Mental Asphyxia - Post a comment

June 27th, 2015

04:22 pm
You never know what your software is being used for.

That's the whole idea of frame adaptors. Your code bridges between different domains, so a kid in Nigeria might think she's solving a complex timed puzzle, while in reality she's guiding a bomb defusing robot in a Brazilian frontier town. There are very few really different domains, and inside each of them it's only surfaces and tradition, and the lack of computers to translate, what made them appear different. The programs you write make artificial, non-mathematical distinctions become irrelevant. You make a pretty good living writing this kind of software. There's lots of money in getting people to do what they are best at, specially if they don't know what they are doing, for whom, or why.

Sometimes you wonder what you are really doing when you write this code, and on what higher domain.

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