Software is Soft Emotion
I read some "stuff" about abandoned blogs. Of course the first question is also "am I converging to an abandoned blog ?" Or is it about converging to essence of saying ? Isn't this about "two years of learning to speak and a life to keep quiet ?"
Still amazed am I how my blog is completely parallel to my real life and my real issues, friends, happiness, sadness, and everything human. Worse it is - my blog is still completely decoupled with my professional life - I made myself a promise to never mix the many - absurd even this is how :-)
Emotion is what I want to write about today - of course in a very unusual way - otherwise what would my my contribution.
Of course I learned the rule about the first paragraph and the first 3 seconds in a song ... you have to capture the audience in order to have a high 'view' rate. That's not my usual audience ... my completely old friends and my new future friends are the only one that "regularly matters" here :-)
Recently Joel 'on software' made another great blog post on education vs industry. Boring it is because I found no evidence of bullshit in this post. So what to comment about it ?
On a completely parallel basis - one of the many books I'm still digesting from safari e-books is "how to inspire people" - not exact translation. And basically when you make software in order to get best results - somehow you have to go hunt the emotion and the lower-brain around you. You have to inspire people.
It came quite late in my life that _precise_ and _state-of-the-art_ software is still made with human heart. And this last one is not working with algorithm complexity - but with human impulses - whatever that means to each of us.
Randomly I'm still listening "The Reborn Dramatic Love" song more than ten years later - and it sounds completely different than every other previous listening session. It made me take dramatic life decision and it also makes me hope about 'p3/p4 only bugs' :-)
Does that mean I'm a bad "software pro" ?
I think this just mean I'm starting to realize I have pulse - and part of it is software - part of it is emotion ... which it's not only mine but also an aggregate of empathy I really feel around in whatever foreign language :-D :-)
ps: I like the new joke-spam about polish notation sandwich :-)



1 Comments:
Mda, de obicei imi place ce scrie Spolsky, da' acolo a mai ratat-o un pic (adica nu sunt 100% de acord cu el :P); in special nu prea sunt de acord cu modul in care a inceput articolul. Motivul pt. care nu se studiaza "version control" in facultate e simplu: nu merita, e mult prea simplu. Ce atata teorie a chibritului, il inveti cand ai nevoie sa-l folosesti. Ete na, acu' o fi trebuind sa studiem si PowerPoint in facultate, pe motiv ca "in the real world you'll have to do a lot of presentations".
Da, sunt pentru cursuri de "soft skills". Time management, presentation skills, planning etc. sunt chestii "bune de stiut". Da' facultatea de CS nu consta in astea, desi importante, astea sunt "secondary skills" (si subliniez "secondary" ... ar trebui sa nu uitam asta.)
Si o ultima observatie:incepand cu acu' 2 ani cred, in A&C se da o tema in echipa de 2 la cursul de compilatoare :P. Da' in fine, in A&C (la cateva cursuri ce-i drept, nu chiar la toate) nu e problema ca "faculty members have never worked in the real world", ba din contra, problema e ca "real-world work e jobul adevarat, cursul e doar ceva ce fac pe langa servici"
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