Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 03, 2003 07:46 AM
I think its an intrinsic faculty, like a talent for music or mathematics and it stays with you your whole life. What rewards it brings depends on how much you push and challenge it. In laval stage that self challenging feedback loop works for its own sake. In maturity you have to find a level that fits the challenge you can cope with.
I think the above analysis of the economics is maybe a little fanciful. It makes no mention of quality of code, originality and the role of coder as inventor and scientist as well as artist (You dont need to actually be a very skilled codemonkey to scratch a unique itch with a creative algorithm). E = mc2 doesn't look like a lot on paper. By software management perspectives Einstein wasn't very productive in actual lines of code.
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Re:the programming mind
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 03, 2003 07:46 AMI think the above analysis of the economics is maybe a little fanciful. It makes no mention of quality of code, originality and the role of coder as inventor and scientist as well as artist (You dont need to actually be a very skilled codemonkey to scratch a unique itch with a creative algorithm). E = mc2 doesn't look like a lot on paper. By software management perspectives Einstein wasn't very productive in actual lines of code.
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