any better at the end of the day.
Then again, I already wasted time and value writing about it so I will stop now.
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." said Einstein. Our conclusions depends on how we perceive things, and it is not necessary that 2 people should aggree on a single point. I wonder how many programmers at even Microsoft use IDE's like Visual Studio to make Operating system like Windows, Applications like Office and API's like Win32. The important ingredient of succeess is hardwork, not technology.
There are geeks and then there are GEEEKS. This referenced editorial seems geeky in upper case, like GEEKY.
Here is the difference between the geek and the GEEK. Geeks often tend to define their environment with the tools and technologies they embrace. These tools and technologies are important to them and every single bit of these details are important to them, regardless of how mundance they might be.
GEEKS, on the other hand, take everything geeks have to offer and put it at a top most priority over everthing else in this wide world. As an example, GEEKS will always believe that certain style of writing code is more important to everyone life regardless of how unproductive, time consuming, and honestly mundance the detail might be. At the same time, a certain other style of programming, which is proven to be productive, simple, easy to to use, easy to maintain, and frankly better for the companies that are trying to finance creations of the software applications; are looked down upon only because of mundane detail that don't make anyone else's life any better at the end of the day.
Then again, I already wasted time and value writing about it so I will stop now.
posted by
Anonymous |
9:04 PM
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." said Einstein. Our conclusions depends on how we perceive things, and it is not necessary that 2 people should aggree on a single point. I wonder how many programmers at even Microsoft use IDE's like Visual Studio to make Operating system like Windows, Applications like Office and API's like Win32. The important ingredient of succeess is hardwork, not technology.
posted by
Zeeshan Muhammad |
7:46 PM
Exactly :-)
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9:34 PM