When your job is your hobby
Rob Annable extols the trials of being an architect, where “every city becomes a scale model to pick up and turn over in [one’s] hands“. Being a hacker is much the same. Every business process becomes, in your head, a program to do it for you. Every inefficiency, every piece of printed paper, every laborious checking procedure becomes a source for more anger that the world could be better and isn’t. Every computer that breaks, every bit of software that doesn’t work right, every person that feels alienated or frustrated when they have to use a computer and it doesn’t work right, all these things are a source of embarrassment. You feel ashamed that software isn’t better, that people can’t see the beauty and the elegance of a program that Just Works, and it’s all our fault for not getting it right.
I’ve made a mental note to blame you next time my computer crashes ;)
It’s good to feel the weight of resposibility, because a problem never gets solved unless someone steps forward and owns it.
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It’s all just really irritating. Have these people never heard of redundancy or system stability?
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My perfect job would involve me just fixing problems as they came up and never having to argue with customers (I meant talk to customers) Just solving things as they arise. One day it will be a simple software solution to a complex problem, the next gaffer tape and coloured sweet wrapper. why don’t these jobs exist?
Software and Architecture have that same feel to them. The fact Rob can see the plan, the 3d model and spin things around to look at the back without actually walking around to the back justs proves my theory that all good artists are scientists and vice versa. Although I have come to the conclusion that I am just wired a little differently to most people.
I can’t do anything without fixing all the problems I see around me. It’s really irritating to me that other people can’t “just see” what is obviously staring them in the face. Problem -> Solution why the feck are there all these idiots between point a and b?
As long as Rob blames Aq when his computer doesn’t work I will blame Charlie for modern architecture that is too scared to have a direction. (I particually like futurist architechure at the moment. There is nothing cooler that a concrete wave over a car dealership or fast food joint that looks retro despite its time never arriving. All cinemas should have preservation orders slapped on them now ;-) )
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