FP9: The ability to dig and dig

    A friend liked the comparison of programmers and artists on the parameter of observation. The question arose, and how are programmers more developed than other people?

    Artists are more or less similar to each other in skills, and programmers have a great specialization, one has one developed, the other has another.

    Jobs, said that there is no other kind of activity such as programming, where the average specialist and a high-class specialist would differ so much, that is, there is a difference in efficiency by orders of magnitude, Jobs seemed to call the figure 25 times. The coolest comics draftsman can give out two pages a day, with a norm of one. One cool programmer replaces dozens if not hundreds of ordinary ones. Linus, for example, one revision of the entire Linux kernel. All patches, all strumming, millions of lines of code. He even created a git, just not to take helpers and continue to do everything himself.

    The problem for programmers is that everything that they have developed is practically not applicable outside the screen. By attention, I meant observation, there is still attention as concentration, which, incidentally, is also available to programmers. What does a programmer need? In the heap of code, sites, text, images, find one, that same cherished phrase or word that he needs now, so he learns not to notice too much and look for his essence. Go to an invisible goal. Dig up deposits of little useful information. But the artist does not need the essence; he equally needs to draw both the main and the secondary. And the driver, and the passenger, and the wheel, and the dusty track from the wheel.

    I had an article about “programmer,” as a class, advanced in some qualities. But I have not yet been able to formally describe what these advanced skills are in. Need to think! There is no hope for other people, only programmers will save the world! (Unless, of course, notice its existence).

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